Amnesty Ireland head comments on blasphemy referendum Amnesty Ireland executive director Colm O'Gorman comments on the upcoming blasphemy referendum. The constitution of the Irish state currently states: "The publication or utterance of blasphemous, seditious, or indecent matter is an offence which shall be punishable in accordance with law."But the legislation is generally held to be ineffectual and outdated in contemporary Ireland. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES