Political correctness - Ruling is an affront to our Republic

IT SEEMS we’ve swapped the tyranny of the crozier for the far more subversive tyranny of political correctness.

This week’s decision by the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) to ban a Christmas radio advertisement by the Catholic booksellers Veritas would be laughable if it was not so very dangerous, so sinisterly hypocritical and so utterly, mind-numbingly stupid and wrong.

The ruling is active intolerance made real and is an affront to the ethos of an inclusive, confident and strong Republic.