Irish Examiner View: Punishment for breach of trust

Intimate images online.

Justice Minister Helen McEntee will bring a memo to Cabinet this week which may lead to legislation that will make it a criminal offence to distribute or publish intimate images.

One of the ways hindsight might be chastening is how it can show how klunky, how off-the-mark language can be. 

Nobody, not anyone with a shred of sense at least, would bring a garment to the fashion world today and call it “hot pants”. Sensibilities have shifted and the tacit implication in that tag would invite commercial oblivion.