Edel Coffey: Your 'right' to watch porn in public ends with others' right not to

"I have as much of a problem with people clipping their nails or applying make-up or nail polish on the bus as I do with people watching porn. It’s all about boundaries."
Edel Coffey: Your 'right' to watch porn in public ends with others' right not to

Edel Coffey: no-one wants to feel like a prude, but there's a time and a place for everything

It sounded like the beginning of the latest bingeworthy Netflix show.

A sexagenarian male MP gets caught – twice — watching porn on his phone in the House of Commons chamber and within a week he has resigned from the seat he has held for 12 years. A week is a long time in politics, as they say.

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