Liberal.ie goes off line.

Losty Dublin

The well known website has gone down today. It's Facebook page which is well known for it's competitions and that recently played host to a passionate post from editor and founder Leo Sherlock accusing unknown persons of running a hate campaign against it, states that it is "currently completing a scheduled necessary technical update.". It has been down since 12PM today and is still down at the time of writing.


http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/controversial-website-the-liberal-has-become-inaccessible-1.2930280

9or10

Oh dear.

Mouseslayer17

No loss.

frag420

no big loss, the founder is a knob with no journalistic integrity at all!

Peregrine

Good riddance.

GLaDOS

Excellent

Duff

His Twitter profile was glorious before he made it private. Seems like a toss-pot of the highest order.

The Backwards Man

Famous for its competitions?

That's a bit of a euphemism!

Ineedaname

Apparently it's a "scheduled necessary technical update"

Copy and paste buttons must not be working.

OldMrBrennan83

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Fr_Dougal

Patww79 wrote: »

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Seems to work ok for The Journal.

mullyboyee

Patww79 wrote: »

Haven't they been caught out just ripping stories from other sites and republishing them word for word as their own?

Allegedly caught rapid and dealing with the consequences.

lertsnim

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Seems to work ok for The Journal.

But without the journal how ever will we know the 15 reasons why its cool to be from somewhere or when the latest viral sensation hits?

OldMrBrennan83

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lertsnim

Patww79 wrote: »

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Isn't it all part of The Journal? It wouldn't surprise me if the first thing they do in the morning is see what can be copied from Reddit.

OldMrBrennan83

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arayess

i like the liberal cos it upsets the PC types

SteM

I think they were one of my 3 followers on Twitter!

B_Wayne

arayess wrote: »

i like the liberal cos it upsets the PC types

I have no problem with freedom of speech, right to publish whatever you want. I do have a problem with a media outlet using another journalist's content without their permission and passing it off as original.

PopePalpatine

mullyboyee wrote: »

Allegedly caught rapid and dealing with the consequences.

Yep, CCC Nuacht have launched a lawsuit against them for plagiarism.

Well, I shouldn't say "them"...the site is registered as a sole trader with Leo Sherlock as its owner.

GLaDOS

B_Wayne wrote: »

I have no problem with freedom of speech, right to publish whatever you want. I do have a problem with a media outlet using another journalist's content without their permission and passing it off as original.

To be fair, sometimes they just make stuff up

Clarebelly

Yer mans sister is linked to the iona institute, so no loss.

https://twitter.com/corasherlock

Peregrine

Bad news for the winners of all their iPhone giveaways though :pac:

RayM

Ineedaname wrote: »

Apparently it's a "scheduled necessary technical update"

Copy and paste buttons must not be working.

Destroying the evidence, more like. Someone should tell Leo that's not how the internet works.

My favourite thing about The Liberal was when the marriage equality referendum passed, they didn't even report it. Months of awful opinion pieces on the subject (some claiming to have been written by 'young mothers' and 'concerned primary school teachers', but all written in the barely-literate style of Leo Sherlock himself), and then... nothing whatsoever.

hairyslug

Clarebelly wrote: »

Yer mans sister is linked to the iona institute, so no loss.

https://twitter.com/corasherlock

The whole family is at it.

C. Montgomery Gurns

Patww79 wrote: »

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I never quite get this accusation, I've never seen it. Any Liberal.ie article I regrettably ever read was so badly composed and full of grammatical and spelling errors that it could quite literally have come from nowhere else. I'm all for an independent right leaning media in this country to counter the mainstream but the Liberal is semi literate at best.

OldMrBrennan83

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B_Wayne

C. Montgomery Gurns wrote: »

I never quite get this accusation, I've never seen it. Any Liberal.ie article I regrettably ever read was so badly composed and full of grammatical and spelling errors that it could quite literally have come from nowhere else. I'm all for an independent right leaning media in this country to counter the mainstream but the Liberal is semi literate at best.

