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Mon 11 Nov 2009Blasphemy law unlikely to come into force this year
THE CONTROVERSIAL new law on blasphemy has still not come into force, more than four months after President Mary McAleese enacted the Defamation Bill.
The law makes the publication or utterance of blasphemous matter a crime punishable by a €25,000 fine.
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