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Mattie McGrath 'wronged' after 'Nazi' comments - Healy Rae

Jul 14, 2021 11:30
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Mattie McGrath 'wronged' after 'Nazi' comments - Healy Rae

The comments drew widespread criticism.

Michael Healy-Rae says Mattie McGrath has been 'wronged'.

Deputy McGrath yesterday compared the requirement to display a digital Covid cert to dine indoors to measures taken in early Nazi Germany.

This drew criticism, including from the Twitter account representing the Auschwitz Memorial.

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On Twitter the Auschwitz Memorial account said the comments were a "sad symptom of moral and intellectual decline" and sent Deputy McGrath a free online course about the holocaust.

But Deputy Healy-Rae says the comments were misrepresented:

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