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Lunchtime Live host Ciara Kelly is asking people to send her in their brand new, unopened packs of sanitary products, pads or tampons as part of a campaign.

Opening her show on Friday, Ciara said: "I would like you to send me tampons.

"Yep, that's what I would like you to do - send me tampons here at Newstalk.

"Our address is Newstalk FM, Marconi House, Digges Lane, Dublin 2 - they will get to me.

"And what I will do is, however many tampons you send, I will bring them to the ASAI and I will show them that this is the protest."

It comes after a TV advert in relation to tampons and their correct insertion was banned in its current form by the Advertising Standards Authority for Ireland (ASAI).

The TV ad for Tampax Tampons Pearl Compak featured a female host of a fictional talk show and a young girl sitting in a chair waiting to be interviewed.

The two then began to talk about tampons and their correct insertion, which was accompanied by an on-screen demonstration.

"You gotta get 'em up there girls", the host said.

The advert was removed after 84 complaints were received.

Defending the decision, the chief executive of the ASAI Orla Twomey told Ciara Kelly on Thursday: "We're not saying advertising for tampons are not appropriate for teenagers, or that they're inappropriate for the wider audience or the public to see.