So, Are Young Fine Gael Threatening Legal Action?
Update: So Young Fine Gael are distancing themselves from threats of a lawsuit. Eoin has commented below to confirm this.
Legal salvos were bound to kick off in this incident. Blogger Eoin Brazil commented on Damien’s blog saying:
“Damien, I heard both sides of this particular story and I believe its you who is overreacting. I’d love to say that they’re members of YFG but as ever you’re facts are incorrect. I’d also like to say I’m not one of the two.
I’d like you to retract your comments about YFG and UL YFG in particular or you will see the legal side for libel for taking the good name of one of UL societies into another one of your paranoid rants.
Please feel free to moderate this comment. I believe information should be free, do you ?”
This comment appears to suggest that UL’s Fine Gael branch may be making the first move, by threatening Mr Mulley with legal action. Is this true? Are UL’s Young Fine Gael branch going legal on this? I’m confused.
Where does the truth lie? Legal remedy may be the only option as this stage. This will probably run and run. It’s a sad incident that will not doubt tarnish Irish Blogging Week. I hope that the air is clear by Saturday night.
February 27th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Hi Alexia,
This has never had anything to do with UL YFG or FG in any shape or form. I’ve heard both sides of the story and I’m afraid that the people involved are not members and that no bullying or stalking or any such happened, well not unless you count reading the Internet.
I’ve posted a reply to Damien thread and its awaiting moderation.
Here it is:
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Damien, firstly I’m not a member of YFG, I was and proud to say it, a former chair of the branch in UL. A harder, working, more decent bunch. I haven’t spoken to any of them about this matter and was more than a little annoyed about you’re dragging them into this sorry little episode. They have not said anything about sueing, but given the approach you’ve taken I’m sure it something that’s might be a consideration but again that’s my personal view. If you want to go `report’ on items maybe you should fact check first. To clarify, as well FG have no context in this either.
If you want to drag the name of something thru the mud, where that something be a society, club, or organisation you really need to have a bit more in the line than hearsay and pub talk.
I’m still annoyed very much about you’re treatment of such a good society and if my comments were cranky, well tough. I think you shouldn’t go picking on them for something in this case they had nothing or no relation to.
There seems to be a serious personal issue between you and a number of people which has dragged the good name of others (one society in particular) into this. I’d like to again point out this had nothing to do with any political organisation and that their name be removed. Does it matter that I was once a member of the Games society here and does that mean they could now be brought into some kind of post where no member has any clue as to what is going on.
To clarify to other posters, from my hearing of this tale, there has been no stalking bar the reading of publicly posted internet information. No threats of any kind barring my heady spurn of the moment post where I felt that a recourse to the courts might be warranted for dragging others into something which has zero, absolutely zero to do with them.
If people like the clubs or societies they are or were involved with, of course they feel something when they’re names are incorrectly blackened. That was my bone and I’m sorry Damien if you don’t like it, but the story has never had anything to do with UL YFG and you should reflect this in your post.
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Perhaps I had one too many coffees after lunch and went off the handle a bit but this kind of `blogging’ gets my goat when it drags people and organisations into it, which have nothing what some ever to do with it.
If this tarnishes Irish Blog Week, its more a shame on the people than the concept. I hope of course it has a good award session or whatever is planned and that people are not so narrow or immature and can be as easily distracted from the wider issues they should be discussing.
February 27th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Braz, I would stay off the caffeine if I were you.
February 27th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Alexia, maybe tea for the rest of Lent then….
February 27th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
There is caffeine in tea too. OK maybe not the herbal stuff.