Liberal.ie goes off line.

RayM · 10-01-2017 03:28AM

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

What do you mean they added a "racial twist"?

By reporting that witnesses were saying the group was 90% black? If that's "adding a racial twist" then so did The Irish Times as they reported the following:

Yup, I think it originated in the Independent or Herald - and there was a whiff of dogwhistle racism off the non-story long before the Liberal added their own provocative headline. Funny how nobody from the 'respectable' papers has accused them of plagiarising this one...

GLaDOS · 10-01-2017 11:13AM

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

What do you mean they added a "racial twist"?

By reporting that witnesses were saying the group was 90% black? If that's "adding a racial twist" then so did The Irish Times as they reported the following:

The liberal reported that the story was being silenced because of political correctness due to the colour of the perpetrators. In reality the story wasn't reported widely because very little happened. In making the story about the colour of the offenders and the resulting "politcal correctness", they added a racial twist.

gctest50 · 10-01-2017 11:45AM

this outstanding piece of work ?

http://bit.ly/2jcK8sG

Boom_Bap · 10-01-2017 11:47AM

You know its top quality when they actually write

Reminiscent of a scene from Baghdad

They actually wrote that. Seriously. They seriously wrote that about Henry Street.

GLaDOS · 10-01-2017 11:49AM

Unfortunately for them, the hyperbole looked pretty silly when the Gardaí confirmed it was only a minor incident with no injuries or damage to shops.

Boom_Bap · 10-01-2017 11:56AM

They must have meant Bagdad in Tasmania.

super_furry · 10-01-2017 11:57AM

Hope he gets sued to high heaven. From those fake iPhone competitions to theft of others work, to pretending that as a sole trader he has a staff of people to fill an imaginary newsroom, it's a crocked site.

Penn · 10-01-2017 12:01PM

super_furry wrote: »

Hope he gets sued to high heaven. From those fake iPhone competitions to theft of others work, to pretending that as a sole trader he has a staff of people to fill an imaginary newsroom, it's a crocked site.

Saw a tweet last night about how if TheLiberal does get brought into court, Leo will have to testify as all his different members of staff in an assortment of wigs and moustaches.

gctest50 · 10-01-2017 12:01PM

super_furry wrote: »

Hope he gets sued to high heaven. From those fake iPhone competitions to theft of others work, to pretending that as a sole trader he has a staff of people to fill an imaginary newsroom, it's a crocked site.

Accountancy bill must huge ,

Sole trader, staff of people,

the webdesign place in Belfast

http://a1status.com/contact.php

http://a1status.com/about.php

A1Status
92 High Street,
Belfast

The Locksher Group

The LockSher Group is on the world's leading media investment firms.

http://www.locksher.com/contact.php

The LockSher Group

92 High Street,
Belfast
BT1 2BG

super_furry · 10-01-2017 12:11PM

Hahaha just read that the bould Leo "is also being sued in the High Court by a man whose picture was incorrectly used in a story about the IRA murder of another person with the same name."

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/website-owner-hits-out-at-keyboard-cowards-k5555wg77

I hope he doesn't think that taking the website offline is enough to make all these court cases go away. Mind you he's probably halfway to Belize now.

lawred2 · 10-01-2017 12:12PM

gctest50 wrote: »

Accountancy bill must huge ,

Sole trader, staff of people,

the webdesign place in Belfast

The Locksher Group

lol this link is the same whether you click on 'Investors' or 'Directors'

http://www.locksher.com/people.php

Belfast based with ROI mobile telephone numbers

What is this guy's story? What does he actually do? Is he real?

Fred Swanson · 10-01-2017 12:16PM

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super_furry · 10-01-2017 12:19PM

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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Ahh come on now, there's enough room in that car for a fully staffed newsroom.

dav3 · 10-01-2017 12:21PM

Penn wrote: »

Saw a tweet last night about how if TheLiberal does get brought into court, Leo will have to testify as all his different members of staff in an assortment of wigs and moustaches.

If a picture could sum it all up it would be this one.

Leo Sherlock and the Liberal…

Quite a few gems on that tumblr. Credit to Jason a.k.a. Mick Flavin.

See Leo, that's how you credit people for work that they've done.

Domain renewal up on the 28th I see.

ahlookit · 10-01-2017 12:27PM

lawred2 wrote: »

lol this link is the same whether you click on 'Investors' or 'Directors'

http://www.locksher.com/people.php

Belfast based with ROI mobile telephone numbers

What is this guy's story? What does he actually do? Is he real?

