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Wed 04 Apr 2009Ahern defends blasphemy changes
Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern tonight defended plans to introduce a new crime of blasphemous libel in an amendment to the Defamation Bill.
At the moment there is no crime of blasphemy on the statute books, though it is prohibited by the Constitution.
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