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State media outlets would be exempt from the tax.
A man in his early 40s has been charged and is due to appear before court at a later date.
The coalition has called for the act to be repealed “in the name of personal freedom and mutual respect.”
Denis O’Brien’s legal team has argued that TDs’ “extraordinary privilege” had led to a breach of his privacy in 2015.
Martha O’Donovan, who works in Zimbabwe, has been remanded in custody.
Under the new law, the song can no longer be used as background music in public places.
Some people claim the images mock Aylan Kurdi.
Under the proposed law, a person could face 12 months in jail or a €5,000 fine.
The trouble with trying to put limits on free speech and the freedom of conscience is that you inevitably wind up tying yourself in knots.
He had criticised fundamentalist Islamic views.
It is up to moderate people to have an open debate about religion and society. Otherwise, extremists will have it for us.
The magazine has been attacked before.
He faces up to four years in prison for accusing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of corruption.
Worrying press arrests in Ferguson and the grisly murder of James Foley underlines it is in all of our interests to ensure journalists can report without fear.
While progress has been made in some areas, long-standing human rights issues persist in Ireland including gender-based violence and a systemic delay in processing asylum applications.
At issue were town meetings in Greece, New York, where clergy had been invited to offer a prayer, which in the last eight years had been exclusively Christian.
Eric Schmidt believes that better encryption methods will help prevent governments from restricting freedom of expression.
Blasphemy laws have a chilling effect on freedom of expression and have no place in a modern democracy like Ireland, writes Michael Nugent.
Public interest, freedom of speech and the right to a fair trial: all these factors form a carefully-balanced relationship between the media and criminal justice system. But just how clear-cut is the law? asks Fergal Crehan.
There are troubling restrictions on our free expression in Ireland. We should follow the US and give it explicit protection – even if that means some vitriol.
Adrian Smith worked for a government housing body when he posted statements against gay marriage in churches.
The future of the internet depends on social networks like Facebook and Twitter developing better protocols for dealing with offensive and potentially criminal postings, writes Dr Ciarán Mc Mahon.
It’s the first time the social media site has implemented its local censorship policy, which was first announced in January.
As fears of protests grow after controversial cartoons of Mohammed appeared in a French magazine, we ask: Should they have been published?
Under the new rules, journalists will no longer have to submit their work to state censors before publication.
Two-year sentence for hooliganism conviction criticised as ‘disproportionate’ and impacting on freedom of expression.
Three band members of the feminist punk group have been found guilty of “hoolganism motivated by religious hatred”.
Dmitry Rogozin accused the singer of moral lecturing, adding: “Either take off the cross or put on pants”.
A town in Massachusetts has decided to force the foul-mouthed among them to pay fines for swearing in public. Should we follow suit?
The National Union of Journalists and Amnesty International Ireland joined together today to remember journalists who have been killed during the course of their work.
Court ruling came after man posted comments about his estranged wife on the social network.
In the wake of this week’s violence in England and David Cameron’s Commons speech yesterday, we’re asking for your views on curtailing social network use.
The infamous Phelps family of the Westboro Baptist Church are brought to court over protests at military funerals.
Bloggers in the original US capital complain about new rules which classify blogs as businesses.