By: AndrewNFlood

AndrewNFlood
Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:57:55 +0000

Further note

The anti-choice crowd are still trying to claim figures like 35,000 for the rally but are following publication of this and other assessments are being laughed at all over twitter. As is probably clear above the 15,000 I give was in fact a generous maximum estimate (I wanted to head off the nit picky replies I'd get from the anti-choice bloggers) but it looks like a reasonable estimate would be more in the region of 12,000.

After I posted the original version of this article I got the tweet shown here. Now this is the short west side of the square rather than the long south side but its a very precise count that when you account for the longer (but also narrower) nature of South Merrion Square suggests there could have been no more that 3-4 times that figure at Rally For Life at best.

Followers of the blog will have seen my previous posts on the numbers questions.