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Input: Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Irish MP Ruth Coppinger protested by brandishing lacy underwear in parliament 
  
 A series of protests over sexual consent have been taking place in Ireland, a week after a man was acquitted of raping a 17-year-old. 
  
 In the trial, the defence lawyer told the jury: "You have to look at the way she was dressed. She was wearing a thong with a lace front." 
  
 The 27-year-old man was found not guilty of rape shortly afterwards. 
  
 The controversy led one Irish MP to hold up a lace thong in parliament to highlight "routine victim-blaming". 
  
 Ruth Coppinger produced the blue lacy underwear in the Dáil (Irish parliament) from her sleeve on Tuesday. 
  
 "It might seem embarrassing to show a pair of thongs here... how do you think a rape victim or a woman feels at the incongruous setting of her underwear being shown in a court?" 
  
 What happened at the trial? 
  
 The case, in which the man was cleared of rape, was originally reported by the Irish Examiner newspaper on 6 November. 
  
 The accused maintained that the sexual contact between him and the girl, which took place in a laneway in Cork, had been consensual. 
  
 Details of the closing argument presented by his senior counsel Elizabeth O'Connell, however, attracted widespread attention and prompted a series of online protest movements. 
  
 "Does the evidence out-rule the possibility that she was attracted to the defendant and was open to meeting someone and being with someone?" she asked, according to the Examiner's report. 
  
 "You have to look at the way she was dressed. She was wearing a thong with a lace front." 
  
 How did the protests start? 
  
 The day after publication of that court report, the head of Dublin's Rape Crisis Centre criticised the barrister's remarks. 
  
 Although she did not question the verdict, she called for reform of a legal system in which she said such suggestions were frequently made. 
  
 Amid increasing media attention, Irish social media users expressed outrage at the remarks in court. 
  
 Skip Twitter post by @ibelieveher_ire Counsel for man acquitted of rape suggested jurors should reflect on underwear worn by the 17yo complainant. Following this wholly unacceptable comment, we are calling on our followers to post a picture of their thongs/knickers to support her with the hashtag #ThisIsNotConsent pic.twitter.com/ZkVU0GVAIN — I Believe Her - Ireland (@ibelieveher_ire) November 10, 2018 Report 
  
 Under the hashtag #ThisIsNotConsent, Irish women posted photographs of their underwear in all shapes, colours, and materials to protest the use of such techniques in court. 
  
 Many pointed to other countries which have tighter controls on what can be introduced in rape trials, and in what manner the jury can consider them. 
  
 After producing lacy underwear in Ireland's national parliament, Ms Coppinger told one supporter that compulsory training should be introduced for both judges and jurors. 
  
 The controversy surrounding the trial was reminiscent of an outcry over intimate details made public in the trial of two high-profile rugby players, who were cleared of rape in Northern Ireland earlier this year. The revelations caused controversy on both sides of the border. 
  
 What happened at the protests? 
  
 Lunchtime protests calling for an end to "victim-blaming in the courts" took place in a number of Irish cities on Wednesday, organised by Socialist feminist group Rosa. 
  
 In Cork, where the trial took place, an estimated 200 people gathered to march on the courthouse and lay underwear on its steps. 
  
 In the capital, supporters gathered at the Spire of Dublin, where a "washing line" strung between lampposts displayed women's underwear. 
  
 Other protests were set to take place in the western city of Limerick on Wednesday, and Waterford in the south-east on Friday. ||||| Get daily updates directly to your inbox Subscribe Thank you for subscribing See our privacy notice Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email 
  
 Hundreds of protesters held aloft underwear and chanted "clothes are not consent" at a lunchtime rally in the city centre. 
  
 The protest was organised in response to details that emerged of a rape trial in Cork in which a jury was asked to consider the type of underwear a 17 year old defendant was wearing. 
  
 Angry protesters who attended the protest at the Spire on O'Connel Street told Dublin Live they turned up to demand an end to victim blaming and a change the rules on how rape cases are prosecuted. 
  
 Abigal Poynton, 24, travelled from Belturbet in County Cavan to offer her support. 
  
 (Image: Gareth Chaney, Collins) 
  
 She said: "I left college to come straight to this because as a woman and the mother of a daughter, it's just ridiculous. It's terrifying. An item of clothing, a piece of material, can't consent at all. 
  
 "As a parent it's terrifying to think that someone could get away with rape because of a piece of clothing. It's devastating." 
  
 Another young woman said she felt compelled to join the protest as she had been a victim of sexual assault hersef. 
  
 The 18 year old, who did not wish to be named, said: "I personally never went to court but I know what it's like to be scrutinised and I hope young people don't go through the same as I went through." 
  
 (Image: Gareth Chaney, Collins) 
  
 Great-grandmother Maureen Penrose, from Blanchardstown, said she wanted future generations of women to feel safer when reporting sexual assaults. 
  
 "It's time to change things," she said. 
  
 Norma Burke - who recently made headlines as satirical presidential candidate Bunty Twuntingdon-McFuff said women were "not putting up with it anymore". 
  
 She said: "We're not going to have our knickers held up in court. We've had enough and we're here to say you've got to change the legal system." 
  
 "Women are asked about fake tan, they're asked about whether or not they were drinking. 
  
 "None of these things are relevant. Consent means that you said yes to something and the absence of consent is not consent." 
  
 (Image: Gareth Chaney, Collins) 
  
 The protest was organised by feminist organisation ROSA and Solidarity TD Ruth Coppinger. 
  
 The Dublin West TD drew widespread attention to the issue when she held up a thong in the Dail yesterday. 
  
 Speaking after the protest, she said she thought long and hard before producing the underwear in Leinster House. 
  
 She said: "We don't want to be offensive to the person involved. My sympathies are with that young woman." 
  
 Deputy Coppinger said the idea that an item of clothing was an invitation to be raped was "absolutely disgraceful". 
  
 "It's such a backward idea. This is going back four decades. It's like one step forward with Repeal and then a hundred steps back with this kind of stuff." 
  
 The Socialist Party TD also called for a wider discussion about consent throughout Irish society. |||||
Output:
A female lawmaker stood in Irish parliament Tuesday and pulled a pair of lacy thong underwear from her sleeve. This "might seem embarrassing," MP Ruth Coppinger began. But "how do you think a rape victim or a woman feels at … her underwear being shown in a court?" It was a move spurred by the Nov. 5 acquittal of a 27-year-old man in the rape of a 17-year-old, per the BBC. The man argued the sexual contact that occurred along a roadside in Cork was consensual, and in her closing address, his lawyer asked the jury whether the evidence ruled out "the possibility that [the victim] was attracted to the defendant" and "open to … being with someone," per the Irish Examiner. "You have to look at the way she was dressed," she said. "She was wearing a thong with a lace front." The jury delivered a not-guilty verdict in 90 minutes, reports the Irish Independent. Though she didn't question the verdict, the head of Dublin's Rape Crisis Centre afterwards called for court reforms, noting rape trials often focus on what a victim was wearing, per the Independent. Responding to Coppinger's statement Tuesday, Prime Minister Leo Varadkar noted "it doesn't matter what you wear … nobody who's a victim of rape is ever to blame for the crime committed on them." His words have been echoed by women sharing photos of their underwear on Twitter using #ThisIsNotConsent, and by protesters in cities across Ireland. "It's terrifying to think that someone could get away with rape because of a piece of clothing," one participant in Dublin tells DublinLive. "A piece of material can't consent at all." (Elsewhere, a rape victim who gave birth now faces prison time.)