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Wed 05 May 2004An Irishman's DiaryAh. So, uniquely in Europe, Ireland has banned an advertisement to promote voting in the EU elections that consists of a baby trying to choose which of his mother's bare breasts to feast upon.(A happy dilemma indeed. Being a twin, I had no such luxury.) In Britain they're slightly less prudish: there, the video is simply being doctored to cover an offending nipple with the baby's hand in one shot, and with the shot of the baby's mouth closing over the nipple being removed completely.