Gemma O'Dotty arrested

Shan Doras

Dragged kicking and screaming from her car by Garda in shankill this morning, I hope that she is getting a cavity search right now

randd1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058346052/gemma-odotty-arrested

I don't. Good knows what they'll find.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

about time if it’s true.

aidanodr

According to reports, they’ve lifted her this morning & she’s due in the High Court this morning.

https://twitter.com/IrPsych/status/1778022615027732563

threeball

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058346052/gemma-odotty-arrested

Yes but its not that easy to get into a skull. Might have to bring her down to the Mater for that.

Vote4Squirrels

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122001434#Comment_122001434

Pandora's Box that I'd say …!!!

RobbingBandit

Any hand that goes into that abyss will pop out of Simon Harris mouth with a speech about how lovely Leo was and we are now within a chance of fixing the country.

The Circle of Shite

circadian

I just want to point out to all the "There's no free speech in Ireland!" types before they get in here claiming she's being silenced or some crap.

Read the article for why she's up in court.

Gemma has consistently been promoting Neo-Nazi ideas, Holocaust denial and other extreme views on any platform that would have it and not once was she lifted for any of this.

Boggles

……

For Forks Sake

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122001681#Comment_122001681

Huh

daheff

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122001695#Comment_122001695

but are any of those ideas of hers illegal?

i don't support her or her views, just interested to understand what laws shes alleged to have broken. And no, haven't read the article as its behind a paywall.

For Forks Sake

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122001724#Comment_122001724

She's failed to appear in court repeatedly, a bench warrant was issued a few weeks back,

Gregor Samsa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122001724#Comment_122001724

O’Doherty is alleged to have used the image and details of a young man called Diego Gilsenan, who died by suicide, in articles in her publications that incorrectly linked his death to Covid 19 vaccination.

Gilsenan's mother, Edel Campbell, secured a High Court order compelling O’Doherty to cease to use his image, along with orders not to harass or intimidate her, or disclose any confidential information about Ms Campbell and her family.

It is alleged that O’Doherty has not complied with that order, and has refused to come before the Hight Court to face charges of being in contempt of court.

Her arrest today was the latest (and only successful) attempt to bring her before the High Court - the Gardaí claiming that numerous previous attempts were not successful.

I.am.Putins.raging.bile.duct

I can't believe she's 55 she looks 70. I suppose being a poison witch ages ya.

mikethecop

Aw jasas OP thanks very much , you've just made my day a bit better !!!

L1011

With any luck she'll be remanded and sent for psychiatric evaluation.

lmao10

Great to see

Astartes

Throw her in the same hole as Enoch!

Baba Yaga

best bit of news ive heard in a while! horrible,horrible person

CalamariFritti

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122001789#Comment_122001789

Whereas you seem like a nice level-headed poster…

Red Silurian

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122001734#Comment_122001734

Any idea what she was being called to court for? Not a fan of hers, just trying to get a wider picture

L1011

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122001886#Comment_122001886

Failed to appear on a contempt charge.

Explained upthread by Gregor

L1011

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122001916#Comment_122001916

I'll order some popcorn for Friday, I don't see her turning up to begin with

Red Silurian

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122001888#Comment_122001888

Thanks

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122001753#Comment_122001753

Wow…

I.am.Putins.raging.bile.duct

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122001881#Comment_122001881

ahhh did I upset a gem gem fan?

Red Silurian

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122001916#Comment_122001916

Arrested because she didn't show up to court. Judge now releases her and trusts that she will show up to court on Friday… Something inside the system is broken

CalamariFritti

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122001944#Comment_122001944

I have no idea who she is, but when I typed her name into searchbar 1st hit says multi award winning journalist. I'm just going by your language.

aidanodr

Gemma O’Doherty denies harassing woman after being arrested and brought before High Court.

https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2024/04/10/gemma-odoherty-denies-harassing-mother-of-young-man-who-died-by-suicide/

Gregor Samsa

There's an interesting legal situation in the background of this case. O’Doherty claims that Campbell has been illegally raising money from 3rd parties to fund her legal actions against O’Doherty - and indeed there is a GoFundMe campaign in place: https://www.gofundme.com/f/landmark-legal-case-against-gemma-odoherty

O’Doherty claims that the she has reported this to the Gardaí, and they have opened an investigation. But Campbell's lawyers said today that they weren't aware of any such investigation.

The legislation that O’Doherty is basing her claim on is the Maintenance and Embracery Act 1540, which is an English law that was incorporated into Irish law via the Maintenance and Embracery Act, 1634 (https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1634/act/15/enacted/en/html). Despite being almost 500 years old, the law was deemed to be valid in a 2016 High Court ruling that prevented a company called Persona from bringing action against Esat Digifone regarding their being awarded telecoms contracts (one of the subjects of the Moriarty Tribunal) - on the grounds that the legal action was to be funded by a UK company called Harbour Litigation Funding in return for part of any damages awarded.

