A debate involving controversial historian David Irving at University College Cork has been cancelled over security concerns, the university said today.
The university said the debate on free speech planned for Monday night involving the academic who believes the Holocaust did not happen would not go ahead.
It is the second time a planned appearance by Irving, who was jailed in Austria two years ago for claiming the Nazi genocide of Jews during the Second World War was a myth, has been called off.
In 1999 he was due to give a speech at UUC but it was cancelled at the last minute after scuffles broke out between gardaí and about 600 protestors who gathered outside the event.
Mr Irving (69) was to speak in favour of the motion "That this house believes free speech should be free from restraint" at the Monday night debate.