The Gallagher Family Name: ‘Protector of Foreigners’
Deeply Cavalier Reporting Raises Questions Around One Of Ireland's Top Journalists
Over the course of yesterday and today Twitter has exploded with chatter in regards to the nature of the reporting of an incident that has since progressed to trial. As it was suspected that the accused would enter an early guilty plea, the media’s tale of events was set to go unchallenged however the main suspect in the case entered a not-guilty plea, leading to the gruesome details of the murder become a matter of court and public record for the first time. Needless to say, the media have been caught red handed committing an act gross mis-direction by covering up the nature of the victims death. The accused is a foreign national, which as we know, commands the full attention of the Mockingbird media.Due to saturation, the MSM have been forced to run so many stories about the aggression of foreign nationals towards our women, they are now behaving like battered wives themselves, covering for these abusers on behalf of our nations fairer sex as a matter of policy. This apologist mentality now includes post-humous revisionism, where the details of a woman’s death are fair game for propagandistic purposes. Enter Conor Gallagher.
The Gallagher family name, meaning ‘Protector of Foreigners’ is one that commands respect in Ireland due its presence in Irish records all the way back as far as Niall of the Nine Hostages. There have been many Gallaghers in positions of power throughout the centuries with their family being based largely in Donegal. Gallagher, in recent times, is synonymous with rock music, namely through the exploits of Liam and Noel Gallagher of the band Oasis, and Donegal’s very own Rory Gallagher, a cult hero. This Gallagher however, is a journalist who threatens the moral institutions of society. His sinister use of Strategic Dialog, as you are about to read, shows that Gallagher is prepared to feed off the carrion of the dead in order to sustain the open borders narrative. In terms of the accuracy and intentions of his reporting, Gallagher takes a blackletter view to the meaning of his name.
“ ( The Victim) was killed by strangulation as she was jogging along a stretch of canal near Tullamore on Wednesday afternoon.”
Gallagher has been exposed as a potential bad actor over the course of a recent murder trial, as the details of the death of the victim, who Gallagher stated was ‘strangled’ in his writings of the incident, have been laid bare. The victim, who I don’t need to name at this point, actually struggled with her attacker and received 11 stab wounds to the neck. She also had a range of defensive wounds and the attack was witnessed by a number of people. One of the witnesses stated that they heard ‘a cry for help’. The trial has progressed and a description of the wounds inflicted has been made public. The victims throat box was sliced open meaning that this occurred between the time of the witness hearing the cry for help and when the guards arrived on the scene. The guards who arrived on the scene tried to resuscitate the victim but the injury’s were too catastrophic. It is important to note that An Garda Siochana had full knowledge of the nature of the victims death as they worked to save her for 10 minutes. There is no ambiguity between strangulation and 11 stab wounds to the throat with defensive wounds in other areas of her body. This was not a mistake.
Silently moving on with their lives after doing this to the good name of the victim is not an option. We are not letting this go. Gaslighting her family and friends while pushing for the optimal PR framing for the assailant shows that The Irish Times has committed to the path of villainy. Gallagher and by extension the Irish Times need to clarify the following unanswered questions if they want to emerge from this scandal.
Where did Gallagher get his information from?
Did Gallagher ask the Garda Press Office for commentary on the nature of the murder?
Was there any correspondence at all between the Irish Times and Garda Press Office?
Can The Irish Times provide the response from GPO, If it exists?
What evidence did Gallagher Provide to his editors that he had the correct description of the injuries?
The answer to these questions would determine where the fault lies. There are three possible outcomes but it is also possible that overlap exists between two or more of these probabilities:
If An Garda Siochana misled Gallagher through an inaccurate or politicised press release then both The Irish Times and Gallagher himself need to come out swinging. Show us the receipts.
If the editors at the Irish Times changed the cause of death, or invented one, then we have motive at the boardroom level to conceal the nature of the victims death. After Holland-Gate, there is reasonable cause to assume an agenda was the cause of the incorrect reporting in this scenario.
If Gallagher fabricated it or anonymously sourced it and deceived his editorial team, then his career is finished. There is no way The Irish Times can continue to have this man use their paper as a vehicle for his animosity towards certain sections of society. To allow this man to abuse the sanctity of a dead woman’s passing for personal ends would be unforgivable.
This is a Good, Bad and Ugly situation here. At least one of these scenarios is true and real journalism now needs to take place. I believe we all know in our hearts and souls what happened here. These malicious actors and their agendas have gone too far. The victims death was a lightning rod of opinion right in the middle of ferocious national debate on immigration. The desperation to trivialise her death and mitigate the emotional backlash, purely for political purposes, was endemic in the media at the time. Conor Gallagher’s reporting of this tragedy is the centre piece in that reporting cycle and led many people to believe this death was drastically less callous than what it actually was. Had the public known the true nature of this death there and then, the precious ‘international obligations’ would have been jeopardised and that would have been a terrible vista.
The ramifications of this blatant unprofessionalism can not be overstated. Conor Gallagher is not some rookie who was given a hard task on his first day on the job. Gallagher is one of the most qualified people in the field of journalism in this country, having obtained a Master’s Degree in Political Communications. He is the Crime and Security Correspondent for The Irish Times and has been with the IT for 6 years. Gallagher was also a key participant in the Consultative Forum On International Security Policy. Considering the story he miss-represented to the public involves a non-national military aged male as the chief suspect, it is safe to assume he was fully aware of the effect his words would have had on the National discussion. An open borders xenophile reporting on the alleged murder of a native by a foreigner:
What could go wrong?
Some other coverage of this topic
Suzie D’s audio blog is also fantastic over at the Irish InquiryGo to the Irish Inquiry’s post .
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I encourage the reader to become a journalist themselves, asking relevant questions through the links below:
Asking Conor Gallagher directly what his position is: cgallagher@irishtimes.com
Asking The Irish Times directly what their position is: enquiries@irishtimes.com
Asking the Garda Press Office for copies of press releases at the time: pressoffice@garda.ie
Well said Stephen
Brilliant once again Stephen. I don’t know how people like this man who blatantly lie to the public covering up the truth of these crimes sleep at night is beyond me.
But in the circle of life you can be sure they will reap what they sow.