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A thread in response to serious allegations made by @barrymward under privilege in the Seanad yesterday: #Stand4Truth #UnsealTheArchive 1/
The allegations made by @barrymward are typical of the type of bullying women experience on a daily basis, so my colleagues & I decided that we can’t allow this to go unchecked. 2/
By way of background, on 12th Oct @clann_project launched an email campaign as we were extremely concerned that the Commission of Investigation Records Bill was being rushed through & that records would be put beyond the reach of stakeholders: http://clannproject.org/commission-archive/ 3/
The response to the campaign was such that it crashed the Oireachtas servers on budget day: https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40070309.html 4/
However, yesterday in the Seanad debate on the Bill @barrymward said ‘other parties’ were ‘wilfully misleading’ survivors/stakeholders by creating a website that allowed thousands of people to email politicians with ‘exactly the same’ email. 5/
Senator @barrymward went on to say that the campaign had ‘misrepresented’ what was in the Bill and ‘led those people up the garden path’. 6/
The rest of the thread seems to be separated. See: https://twitter.com/cmcgettrick/status/1320059563278622720
