I've never dodged a question?

[Shelby219]

Catherine Connolly said she has never dodged a question,and she hates hypocrisy yet when Elijah Burke asked her a question in a Q and A in Galway University she sits there staring into space and a Garda sergeant escorts him out of the room. Regardless of whether you agree with him or not he's entitled to ask a question and surely she should answer it.

 

[arbitron]

You must not have seen the footage.

Burke stood up in the middle of the event, interrupting proceedings, and started shouting: "What do you have to say tonight about Enoch Burke, my brother, who was incarcerated for his views on transgenderism?"

The moderator told him they would take a question from him at the end. The rest of the audience told him to stop and he ignored them. He continued to speak and refused to sit down.

The sole purpose of this was to get attention for Enoch Burke and had nothing to do with the presidential campaign or Connolly herself. It was a disruptive, self-serving act. Cloaking it in a defence of "free speech" was disingenous.

 

[JoeRoberts]

The moderator told him they would take a question from him at the end. The rest of the audience told him to stop and he ignored them.

She was never going to answer that question even if the moderators had allowed it to be asked.

 

[Marsupial]

Cloaking it in a defence of "free speech" was disingenous.

Indeed, but that's Gript for you! https://gript.ie/elijah-burke-and-the-dearth-of-student-radicals/

I'm glad that it's there as a counter point to the alternative Irish media outlets, but it needs to grow up.

 

[Marsupial]

She was never going to answer that question even if the moderators had allowed it to be asked.

Unfortunately, now we'll never know; whereas if the fool had simply shut up and waited, then maybe she would have had to.

 

[losttheplot]

What are the chances she would have been allowed to answer. How long would he have waited for a reply before interupting.

 

[Duke of Marmalade]

A nonsense to make anything of the universality of that aspiration. The well known cliché is that you can't answer "have you stopped beating your partner?". Add to that any question from a Burke. Doesn't negate the aspiration.