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MEMBERS OF THE Deaf community are to hold a protest outside RTÉ’s Dublin and Cork offices this Thursday afternoon.
The protest is over the way in which RTÉ covered the first public performance of the newly translated ISL version of Amhrán na bhFiann at last Sunday week’s All-Ireland hurling final at Croke Park, and parts of the Pope’s visit this weekend.
An open letter by the Irish Deaf Society said that the national broadcaster didn’t show the ISL version of the national anthem on screen for long enough, and didn’t have enough representation of it during televised coverage of the Pope’s visit.
Eimear O' Rourke / TwitterThis Thursday Cork Deaf people will have protest in outside in RTE Cork City at 4.30pm, meet In Imperial Hotel at 3.30pm then waking to RTE studio, please share and spread it. #StopHidingISL @corkgeek @Suzanne54065031 @DeafIrishInstns @IslStop
— Eìmear (@rourkeeimear) August 27, 2018
It said that despite recruiting and booking interpreters for the Pope’s arrival, those interpreters weren’t as visible for those at home.
“The Deaf community had no ISL interpretation for any of the Pope’s coverage on RTÉ,” the open letter said.
Whilst interpreters were visible in the background at all these events, it was disappointing that they were not included on screen for Deaf viewers at home watching the proceedings. Had the interpreter been situated on stage translating into Irish Sign Language, it would have given Deaf viewers at home full access to the proceedings.
The protest also calls for RTÉ to broadcast the full ISL performance of the national anthem during the All-Ireland Football Final next Sunday.
It is also disappointing to note that before the Limerick v Galway Hurley Match on August 19th, RTÉ went to great trouble to inform the media that the National Anthem would be translated into Irish Sign Language, yet the ISL performer was only visible on screen for 1-2 seconds.
In a statement to TheJournal.ie, RTÉ said that they have contacted the Irish Deaf Society and are engaged in an active dialogue with them on the matter. It said that live signing can be difficult to capture at televised events.
“Live signing, as incorporated by organisers into many events, is often very difficult to capture satisfactorily for home viewers. As such, RTÉ has traditionally provided live subtitling as an alternative.
“However, RTÉ has been looking at a better solution for live signing for some time. Trials, of which last night’s Papal visit highlights programme is a part, are actively testing live signing facilitated from RTÉ’s studios.
“This is something that RTÉ remains committed to testing.”
Organisers of the protest plan to hand a petition to RTÉ and speak to the Director General Dee Forbes, and the Head of Sport Declan McBennett at 5.30pm.
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Japs snaps flaps for 3D faps
11/10.
Claps
She spotted a gap in the market.
A large black bush please no ice.
N green thumb taps..
So they can slaughter and torture the living sh** out of dolphins and whales but arrest someone drawing a fanny , crazy
So this has nothing whatsoever to do with art? She sold the data required to make a 3d print of her vagina to raise money to buy a kayak.
Anyone want want a mála version of my penis? Need money to buy a PS4 but I swear it’s all about the art.
She was.raising the money to have a kayak made in the shape of her vagina as an art project I presume. Can your genitalia be modelled around a PS4? Interesting! ;)
Only the joystick!
Classic
“Japan’s pornography industry is primarily aimed at men…”
I never knew that.
Anything passes for “artist” these days
Said every old fogey, ever.
Will three be a pussy riot?
The vagina artist Minori Kitahara was giving the Police the 2 fingers..
Hang on – so possession of child porn has been made legal in the last month in Japan??? But some woman who has questionable (but consensual) artistic skills is arrested?? Wtf?
Child porn has been made legal in Japan…..What..??. If this is true the UN should sanction Japan surely…
Might start up my own studio here in Dublin!
You’ll need a wide angle lens for some of them
She must have some…errr…. anyway, that’s one huge camera.
The Freedom of Expression defence. Good one that.
“Japan has notoriously tough obscenity laws”. As someone that regularly browses 4chan, I can tell you this is a complete misconception.
Oi mrs get back in yer box !!!!
That’s why she wanted the kayak!
Getting all in a flap over nothing.
A piss artist
This is the country where the laws permit vending machines on city streets to dispense soiled ladies underwear I exchange for money.
Japan is as perverse in its laws as its people are in their tastes.
If it makes money I might do it myself.
I have untold copybooks of penis art that I have been accumulated throughout my school years. I wonder if I could make a small fortune….
We should tell Gashi or whatever her name is to do some artistic research into Sheelagh na Gig!
Never change Japan, never change.
What an hypocresy, japanese manga is full of explicit sex for male consumers!! Obscenity is what’s happening in Majorca and Barcelona: http://www.elpais-digital.es/n8/16_07_2014_1.html
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