McDermott is to sue Twitter.

well it depends if anything new comes out in the wash, would you like your 17 year old daughter or sister having physical relations with a 27 year old man ? It's not right in my opinion no matter what the law says but i'd be surprised if there isn't more to come from other girls or boys who knows.

i thought he chose not to reveal the name ? i could be wrong please enlighten me if i am ! Who knows what deal has been done in the backround

I'm open to correction here,just trying to remember the story as it was...didnt she say initally they had a relationship when she was 16 and he would pick her up from school and bring her to the radio studio for oral sex?

So now its changed to she was 17,legal and the relationship was consensual?

I remember the time this blew up and I saw on either Twitter or Reddit another anonymous account was claiming to have been raped by a high profile DJ in Ireland and had spent years trying to bring the case to court. .

I wonder if anyone has bought a new car or a new house lately?

Anyway, not a bad time to be releasing news into the public domain. Plenty of headlines to knock it off. Not as good timing as the start of covid but not far off

Ya him getting to her admit she wasn’t under the age of consent isn’t really the win he seems to think it is.

27 year old messaging a 16 year old, that's his character and its not a nice one. Glad i dont have to listen to his liberal woke bullshit anymore. Moral authority on everything the freak thought he was.

I feel sorry for him with the impact of false allegations which must be horrendous .

This is why the courts should be the only arbiter not social media or "believe all women" campaigns.

That said given how such a woke feminist he was/is , I don't see him giving another man in his situation the benefit of the doubt.

Also, just to add. A fella who has sex with a 17 year old can still be guilty of an offence if the fella is a person in authority.

That is usually someone like a teacher or a sports coach etc. though.

I wouldn't have been his biggest fan but I do think the way he was hounded when this first started on Twitter & Reddit was wrong. It was complete trial by media & making him guilty without any investigation being brought by the Gardai. Yes he was 27 & he was 17. When I was 18, I was going out with a 26 year old and was probably the more mature one. She was above the age of consent & at the time this relationship was ongoing, he wasn't exactly as well known as when it all came out.

Maybe there was and maybe there wasn't. Maybe he's actually just trying to be nice and not completely feck up her future by naming her and having that all out in the media. Maybe he is thinking of her wider family with having her name out there. Not everything has a nefarious purpose behind it. And considering that he lost his job and reputation, why shouldn't he be able to take a case against Twitter if there is enough evidence to? If I was in his shoes, I would too.

He's innocent in the eyes of the law. Evidently has hired a PR company as he stages a comeback.

His behaviour none the less was very creepy and as close to the boundary as you can get. Should certainly not be given a platform.

From what I remember, it was the fact that he disappeared into the night and was never heard from again, the day after the allegations were made, is what got people talking and confused people. I guess when you neither confirm or deny, but rather choose to completely disappear from public view and leave your job without as much as a goodbye or kiss my arse to your listeners, people will fill in the gaps and make up their own minds. It was his initial approach to the whole thing that had people talking and thus wondering if the allegations were in fact true, and not entirely down to the allegations themselves. For a long time there it looked like he was just never ever going to address this.

A similar case in the US, perhaps trial by media might no longer be as commonplace in the future.