Bizarre outcry over Kate pictures

The recent hysteria that accompanied the decision by the Irish Daily Star to print topless photographs of Kate Middleton is even more evidence of this country’s perverse fascination with the British royal family.

Bizarre outcry over Kate pictures

What is most bizarre is not the public outcry, or lack thereof (there were no public complaints to the Press Ombudsman over the publication of the pictures) but the reaction of certain politicians, pandering to the same tabloid media that they purport to regulate.

Needless to say, this should not be entirely unexpected from the elected representatives of our little ‘Republic’.

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