Ireland's Hate Offences Bill Represents an Unprecedented Assault on Free Speech and Rule of Law

Dáil Eireann, the lower house of the Irish Parliament, has just passed one of the most radical hate speech laws in the Western world, a law so radical that it could criminalise material in your “possession” that you have never made public, if that material is deemed by a judge to be liable to incite hatred and you cannot prove it was exclusively for per…