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Politician blackmailed with "honeytrap" video

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  • #2
    HalloweenJack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,335 ✭✭✭HalloweenJack


    It's amazing how naive people still are with technology.


  • #3
    Tabnabs
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,790 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    A well respected Fianna Fáil politician, I'm stumped...


  • #4
    McMurphy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    Lesson to be learned.

    When flailing the bishop on Facebook to some random strange Eastern European woman , who most probably is way out of your league.

    Wear a mask.


  • #5
    howamidifferent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,819 ✭✭✭howamidifferent


    Sure wasnt he "hacked" :P


  • #6
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,733 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    That big photo of Michael Martin in the middle of the article is ridiculous.


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  • #7
    howamidifferent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,819 ✭✭✭howamidifferent


    It's a subtle (NOT) insinuation...


  • #8
    Goat the dote
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 726 ✭✭✭Goat the dote


    howamidifferent wrote: »
    It's a subtle (NOT) insinuation...


    Is it? I'm clueless


  • #9
    Red_Wake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,571 ✭✭✭Red_Wake


    HalloweenJack wrote: »
    It's amazing how naive people still are with online women.
    Fix'd that for you.


  • #10
    Chester Copperpot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 103 ✭✭Chester Copperpot


    howamidifferent wrote: »
    It's a subtle (NOT) insinuation...

    It says further down that he was made aware of the situation though so maybe is just clumsy rather than an insinuation


  • #11
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Rick Shaw wrote: »
    Lesson to be learned.

    When flailing the bishop on Facebook to some random strange Eastern European woman , who most probably is way out of your league.

    Wear a mask.

    Can we leave the clergy out of this one?


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  • #12
    9or10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 664 ✭✭✭9or10


    osarusan wrote: »
    That big photo of Michael Martin in the middle of the article is ridiculous.

    Or maybe the paper doesn't want to say too much.


  • #13
    Chester Copperpot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 103 ✭✭Chester Copperpot


    Reminds me of the time someone hacked Michael McGraths Facebook so they could click like on the milf of the week. Scoundrels will go to any lengths to embarrass an upstanding citizen


  • #14
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,903 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    Chester Copperpot wrote: »
    Reminds me of the time someone hacked Michael McGraths Facebook so they could click like on the milf of the week. Scoundrels will go to any lengths to embarrass an upstanding citizen
    Senator Ted Cruz of Texas was liking porn clips on twitter.


  • #15
    Hammer89
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭Hammer89




  • #16
    Working class heroes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,624 ✭✭✭Working class heroes


    Does anyone think the victim should shoulder some of the blame?

    Racism is now hiding behind the cloak of Community activism.



  • #17
    MarkR
    Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,183 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    Working class heroes wrote: »
    Does anyone think the victim should shoulder some of the blame?

    Blame for what? Consenting adults and all that. Presuming that what he did was legal. Naive, sure. What's the sentance for being naive?


  • #18
    exaisle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,675 ✭✭✭exaisle


    A well respected Feel an' Fall politician....Jaysus, that really narrows it down.

    I have no respect for any of the feckers...


  • #19
    Working class heroes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,624 ✭✭✭Working class heroes


    MarkR wrote: »
    Blame for what? Consenting adults and all that. Presuming that what he did was legal. Naive, sure. What's the sentance for being naive?

    Oh I agree.
    I confess I had the George Hook thread in mind when I posted.
    Victim blaming and all that....

    Racism is now hiding behind the cloak of Community activism.



  • #20
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Working class heroes wrote: »
    Does anyone think the victim should shoulder some of the blame?

    Don't think George Hook will press that angle anyway...

    What an eejit though. If I get a friend request from someone on social media, unless I know them I assume it's a scam and decline them.


  • #21
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Tabnabs wrote: »
    A well respected Fianna Fáil politician, I'm stumped...

    If anything it improves my impression of the party.


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  • #22
    Working class heroes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,624 ✭✭✭Working class heroes


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Don't think George Hook will press that angle anyway...

    What an eejit though. If I get a friend request from someone on social media, unless I know them I assume it's a scam and decline them.

    That's what I'm wondering Conor. He is a fool for putting himself in that situation, where as the girl at the centre of the Hook controversy isn't?
    I happen to think neither are fools or should shoulder any blame.
    Double standards maybe?

    Racism is now hiding behind the cloak of Community activism.



  • #23
    kylith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,737 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Firstly, how can one be conned or tricked into performing a sex act or sending a video?

    Secondly, he'd have been better to (a long as it was a legal act) brazen it out, pre-empt any revelation, and be like 'Yeah, that's me with a duster up my arse having a ****. What about it?'

    You never pay the blackmailer, they never destroy the evidence.


  • #24
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Do not care if he was Finnart Fail or not, no one deserves to be held to ransom by these scumbags. These cnuts have led to people committing suicide.


  • #25
    testicles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭testicles


    This post has been deleted.


  • #26
    jelutong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,162 ✭✭✭jelutong


    Caught with his trousers down you could say.


  • #27
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Or just laughing at a Fianna Fail politician, he deserves it for willingly being in that party.


  • #28
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Chester Copperpot wrote: »
    Reminds me of the time someone hacked Michael McGraths Facebook so they could click like on the milf of the week. Scoundrels will go to any lengths to embarrass an upstanding citizen

    Those MILFs should consider themselves lucky, they could have 9 kids with MMcG otherwise.


  • #29
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    I thought these traps involved them recoding you over Skype, sounds like this clown, recorded himself and then sent them the video from his own account. Honey Trap it ain't.


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