There's a fair few examples here. Plenty of journalists that have faced the issue.

http://www.dublininquirer.com/2016/05/31/sam-steal-this-article/

topmanamillion

Was this not part of the fall out of them publishing an entirely facbricated and racist article about an an alleged riot between 2 large groups of men with African origins?
A few journalists looked into and spoke to Guards in the area.
No incidents reported. No witnesses. No damage.
Its a Daily Mail wanna be. Good riddance, hope the owner is sued from here until the end of time.

Grayson

topmanamillion wrote: »

Was this not part of the fall out of them publishing an entirely facbricated and racist article about an an alleged riot between 2 large groups of men with African origins?
A few journalists looked into and spoke to Guards in the area.
No incidents reported. No witnesses. No damage.
Its a Daily Mail wanna be. Good riddance, hope the owner is sued from here until the end of time.

It's a Breitbart wanna be. The guy sounds like a Steve Bannon wanna be.

Incidentally Breitbart ran a similar story about Germany over the holidays. Got some facts, blew them up and created a whole new story with a racist twist.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/07/german-police-quash-breitbart-story-of-mob-setting-fire-to-dortmund-church

GLaDOS

topmanamillion wrote: »

Was this not part of the fall out of them publishing an entirely facbricated and racist article about an an alleged riot between 2 large groups of men with African origins?
A few journalists looked into and spoke to Guards in the area.
No incidents reported. No witnesses. No damage.
Its a Daily Mail wanna be. Good riddance, hope the owner is sued from here until the end of time.

The Independent originally reported about the "riot", the liberal then picked it up and added the racial twist to it, because that's their agenda.

Grayson

I've checked out their twitter feed. Sherlock has a reply up there

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1spgsj8

In it he completely avoided mentioning the story except to say he's not racist and that anyone who said he's racist will be hearing from his solicitor. Also apparently anyone who complained about the story hates free speech.

Zaph

What annoys me most about the site is the unbelievably disingenuous name of it. In fact it's not even disingenuous, it's a downright lie. It's pretty shoddy that they felt they had to try to attract readers by naming the site as they did, rather than the more truthful rightwingconservativeprolifemouthpieceoftheionainstitute.ie. Not as catchy I'll admit, but at least no-one could be in any doubt as to what their agenda really is.

Peregrine

Zaph wrote: »

What annoys me most about the site is the unbelievably disingenuous name of it. In fact it's not even disingenuous, it's a downright lie. It's pretty shoddy that they felt they had to try to attract readers by naming the site as they did, rather than the more truthful rightwingconservativeprolifemouthpieceoftheionainstitute.ie. Not as catchy I'll admit, but at least no-one could be in any doubt as to what their agenda really is.

It's kind of pathetic when you think about it. Having to pretend to be something they're not to try and get readers.

dav3

Whatever about the many fake news stories including the infamous imaginary riot on St.Stephen’s Day, or the suspect competitions where you can’t find out who the winner is, or the thousands of facebook likes that certainly weren’t bought, or the outrage pieces that certainly weren’t written by Leo himself against gay people, foreigners, women and abortion, or the entire family of Sherlock’s with their bizarre behaviour… It’s the plagiarism that has caught up with little Leo.
Most ‘news sites’ (I use that term loosely) are not so thick as to even chance it, those few who do and are caught always hold their hands up. This character however has convinced himself that it’s all part of a global conspiracy against him and his edgy, tell-it-like-it-is, no nonsense attitude. No doubt led by the Jews, Angela Merkel, Peter Sutherland, Dublin 4 liberal media elites and the lizard people.
It’s a cluster****, but not surprising when you see the family that he has come from.

RayM

Grayson wrote: »

I've checked out their twitter feed. Sherlock has a reply up there

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1spgsj8

In it he completely avoided mentioning the story except to say he's not racist and that anyone who said he's racist will be hearing from his solicitor. Also apparently anyone who complained about the story hates free speech.

