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@freespeechire
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300subscribers
+0 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001479732251 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @freespeechire |
| Description | Irish advocacy group championing free speech, expression, and academic freedom. Broadcasts are advocacy as well as news. Contact: info@freespeechireland.ie |
| Created | 7 September 2022 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel) |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 6 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 2 |
| On Telegram | t.me/freespeechire |
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 6 Aug 2026, 22:33 | 300 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 10:03 | 300 | first reading |
18 posts held, back to 12 May 2024 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 pageof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 18 posts for this entry, the most recent from 14 July 2025. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 6 August 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. Below Telegram’s rounding threshold, so these counts are exact.
A welcome pushback by Jim O'Callaghan. There is no democratic mandate for new hate-speech sentences. https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/ireland-pushes-back-at-eu-over-hate-speech-laws-as-it-faces-legal-action/a1039139620.html
EU to "force" Hate Speech laws on Ireland after their rejection, but will Minister for Justice, Jim O'Callaghan, push back? https://youtu.be/iwSmE42Wsow
Say No to the Silence Directive! Pictures from today's Oireachtas event hosted by Free Speech Ireland to combat attempts by the European Commission to force the government to upgrade hate speech laws. A collection of Oireachtas members, legal experts and Independent MEP Michael McNamara stressed the need for the government to reject outside interference and safeguard free expression ahead of a deadline to reply to …
The Green Party will “certainly” try to pass new hate speech laws after the general election if they return to government, party leader Roderic O’Gorman has said: https://gript.ie/greens-will-certainly-try-to-pass-hate-speech-laws-after-election/
We encourage supporters of free speech not to vote for the Green Party in the upcoming General Election. They have created a ridiculous situation where environmentalists would have to vote against their civil liberties.
Despite no democratic mandate, content that is legal under Irish & EU law must be suppressed under Coimisiún na Meán's new Online Safety Code. Platforms risk fines of 10% of global annual turnover if they fail to comply, so they may err on the side of censorship. https://brusselssignal.eu/2024/10/ireland-ignores-its-own-parliament-and-announces-eu-wide-online-speech-controls/
It would be a complete neglect of democratic duty by Helen Mc Entee to 'guillotine' discourse over the Hate Speech Bill, as Senator Rónán Mullen highlighted in the Seanad this evening.
It is a huge victory that the sections of the Hate Speech Bill introducing new sentences for hate speech will be removed. The Bill has become a political hazard for the Government, thanks to everyone who has shown their support for free speech. However, the Bill remains problematic in several ways, from the powers granted to seize devices to the criminalisation of debate over genocide. We will be paying close attent…
https://www.newstalk.com/news/its-a-slippery-slope-should-social-media-sites-be-blocked-to-stop-riots-1754039 When asked about blocking particular social media sites in Ireland, Michele Neylon, CEO of Blacknight, said, “Is that really the way we want to do things?” “I am one of those people who believes in a free and open internet as much as possible”—well said!
The Free Speech Summit is in full swing. Great turnout! Videos will be available online soon. #BinTheBill
The Arts Building is the first right when entering TCD from Nassau Street. The Davis Theatre is straight down the main hall of the Building. Doors open from 5 PM.
The Free Speech Summit is sold out. If you can't attend, please message us so we can refund you and open tickets to the waiting list. Thank you to everyone who has shown interest in the event—this is a great sign. Apologies to those who couldn't find a ticket.
Showing the 12 most recent of 18 posts we hold for @freespeechire. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
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“Free Speech Ireland” (@freespeechire), 300 subscribers as measured 6 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/freespeechire.
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