Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2025-07-09
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Joe Conway (IND), Cultural and Educational Panel

I will address one particular feature of the Bill, namely, the reservations I have about the delegation of defamation to judges only and the bypassing of the constitutional and long-held right of people to be tried by juries of their peers. I want to digress, maybe to add a little bit of levity to what has been a somewhat turgid session at times. When I was a much younger man I spent most of the first 12 years of my teaching life in the capital here and I lived just out the road in Ranelagh, in a place called Cherryfield Avenue.

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Sitting date: 2025-07-09