Letters to the Editor: Flawed legislation is not in public interest

Readers call for a thorough investigation of the harassment of Wicklow Pride and for Ireland, as a neutral state, to promote international peace rather than being complicit in unjustified wars and exploitation

If an appeal goes ahead, lawyers will defend the right of the North's justice minister to make it an offence to state that Jimmy Savile, who was never prosecuted, was a paedophile. Picture: PA

Northern Ireland justice minister Naomi Long is deciding whether to appeal a Belfast High Court decision after a media challenge to strike down a prohibition on naming sex offenders during their lifetime and 25 years after death.

Questioning the first occasion in which a court struck down Assembly legislation appears reasonable; defending the legislation struck down is not.