Irish Examiner view: With free speech, you are the jury

Justice Minister Helen McEntee says her proposed legislation 'is not as radical as detractors claim'. Picture: Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie

None of us is in any doubt about what ‘hate’ means, said Fine Gael senator Barry Ward in the Irish Examiner, in a vigorous debunking of the worries that some people have about the proposed hate speech laws.

These are wending their way through the legislative processes of the Dáil and Seanad and seem unlikely to reach committee stage before the autumn.