It was a Twitter account only 20 people ever followed before it was suspended by the social media giant in May 2021 amid a blazing controversy that made it and other anonymous accounts supposedly associated with the newspaper columnist Eoghan Harris front page news.  Harris was fired from his long-running column in The Sunday Independent after it emerged he was behind another account called Barbara J Pym, which criticised some journalists, praised others, attacked Sinn Féin, and made various claims that would later be alleged to be defamatory.  A few days later on May 16, 2021, a second anonymous account…

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