Malachy Murphy of the
Irish Council for Civil Liberties said they were totally opposed to the Bill.
The
Irish Council For Civil Liberties boss Mark Kelly said: "The passage of this Bill through the Oireachtas will mark the final act in dismantling what former President McAleese has called 'the architecture of homophobia'."
The good people in the
Irish Council for Civil Liberties will probably argue these poor souls deserve some comfort to compensate for the loss of their freedom.
The 38-year-old worked at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, the
Irish Council for Civil Liberties and Irish Human Rights Commission before taking up the role at the Penal Reform Trust.
But the new laws were last night slammed as "lax" by the
Irish Council for Civil Liberties.
But the
Irish Council for Civil Liberties said the information provided to voters in advance of the two referendums was "tardy and inadequate".
The
Irish Council for Civil Liberties claimed the proposals on parliamentary inquiries would mean a shift in power from the courts to the Oireachtas.
Two newspaper polls showed large support for the referendum but the
Irish Council for Civil Liberties said there has been a sharp decline in previous surveys.
The
Irish Council for Civil Liberties said that it "will closely study the content" of the new Home Defence Bill.
However, The
Irish Council For Civil Liberties hit out at the plans, saying the proposed laws lack credibility.
However, the
Irish Council for Civil Liberties said the President had chosen to avoid the "nuclear option" by not referring the "deeply-flawed" legislation to the Supreme Court.
THE
Irish Council for Civil Liberties should have been dragged, one by one, down to the murder scene in West Dublin yesterday.