Irish Legal News reports that the current Irish bill on SLAPPs will be ‘impotent in practice’. SLAPPs are strategic lawsuits against public participation that suppress free speech, and the Irish Legal News report goes on to explain that the government’s current inadequate plans to tackle them ‘could see Ireland hauled before the EU courts’. It is reporting on a statement (in which I provide a quote that features in the Irish Legal News headline) by the Ireland Anti-SLAPP Network (an informal all-island coalition, convened by Index on Censorship, of which I am a proud member), signed by Irish and international NGOs, concerned about the cursory treatment of SLAPPs in the Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024 … (more)
[Eoin O’Dell, Cearta, 9 July 2025]
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