Michael Healy-Rae says Mattie McGrath has been 'wronged'.
Deputy McGrath yesterday compared the requirement to display a digital Covid cert to dine indoors to measures taken in early Nazi Germany.
This drew criticism, including from the Twitter account representing the Auschwitz Memorial.
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On Twitter the Auschwitz Memorial account said the comments were a "sad symptom of moral and intellectual decline" and sent Deputy McGrath a free online course about the holocaust.
But Deputy Healy-Rae says the comments were misrepresented: