Irish lip reader confused botox woman's SOS with oral expression of Blah Blah Blah which has been blamed on his difficulty of trying to deduce her calls for help from The River Lee in Cork City Ireland.
A spokesperson for the ILRA (Irish Lip Readers Association) defended his colleague and attributed the tragedy to Covid 19, as the lady was wearing a black face mask which not only made her cries for assistance inaudible, she could also have been a Muslim and hence her expressions of alarm, in Arabic.
By the time it would have taken to request a bilingual translater from Arabic to English or Irish, she would in that duration have drowned anyway.
A witness from St Patricks Bridge said he saw the lady earlier get on a bus in Kanturk and changed in Magh Allah for Cork city. At that time she was wearing a Hijab (which unlike France, are not illegal in Ireland, where diversity and liberty is cherished)
A Spokesperson for The Garda told The Irish Examiner, that a lot of people swim up the river to avoid the crowds and wear face masks for the pollution.
No charges are being proposed for the Lip Reader's error of Judgement, but the Judge has requested that he take night classes in Arabic.