Journalists launch legal action against Eoghan Harris over accounts linked to Barbara J Pym
Harris confirmed he had received solicitors’ letters and added that he would “see them in court”. By Gráinne Ní Aodha Wednesday 12 May 2021, 6:14 PM 3 hours ago 12,719 Views 0 Comments
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TWO JOURNALISTS HAVE launched legal proceedings against former Sunday Independent columnist Eoghan Harris, following this month’s revelations that he was one of the founders of an anonymous Twitter account under the name ‘Barbara J Pym’ which has since been permanently suspended from the platform.
Belfast-based Phoenix Law – which is representing journalists Allison Morris and Aoife Moore – has also written to Twitter in relation to the proceedings.
Eoghan Harris s claim he was friends with David Ervine complete fantasy David Ervine (left) leader of the Progressive Unionist Party meeting Taoiseach Bertie Ahern in Dublin in 2005. File picture by Niall Carson, Press Association
Former PUP leader Dawn Purvis
A friend and colleague of the late David Ervine has rubbished sacked Sunday Independent columnist Eoghan Harris s claim that he was close to the former Progressive Unionist Party leader.
Mr Harris told RTÉ that he was a close friend of David Ervine and a friend of Gusty Spence and I have very strong views about the Protestant and loyalist working class, and I felt they had been very alienated .
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Senator Eoghan Harris at the Inaugural Session of the Lemas International Forum in the Royal Irish Academy in Dawson Street. Pic Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland
Sean Murray, the maker of the Unquiet Graves documentary, has hired a legal firm to pursue what he claims were “defamatory comments” made about him through the Barbara J Pym account used by Eoghan Harris.
“On various dates between August and October 2020 the Twitter account ‘Barbara J Pym @barbarapym2′ posted numerous outrageous and derogatory comments in relation to our client and the integrity of the documentary, Unquiet Graves, which he directed,” a.
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