“Bad news for Louis Theorux fans.
“It’s looking increasingly like his highly anticipated feature film, My Scientology Movie won’t be getting a release in Ireland due to blasphemy laws.
“The film has a UK distributor, Altitude and is set to be released over there on October 14th.
“However as we reported earlier this year, an Irish distributor has yet to be confirmed and it’s looking likely that none will be.
“The main stumbling block seems to be Ireland’s blasphemy laws and in particular the The Defamation Act of 2009. According to that piece of legislation, any “publication or utterance of blasphemous matter” against any religion is an offence and carries a fine of €25,000.”
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