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Films could be cut or banned if, ‘in the opinion of the Censor’, they were ‘indecent, obscene, blasphemous’ or ‘subversive of public morality’. The phrase was astutely drafted: it meant whoever held the statutorily independent post at any given time thereafter was empowered to call the shots. (Down with this sort of thing: Father Ted) https://www.rte.ie/culture/2026/0724/1584217-ban-this-filth-the-untold-history-of-film-censorship-in-ireland/