23rd April 01:00

Irish Times - 'Media urged to avoid ageist language' https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/media-urged-to-avoid-ageist-language-in-describing-older-people-1.4235419

23rd April 14:24

My tweet showing use of ageist language by Danny Boy https://twitter.com/williamhboney1/status/1253313679464030208

23rd April 15:37

Danny Boy contacts me by twitter and asks to talk. I have never spoken to him in messages before, this was the first time. Despite his initial aggressive approach, I agree to chat, he immediately follows up with personal abuse. I end the conversation.

Danny Boy tries again. I politely refuse to engage again. He then claims I made a flase allegation also of only tweeting his praise of government and he says something really strange about songs. I don't know many people who would put up with this very strange behaviour from an

anonymous account in their DMs for the first time.

Hours later, a tirade erupts from Danny Boy. The core allegation is that I said he was somebody else. I didn't, nor do I care. Danny Boy claimed I'd caused distress to a person he named. That person quickly replied and said

that was not the case and that, the true factual position is that he was laughing at some of the nonsense that has gone on surrounding the identity of this anonymous Danny Boy account.

The young man was gracious enough not to make the same accusation as Danny Boy, real accounts have to play by rules.

It is the video I find most strange. A man naked from the waist up, in a darkened room, filming his laptop with his mobile phone. Blurry clips of random tweets

wrapped up in a tin foil hat conspiracy. When somebody actually shows you who they are, believe them.

It is somewhat disappointing that it's nothing more than your archetypal keyboard warrior behind the Danny Boy account, it was more intriguing when we didn't know.