IRELAND HAS TWO months to begin implementing hate speech laws or face being taken to the Court of Justice of the EU. Under existing EU rules on combating racism and xenophobia, the European Commission believes Ireland is allegedly ”failing” to comply with laws, first agreed to in 2008, surrounding the criminalisation of race-based violence and hatred. In the Commission’s monthly infringement package, which details what countries it believes are failing to comply with European law, Ireland has been given two months to begin implementing laws preventing racially-charged hate speech. The state has also been told that it must implement legislation...