Picture by: Laura Hutton/RollingNews.This guide describes how to use Steam Proton to play and run Windows games on your Linux computer. Main image: Senator Ronan Mullen pictured outside Leinster House. The general principles of the bill are currently being debated by Seanad Éireann. “It’s fine as I said for people like Barry and myself, we’re politicians, we have privilege in the Seanad, we’ve probably got brass neck. “This is about getting the balance right and our democracy needs to let people express their ideas,” he said. Senator Mullen said he was “not a free speech absolutist” but predicted the legislation would negatively impact ordinary people.

“You talk about rights, Rónán, you’re disturbing those people’s constitutional right to enjoy their free time, their space, their workplace, the public realm in this country and many of them can’t do that.” 'Getting the balance right' “Now, what this bill does is it tries to say that’s not okay and it’s actually criminal to do it.

“They aren’t entitled to enjoy their lives at the moment because of the amount of hatred and violence that is aimed at them. “These people are being targeted all the time,” he said.

“It is extremely vague, it basically criminalises a person if they behave or if they communicate material that is likely to incite ‘hatred’ but there is a complete failure to define ‘hatred’.”įine Gael’s Barry Ward supports the bill and believes it is necessary to protect marginalised groups from hate speech.

“It is using the criminal law that is destined to have a chilling effect on free speech,” he told The Hard Shoulder. The bill has attracted international opposition - with Donald Trump Jnr and Elon Musk denouncing it - and Senator Mullen believes it is poorly drafted.

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