A US preacher who critics call a "Holocaust-denier, Islamophobe and anti-LGBT+ extremist" has become the first person banned from visiting Ireland under exclusion powers.
Pastor Steven L Anderson, from the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Arizona, was due to deliver a sermon in Dublin on 26 May as part of a short tour of Europe.
But a Change.org petition calling for him to be banned, launched four months ago, gathered more than 14,000 signatures. On Monday, Ireland's Minister for Justice and