It is a publicity stunt, a very successful one, but nothing more. There isn't anything particularly noble about publicity stunts except a bit of PR success that they got their name out without costing themselves any money.

If it was an effort at some sort of legal, rather than political, action then it was a complete failure. They appear to have caculated their actions specifically so that they comply with the law. Talk of going to the European Court of Human Rights and fighting this is a load of nonsense, and, I would conject, they know this full well.

So from one perspective it was indeed a success, but from another, it just showed they don't have much balls.

Headline - AI demonstrate themselves to be a bunch of ineffectual, politically-naive bigots.

Is this really their best effort?

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Hahahaha fair play. My word, RTE is a total joke and disgrace. They should all be fired.

How would they have made a better attempt at a legal action?

Would think that any laughing British masses would be laughing not at the athiest.ie people, but at the clown and his buddies who are proposing a bag-of-shlt 'law' to keep us all in check insofar as 'blasphemy' goes.....

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For he'd done the same thing to some poor bloody Aussies, On Gallipolli's beaches a lifetime before...
(from The Beach of Dieppe, SOCAN 2005)

Out of a cannon ?

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By publishing an original and grossly offensive statement which could not be considered to have any academic, literary, scientific or artistic (including humourous) merit purposely calculated to cause serious offence to adherents of a particular religion.

One imagines that they did not do so because in doing so they would have had to publish a statement which would likely result in very poor publicity to their organisation. It was easier for them just to have a publicity stunt and pretend they were breaking the law, when in fact they were not. Which as I said above, was a very good publicity stunt but at the same time does demonstrate that their heart isn't entirely in it.

When you think about it deeply, that does of course prove that the law is purposely as ineffective as possible.

Tapestry design. A celebration in his 90th year << the fact is that FF have no right to determine what is legimately of cultural merit , given that both contemporary FF and their antecedents hover at the imbecilic level of understanding. The ^ above quote details the contentious Roualt row (1930). The artist was charged with blasphemy and incompetence. Ahern created a criminalisation for blasphemy, let him define i) Blasphemy ii) God.

Someone should do a bit of reading about "The Tailor and Ansty", a delightful book by Eric Cross (Eric Cross (writer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

What a pleasure it surely would have been to meet the Tailor and Ansty (I once visited their grave beside Gougane Barra) and what scum must those three priests have been who forced those two gentle old people, under their own roof, to burn the copy of the book that the author had given them.

Even if we didn't know about the sexual abuse of children that went on for decades after that disgraceful event, that incident alone would have destroyed any moral authority that the kiddy-fiddler bully church ever had. And now our supine politicians are giving them a new weapon to use against dissent at a time when they were close to being completely defanged as a result of their own excesses having revealed their total moral turpitude.

No, I think the point is they are making you and all of Ireland look stupid. Has anyone thought of the implications of AI's campaign? MPAC seem to see it as a slippery slope toward discrimination, they liken it to the Nazi treatment of Jews.