KATH Kavanagh said in her letter (January 15) said: "we have the right to attend council meetings without vetting, to wave banners and to shout, perhaps to be told to be quiet. But if violence becomes apparent then expulsion from the chamber is justified — but not to be banned outright."

She does not have that right.

Council meetings are meetings of the council and not public meetings but the public are allowed to attend them to observe the proceedings in silence.

Miss Kavanagh and her colleagues need to learn about council procedure and how to behave in public and not like rent -a-mob.

If she is not happy with the proceedings, she should take the matter up with her councillor outside the meeting and if that does not resolve her problem, she can always vote for someone else at the next election.

The council is thus quite right to vet the public who attend the meetings and exclude those who disrupt the proceedings.

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