Sir, \u2013 To see a photograph of a \u201cvulnerable person\u201d waved around the D\u00e1il \u2013 for political gain \u2013 is a new low and is deeply concerning (News, November 29th). This at a time when our capital city is hurting and so many people are working hard to help it heal.<\/p>\n
D\u00e1il privilege is gifted to a small number of our citizens by virtue of their election to public office and should never be abused. It was clearly abused in this instance.<\/p>\n
It is worth noting that Christmas time is open season to photograph \u201chomeless people\u201d, often for fundraising purposes and without their permission, unaware of the hurt it causes to families.<\/p>\n
Human rights are for all of us. \u2013 Yours, etc,<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/opinion\/letters\/2023\/12\/01\/vulnerable-people-have-rights-too\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sir, \u2013 To see a photograph of a \u201cvulnerable person\u201d waved around the D\u00e1il \u2013 for political gain \u2013 is a new low and is deeply concerning (News, November 29th). This at a time when our capital city is hurting and so many people are working hard to help it heal. D\u00e1il privilege is gifted … Continue reading Vulnerable people have rights too (Irish Times)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliceleahytrust.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliceleahytrust.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliceleahytrust.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliceleahytrust.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliceleahytrust.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aliceleahytrust.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5956,"href":"https:\/\/aliceleahytrust.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5955\/revisions\/5956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliceleahytrust.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliceleahytrust.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliceleahytrust.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}