A placard bearing an image of Vladimir Lenin is held aloft among counter-protesters at the Let Women Speak rally in Merrion Square in Dublin last weekend. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire I was intrigued to see posters featuring Vladimir Lenin and red flags featuring the hammer and sickle in evidence at a recent counterdemonstration in support of transgender rights at Merrion Square. This counterdemonstration apparently aimed to drown out by noise a demonstration organised by a group called Let Women Speak, which featured a controversial UK feminist anti-transgender speaker Kellie-Jay Keen, otherwise known as Posie Parker. Members of An Garda Siochána...