"I'd like to thank my excellent staff who I truly believe are the best there is."

I wonder does he truly believe they exist? Like, does he have imaginary conversations around the imaginary water cooler with 'Fernando Sanchez' and 'James Brennan'?

GLaDOS

RayM wrote: »

"I'd like to thank my excellent staff who I truly believe are the best there is."

I wonder does he truly believe they exist? Like, does he have imaginary conversations around the imaginary water cooler with 'Fernando Sanchez' and 'James Brennan'?

As if he would hire a Fernando Sanchez

gctest50

RayM wrote: »

"I'd like to thank my excellent staff who I truly believe are the best there is."

I wonder does he truly believe they exist? Like, does he have imaginary conversations around the imaginary water cooler with 'Fernando Sanchez' and 'James Brennan'?

are they not better than the best tho ?

http://a1status.com/about.php

SnakePlissken

topmanamillion wrote: »

No incidents reported. No witnesses. No damage.

Except that there was, it was even reported on by the Indo and Herald... Not that their bastions of integrity or anything, I'm also not entirely sure why the story was racist for mentioning the majority of youths were black.

gctest50

liberally stealing journalists work


https://twitter.com/Kellingtondawg

rainbow kirby

Not gonna lie, it's great seeing a Sherlock get their comeuppance.

RayM

gctest50 wrote: »

liberally stealing journalists work


https://twitter.com/Kellingtondawg

I noticed recently that I'm blocked by Leo Sherlock, despite never having any kind of interaction with him before. The only explanation I can think of is that maybe I once 'liked' a tweet that called him out on the plagiarism. Seems kind of petty. But not as petty as blocking the fucker back, which is exactly what I pointlessly did.

gctest50

liberally getting burned bad lol :


http://buzz.ie/theliberal-ies-founder-is-sharing-some-not-so-liberal-views-on-abortion/

Leo Sherlock @LeoSherlock

Why doesn't the #SydneyRose mind her own business and get the first flight home. Don't wait til tomo, you haven't a chance! #RoseofTralee

11:11 PM - 22 Aug 2016

Mark Anthony @Thebondvillain

@LeoSherlock Mad for putting women on planes out of the country, aren't we?


11:55 PM - 22 Aug 2016

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Grayson

gctest50 wrote: »

are they not better than the best tho ?

http://a1status.com/about.php

Idiot put his phone number on that.

lawred2

Never heard of it

lawred2

Grayson wrote: »

Idiot put his phone number on that.

That showcase is a gallery of cheap one dollar WordPress themes..

Some serious spoofer

RayM

Grayson wrote: »

Idiot put his phone number on that.

Check out those last three digits though. Big Bond fan, apparently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC8dWWImNzU

Grayson

Clarebelly wrote: »

Yer mans sister is linked to the iona institute, so no loss.

https://twitter.com/corasherlock

Looking who they follow there's another female Sherlock (I won't post a link in case it's just a coincidence)

however her bio says

Love the Lord & Israel. Abortion stops a heart beat! Trump and Pence Supporter. Marriage is between a man and woman, nothing else. Against water fluoridation

So that's an absolute nutjob then.

Grayson

lawred2 wrote: »

That showcase is a gallery of cheap one dollar WordPress themes..

Some serious spoofer

Oh jesus. They're ugly. That last for for a nightclub looks like it was designed on frontpage in 2005.

gctest50

lawred2 wrote: »

Never heard of it

How can you not have heard of them ????!!!!!1111!!!

look at the awesome design skillz :

http://www.luxuryproperties.ie

Goya

C. Montgomery Gurns wrote: »

I never quite get this accusation, I've never seen it. Any Liberal.ie article I regrettably ever read was so badly composed and full of grammatical and spelling errors that it could quite literally have come from nowhere else. I'm all for an independent right leaning media in this country to counter the mainstream but the Liberal is semi literate at best.

It has happened though - how much, I don't know, but there is definitely one case of it. A writer in the Cork Echo. They blocked her when she took them to task on it then.