Possibly the final, most bizarre and degrading thing I'll ever write on Twitter.

This last week people kept calling me "Ross", a smear campaign orchestrated by @williamhboney1 and others against @AlanFarrell

It has been surreal and debilitating. I've had enough of it.

The accusation is I am a 21 year old former intern of Mr. Farrell and I am being PAID by Fine Gael to write positive tweets on the Irish coronavirus response.

People have stalked and abused the intern who I'm supposed to be, to the point he locked his account.

Bullying.

First of all - I wish I was 21.

Secondly - I'm an adult, not a 2-year-old. If I supported any political party I'd say so.

Thirdly - I'm not paid by Soros or FG.

Lastly - I believe the Irish response has been excellent.

People have tried to bully me out of that opinion.

Yesterday I was having a conversation on the complexity of caring for dementia. I wrote a very clumsily worded tweet as part of a conversation on how hard it is to prevent spreads

Now apparently because "I'm Ross", HE got some of the abuse for it.

I've claimed I'm grateful to my cardiac surgeon who saved my life. I've written threads about growing up in early 80s Ireland.

Very weird thing to lie about being 40 and having heart problems but apparently it's a "Fine Gael cover story".

*Please* watch this to end.

I don't have the health or the money to sue Mr McMahon and the others pushing these smears but if I had either I would do so.

He has defamed Mr Farrell, who I've never met, and caused me and that poor Ross fella distress.

Why, I'll never EVER understand.

I expected Ireland to have 2,500 dead by now. That was after assessing our starting situation with R0 = 10+, our ICU capacity, and the low initial compliance on social distancing around the 15th.

The Irish people responded magnificently and we have less than 800 dead. RIP

Tony Holohan, Paul Reid and Simon Harris have been magnificent but not perfect.

"18 coronaviruses" is something I'm sure Simon's friends won't let him forget...

I think our front line are superb people, just the best of the best.

That's my opinion.

I am biased towards Ireland because I love this country.

I am biased towards the HSE for saving my life.

Pretty fair and understandable - but I've made plenty of criticism and praise when I felt either was objective.

I believe that's called being a fair minded adult.

The amount of abuse I have received for believing Ireland is doing well in a pandemic has been a toxic and draining experience.

I try mute and block people. Some set up new accounts to DM me more abuse.

For what? A positive opinion of Ireland?

Coronavirus hasn't been easy for me either. I keep everything personal off Twitter but I lost someone very special in my life on April 13th and couldn't go see her at the end or go to her funeral.

I remained objective about Ireland's response despite my own family suffering.

The last 24 hours I've tried to go through Twitter, I've tried a solicitor I can't really afford, I've tried Guards and Samaritans as a last resort to relieve pressure.

All for believing Ireland is doing well.

You owe Mr Farrell and that young man an apology.

BULLY.