Follow me on telegram here: http://t.me/orlaredchan After giving the full horror soundtrack treatment to a montage of Saturday's protest, Primetime hosted a debate between John McGurk and Fine Gael TD Neale Richmond. John made some good points here asking why RTÉ didn't describe BLM as violent when rocks were thrown at gardaí in Blanch during their rampage of the town in the wake of George NKencho's death and why Trócaire and various politicians weren't called to task for associating with journalist killers at an anti-racism rally that was organised to counter a free speech rally. I was disappointed he let them get away with describing previous anti-lockdown rallies as violent when it was those opposing them who had [instigated](https://telegra.ph/ANTIFAs-botched-attack-on-the-Time-For-Change-Rally-08-24) and caused the violence. A sample of the quotes: "There was violence at the BLM protest in Blanchardstown in January. Does suggest that the problem is the BLM rather than the issue? There was rocks thrown at gardaí. "There is no other protest movement in the western world that has VTs run on the national broadcaster suggesting they're a far-right, neo-nazi, crypto-fascist movement. "One thing that was missing from that VT was one single interview with any single person who took part in the protest." "The people who are suffering in this pandemic, the people who take to the streets and protest are being called Nazis and far-right for doing it while Neale comes on tonight to advocate for banning protests while last August, his Taoiseach went to the European Union to advocate for the right of people to protest in Belarus!" "You want people to speak out reasonably against the lockdown? Dr. Martin Feeley spoke out reasonably against the lockdown. Your government and HSE told him his position was untenable. Úna McGurk, a respected barrister, spoke out against the lockdown. Your government sacked her the other day. "When reasonable people speak out, your government sacks them and then when ordinary people come out and protest, your government calls them Nazis!" "It is remarkable that last year at the height of a level 5 pandemic, your constituency colleague—a government TD—attended outside the American embassy a BLM protest that was completely in breach of the regulations. This TV programme didn't even bring him in here to ask him why. "But ordinary people protest the lockdown and all of a sudden Nazi panic." RTÉ offered a retraction at the end of show as John McGuirk named the wrong group behind the killing of Lyra McKee which Trócaire, Hazel Chu and Richard Boyd Barrett stood beside to oppose free speech last year. Éirígí were not the group behind McKee's killing. Broadcast: RTÉ Primetime 02 Mar 2020

Neil Prendeville speaking to a failed asylum seeker from Albania who wants to complain about the grub being served at her free hotel in Cork while endlessly appealing her asylum application's rejection. Neil says it looks like typical "Sunday buffet at a hotel" and asks her if she ever felt about jacking in and just going back home to Albania. No. The food looks fine anyway. The cooks seem to be the problem. Strong chance they're careless foreign wage slaves. Couple of good callers on after. One woman suggests the Albanian should inform her fellow countrymen who might be considering filing spurious asylum claims here not to bother as the food laid on for them (while homeless Irish children are eating pizza slices off cardboard on the streets) might not be up to the five star experience they expect. Another Albanian asylum seeker also calls in and defends the huge number of fraudulent asylum seekers from Albanian arriving in Ireland. She says it's because there are lots of corruption in Albania. WTF are coming to Ireland for so? The entire asylum industry is corrupt.