storm in a teacup. I don’t think the nation looks to Joe Duffy for guidance. It’s a show for agony aunts and first world problems. Certainly not the centre of a coordinated “campaign of anti-trans lies”. Move on.
>Anti-trans micro-group The Countess hit the headlines recently when they were reportedly “refused admission” to the AGM of the National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) for wanting “to ask questions” about NWCI’s position on “the removal of the word ‘women’ from legislation”.
>The Countess women were there to disrupt that meeting and had announced their intention to do so in a press release several hours before the meeting. “The Countess, a Women and Children’s advocacy group alongside Women’s Space Ireland and various women’s rights activists will be staging an action at the AGM of the national women’s council today in protest at the re-election of a father of three called Sara Phillips onto their board”
Not big on diplomacy by the look of it.
With influence comes responsibility.
>RTÉ was even summoned before an Oireachtas committee to howls of horror from the press about an imagined threat to the right to express opinion.
How can you write that and not understand what the press had issue with.
Its all blown out of proportion and shows that Dublin Pride need to pick their battles more carefully. There are far worse groups out there that are being dirt to the LGBT+ community.
Harping on about this is doing more damage than good.
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storm in a teacup. I don’t think the nation looks to Joe Duffy for guidance. It’s a show for agony aunts and first world problems. Certainly not the centre of a coordinated “campaign of anti-trans lies”. Move on.
>Anti-trans micro-group The Countess hit the headlines recently when they were reportedly “refused admission” to the AGM of the National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) for wanting “to ask questions” about NWCI’s position on “the removal of the word ‘women’ from legislation”.
>The Countess women were there to disrupt that meeting and had announced their intention to do so in a press release several hours before the meeting. “The Countess, a Women and Children’s advocacy group alongside Women’s Space Ireland and various women’s rights activists will be staging an action at the AGM of the national women’s council today in protest at the re-election of a father of three called Sara Phillips onto their board”
Not big on diplomacy by the look of it.
With influence comes responsibility.
>RTÉ was even summoned before an Oireachtas committee to howls of horror from the press about an imagined threat to the right to express opinion.
How can you write that and not understand what the press had issue with.
Its all blown out of proportion and shows that Dublin Pride need to pick their battles more carefully. There are far worse groups out there that are being dirt to the LGBT+ community.
Harping on about this is doing more damage than good.