IFP candidate posts racist comments
A LOCAL election candidate who organised a protest rally over a hotel being used to house asylum seekers has posted and supported blatantly racist and homophobic messages online.
Patrice Johnson, an Irish Freedom Party (IFP) candidate in Drogheda, Co. Louth, posted homophobic comments about Children’s Minister Roderic O’Gorman on her social media account.
The mother of five, who has a large social media following and often appears alongside party leader Hermann Kelly, frequently targets an Indian asylum seeker, calling him a ‘mumbai midget’, and liked a post that referred to ‘foreign c***s’.
Ms Johnson also appeared to support pro-Russian tweets and bizarre conspiracy theories in other online posts.
She also ‘liked’ a photograph claiming to be a picture of the inside of Mr O’Gorman’s fridge with a pink vibrator included.
Last week, she ‘liked’ a post that made outrageous claims which tagged the minister’s official social media account. When Mr O’Gorman blocked her account, she commented that she would find another way to label him.
Ms Johnson also appeared to support Russian president Vladimir Putin by ‘liking’ a tweet about a ‘stray Russian missile’ taking out leaders at the Davos World Economic Forum, adding: ‘All will be forgiven Vlad.’
Defending her tweets and support for others’ tweets targeting the minister, Ms Johnson told the Mail on Sunday last night that his ‘sexual orientation do not mean his actions as minister are beyond criticism’. She said: ‘Roderic O’Gorman is in my opinion a dangerous incompetent who should not be Minister of Children. He is clearly not acting in a responsible manner for the care of children.’ She added that, ‘O’Gorman is wrong to insist on pushing Trans agenda in Irish schools just as governments around the world halt promotion of Trans ideology in schools, and child mutilation in hospitals’.
Ms Johnson’s former colleague, Alan Fagan, was kicked out of the IFP this week after reports of his online behaviour were published in a Sunday newspaper. The report stated he posted sexualised comments aimed at a female minister, backed arson attacks, and called politicians paedophiles.