WHO WOULD BE a content creator for the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre?

Whoever made that ad on why grandparents shouldn’t hug a grandchild without consent has had a bad few days. Within 24 hours of it being widely shared on social media this week, it was pulled – but not before it received international coverage in the New York Post and the Hungarian Conservative, as well as plenty in the Irish media too.

Government ministers Jim O’Callaghan and Jennifer Carroll MacNeill condemned the video. The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre noted that “the video was launched exclusively on social media in mid-September but we have removed it from our social media channels due to the negative attention it has attracted in the last 24 hours.

“We do not want that negativity to impinge on and distract from the vital work that we as a centre do in supporting victims and survivors and improving awareness of these important issues across society.”

The DRCC said it will not be commenting further until a review is carried out. I wouldn’t want to be one of the people subject to that review.

The ad received ferocious online criticism, some of which was extreme – but I felt the ad made an important point on consent and unwanted physical contact, even from grandparents. I am perhaps the only conservative in Ireland who had this reaction.........

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