The Co Cavan mother of a teenager who died by suicide and secured a High Court injunction restraining Gemma O'Doherty from harassing her, has brought additional proceedings seeking to establish the identities of Twitter account holders whom it's understood have breached that order.
Edel Campbell's lawyers have asked the High Court for orders directing Twitter to disclose the identities and contact details of the operators, controllers and owners of three accounts on the social media platform.
Last month the court made orders in favour of Ms Campbell, who claimed she has been the subject of a campaign of harassment by Ms Doherty. Ms Campbell claims that the harassment is linked to proceedings she brought against Ms O'Doherty over the unauthorised publication of the image of her late son on media associated with the defendant.
She claims that Ms O'Doherty has wrongly and unlawfully used the image of Diego Gilsenan in an article linking unexplained deaths to the Covid-19 vaccination. She secured an injunction restraining Ms O'Doherty from harassing the plaintiff, or from publishing Ms Campbell's and her late son's images, or any personal confidential material about them.
Ms O'Doherty is also restrained from encouraging or inciting others to intimidate the plaintiff. The court also made orders requiring Ms O'Doherty to take down and remove any image of the plaintiff and her late son from any form of media that she owns or operates.
The injunction is to remain in place pending the final outcome of Ms Campbell's action against Ms O'Doherty, trading as 'The Irish Light'. Meanwhile, on Monday Ms Campbell's lawyers returned to court and told Mr Justice Brian O'Moore that three twitter accounts have published statements that are in breach of the injunction.
The statements on the accounts, which Ms Campbell suspects may be under the control of Ms O'Doherty, were published after the injunction was granted by the High Court. Ms Campbell's legal team wrote to twitter seeking information about the account holders' owners and controllers.
In reply, Twitter said that it could not furnish such information in the absence of a court order. As a result, Mr Kennedy told the court, his client was seeking various disclosure orders against Twitter and Ms O'Doherty in respect of the three accounts.
He added that his client was also seeking an order from the defendant directing her to disclose whether she is the owner, operator or controller of the three accounts. Mr Justice Brian O'Moore granted the plaintiff permission to serve short notice of the motion on Twitter and the defendant.
The matter will return before the High Court later this month.
