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By Vanessa Foran.
I want to take you back a few months to a mad little incident that keeps coming back to me.
“You are almost too transparent and informative”.
This is what PR man and registered lobbyist, Conor Dempsey, a self-declared
‘close confidante’
(sic) of Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly, DMed to Dr Anthony O’Connor earlier this year.
Dr O’Connor is a practising clinician, a public healthcare activist, and a Labour Party member who has put himself forward for the position of Party Chair.
Conor Dempsey’s implausible claim that the doctor’s social media profile undermined his clinical role, provoked Dr O’Connor’s announcement, also on Twitter, that he was deleting his Twitter account; temporarily as it turns out.
Investigation required into Sinn Féin’s transnational social media management – Cummins Party admits hiring Irish-Serbian digital firm days after describing them as ‘supporters’
3rd April 2021 - Fine Gael Press Office
The latest revelations of Sinn Féin’s social media management has left many serious questions which must be answered immediately, Fine Gael Senator John Cummins has said.
Senator Cummins said Sinn Féin have not been fully truthful about their online affairs this week regarding the party’s complex transnational digital set up which stretches across Serbia, the US, Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom.
“Today, we learn a professional digital company headed by a former Facebook executive has been contracted to work for both Sinn Féin while also providing consultancy to their fundraising wing in the United States, Friends of Sinn Féin, which by law cannot contribute anything to Sinn Féin’s Irish operation.
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Ireland’s far-right using anti-lockdown movement to smuggle in its own agenda
The second in a four-part investigation into the far right in Ireland looks at the intersection between online campaigns and the move to the streets. By Ian Curran Monday 15 Mar 2021, 12:03 AM Mar 15th 2021, 12:03 AM 47,252 Views 0 Comments
This is the second of a four-part series published today and tomorrow by Noteworthy and The Journal on the growth of far-right ideology on Irish online networks, its influence and impact on real-life protests and events and the political endgame for some of its proponents.
Here, Ian Curran looks at how Irish people’s frustration with the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic is being used by certain commentators to advance other far-right ideologies.
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