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A WOMAN HAS said she was escorted out of Knockanstockan music festival at the weekend after staging a topless protest.
In a Facebook post shared almost 1,000 times, Carina Fitzpatrick explained that the aim of her actions was to highlight “the many glaring double standards that are imposed upon women”.
“I am referring, of course, to the Free the Nipple Movement which argues that women and men should be granted the same freedom, and protection, under the law. The movement aims to advance gender equality and to oppose sexual objectification.”
Speaking to Philip Boucher Hayes on RTÉ Radio One’s Liveline today, she noted that Saturday was a “lovely, sunny day” and there were topless men “everywhere”.
She recalled the series of events that happened on the day, noting that many women at the festival came up to her to talk about body confidence and feminist issues.
Fitzpatrick said everyone who spoke to her was supportive of what she did.
She said she also had to deal with a man who grabbed her breast while she was clothed.
I laughed it off as [women] often do … It’s not such an uncommon thing for women to be groped. Every time you are sexually harassed you have to weigh up the options, ‘Is this very dangerous or is this innocuous nonsense?’
She said another man made disparaging comments about her friends’ appearances and told her ‘Go on then, get your tits out’.
Objectification
She later took her top off again and said gardaí escorted her off the premises after she refused to put it back on.
“The gardaí had no notion of asking why I had my top off, because they had already decided that it was out of pure licentiousness.
“I tried to explain my moral stance and my desire to affect social change, but I was constantly rebutted with pleas to ‘Think of the children’,” she wrote on Facebook.
Fitzpatrick said women should be free to dress as they wish without be objectified or sexualised.
An Garda Síochána released the following statement in relation to the incident: “Complaints were made by members of the public at approximately 7.30pm on the 23/07/16 concerning an offence under Section 18 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1935 … i.e. committing public indecency.
“The offending female was escorted from the event and her name and address were taken. The matter is under investigation.”
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Graham Norton is worth every penny of that and more. His show is broadcast all over the English speaking world.
@Paul Casey: money for old rope! If you want convoluted nonsense and trite interviews ..he is your man.
@John Nolan: In your opinion perhaps. A huge line of Hollywood and British A list celebrities may differ from your opinion however…
@Paul Casey: Graham has the best guests of anyone, anywhere. It is astounding the talent he has lined up for that couch
@Paul Casey: but it says this salary does NOT include the chat show. So how much is that worth to him?
@Donal Killackey: Apparently its massive as his shows are sent to global audiences, the US BBC advertise and hes the biggest name they have.
Add in his books and other work, he’s done well for himself and the best of luck to him, met him a longtime ago a treat for me. A gentleman.
Robert De Niro asks to be on his show when in London, Tom Hanks thinks Norton is a legend and Cher thinks his performances in Fr Ted are incredible.
He even got Madonna on that couch.
@John Nolan: convoluted and trite interviews are the stuff of Ryan and Ray.
@PaulOMahoney Irish: Cher was his first A list celeb and the show really took off after that.
No show comes close to his for getting in proper celebs.
@Paul Casey: I take it you do enjoy him Paul.
Long may it last, the BBC is on its knees. From next year the TV licence in the UK will be abolished. Time for it to happen here and stop the gravy train in RTE.
@RobbieL: Cummings and go want to change the BBC so instead of it representing a centre ground view they want a right wing view.
To do this he wants the BBC defunded
@RobbieL: apart from the minor fact that it won’t. The BBC still produces some of the best TV and radio in the world, including many current hits you’d have thought should have been produced by RTE! 91% of the U.K. consume BBC content weekly at a very reasonable 40p / day, so take your Trumpian twitter nonsense elsewhere!
@Barry: BBC having a centre ground is laughable, it is renowned to be left learning & has been for many a decade. You would have to be mad & delusional not to see how biased BBC news is, especially the last few years. I’m a big fan of BBC content, always look forward to the new Attenborough epic not to mention original programming like peaky blinders, top gear, Qi, etc. At the end of the day times have moved on and the way it’s funded needs to change too, TBH I would happily pay a Netflix type subscription for access to BBC content.
@Barry: The hatred is both ways, it was the BBC who ” followed ” him on his trip, allegedly……..BBC as a commercial entity would be huge….its fairly substantial now but I cant see ads on it in the UK
And he deserves every penny (pence). Possibly the most brilliant talk show host, ever.
Lineker has become insufferable in recent years, waste of €2m.
Not one of them worth what they are getting.
@John: with the list of heavy hitters who are guests on his show Norton is worth even more .
@John: What metric are you using for that?
Considering how Match of the Day is marketed and merchandise, I’d say Lineker is value for money.
Graham Norton show is syndicated and sold to other territories so Norton has a right to feel underpaid at times I reckon.
You should try and cut down on the salt, ots bad for you.
Good for him. Seems like a lovely fellah and is great at his job
Well deserved. Very talented, hard working man. Great author too.
Begrudgery central here
Graham’s salary excluding the chat show? So it could actually be double that figure!
Should be number 1 … Zoe ball , Really ?
I cannot believe Alan Shearer is getting nearly 400K for his match of the day contributions
@Caddyshack: before he got his P45?
Nothing will top Fr. Noel Furlong singing Bohemian Rhapsody. All downhill after that I’m afraid…..
If he hasn’t already, I’d say Lineker will be blocking comments on his Twitter account. I can’t explain how he his worth that much money but I also cannot explain the level of right wing vitriol he gets from Brexiteers, racists and the like online…
@David Clements: because he preaches from a position of privilege funded through a mandatory tax on regular working people?
@Ned Gerblansky: that’s not in any way a justification for the hate thrown at him and others tho.
The audience and the crowd is the real talent,, as the lock down has shown…
Looking forward to seeing the RTE salaries
€815k excluding his chatshow? that probably doubles his salary
@Peter: I believe is a lot more than Double
How do you know as an Irish person that your officially famous and successful?. When your fellow countrymen turn on you and get all kinds of begrudging and dismissive of your talents and what you’ve achieved
Third highest?
Wow! Who TF remembers who came third in the 100m sprint in the Olympics?
P0intless article. Honestly the journal getting as bad and a dub live and RTE (had to intentionally change the word and use a “zero” as “p0intless” brought my toxicomiter up four fold.
Jaysus Stephen Nolan doing well for himself
Fair dues to Alan Shearer
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