This week, a frustrated Taoiseach Micheál Martin told the Dáil that he’s deeply unhappy with what he called “decidedly unhelpful” coverage by some unnamed media outlets during the recent horrific near-beheading and rioting in Belfast.
“I watched some of the commentary from some social media outlets, and some media platforms of a particular orientation or political disposition which, to say the very least, was decidedly unhelpful in terms of how they portrayed the events of the past 48 hours,” he said during Leaders’ Question, adding: “There can never be any implied justification for the attacks of last evening. There never can be any attempt at rationalisation of it either.”
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