After worldwide outrage, Ireland’s increasingly fatigued government has admitted that they are pausing efforts to ban free speech.
The establishment was humiliated in recent weeks after efforts to redefine marriage and to remove women from the constitution both failed.
Attention then turned to other things, such as their efforts to legalise euthanising vulnerable people and then the abrupt resignation of Leo Varadkar.
Yet the Hate Speech Bill lingered in the air, with local and European elections likely to see it as a talking point in June.
Not knowing which hill to die on, the state now appears to have categorically rejected the anti speech efforts.
Earlier today, pro government opposition party Sinn Fein said that they no longer supported the bill, as confirmed by their TD Pa Daly (who incidentally abstained on the vote to euthanise vulnerable people).
In an appearance on Irish based television station Virgin Media, controversial politician Neale Richmond confirmed that the bill was done.
This marks a seismic victory for many opponents of the bill who came from a wide variety of backgrounds to oppose its implementation.
