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This morning.

A planned discussion on mask-wearing on RTÉ 2FM’s Jennifer Zamparelli Show has been scrapped following criticism on Twitter.

Via Independent.ie:

The presenter sounded clearly wounded on the show, as she announced: “Yes, I put out a tweet without thinking about the words I used,” but she added: “The intention of my tweet was very different to what was interpreted. I wanted your reaction on the weekend [protests].”

The presenter said she understood that her using the word “discussion” had “set off anger and hurt” adding “but to be honest it [anti-mask views] really shocked me, it shocked me as someone wearing a face mask since before we had to.”

“It’s very clear people don’t want this conversation to happen,” she said. “Judging from the reaction, we will not be doing this item today.”

‘An emotional 24 hours’ – 2FM’s Jennifer Zamparelli axes face mask ‘discussion’ due to public outcry (Independent.ie)

Pic: RTÉ

Yesterday: “They Demand The Freedom To Walk Around Without Restrictions – That Is A Tiny Minority View”

Sunday evening.

A row as big as a fight breaks out on the Boardwalk at the north quays, with at least one person ending up in the Liffey.

Ugly row, excellent commentary (in fairness).

Meanwhile…

Last night.

Dawson Street, Dublin 2.

Protestors outside the Mansion House, where  Dublin City Councillors voted to not grant protected status to The O’Rahilly’s House (top) in Herbert Park. Dublin 4.

The house was the home of 1916 rising leader Michael Joseph O’Rahilly, and is due to be demolished to make room for a proposed aparthotel development with 105 flats fronting on to Herbert Park.

Previously: Was It For This?

Leah Farrell/Rollingnews

Previously: Crunching The Numbers

The Reporting Of Deaths

‘Substantially Less Than The Reported 1,709 COVID-19-Related Deaths’

Saturday’s rally against covid restrictions; Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Defence Simon Coveney.

A tiny minority.

Who MUST be silenced.

This morning.

On Pat Kenny’s Newstalk Show.

Further to Muzzlegate…

“This is a difficult balancing act, I have to say that the people who were involved in that protest do not represent a majority review, in fact they represent a very, very small minority view.

“It is very unwelcome that people are foolhardy enough to think that they can ignore all of the public health advice, all of the doctors that are repeating the message over and over again, of our national public health team at Nphet, and the Minister for Health and the Government messages, they’re ignoring all of that because they see conspiracies in everything, and they just demand the freedom to walk around without restrictions — that is a tiny minority view.”

“I am not happy, most of the people who saw that demonstration on television would have been angered by it, that’s why I’m saying that the Government needs to try to get the balance right between the right to protest and be heard and the law and the regulations and guidelines that we have to protect the public”

Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Defence Simon Coveney

Covid-19: Government to discuss right to protest, says Coveney (Irish Times)

Saturday: We Will Not Be Muzzled

Rollingews

Meanwhile…

Oh.

1901.

College Green, Dublin 2.

Not amused.

Well, maybe a little.

Death Of The Queen (National Gallery of ireland)

In September 1948 a draft memorandum prepared for the first Inter-Party government claimed that ‘a great many of the young girls who emigrate to Britain become pregnant’.many of the reports are tragic and alarming in the extreme.

The continued emigration of large numbers of young women is a disquieting feature of our national life and one which gives rise to serious concern on moral, social and demographic grounds’.

‘Bad girls’: When the Irish State sought to ban emigration of young women to Britain (John Gibney, Irish Times)

Orla writes:

At no point in this otherwise thorough article (above) does the author consider a key reason many young women were leaving Ireland in droves was so they could keep their babies….

In fairness.

This morning.

Of the Dáil’s 34 current serving female TDs surveyed by The Irish Examiner….

12 had suffered sexual harassment at some point in their lives

17 have been on the receiving end of a sexist insult or remark from a man to their face while working in politics

17 said they had been “trolled” or received sexist insults or harassment on social media

Also…

It’s understood a number of female TDs in Leinster House have reported death threats to the Gardai in previous years but are not willing to disclose the reports to the press.

Third of female TDs sexually harassed (Aoife-Grace Moore, Irish Examiner)

Rollingnews

Meanwhile…

Ah here.