Convention recommends replacing blasphemy offence
Forum suggests new provision on incitement to religious hatred in Constitution
Senator Ivana Bacik and Senator Jillian van Turnhout voting as members of the Convention on the Constitution today. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
The constitutional offence of blasphemy should be replaced with a new general provision to include incitement to religious hatred, the constitutional convention has recommended.
