I humbly stand corrected on Article's 2 and 9 of the Constitution and withdraw any comments made about NI people not being citizens of Ireland and therefore not having the right to Free Speech etc.
Then my answer to the Love Ulster march would have been Article 40...
Article 40.6.1° The State guarantees liberty for the exercise of the following rights, subject to public order and morality:
40.6.1.i. The right of the citizens to express freely their convictions and opinions. The education of public opinion being, however, a matter of such grave import to the common good, the State shall endeavour to ensure that organs of public opinion, such as the radio, the press, the cinema, while preserving their rightful liberty of expression, including criticism of Government policy, shall not be used to undermine public order or morality or the authority of the State. The publication or utterance of blasphemous, seditious, or indecent matter is an offence which shall be punishable in accordance with law.
40.6.1.ii. The right of the citizens to assemble peaceably and without arms. Provision may be made by law to prevent or control meetings which are determined in accordance with law to be calculated to cause a breach of the peace or to be a danger or nuisance to the general public and to prevent or control meetings in the vicinity of either House of the Oireachtas.
Now I am not Constitutional Lawyer but I think a good one could argue that the Love Ulster march was to likely in this day and age to cause enough Public Disorder that it could have been stopped under the above Article sub-sections.
Then my answer to the Love Ulster march would have been Article 40...
Article 40.6.1° The State guarantees liberty for the exercise of the
following rights, subject to public order and morality:
40.6.1.i. The right of the citizens to express freely their convictions and opinions. The education of public opinion being, however, a matter of such grave import to the common good, the State shall endeavour to ensure that organs of public opinion, such as the radio, the press, the cinema, while preserving their rightful liberty of expression, including criticism of Government policy, shall not be used to undermine public order or morality or the
authority of the State. The publication or utterance of
blasphemous, seditious, or indecent matter is an offence which shall be punishable in accordance with law.
40.6.1.ii. The right of the citizens to assemble peaceably and without arms. Provision may be made by law to prevent or control meetings which are determined in accordance with law to be calculated to cause a breach of the peace or to be a danger or nuisance to the general public and to prevent or control meetings in the vicinity of either House of the Oireachtas.
Now I am not Constitutional Lawyer but I think a good one could argue that the Love Ulster march was to likely in this day and age to cause enough Public Disorder that it could have been stopped under the above Article sub-sections.
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