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26th Sep 2016

Singing man brilliantly shuts down heckler at March for Choice

This is brilliant.

Megan Roantree

Fair play to him.

The march for choice this weekend was full of emotion and support for women in Ireland. Huge crowds turned up to protest to repeal the 8th amendment.

Of course, there were pro-life people at the event to counter-protest the pro-choice people.

One anti-choice man made rude remarks to people as they took part in the march, shouting slurs “Repeal what? repeal your arse!” and “Repeal your manners”.

The man was quickly shut down by repeal supporter who sang loudly to drown out the arrogant comments. The man sang a revamped version of The Dubliners Black Velvet Band and the crowd of supporters cheered and clapped.

Filmmaker Kate Dolan who attended the march as a repeal supporter caught the whole thing in one brilliant video.

https://twitter.com/caatdolan/status/780158383123038212

Kate, who recorded the video and uploaded it to Twitter with the caption:

“I caught this anti-choicer being shut down completely by guy singing at the yesterday