We had blasphemy laws here 'til 1952, when our high court decided blasphemy law was an unconstitutional prior restraint on freedom of speech.

Didn't you Irishers have a national vote and decide to NOT have a national religion, hence making blasphemy moot? I thought I remembered that from the 70's. My Dad was livid: "I can see 'no state religion' in the US, but Ireland? C'mon!!"