The Irish Times reports:
A woman whose son died by suicide is suing former journalist Gemma O’Doherty over the use of his photograph and linking his death to the Covid-19 vaccine.
Diego Gilsenan, of Kingscourt, Co Cavan, was 18-years-old when he died in August 2021. His mother, Edel Campbell, has now initiated High Court proceedings against Ms O’Doherty as publisher of The Irish Light newspaper.
Mr Gilsenan’s image was one of 42 photographs used in a montage in the publication, which claimed the deaths of the people in the pictures were linked to the Covid-19 vaccine. Ms Campbell alleges that Ms O’Doherty had sought to “sensationalise the unfortunate death” of her son with “inflammatory rhetoric”.
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O’Doherty, who ran for president in 2018, first became locally notorious for stalking into Muslim restaurants and demanding pork. As you can see in her Wikipedia entry, she ticks all the racist, anti-LGBTQ, antisemitic boxes.
“High Court action taken against Gemma O’Doherty over image linking teenager’s death to vaccine.” More of this we need to see, the exploitation of the dead & vulnerable by the tinfoil hat brigade is sick beyond comprehension https://t.co/sr27sgyIPf
— Some Day Somewhere Soon (@tha_e_luath) May 28, 2023
“I am untouchable. I am not going near any court. I have secured my assets in such a way that the only people who will be losing money will be Edel Campbell.” Hope the new approach to defamation can be used to drag this arrogant, vile yoke back to court. https://t.co/1guwv0qf4J
— Maïa Dunphy (@MaiaDunphy) May 28, 2023
A screenshot from Gemma O’Doherty’s tirade against the mother of a teenager who took his own life. Pretty wild comments too. pic.twitter.com/rkMMOZFWru
— Francis Dunne (@limerickblog) May 26, 2023
Exclusive: Gemma O’Doherty posts videos praising Hitler and claiming Holocaust is hoax https://t.co/kq3nkpF6Da
— Sunday World (@sundayworld) May 22, 2023
I’m stunned that the racist rag published by John Waters and Gemma O’Doherty is allowed to keep printing this vile content. Doesn’t the Prohibition of Incitement to Hatred Act 1989 make this illegal?#racism #HateSpeech @SimonHarrisTD @AuschwitzMuseum #Ireland pic.twitter.com/0iTuzKuWsR
— John Mulligan (@JMulliganIndo) May 22, 2023