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By Vanessa Foran.
I want to take you back a few months to a mad little incident that keeps coming back to me.
“You are almost too transparent and informative”.
This is what PR man and registered lobbyist, Conor Dempsey, a self-declared
‘close confidante’
(sic) of Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly, DMed to Dr Anthony O’Connor earlier this year.
Dr O’Connor is a practising clinician, a public healthcare activist, and a Labour Party member who has put himself forward for the position of Party Chair.
Conor Dempsey’s implausible claim that the doctor’s social media profile undermined his clinical role, provoked Dr O’Connor’s announcement, also on Twitter, that he was deleting his Twitter account; temporarily as it turns out.