Gemma O'Doherty

Gemma O'Doherty is an Irish conspiracy theorist, anti-vaxxer, racist and moron. She's been banned from YouTube for hate speech. After her ban, she protested outside Google in Dublin trying to get her channel reinstated. Google took no notice, but she did piss off the residents in the area.[2] She now thinks that the coronavirus is a cover for people getting sick from 5G, and she goes around Dublin filming what she calls 5G masts, and staging protests against high-speed internet access.[3]

Gemma, looking straight at the 5G tower
Not just a river in Egypt
Denialism
♫ We're not listening ♫
v - t - e
“”Mary Lou McDonald never left FF. SF are puppets of MI5, George Soros and the Clinton cabal. The infiltration has been happening over decades. The secret societies JFK warned the West about have just had their biggest victory in #Ireland. Say goodbye to your freedoms #GE2020
—Gemma being Gemma[1]

The Ryans

In 2019 the LidlFile:Wikipedia's W.svg supermarket chain ran an advertising campaign across Ireland featuring real Irish families (i.e. not actors) and showing how much money they save by shopping at Lidl. One of these families, the Ryans — a mixed-race couple with their 22-month-old son from County Meath — was featured on billboards across the country. On seeing the advertisement, O'Doherty immediately took to Twitter with this nonsense:

German dump @lidl_ireland gaslighting the Irish people with their multicultural version of ‘The Ryans’. Kidding no-one! Resist the Great Replacement wherever you can by giving this kip a wide berth.[4]

Twitter later removed the offending tweet but did not immediately ban O'Doherty. The great replacement squad (Gemma's little lemmings) was out in full force, giving the couple extremely racist abuse online, with one person making death threats against them and their child. The family ended up leaving the country.[5]

Choose me, choose me!

O'Doherty, as well as being a conspiracy theorist, is also a wannabe politician. In 2018, she ran for the position of president on an "anti-corruption" ticket, despite the president not having anything to do with corruption (in Ireland the office of President is a ceremonial role, a figurehead). Her campaign was based on the conspiracy theory that the government was compliant with the murder of the celebrated investigative journalist Veronica GuerinFile:Wikipedia's W.svg. This made the Guerin family very angry, who stated they want nothing to do with O'Doherty.[6] Nevertheless, she failed to get enough support for her candidacy, by only getting the backing of one county instead of the minimum four, namely the rural Midlands county of Laois.[7]

O'Doherty has continued trying to be a politician in both the Dáil parliamentary and European elections, usually based in the Fingal area of the Dublin Region. This is done under the banner of her political movement "Anti-Corruption Ireland" [8] which, ironically, has very little to do with corruption and just codifies her conspiracy theories. Despite Ireland having an electoral system which is more favourable to independent politicians, she has failed every time to win against more mainstream candidates.

High Court action

During the COVID-19 pandemic Gemma O’Doherty brought a High Court challenge against the Irish government with John Waters, aimed at striking down the emergency coronavirus laws.[9] A judge ruled against their application for judicial review and ordered that they pay legal costs.[10]

Twitter Ban

As of Friday, July 31st, 2020, O'Doherty's Twitter account has been permanently banned due to "...repeated violations of the Twitter rules." [11] According to Twitter, these violations included violations of its abusive behaviour and sensitivity media policies (read as: "She was just being such a massive cunt, we had to do something to shut her up").[citation NOT needed]

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See also

References
  1. Gemma O'Doherty on Twitter[a w] 10 February 2020
  2. 'This has gone on for too long': Gardaí and Dublin City Council in dispute over policing of Google protests thejournal.ie 6 September 2019
  3. Gemma O'Doherty and Co upstaged as hilarious TPM parody protesters 'Dundalk Against Change' call for return of 'Dial-up Internet' and 'the punt' Dublin Live 27 May 2020
  4. Donal O'Keeffe on Twitter[a w], 8 September 2019.
  5. Couple in ad campaign decide to leave Ireland after online abuse The Irish Times 5 October 2019
  6. Brother of Veronica Guerin: Gemma O'Doherty's comments on her murder were 'disgusting' thejournal.ie 1 September 2018
  7. Gemma O'Doherty receives first nomination to contest upcoming Presidential Election from Laois - but misses out in Cork The Irish Independent 24 September 2018
  8. Anti-Corruption Ireland website
  9. State to oppose John Waters and Gemma O’Doherty challenge to Covid-19 laws The Irish Times 21 April 2020
  10. O’Doherty and Waters ordered to pay legal costs of case against State over Covid-19 laws Irish Times 4 June 2020
  11. Twitter permanently suspends Gemma O'Doherty's account over 'repeated violations' thejournal.ie 31 June 2020
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