A woman has told of how her dead brother’s image was used in an ‘anti-vaxxer post on Twitter, implying that he had died from either Covid or the vaccine.
Speaking to RTE’s Joe Duffy, the heartbroken woman said the ordeal had caused her additional stress as she grieves for her brother.
She said the Tweet was discovered after her friend was contacted by someone she knew.
She said: “A friend of mine was contacted by a girl that she knows, and she’d come across my brother's Image on Twitter.”
The woman’s brother was one of thirty people whose images were used in the post.
She said the post read: “Since March 2020, we have lost mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, husbands, wives, brothers, sisters, grandparents, uncles, aunts, whatever and still this dying continues. Let us remember them in our work for justice.”
The post advertised a ‘national commemoration’ that is supposedly to happen on Saturday.
The caller said her brother did not die from Covid or anything linked to Covid.
She said: “I can tell you now Joe, he didn’t die from Covid, and he didn’t die from the vaccination, and he died from nothing related to the pandemic.
“I was with him when he died, and he died four weeks ago today, and he was all the family I had, and I’m just trying to get through each day as best I can and to see this last night it was just unbelievable.
“I phoned the guards this morning at ten past seven to ask them what can I do about his image being circulated without any consent. I’m his next of kin. We only had each other and what is this about? All I can see… is all right-wing stuff.”
The woman said her brother had no affiliation with any group and was very private.
She said: “My brother just to say as well Joe, was a very private person and he was not on social media he wasn’t affiliated with any group.”
The man’s photo was taken from the funeral arrangements website rip.ie, prompting the woman to think other families may be unaware that the photographs of their loved ones are being used without their consent.
She said: “I mean, I don’t know there are other families out there who may, like myself, not know that the images of their loved ones are circulating around to push this movement of whatever agenda these people have.”
