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Jan 18, 2022Liked by Conor Fitzgerald

Good piece. A nation of hysterics. Take away the Church and the hysteria has infected into everything. Perfect timing for the hysteria to be released, - pent up over Xmas, people's brains destroyed by social media, impact of covid restrictions etc. It's Savita 2.0.

Girls do better in same sex schools, the demand to abolish them is nothing to do with "ending male violence", but everything to do with destroying what is left of the education system. What kind of school did the two boys who killed Ana Kriegel go to? Nobody seems remotely interested in knowing the answer.

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Culture now seems to be downstream of Media narratives.

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Jan 18, 2022Liked by Conor Fitzgerald

I've seen this as a media led spectacle, of an innocent young Irish woman, a murder mystery, a national mass formation, and it inevitably being co-opted by the left liberal talking heads.

But ultimately all led by the media.

This will be forgotten about when it exhausts its utility to the news cycle. Who's talking about Sarah Everett in the UK media these days?

It really does seem that the pandemic response has trained a lot of people very well to respond as a mass to whatever narrative the media uniformly create.

This isn't said out of indifference to the crime. I hope swift justice is administered to whoever did it.

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The two men who brutally assaulted a woman causing horrific damage to her head, face and eye are now out on bail. Where’s the outrage? The media dictate the narrative. Society is way too willing to follow it.

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