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1. This is deplorable and an affront to the rights of Freedom of Speach, Assembly and Protest.
Sun Jul 12, 2026, 07:09 PM
Sunday

We are not alone with this problem. On January 30, 1972 the Bloody Sunday, or the Bogside Massacre, occurred on 30 January 1972 when British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a protest march in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland. Fourteen more deaths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_(1972)

Paul McCartney's Give Ireland Back to the Irish was banned.
U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday reached #1 in Republic of Ireland.
Irish poet Thomas Kinsella published Butcher's Dozen later that year.


Government need to remember - "It's not who they are underneath... but what they *do*... that defines them."
[Apologies to Batman.]

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