http://www.irishcentral.com/topics/BNP IrishCentral BNP en-us http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/danny_boy/radical-politician-invited-to-irish-university----bnp-leader-griffin-calls-holocaust-profitable-lie-and-finds-gays-revolting-135439533.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/danny_boy/radical-politician-invited-to-irish-university----bnp-leader-griffin-calls-holocaust-profitable-lie-and-finds-gays-revolting-135439533.html Mon, 12 Dec 2011 07:45:14 PST
BNP's Nick GriffinLeader of the British National Party Nick Griffin is set to speak at University College Cork after reportedly accepting an invite from the Government and Politics Society to take part in a debate thereThe radical politician caused a stir this October after Trinity College Dublin effectively banned him from its campus after pressure groups including an anti-fascism campaign organization and a Jewish students' union mounted a high-profile campaign of opposition to the visitThe surprise cancellation of the Trinity event sparked off a heated debate on the boundaries of freedom of speech in major Irish newspapers as well as as flourish of letters in the Irish Times, Ireland's paper of recordMany have questioned whether the decision to cancel the event was really based on security, and argued that free speech demands that he be given a platform to air his views READ MORE ]]>