The free speech wars are raging and they’re not straightforward. Published: 25 July 2023 But they are the business of all of us. I was brought up in Dublin in the 1940s and 50s where censorship had been devised to keep narrow nationalists and the Roman Catholic...
Critics of the church are becoming as oppressive as the institution they attack, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 26 August 2018 ‘It was a censorious, bleak, closed-minded, unforgiving society of squinting windows and banned books and hellfire sermons....
What next for Ireland now that the Republic has astounded the pundits by producing a landslide in favour of overturning the 1983 constitutional amendment that gave equal rights to the unborn? Published: 27 May 2018 As the journalist Jason O’Mahony tweeted...