Marie McGonagle is a Law Lecturer at NUI Galway (homepage), specialising in Media Law. She was involved in the reformation process for the new Defamation Act, 2009.

We spoke with Marie about the new Act in light of online communities and bloggers. We asked if the new law would give the Garda wider search and seizure powers for those found guilty of Blasphemy. We posed the question, “Is a blog a periodical?”

An excerpt of this interview aired on Wednesday January 27^th on FlirtFM (101.3MHz, Galway), during ITFreely, S2E7.

The audio (source) and text of this interview is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY).

Transcript to follow…