Sadly, Leo (unlike his stories) is real

According to the IT he lives near Ardee

The Liberal.ie is being sued by the court agency CCC Nuacht over the unauthorised use of its copyrighted material. Proceedings are being brought in the Ardee District Court which is the nearest court to where Mr Sherlock lives in Co Louth.

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

gctest50 · 10-01-2017 12:29PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I recognise that guy!!

Online dating maybe? :pac:

That's mad.

Do ya regret not swiping now you see the luxurious Belfast offices of the mighty design teams

https://twitter.com/omgDebbie/status/812386338087534592

ahlookit · 10-01-2017 12:43PM

The LockSher "group" website is a joy to behold... its kind of written in English, but not quite.

We have a large portfolio of websites that are a key cornership of our company. Individually, they are quite unique and have much value, but collectively they are very valuable assets and have a massive stealth of potential revenue.

osarusan · 10-01-2017 12:46PM

gctest50 wrote: »

A1status.

The Locksher Group

Holy F**k this guy is some operator.

Looking through the 'recent work' link on A1status, work has been done for:

luxuryproperties.ie (100% owned by Leo Sherlock)
Ivan Silverman Securities Ltd (100% owned by Leo Sherlock)
Britannic Short-term Car Hire (same Belfast address as a1status)
Cora sherlock's blog site
Cheapproperties.ie (100% owned by Leo Sherlock)
The sherlock soundbite (blog)
standoutmodels.com (domain registered by Leo Sherlock)

There are also a few other companies (two villas in France, a nightclub, a rental agency) but clicking on the linked URLs just takes you back to A1status homepage.

On Locksher group, on the 'portfolio page', there are just screenshots of the webpages of all the same companies.

It's like a spider's web of shite.

EDIT: There does seem to be one legitimate business on the a1status too, a company called Conroy Shop Developments.

Fred Swanson · 10-01-2017 12:46PM

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Boom_Bap · 10-01-2017 12:55PM

This is a discussion of TheLiberal.ie website, can you please refrain from digging up private details of Leo, it's bordering on doxxing which is not allowed on boards.

Outlaw Pete · 10-01-2017 07:15PM

GLaDOS wrote: »

The liberal reported that the story was being silenced because of political correctness due to the colour of the perpetrators. In reality the story wasn't reported widely because very little happened. In making the story about the colour of the offenders and the resulting "politcal correctness", they added a racial twist.

Ah fair enough. I thought you meant that them referencing that witnesses had said that the majority of the youths were black was what added the racist angle to the article.

ahlookit · 11-01-2017 12:00PM

Website under maintenance message still showing. Must be a hell of a bit of maintenance the large number of staff are undertaking.

Meanwhile, in totally un-related news, there's a story in the Indo:

'The Liberal' website faces court battles after claims of plagiarism

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/the-liberal-website-faces-court-battles-after-claims-of-plagiarism-35358786.html

Grayson · 11-01-2017 12:25PM

ahlookit wrote: »

Website under maintenance message still showing. Must be a hell of a bit of maintenance the large number of staff are undertaking.

Meanwhile, in totally un-related news, there's a story in the Indo:

'The Liberal' website faces court battles after claims of plagiarism

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/the-liberal-website-faces-court-battles-after-claims-of-plagiarism-35358786.html

They've changed the message though. It was just a 404 beforehand. Now it's a proper error page.

PopePalpatine · 11-01-2017 01:06PM

Grayson wrote: »

They've changed the message though. It was just a 404 beforehand. Now it's a proper error page.

"Help, we forgot how to copy & paste." :pac:

Grayson · 11-01-2017 01:42PM

His statement on twitter has a grand total of 9 likes and 5 retweets.

https://twitter.com/LeoSherlock/status/817862847569031172

BabyCheeses · 11-01-2017 02:06PM

Boom_Bap wrote: »

You know its top quality when they actually write

They actually wrote that. Seriously. They seriously wrote that about Henry Street.

It's not Limerick! Nice of him to refer to them as African Irish, the pc is slipping into him.

ahlookit · 11-01-2017 02:13PM

Grayson wrote: »

His statement on twitter has a grand total of 9 likes and 5 retweets.

https://twitter.com/LeoSherlock/status/817862847569031172

The 9 likes are from Cora and the staff...

razorblunt · 11-01-2017 02:14PM

ahlookit wrote: »

The LockSher "group" website is a joy to behold... its kind of written in English, but not quite.

Ooooh they waffle speak good!

Donald Trump · 11-01-2017 02:41PM

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.

I know what you mean.
Sure I only ended up here looking for a length of timber to replace one in my floor!

Liberal.ie goes off line.

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