The Rally for Life has been banned by a county council from putting up posters [1] advertising an upcoming event in Fingal.
An officer in the Operations Department of Fingal County Council (FCC) told the Rally that the council “does not allow posters of a contentious nature on public property.”
When questioned by Gript, the staff officer who oversaw the decision, claimed that there would be “lots of complaints from the public” if the poster were allowed.
She added that permission was refused due to an image on the poster, rather than the fact that the posters promoted a pro-life event, but emails seen by Gript show that the Rally offered to remove the image in question from the poster and were told the poster would still be refused as the issue itself was still “contentious.”
Megan Ní Scealláin of the Rally for Life Committee told Gript that the FCC’s refusal was “open censorship of one point of view,” and was, in their view, “an attack on free speech happening in plain sight” and was “completely unacceptable.”