The act of funding someone else's litigation in return for a share of the damages of that litigation is called "champerty", and is prohibited by the 1540 and 1634 acts.

However, there's no indication that the people donating to Campbell's fundraising (which was not actually managed by Campbell herself) will receive any portion of any damages - so it's not clear that "champerty" is in fact occurring.

But it's interesting that a "patriot" like O’Doherty is using a 500 year old English law to try to stop a grieving mother from having her son's name used in conspiracy nonsense.

It should be noted that the 1540 act was repealed in England and Wales in 1967 - so it's not even law in the country it was intended for any more.

Brussels Sprout

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122002082#Comment_122002082

If you truly have never heard of her I envy you.

Viscount Aggro

Shes wealthy, and can pursue any cause she chooses... Lives in France most of the time. I think her father owned a few pharmacies.

CalamariFritti

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122002130#Comment_122002130

I'll be honest, I've seen her name pop up here before. But I never got interested and looked in and if I did I must have forgotten.

Ye she doesn't sound cool.

Gregor Samsa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122002082#Comment_122002082

That first hit you saw was from gemmaodoherty.com. Maybe you using the internet unaccompanied isn't a good idea.

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122001753#Comment_122001753

Yeah but . . . . . . yeah you'll own nothing and be happy. Russel Brand was right etc.

L1011

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122002082#Comment_122002082

First for me says "far-right activist and conspiracy theorist". For that is what she has become.

Additionally, her awards were for fluffy features writing and not investigative journalism as often gets misrepresented.

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122002117#Comment_122002117

How long before freeman of the land gets invoked?

Lewis_Benson

Aww thats terrible.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122002203#Comment_122002203

The sad thing is she done some good reporting on the Mary Boyle and Father Niall Molloy cases, there is an older thread in the conspiracy theory forum (can't find it now as the search function is now shyyte) that had a relative of Mary's who posted regularly. He had said the family had started to distance themselves from Gemma, but never went into it in too much detail. Some time after this she started with the Lord Mountbatten pedo ring stuff which I seem to remember being about the same time as QAnon.

L1011

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122002256#Comment_122002256

I suspect some of the early investigative stuff was a mix of stopped clock and also starting to go a bit mad anyway. She had limited experience of investigative journalism before going in to those.

It was obvious she was getting madder and madder over time and yet people still had her on their podcasts, my local SF TD supported her Presidential run (as a councillor) etc etc.

Clo-Clo

Gemma lives on attention, ignore her and she will go away

My advice is just ignore her.

PTH2009

Is what it is

I was frustrated (like many of us) over lockdown but for her people to abuse a guard (who is still human outside of there profession) so much that they take their own life is way too much

Not saying it was 'her supporters' but a lot of evidence suggests

circadian

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122002175#Comment_122002175

Jesus Christ that site is slow, are they running it on a Commodore 64?

The visitor counter! LOL I'd say 99.9% of that isweb crawlers, it takes about 2 seconds to throw together a robots.txt file, that's probably why it runs like molasses.

circadian

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122002310#Comment_122002310

Here's hoping.

Clo-Clo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122002459#Comment_122002459

she had one of her “fans” create it I guess

Wouldn’t be the brightest stars in the sky

Seth Brundle

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122002310#Comment_122002310

Who?

Clo-Clo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122002538#Comment_122002538

Bingo,

pjohnson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122002203#Comment_122002203

I'd say it was someone else journalism she took credit for.

Gregor Samsa

In 2000, she won the "Print Campaigning and Social Issues award" at the ESB National Media Awards for two articles; one on refugees (which is uncharacteristically sympathetic) and another on water flouridation (maybe more of a sign of things to come) in the Independent.

In 2011, she won the "consumer print prize" at the GSK Irish Media Awards for an article, also in the Indo, titled "Why yet another cancer 'miracle', really is a cause for hope this time" - which speaks favourable of variety of vaccines (a position she has clearly now repudiated)

Also in 2011, she won the "Best Travel Writing" gong at the International Journalism Festival for another article in the Independent about a journey through Umbria in Italy.

Woodward and Bernstein she was not.

Shan Doras

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122002424#Comment_122002424

Gemma O'Doherty was an absolute gift to the government and NPHET during 20 & 21 if you ask me, her totally toxic personality which became public in 2018/19 with her attacking Muslim butchers, The Ryan Family in the supermarket ad & longford school children meant that nobody would want to be seen to be on the same side as her.

The J Stands for Jay

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122001476#Comment_122001476

I'd love to see her in court on the same day as a few of the Bourkes; great entertainment potential from their supporters.

L1011

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122002803#Comment_122002803

She's arch-Catholic and they're, well, arch not-Catholic so there'd likely be sparks