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Businesses have been flooded with thousands of pounds worth of damage caused to their premises during Storm Ciarán
A DUP councillor says the social media account of a bar she runs was ‘hacked’ after a comment celebrating the damage done to homes and businesses was reported under a news article.
An account representing the Blackwater Bar in Dervock, Co Antrim left a comment on a BBC News NI article shared on Facebook detailing the devastation faced by businesses in the area due to Storm Ciarán.
Businesses have been flooded with thousands of pounds worth of damage caused to their premises during the floods.
The comment posted by an account with the name ‘Blackwater Bar’ under the video said: “Good enough for Newry and everyone in it.” The comment has since been deleted under the post.
The bar in Dervock is owned by Alderman Sharon McKillop, a DUP councillor and former TUV representative in Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council, and her husband.
When contacted by Belfast Live, the DUP councillor said she had no knowledge that the comment had been posted and that the account was ‘definitely hacked’.
“That wasn’t me and that’s not us at all,” she said.
“I’m actually shocked to hear what you are saying, I wouldn’t think for one minute that any one of us would make a comment like that.
“The account must have been hacked, we will have to change our passwords immediately, but this has not come from us.”
She added that the comment was ‘deplorable’
“My business account was hacked last night and a deplorable comment was made by an unknown person. We have taken steps to ensure this does not happen again.
“We wish to dissociate ourselves from this comment completely.
“Our thoughts are with residents and business owners across Northern Ireland who are struggling to deal with the reality of flood damage.”
by Seamus_Hean3y
9 comments
If the account was actually hacked you would imagine the hacker would change the password to exclude the owners from accessing the account, prior to posting something outrageous.
Why would anyone hack that shite?
Hacked and specifically posting about a local issue. Not really likely. The IP addresses of the login would traceable. Easy to prove
It’s mad to think that some of the most outrageously sectarian and bitter loyalist trolls on Facebook and twitter are actually DUP politicians.
Pretty sure this was meant to come from her Shankill Dave 1690 account. I’d love to see what else she’s written.
Very easy to prove. So let’s see the proof.
Lying clown can’t even own her comments
Those pesky Russians hacking our poor bars
Blackwater Bar lowering the bar for the TUV-DUP.
It’d be genuinely _awful_ if it were to get flooded… or burned out…
…although someone – someone cynical and jaded, of course – might well say such was good enough for the Blackwater Bar and everyone in it.
Anyone been to Dervock?
A really strange place, where behaviour like this isn’t at all surprising.