Ireland

Ireland in the Freedom of Thought Report, by the IHEU.

For more information, see the Wikipedia article:

Religion in Ireland

• Faith, hope and secularity: Ireland on brink of change as church power wanes
• Irish abortion law key factor in death of Savita Halappanavar, official report finds, The Independent, 13 Jun 2013
• Irish police halt prosecution of Stephen Fry for blasphemy. Fry said he could not respect a God that was "a capricious, mean-minded, stupid God who creates a world … full of injustice".
• Irish teenager seeking abortion 'detained in psychiatric unit', The Independent, 14 June 2017

Blasphemy

In 2010, Ireland introduced a blasphemy law which criminalizes:

"publishing or uttering [of] matter that is grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters sacred by any religion, thereby intentionally causing outrage among a substantial number of adherents of that religion"

See also

• Symphysiotomy