{"id":212464,"date":"2020-08-24T07:02:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T07:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=212464"},"modified":"2020-08-26T07:21:28","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T07:21:28","slug":"hundreds-attend-anti-lockdown-protest-in-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=212464","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds attend anti-lockdown protest in Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<h1>Coleman O\u2019Sullivan \u2013 RTE Aug 22, 2020<\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bitchute.com\/embed\/hClyQt603OjX\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Hundreds of people attended an\u00a0anti-lockdown protest in\u00a0Dublin today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The rally was organised by the Yellow Vests Ireland group at Custom\u00a0House Quay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">There was\u00a0little sign of physical\u00a0distancing and most of those in attendance did not wear\u00a0face coverings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">There was also a small counter-protest on Butt Bridge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">There was a large Garda presence around the event.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_212467\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/anti-lockdown-protest-Dublin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-212467\" class=\"wp-image-212467\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/anti-lockdown-protest-Dublin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/anti-lockdown-protest-Dublin.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/anti-lockdown-protest-Dublin-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-212467\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anti lockdown protest, Dublin. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Speakers at the Yellow Vests&#8217; rally\u00a0denounced the current Covid-19 restrictions\u00a0and described\u00a0them as unconstitutional and unnecessary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">One speaker claimed there was no evidence that wearing face coverings protect people from\u00a0coronavirus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Another speaker described wearing masks as &#8220;idiotic&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Speakers at the rally said wearing a face mask should be a matter of choice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Garda\u00ed confirmed to RT\u00c9 that\u00a0four men had been arrested. There were no details as to which protest they had attended.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">One man was held for breach of the peace and two men for public order offences and the fourth man for possession of an offensive weapon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Asked if there would be an investigation into the mass gathering &#8211; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/coronavirus\/2020\/0818\/1159878-virus-press-conference\/\">with the latest Covid restrictions\u00a0stating no more than 15 people should meet outdoors at any one time<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>&#8211; An Garda S\u00edochana said public health guidelines on social distancing and management of events are not penal provisions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In a statement, it said garda\u00ed will &#8220;continue to adopt a graduated policing response based on its tradition of policing by consent&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/2020\/0822\/1160698-anti-lockdown-protest\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was little sign of physical distancing and most demonstrators did not wear facemasks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212464"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212468,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212464\/revisions\/212468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}