UCD distances itself from professor's anti-mask comments

Professor Dolores Cahill addresses a protest against lockdown restrictions in Dublin last year. Picture: Conor Ó Mearain/ Collins 

University College Dublin has distanced itself from comments made by one of its professors at an anti-lockdown protest in Dublin on Wednesday, as students called for her to step aside.

Professor Dolores Cahill of UCD's School of Medicine, who is the chair of the fringe far-right Irish Freedom Party, was an organiser of the St Patrick's Day event at Herbert Park in Dublin 4.