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IT HAS EMERGED that photographs of a number of young women and teenage girls from Cork have been posted on a pornography website without their permission.
The website is a forum that allows users to create threads, upload content and post comments.
In an interview with Neil Prendeville on Cork’s Red FM, one of the women, 19-year-old Katie Kirwin, said images taken from her social media profiles from the age of 14 to 19 had been uploaded to the site. She only learned about it yesterday.
She said she wanted to point out from the offset, and before any victim-blaming started, that the photos were all of her face.
“A 14-year-old child’s face,” she added.
I can’t contemplate some of the comments, they’re absolutely disgusting.
In one particular comment under one of the photos of Katie, a user said: “I love girls like this, they look so young and probably aren’t even 18”.
Most of the images of Cork women and girls have been uploaded by a user called ‘Irish exposed’. Looking through the site, Kirwin said she found several Cork women and many of them were teens between the ages of 13 and 15.
Most worrying for her, and for other women whose images have been posted on the site without their permission, is that many of the men leaving graphic, sexually demeaning and sometimes violent comments appear to be based in Cork themselves.
Some mention living near the women, while one says he drinks in a bar one of them works in.
The 19 year old described the content on the website as “depraved” referencing the “rape threats” made against some of the victims and discussions about other violent acts.
She said she and other young women featured on the site have been in contact with one another and gardaí have been notified.
“We all have a mutual feeling of disgust,” she told Prendeville.
The full story will be aired on The Neil Prendeville Show from 9am tomorrow morning.
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April traffic last year was virtually non existent due to the first lockdown with all of europe pretty much shut down. Mostly repatriation flights…… There could only be an increase in April this year. Four times next to nothing is still next to nothing. Dublin Airport is still virtually dead with cargo and business jets making up a large chunk of arrivals and departures. Govt travel restrictions in full force.
@Paul Hedderman: big time, sure last week only had 5700 pax a day on average and next week over 7000 down from 100,000 a day. Still the point is no one could travel now or then bat essential reasons
@Scott Crossfield: 3300 transatlantic passengers in a month is crazy. 110 a day. Over 5/6 flights. 20ish per flight. Hope they all got bumped up business class!!
@Paul Hedderman: even with the blame Tony crowd he can’t be blamed for TA as not allowed into the USA apart for some reason
@Scott Crossfield: US presidential proclamation stopping entry of travellers.
I don’t think the covid loving mob are ready to move away from the outdoor drinking yet so might be best to keep this article on ice for a few more days when they are ready move on to their next outrage.
@Dave Harris: the outdoor drinking “Covid loving mob”?
Is that the mob on South William St. or NPHET?
Just askin’ ‘cos either way you make no sense whatsoever !
@Dave Harris: “Covid loving mob” go away you simpleton
In other news …. water is wet
…but still 6 times lower than 2019. FFS !
Werent all the airlines closed last April –
4 times a really low number can still be a really low number …
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