He had a certain fan base here and some weren't gone on him.
He disappeared very fast last year and now he's about to sue Twitter.
I haven't accused him of anything. I stated if. If my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle. Should all of my aunts sue me??
Also, the original Tweets accused him of the alcohol thing, which was not retracted in the solicitors statement and how is calling him a teacher a sueable offence??
Eoghan McDermott has not denied having a physical relationship with a 17 year old. In fact he went out of his way to say she was ‘above the age of consent’ as opposed to over 18.
Big difference there.
No doubt he or his representatives contacted Twitter to inform them that the allegations are false. In relation to Twitter not knowing whether every post is defamatory, there have been numerous cases brought by people against content publishers like Twitter, Facebook etc. In fact as recently as last week Miriam O’Callaghan was in the news over a settlement with Facebook relating to untrue and defamatory adverts.
I suspect that the homeowner would have responsibility for defamatory statements written on their wall if they allowed it to remain. But a legal brain would be better placed to provide you with an answer.
Boom.
100 percent.
His silence and his legal teams acceptance of the letter is deafening and telling.
All I really know about this fella was he wanted Fairytale of New York banned from the airwaves because of the word ****.
When you engage in such self righteous preaching, you better be squeaky clean.
Miriam O'Callaghan's was quite different, in that it was a long term scam using her name and face to con people out of money and was reported multiple times, but kept reappearing.
Boom nothing.
I was talking about, and if you read my post you would have seen, the accusation that he was a 27 year old teacher having a relationship with a 17 year old girl, going to a different school.
It was mentioned a lot a few days back, posters even asked other posters what they thought of McDermott being a 27 year old teacher having a relationship with a 17 year old girl going to a different school.
But McDermott was never a 27 year old teacher having a relationship with a 17 year old girl going to a different school.
Both involve false or defamatory statements. What Battlecorp asked was how could Twitter be expected to monitor everything on its platform, the fact that they don’t know about it does not mean they can’t be successfully sued for publishing it.
The allegation is that he was a 27yo who was involved in a relationship with a school child which included oral sex. That's hasn't been denied, challenged or retracted. You have to ask yourself why his legal team didn't look for a retraction of that. Even stripping back the age of the girl (17) it's seriously strange for a high profile 27yo to act like that. Especially one who is so in your face when it comes to all things woke and metoo.
It's a massive impediment though. As Muewma vs Facebook proved.
http://www.cearta.ie/2016/09/reform-of-the-law-of-defamation-the-defence-of-innocent-publication-muwema-v-facebook-part-2/
While though we find it reprehensible behaviour, she was not as a poster just claimed, jailbait, she was over the age of consent, he apparently was not a teacher at the time as another poster has also been claimed. Whether he was “plying her with drink”, perhaps whoever made that allegation can show proof to support it.
17 is the age of consent, does it make a difference if she was 17 yrs and 11 months or 18? It is bad behaviour either way, but that is a moral rather than a legal consideration.
Who said she was lying? She misremembered her age.
Do you have any proof for your statement above?
What malicious allegation?
Boom ! 😀
For the second time you are failing to see the point of my post.
It was claimed here that he was a 27 year old teacher having a relationship with a 17 year old girl going to a different school.
Poster were asked to comment on that situation, affirm that they were outraged by it etc.
However that was 100% false/inaccurate/fabricated.
He only did a stint as a sub teacher when he was 24, never when he was 27.
So he was never a 27 year old teacher having a relationship with a 17 year old girl going to a different school.
Can you understand that ?
In fact he went out of his way to say she was ‘above the age of consent’ as opposed to over 18.
No he didn't, the letter is from her solicitors.
He hasn't said anything directly apart from that 1 tweet.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
lol.
Ok.
Well if that is the case (and I don't for one minute believe it is) then the inability to remember something as basic as your age, kind of makes anything else she says thoroughly unreliable.
Misremembered her age.... ffs.
Yes nothing illegal. Most of us will agree with that.
Do you agree that a lot of content in her account wasn't retraced nor challenged?
I understand her credibility looks diminished but surely to god his legal team should have sought a full and frank admission that the other harmful allegations were fabrications. They didn't though.
Your reliance on the burden of proof is inconsistent at best.
Which is remarkable considering the allegation she made included her age.
The silence around her allegation that she was a school child is deafening from McDermott and his legal / pr people. Strange. The letter was accepted from his legal people.
If it were me I would be asking for the following:
Now the above to me is very unequivocal. It leaves no room for whispering or for people to draw their on conclusions.
Why in the hell didn't they push for something like that. Has to be a reason why.
Why would she deny being at school?
You seem very obsessed with the fact she was at school.
I think it should be clarified.
Why? What difference does it make? I actually thought it was fact she was at school.
Fandymo, I have no intention of discussing the difficulties of suing a media company with you, firstly, cases vary so what might apply to one case may not apply to another, secondly, I’m not a solicitor, thirdly, no matter what I post, you no doubt would trawl the internet to find a case which contradicts it. So, let’s just leave the Twitter case to the courts.
She might have remembered that she was 17 but may have thought the age of consent was 18. I'd say a good percentage of the population wouldn't know what the age of consent is. I'd say an awful lot would think it's 16 (because that's what it is in the UK) and others might think it's 18 because that's when you become an adult.
It could be a genuine mistake on her part........or maybe not. I'm not in a position to know one way or the other. But a genuine mistake, however unlikely, is possible.
What leverage does he have to force her / her legal team to provide such a letter?
I think this may only be deafening to a few Gusser, she was too young for him, does the fact she was a school girl require further clarification? No, she could have been a 17yr old who had left school, that would not change the fact she was too young for a 27yr old to have a sexual relationship with, even if it was consensual.
An unequivocal retraction would be an admission of malicious lies, this letter probably makes neither side completely happy, but happy enough to draw a line under it and move on.
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