Updated 10.30am
YESTERDAY, THE TD Joan Collins was arrested at an anti-water meter protest in Dublin before being released a short time later.
The arrest generated quite a lot of discussion on social media with anti-water charges activists again levelling charges of heavy-handed and political policing.
Collins insisted she was “simply standing on a public footpath”.
Meanwhile the other, more famous Joan Collins, the British actress, author and columnist, has sought to clarify any confusion:
We may have reached peak Twitter.
Update: The United Left TD has delivered this quite magnificent response:
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