Soldato
Gets even weirder.
"According to a report in the Irish Independent newspaper, no publicised cases of blasphemy have been brought before the courts since the law was introduced in 2009 and a source said it was "highly unlikely" that a prosecution against Fry would take place."
2009?
Why are such draconian laws being allowed in 2009?
It's an ancient law that someone was last prosecuted under back before Ireland was a Republic. We inherited it from you lot! It was kept because when Ireland was founded the Catholic Church was granted a high level of importance.
In 2009, rather than just removing the law, it was updated to cover blasphemy against any religion, prior to that it was only illegal to blaspheme against Christianity.
It's a rather stupid thing and the point of the complaint (1 person out of 5 million people) was to highlight the archaic law and the Gardai, correctly, filed this under could not be bothered because I doubt anyone wants to prosecute someone under this law.
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