Dublin zoo Mother’s Day

Or "whats triggered you today?"

I did a search and I can't find any information about womens causes that he supports. Absolutely none. He's another performative right winger who tries to manufacture outrage.

There was supposed to be a protest led by Mr. O'Flynn at Dublin Zoo today.

Was in the area myself, nothing to see only families in the area.

Could well have been...I didn't have my glasses on

Should gay men just be of a hive mind? All think and vote the one-way? Or does diversity just stop at skin colour?

No have whatever opinion you want.

He literally promotes intolerance and exclusion, yet enjoys rights that the liberal left fought for. He's a spoofer

Quite right plodder (well, not entirely about defamation), but just because he endorsed Maria Steen doesn’t mean he opposed marriage equality - quite the opposite, he endorsed marriage equality in the same way he endorsed Maria Steen -

“I believe in equal rights regardless of sexuality everyone in Ireland should receive equal treatment from the state regardless of whether they are gay, lesbian or straight.”

Councillor Kenneth O Flynn, Fianna Fáil

In the same way as he attended the conference on overturning the GRA and the protection of women while his brother has a string of convictions as long as me arm -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_O%27Flynn

To be fair to Ken, his brothers name change might have fooled him into forgetting about his existence (cos that’s how changing one’s name by deed poll works 🤨).

But he’s unlikely to have forgotten that while he’s pissing and moaning and claiming his politics are “common sense” (yes, because pissing and moaning to the Board of the Zoological Society of Ireland about a frivolous advertising promotion is totally common sense), he complains about Government policy on immigration and housing while he’s married to a Spanish immigrant.

Spoofer, is an entirely accurate description.

So, he's responsible for his brother's conduct now?

I didn't claim he is responsible for his brother's conduct. Being Christian however, as he so often likes to remind anyone who cares, he espouses the virtues of Christianity, one of which being that he is his brothers keeper, in this case in the literal sense, and in the sense of the values which are espoused by Christianity - it means that he is responsible for his own conduct towards other people. When he speaks of the virtue and the obligation to treat people with dignity and respect, a closer examination of his own behaviour demonstrates that he doesn't often live up to the virtues himself which he claims to hold.

That doesn't make him a hypocrite, it just means he's a spoofer, or rather more accurately - a self-serving spoofer.

He claims to value Irish culture and traditions, yet sets his sights firmly on the most trivial and light-hearted of examples of Irish culture in terms of our humour, to try and claim that it's an affront to whatever values he personally holds, values which to be completely honest I have no idea of seeing as it amounts to nothing more than claiming 'common sense', as if that means the Irish people are humourless dryballs. I don't think we are, generally speaking. Do you?

I'm lost on how this is remotely related to the topic... The zoo ad wasn't making light of sexual abuse and was absolutely harmless so really no comparison between the two. In the end it appears that only a handful of idiots ended up being offended by the ad.

The point is that once it's decreed something is only a joke, you're just a "humourless dryballs" if you are offended.

Ahh here, you’re after doing Ken O’ Flynn on it and reading far more into that than was intended. The point I was making is that the Irish are world renowned for our sense of humour, Oscar Wilde is one of my own personal favourites, but it’s the way Ken O’ Flynn goes on that one could be forgiven for thinking the Irish people have no sense of humour whatsoever.

If you’re not familiar with his efforts, it’s not the first time Ken has claimed that he’s been contacted by several members of the public claiming to be offended at something where no offence was intended, in an effort to blow what amounts to nothing, completely out of proportion -

https://www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-news/corks-lord-mayor-defends-decision-29830193.ampError

God love him if he ever picked up a copy of Ireland’s Own as a child 🙄