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Gemma O'Doherty major public meltdown

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,744 ✭✭✭Beta Ray Bill


    Don't think it's funny to be honest.
    She's totally "out there", spreading an awful message. She might even need medical help.

    She spent a long time protesting outside Google over her YT account being suspended and eventually closed.

    I know for a fact Google management had meetings with the Garda and local politicians about the antics of her and her followers, yet were unwilling to do anything about it, which is unusual.

    No one want's to f**k with her. her late husband/partner was a journalist and I'm guessing she has access to some piece of evidence/documentation that could cause all sorts of issues for government.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 922 ✭✭✭Everlong1


    I for one welcome our new Marxist overlords.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,911 ✭✭✭✭2smiggy


    no, nothing at all funny in that



  • Registered Users Posts: 261 ✭✭Frumy


    When was this video though? Maybe 7 years ago? More? I always think context is important. She's not everyones cup of tea but she has done amazing work in exposing serious corruption and child abuse in this country. People always throw the baby out with the bathwater. People forget the good people have done as soon as they do something bad this extreme dichotomous thinking is a real problem in society. There are shades and colours to everything.

    Take for example the Terenure college paedophile John McClean. The victims of this man came out on video and openly admitted without Gemma O Doherty they might never have seen justice on this issue if at all.

    Frankly these paedophile monsters going behind bars is a good thing regardless of who gathers all the evidence and interviews the victims.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 439 ✭✭Shan Doras


    FFs, She is 1000x more nuts now than when that video was recorded



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,305 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Problem is that she now calls everyone she doesn't like a pedophile. If she came across legitimate pedophiles now, no one would believe her.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,061 ✭✭✭✭event


    Yeah absolutely. I mean everyone talks about all the bad Hitler has done but no one brings up how his govt set up VW which loads of people benefit from and use today.

    We should definitely excuse the bad stuff people do and remember the good stuff



  • Registered Users Posts: 261 ✭✭Frumy


    No she doesn't, there are other pig ignorant idiots who do that but not her. She's far far too shrewd to be that stupid.

    People forget she won a serious payout and an apology from Independent newspapers 10 years ago. Not an easy thing to do but the apology is below. Someone who understands the media inside out and is able to sue their past employer, win, get them to apologize and pay out is suddenly going to put themselves in the firing line for defamation calling everyone she doesn't like a pedophile? Nah, I don't buy that.

    'Independent Newspapers wish to acknowledge the exceptional work of multi-award winning investigative journalist Gemma O’Doherty for the Irish Independent during the course of a lengthy career.

    Independent Newspapers accept that Gemma O’Doherty has acted at all times in a professional and diligent manner and in the best interests of Independent Newspapers.

    Independent Newspapers unreservedly apologise to Ms O ‘Doherty for the stress and hardship caused to her and her husband as a result of its actions.

    Independent Newspapers have agreed to pay to Ms O’Doherty undisclosed damages and to indemnify her in relation to her legal costs'



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,347 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Haha, evidence/documentation

    Hahahahahahahahaha



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,002 ✭✭✭ToweringPerformance


    She obviously has very serious mental health issues and i don't like to make fun of people like that. Best close this thread imo.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,470 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Another example of how it is next to impossible to get someone sectioned in this country.



  • Registered Users Posts: 261 ✭✭Frumy


    I can't pass judgement on others mental state it's not my place to do so as I don't know, neither do you.

    So when was it recorded so?

    Does facts and context not mean anything to you at all no? Absolutely nothing. Obviously not.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,848 ✭✭✭Lillyfae


    Not familiar with the OP but is this maybe a thinly-veiled attempt at upping the view count for the clip? Obvs GO'D is a bit mad but this is very vanilla compared to some of her other high jinx



  • Registered Users Posts: 261 ✭✭Frumy


    To go straight to the Adolf Hitler comparison is the incredibly immature absurd silly dichotomous thinking I mentioned earlier; thanks for the very blatant example of this.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,694 ✭✭✭Feisar


    Did she not go off the rails after her husband died? It's no excuse however maybe it's help she needs rather than condemnation?

