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Paddy Diver with his family at October's Redress Rally in Dublin(Please read story below NEXT button) Straight-talking 100% Redress campaigner, Paddy Diver, says he is stepping back from the group because his good name is being dragged through the mud on social media and he cannot take it any more. In an exclusive interview with Inish Live , Inishowen's redress totem added he was both heartbroken and disgusted his involvement in the campaign had had to end in this way. Paddy and the 100% Redress campaign burst spontaneously onto the Inishowen stage last May. That was the day more than 200 local people with mica-affected homes and their supporters staged a protest outside a construction site in Carndonagh where the firm GDC Property Developers was building houses. Just over a month later (June 15), thousands of people from Donegal travelled to Dublin. They massed on Dáil Éireann, sitting in Dublin's Convention Centre, in the pursuit of mica redress. However, the online abuse Paddy has received in the seemingly interminable interregnum between the closing of the '90/10' scheme, which opened in January 2020, and the opening of the 'enhanced' scheme, announced in November 30, has resulted in him leaving the 100% redress campaign “for the sake of my family” he said. Paddy said the blame for most of the online abuse he had received lay with Donegal county councillor Frank McBrearty and his supporters. “I would have no bother keeping going but it has turned into a vendetta against me and there are supporters of Cllr McBrearty who think, by running me down, they are standing up for him, but it is not me against Cllr McBrearty.” he said. “Listen, I don't want people to think, 'There's Paddy Diver again saying poor me'. This is not poor me. I never sought the limelight. This situation happened by default when I blocked a lorry in Carndonagh last May. “At the minute, I am disgusted at the way this has ended up. I am disgusted at the way my good name has been dragged through the mud and false
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Paddy Diver presenting 100% Redress campaign demands to Housing Minister Darragh O'Brien in June 2021(Please read story below NEXT button) Straight-talking 100% Redress campaigner, Paddy Diver, says he is stepping back from the group because his good name is being dragged through the mud on social media and he cannot take it any more. In an exclusive interview with Inish Live , Inishowen's redress totem added he was both heartbroken and disgusted his involvement in the campaign had had to end in this way. Paddy and the 100% Redress campaign burst spontaneously onto the Inishowen stage last May. That was the day more than 200 local people with mica-affected homes and their supporters staged a protest outside a construction site in Carndonagh where the firm GDC Property Developers was building houses. Just over a month later (June 15), thousands of people from Donegal travelled to Dublin. They massed on Dáil Éireann, sitting in Dublin's Convention Centre, in the pursuit of mica redress. However, the online abuse Paddy has received in the seemingly interminable interregnum between the closing of the '90/10' scheme, which opened in January 2020, and the opening of the 'enhanced' scheme, announced in November 30, has resulted in him leaving the 100% redress campaign “for the sake of my family” he said. Paddy said the blame for most of the online abuse he had received lay with Donegal county councillor Frank McBrearty and his supporters. “I would have no bother keeping going but it has turned into a vendetta against me and there are supporters of Cllr McBrearty who think, by running me down, they are standing up for him, but it is not me against Cllr McBrearty.” he said. “Listen, I don't want people to think, 'There's Paddy Diver again saying poor me'. This is not poor me. I never sought the limelight. This situation happened by default when I blocked a lorry in Carndonagh last May. “At the minute, I am disgusted at the way this has ended up. I am disgusted at the way my good name has been dragged
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Paddy Diver addressing the October Redress Rally in Dublin(Please read story below NEXT button) Straight-talking 100% Redress campaigner, Paddy Diver, says he is stepping back from the group because his good name is being dragged through the mud on social media and he cannot take it any more. In an exclusive interview with Inish Live , Inishowen's redress totem added he was both heartbroken and disgusted his involvement in the campaign had had to end in this way. Paddy and the 100% Redress campaign burst spontaneously onto the Inishowen stage last May. That was the day more than 200 local people with mica-affected homes and their supporters staged a protest outside a construction site in Carndonagh where the firm GDC Property Developers was building houses. Just over a month later (June 15), thousands of people from Donegal travelled to Dublin. They massed on Dáil Éireann, sitting in Dublin's Convention Centre, in the pursuit of mica redress. However, the online abuse Paddy has received in the seemingly interminable interregnum between the closing of the '90/10' scheme, which opened in January 2020, and the opening of the 'enhanced' scheme, announced in November 30, has resulted in him leaving the 100% redress campaign “for the sake of my family” he said. Paddy said the blame for most of the online abuse he had received lay with Donegal county councillor Frank McBrearty and his supporters. “I would have no bother keeping going but it has turned into a vendetta against me and there are supporters of Cllr McBrearty who think, by running me down, they are standing up for him, but it is not me against Cllr McBrearty.” he said. “Listen, I don't want people to think, 'There's Paddy Diver again saying poor me'. This is not poor me. I never sought the limelight. This situation happened by default when I blocked a lorry in Carndonagh last May. “At the minute, I am disgusted at the way this has ended up. I am disgusted at the way my good name has been dragged through the mud and false allegations have
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Paddy Diver and his family at October's Redress Rally in Dublin(Please read story below NEXT button) Straight-talking 100% Redress campaigner, Paddy Diver, says he is stepping back from the group because his good name is being dragged through the mud on social media and he cannot take it any more. In an exclusive interview with Inish Live , Inishowen's redress totem added he was both heartbroken and disgusted his involvement in the campaign had had to end in this way. Paddy and the 100% Redress campaign burst spontaneously onto the Inishowen stage last May. That was the day more than 200 local people with mica-affected homes and their supporters staged a protest outside a construction site in Carndonagh where the firm GDC Property Developers was building houses. Just over a month later (June 15), thousands of people from Donegal travelled to Dublin. They massed on Dáil Éireann, sitting in Dublin's Convention Centre, in the pursuit of mica redress. However, the online abuse Paddy has received in the seemingly interminable interregnum between the closing of the '90/10' scheme, which opened in January 2020, and the opening of the 'enhanced' scheme, announced in November 30, has resulted in him leaving the 100% redress campaign “for the sake of my family” he said. Paddy said the blame for most of the online abuse he had received lay with Donegal county councillor Frank McBrearty and his supporters. “I would have no bother keeping going but it has turned into a vendetta against me and there are supporters of Cllr McBrearty who think, by running me down, they are standing up for him, but it is not me against Cllr McBrearty.” he said. “Listen, I don't want people to think, 'There's Paddy Diver again saying poor me'. This is not poor me. I never sought the limelight. This situation happened by default when I blocked a lorry in Carndonagh last May. “At the minute, I am disgusted at the way this has ended up. I am disgusted at the way my good name has been dragged through the mud and false allegations