Who is someone you inexplicably can't stand?

There’s a particular poster on here that I can’t stomach. It’s inexplicable in the sense that I’ve never met the person and thankfully never will.

This person haunts the site, goading posters with whom they disagree. They are like a blood hound, sniffing out and trying to derail topics, around which they believe should exist a cordon sanitaire.

A truly irritating individual. I waver between contempt on a bad day and pity on a good day. Feels good to get that off my chest!

Twomey lingers like a bad smell. Only thing is, he's not as popular as he once was. You'll never see him on TV, now, compared to a couple of years ago. More on account of him being a rather... unkind, individual, in real life.

He's still got his facebook page... but it's a shadow of it's former self. Now he's on TikTok... I think he's pulling the 'mental health' card too... I get the feeling his girlfriend is still only with him in order to promote herself as an influencer.

She's also pulling the mental health card. (I'm speaking as someone who has his own mental health issues. It doesn't excuse bad behaviour).

Didn't he harass his ex, or something? The previous 'Emily' (and what's with his obsession with dating ladies' named Emily?). There was his TikTok's are getting the views, for sure... but he's not getting attention. I decided to google his name, and found one article from April of last year about him starting a podcast. He stopped making it about 4 months later.

Prior to that, an article in 2017 about him getting a book deal, but that book is now being sold for a quid on Amazon, and hasn't been in stock in Easons for a while.

These 'influencers' have a shelf life-they make major money, then slowly lose clout, and then they keep hankering for that major money, again. They'll even attack high profile folks (as Twomey did with Logan Paul) to give themselves attention (flippin' Logan Paul's lasted longer than Twomey has).

I'd say the next 'reality tv' show RTE/ Virgin Media does, that's fairly simple and not too hacking, Twomey will sign up for. Rory's Stories and Steve-o Timothy have both been on a downward slide for a while now, in terms of attention and what not. Their 'comedy', if you can call it that, doesn't 'sell' outside of Ireland.

As much criticism as Foil, Arms and Hog get, their material is really popular outside of Ireland. Folks I follow on social media(who aren't Irish) often share links to their videos.

in the last 18 months I've often thought the one of the few benefits of covid if that many more people would be telling Hector to get the **** out of their personal space. He inability to respect physical boundries always annoyed the absolute **** out of me

And her 'achievements' in sport count for nothing outside of this country. Hell, they barely account for anything 'in' this country. She's not Katie Taylor, for example. Or Kelly Harrington.

Now those two ladies I would happily tolerate. Harrington has shown that she's not about airs and graces. When the Olympics were postponed, she didn't whine or get angry-she just got on with her training.

Major respect. Meanwhile Geary posted a photo of her ar*e and claimed it was 'an accident'... pfft.

The bum photo?

Yeah, it did. https://www.pressreader.com/ireland/irish-daily-mirror/20210706/281565178751144

Any of these gimps that market themselves as a ‘wellness advocate‘ or ‘mental health’ advocate like Bressie..

I don’t listen to anybody about health and wellness apart from health / medical professionals with earned and acquired qualifications..

this day and age everyone just want to be an ‘advocate’... aka a bandwagoner clinging onto an image to either earn a few quid from..or get attention from...or both... all the while sucking off a superfood smoothie while staring gormlessly down a camera lens.

Gets under your skin, does she?

Cousin was in the same school as he was and had friends who knew him, they were up in arms when he did the anti bullying thing as he was known as a unfunny bully when he was in the school

i think she's become more insufferable after her sporting career, trying about 20 different new ventures to stay relevant, from news reporter, own show, reality "star", lifestyle coach, influencer and more

Her brother is kinda creepy too, that guy Rory O'Connell. I knew his boyfriend (I dunno if they're still together, or if they broke up) and he was half Rory's age. Considering Rory's sixty, it was a bit dodgy.

Probably wouldn't be as dodgy if it weren't for the dodgy activities of Ballymaloe.

She's an odd one becuayse she came out of nowhere really. I know she had been playing with Cork etc but i'd never heard of her until she stopped playing.

John Cleese no particular reason just irks me.

isn't he doing a phd in it? that's not really faking it

he is faking it though

That beardy bloke on the Bord bia ads. I bet you any money he eats people.

Speaking of Bressie, or more really speaking of mental health, some journalist (Irish) wrote an article criticizing Blindboy (And in turn, folks like Bressie) with regards to how they exploit the discussion around mental health.

Sure enough-twitterati came to his defense. If they'd only taken a step back, they'd realise that the journalist was right. And Blindboy coming out in 'defense' of himself... tells you that he was worried about his pay packet. If you get very defensive about any kind of criticism (accurate criticism, mind you, not deconstructive criticism- when someone does the 'you're rubbish' kind of stuff) then it very clearly points to a weakness in your armour. As in you know you're a huckster, but you're not happy being called out on it.

Seen it happen too many times with youtubers. But once they're called out, they have to go looking for a new source of revenue. The regular audience usually get clued in on it not too long afterwards. He's already had to switch from being a 'comedian', then switched to being a 'musician', now he's a 'mental health advocate'... 🙄🙄🙄

Who was that?

Give her time-she'll spotlight him too. Then the twitter folk will come after her over it.

Case in point, Laura Whitmore tried to set her followers on a journalist (Niamh Walsh)-but it heavily backfired (barring some genuinely nuts people who made death threats against Ms Walsh). Journalists came out in support of Walsh, even the Washington Post, of all things. (it was an embarrassing moment for Whitmore. And she's been embarrassing herself quite a bit in the last few years).

Anyways, Walsh wrote a nothing article about how the women politicians 'don't dress very well', and even including a little dig at the male politicians at the end of her article. Friends-of-Whitless came out in her defence, such as Muireann O'Connell on Ireland AM. And it was soooo clearly an agenda. (Muireann started attacking those who wrote in to Ireland AM and defended Walsh's article. That politicians, at home and abroad, represent the people, the country. You want them to look good. You don't want another 'Bertie Ahern in a Canary yellow suit' debacle'. Or Brian Cowen being the butt of a Jay Leno joke.).

You could tell they were just using the article to attack Niamh Walsh after the way Laura Whitmore was made look like an idiot before this. It was the Dailymail... nobody cares what they say unless it's Piers Morgan writing it.

I haven't really followed Laura Whitmore or her career and only heard of her in the last couple of years. I can't say I've warmed to her (saw her on celeb gogglebox). However in the case of her spat with Niamh Walsh, I totally got where she was coming from. Just because someone is in the public eye doesn't mean every aspect of their life is public. It seems that it was the papers, and not the couple themselves, who announced that the child had been born; then this "journalist" wrote a cringey faux chummy email saying we're going to announce your baby's name - surely it's the couple's own decision if or when they announce it. The "journalist" only contacted LW to get the quote that she needed so that the article became a story rather than a piece of unsubstantiated gossip. That being said, maybe LW needs to filter out which of her friends are prepared to sell her out by talking to the papers.

Is it active? If the child's name hadn't been made public no one would have known who it belonged to. I know some people who set up email addresses for newborns in order that no one else can get them first - maybe setting up an Instagram is something similar in the world of people who use social media?

I said it before but she comes across as rather painful on her instagram.