So this account @/TCDFF was set up in the last day, claiming to be a "grassroots Irish anti GRA campaign", and it frankly screams TERF astroturfing. For starts, It's already managed to accumulate over 1,700 followers within *12 hours* of being set up.
By comparison, it took us @repeal_shield about a month before we reached 1,000 followers. And that was a grassroots campaign, with real support among genuine Irish twitter users. Taking a look a @/TCDFF's followers, there are a few Irish accounts, but mostly, they look like:
Seriously, this "Irish Grassroots Movement" is about as Irish as a McDonald's Shamrock Shake, and some other political opinions of its followers are just as unsavoury.
So yeah, I'd bet €20 you actually asked most the accounts following this "grassroots irish movement" @/TCDFF who the Countess Markievicz actually was, you'd likely get a Tom D'arcy esque answer...
BRB, going to go copyright the phrase "astroTERF"
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