Thoughts on #suemepaddy ?

bore! That’s brilliant!

Lass

For those who remember Father Ted, this tweet made me crack up

"I hear you're a racist now Paddy?"

Almost 14000 tweets under #suemepaddy now. Many of them are saying “come at me lad” and quoting the Streisand effect. Be interesting to see how this plays out.

I understand that the girl may want to protect her identity (although that ship has probably sailed) but she has an opportunity here. If she was to appear at one of the protest rallies the movement would shift from online into RL and stay there.

And this one.

A brain the size of a pea and an ego the size of a planet.

(Also just MY OPINION. #suemepaddy)

I hope he reads every one of the tweets and realises that normal reasonable people think he is a vile, vile person.

#SueMePaddy

The #suemepaddy tweets are excellent. It is my OPINION - I am not suggesting this is fact - (#suemepaddy) that he has a brain the size of a pea if he thinks that anything other than keeping his head down, his mouth shut and his face out of the papers is going to help him at this stage.

They need to be taken up on naming her.

One of the newspapers was fined a huge amount of money for naming the woman in the ched Evans case (they published a pixilated pic of her which was deemed enough to identify.) members of the public got fines and police cautions for naming, as they said they were not aware it was an offence.

Now joe public can use that as an excuse.. but... As the men in this case had been represented by lawyers, I don’t feel there is ANY way their lawyers could have left them ignorant of the law on this.

Are the police perusing this? A nice caution on file for them, and a whacking great fine should be an absolute minimum.

Poor, poor woman. So brave to bring this to court, and now bearing the consequences. It’s sickening.

That's it exactly Sophocles. He just doesn't get it does he?

Part me hopes the deluded little twit carries right on with this nonsense.

Every time he bobs up and shouts the odds, he looks more and more like a man who actually can't fathom that other people's thoughts and wishes don't always accord with his own.

Which is quite the insight into the mindset of a man accused of rape. People aren't stupid. They'll work that out.

Was coming on to post the grumpy liberal tweet.

I hadn't followed this but I'm sickened. This is what Greer was talking about the other week.

This one was excellent "He never told anyone not to comment on it. So I just presumed he was enjoying the comments. Im sure if he said no everyone would have respected his decision. Then my friends wanted to comment on him&he never said no. I assumed he was consenting #suemepaddy"

I like this one.

You only need to put # into Google and it comes up.

I think my favourite tweet was:

"You're gonna need a bigger courthouse"

With a picture of the thousands of people protesting in Dublin.

I can't imagine what he and his lawyers are thinking.

Whatever the verdict, he's shown himself to be a very callous, misogynistic, selfish bastard.

There was another tweet along the lines of "regardless of the verdict, as a man, if a woman leaves your company hysterical and bleeding then your an utter scumbag".

You sue for liable where you reputation has been damaged. He no longer has a reputation to protect regardless of the verdict.

Oh I’ve just spent a very enjoyable hour reading all the suemepaddy tweets. Absolutely heartening to see those comments. I hope IRFU and Ulster rugby are paying attention.

I am LOVING this. Cheered me right up.

What a fucking idiot.

Yes that is correct Hairy about belief.

On the issue of beyond all reasonable doubt there was an English case where a woman was accused 4 men of gang rape. The police investigation, concluded that no rape had occurred and she was charged on four counts of perverting the course of public justice. She was acquitted on all counts on the defence that the Crown did not prove she was lying that all four had raped her.

And there is the Scottish case where the victim brought a successful civil case against her rapists when the Crown refused to.

Argh, Lass, I meant Lass.

My phone's autocorrect is clearly an instrument of the patriarchy.

Correct me if I'm wrong, Lads, but isn't there an interesting legal issue here? Rape is an odd crime in that the victim can genuinely have withheld consent, but the actual crime hinges on the mens rea of the accused - if the jury thinks (within the rules set by reasonable doubt) that it's possible the accused believed he had consent, he walks (and I can envisage being a juror and thinking "well I believe she didn't give consent but I can't be sure he didn't know he didn't have consent."

So "I believe her" is actually entirely consistent with a not guilty verdict. And civil cases are decided on the balance of probabilities. So I think Paddy scum of the earth would be a fool to pursue this, because in a civil court he could well lose.

Hopefully it will massively backfire. I'm assuming in this kind of legal case the conclusion can be that the woman was telling the truth and it is not libellous to say so.

He should have quit while he was ahead.

The arrogance and sense of entitlement knows no bounds.

If i were him id be lying low not playing billy bigbaws proclaiming to sue every tom dick and harry in the land

And there are plenty of men pitching in too. I would disown him if he were my son.