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Public performance for some drag artists here since the pandemic began. we're ireland's first drag house and we're now the biggest house. other ones are springing up, and now there's this incredible scene where, like, you see all these different styles of drag and performers, which we didn't have before. tell me about how the pandemic affected you and the whole scene here. specifically, we're queer people in the lgbt+ community, again, our space has been taken away. and for the likes of myself and the other queens, our work was taken away. yet it's taught us a lot. and what i've loved personal...

Two. >> thank you so much. your first time on "world news tonight." welcome to the team. we turn now to afghanistan. more than eight months after kabul fell to the taliban, some of the worst fears of women and girls being realized. but many are not giving up. ian pannell recently visited the country. >> reporter: tonight, the women and girls fighting back against taliban rule in afghanistan. this protest in kabul calling for bread, work, freedom, and political rights. the latest in a series of demonstrations, often met by a brutal taliban response. the militants have banned most girls from a...

Becoming outdated. a growing drag community has emerged in cork. you they've been through a difficult covid period, and tonight will be the first public performance for some drag artists here since the pandemic began. we're ireland's first drag house and we're now the biggest house. other ones are springing up, and now there's this incredible scene where, like, you see all these different styles of drag and performers, which we didn't have before. tell me about how the pandemic affected you and the whole scene here. are specifically, we're queer people in the lgbt+ community, again, our space ...

And we, ourselves, we're used to looking after sheep, whereas alpacas were something a bit different and a bit scary. back on the road, i'm heading into cork city. here, old stereotypes of ireland's conservative outlook are once again becoming outdated. a growing drag community has emerged in cork. they've been through a difficult covid period, and tonight will be the first public performance for some drag artists here since the pandemic began. we're ireland's first drag house and we're now the biggest house. other ones are springing up, and now there's this incredible scene where, like, you s...

And tonight will be the first public performance for some drag artists here since the pandemic began. we're ireland's first drag house and we're now the biggest house. other ones are springing up, and now there's this incredible scene where, like, you see all these different styles of drag and performers, which we didn't have before. tell me about how the pandemic affected you and the whole scene here. specifically, we're queer people in the lgbt+ community, again, our space has been taken away. and for the likes of myself and the other queens, our work was taken away. yet it's taught us a lot...