McEntee dismisses accusations Fine Gael is focusing too much on 'woke' issues

She said she knows what people 'intend to mean' when they say Fine Gael has gone 'woke' as a party but said it is a 'flippant term that people throw about to criticise' 

The Justice Minister said her work is about law and order in society, and that 'anybody who throws around the term ‘woke’... what does that mean? I think it’s just an easy way to criticise'. Picture: Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews.ie

Minister for Justice Helen McEntee has dismissed claims that she and the Government are focusing too much on “woke” issues, and said that it is just a “flippant term that people use to criticise”.

Ms McEntee told the Irish Examiner at the Fine Gael Ard Fheis in Galway that reaction against the hate speech bill has been “overblown” and there is a “lot of misinformation” out there about it.