Niamh Walsh: ‘I won’t let online abuse stop me from doing my job’
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evoke.ieLast week in the course of her job, Irish Mail Group Showbusiness Editor and columnist Niamh Walsh was the target of online abuse after a standard pre-publication request for comment was posted by a prominent TV presenter on her social media channels.
The polite email was branded ‘vile’ and it was suggested that it was an attempt to pressure the celebrity into talking about her child.
While on the whole the online reaction was largely supportive of Niamh and the professionalism revealed in the email, there was also a torrent of personal abuse.
Here Niamh responds to the controversy for the first time. It’s in weeks like these that I am glad that it isn’t to strangers I turn for affirmation, but to the real people in my life. ‘Oh My God,’
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