    First they came for the socialists...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,068 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    No she doesn't, there are other pig ignorant idiots who do that but not her. She's far far too shrewd to be that stupid.

    Eh, she literally does it in the video linked above. Time mark 1:19:

    "I can't believe the Irish would be that stupid. They're voting for pedophiles, basically".



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 752 ✭✭✭z80CPU
    Darth Randomer


    Unusual for Google, but not for Garda or Irish politicians to deal with her case like that - rest of your post is valid though



  • Registered Users Posts: 261 ✭✭Frumy


    Seems so and whilst I criticize the far right in Ireland as much as anyone I also know that many people (often women) never really fully recover after their long term spouse dies. Usually a form of long term post traumatic stress disorder.

    Therefore I personally don't agree with the pile ons to a widow who may be mentally unwell. It's vindictive. Who knows what someone else is going through, no one.

    Yet as a society we deem it perfectly acceptable to abuse those that irk us or we don't agree with. Their abuse is wrong our abuse is perfectly fine! It's ever so bizarre that.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,254 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    Jimmy Saville raised loads of money for charity. Do you think this should be takeninto consideration when talking about his crimes?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,825 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    With people like this, its usually projecting their own activities onto others.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,305 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    She's literally doing it in the video in the original post.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,412 ✭✭✭Brussels Sprout


    The description on that video "having a bipolar episode" is probably not too wide off the mark.

    She's definitely not right in the head. Doesn't excuse her vile behaviour though. There's plenty of people out there with MH problems who aren't going around shouting abuse at foreigners and telling scurrilous lies about a dead child against the wishes of his mother.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,810 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Not nearly as vindictive and as much of a pile on as Gemma is responsible for, including to grieving families. Strange you have no concern for them.

    If this is how her mental issues manifest, there are some dark character traits manifesting there.

    There is simply no excuse for such vindictiveness and needs to be combatted with ridicule if necessary. Lest it encourages others.

    While she carries out such an abusive campaign in public the behaviour needs to be called out for being reprehensible.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,470 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Therefore I personally don't agree with the pile ons to a widow who may be mentally unwell. It's vindictive. Who knows what someone else is going through, no one.

    She doesn't seem to have an issue with piling on a bereaved mother in the most horrific way though does she?

    If she wants to rant and rave at traffic or shout incoherently at builder in a high vis, then she can fill her boots.

    She doesn't get to do what she wants because she is mentally unwell.



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,621 ✭✭✭its_steve116


    How does that Mark McCabe song go again?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,353 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    She's also effectively responsible for deaths as a result of her rhetoric around vaccines and COVID.



  • Registered Users Posts: 261 ✭✭Frumy


    Does she mention names? Does she identity anyone in any way?

    I thought not



  • Registered Users Posts: 261 ✭✭Frumy


    I don't think she can pile on though she's a one woman band. A pile on is multiple people all at once. Hard for a loner to do that you know 😉



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,305 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Does she call people pedophiles in the video? Yes. Makes broad sweeping statements about pedophiles all being voted in.

    It's a common MO for people like her. She is against everyone in power and can't come up with logical reasons why. If she calls them all pedophiles she can justify it to herself. Because everyone is against pedos, right? It's called being delusional



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,068 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Look, the claim was that she unjustly calls her opponents pedophiles. You said she doesn't ever, it was pointed out to you that she's doing exactly that in the video. Now you're shifting the goalposts, claiming it doesn't count if she's not naming individuals.

    This is known as the No True Scotsman fallacy. It's fairly typical of lacklustre apologists for unjustifiable causes, so don't feel bad about playing it - we all saw it coming and you were destined to do so. But it's playing a losing hand, you've lost the argument, and no-one needs to take you seriously in your support of her now.



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