First steps on a slippery slope - Freedom of speech challenged

Generation Snowflake has endured the invective of an older generation that imagines itself more robust, more emotionally and philosophically secure in its skin. That group of young people is accused of being overly sensitive and unable to cope with views other than their own.

Generation Snowflake is not, it seems alone. Yesterday the Save the Eighth campaign called on Dr Peter Boylan to resign as chairman of the Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists over comments he made in Hot Press. The anti-abortion campaign has launched a petition calling for Dr Boylan, former master of the National Maternity Hospital, to resign because he said at least three Irish women have died because of the Eighth Amendment.