Animal rights protesters go naked in Grafton Street

Dublin's Grafton Street has been exposed to a naked animal rights protest.

The two women and a man paraded with a banner calling for a boycott of leather goods and furs in front of bemused onlookers.

Activists claim millions of animals are slaughtered for their skins in terrible conditions all over the world.

Poorva Joshipura from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has defended the protest.

"This is not offensive. What is offensive is the fact that over a billion animals are loosing their lives every year simply to be turned into a bag or into a shoe or into a car seat.

"It is offensive that people are getting cancer and dying because of the pollution caused by leather tanneries.”