Mastodawn

I see the press has reached the ad hominem stage of its crisis response protocol. It's so tiresome seeing this every time. Forget the crisis, look at the bad history of those actors, but never these actors. Pick one protester, find out they're a real shit; but do not, whatever you do, report on the failings and shittiness of any government TD or Minister (but report on the shittiness of any opposition TD you want to, they're fair game).

This is why we can't have nice things.

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Mark Dennehy

We've seen this every time, regardless of the merits of the crisis or the protest. Everything from bringing in birthright citizenship because the minister for justice didn't like black people, to repealing the eighth amendment, to boycotting Dunnes for selling apartheid products, to bringing condoms from Belfast on the train, to calling for a mass grave of children in Tuam to be excavated, to neutrality protest, divorce protests, everything.

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