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Justice minister Helen McEntee has obtained government approval to repeal the Censorship of Publications Acts. The decision follows a review undertaken in the Department to Justice on the continuing need to have censorship provisions for printed publications.
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The Government is set to abolish long-standing censorship laws, some of which date back almost a century. Justice minister Helen McEntee is expected to seek Cabinet approval for the move today.
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Three books referring to abortion are to be unbanned following the liberalisation of Ireland's abortion laws. The Register of Prohibited Publications is set to be updated to remove a number of books which were banned under the Censorship of Publications Act 1946 for providing information "on the pro
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A copy of the novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover used by the presiding judge in the book's 1960 obscenity trial has been temporarily stopped from leaving the UK. Arts minister Michael Ellis put an export bar on the copy of the D.H. Lawrence novel taken to court by Sir Laurence Byrne.
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