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Before this week, he was just a boy done right from the heart of the Kingdom, but Donie O’Sullivan of Caherciveen is now the man on everyone’s lips, and on Twitter, with his firm reporting from Washington DC in the face of domestic terror.
As the greatest of Brazilian or Spanish footballers, Donie’s single name is all that is needed now to refer to the CNN journalist, granting instant recognition to former UCD and Queen’s University alumni.
He made the rounds of Irish television on Friday, appearing with the likes of Ryan Tubridy on The Late Late Show on RTÉ, while also telling Colette Fitzpatrick on Virgin Media News earlier in the evening how she was at the heart of the scenes that shocked not just America, but the entire world, this week.
Before this week’s chaos on Capitol Hill, O’Sullivan had become one of the world’s leading media authorities on misinformation about Donald Trump’s supposed second term, and how a violent crescendo could end Once his supporters realized that Joe Biden was going to be the 46th President of the United States.
Earlier, he told Virgin Media News that Trump’s final days in office “promise to be potentially as dramatic as what we have seen in the last four years of his presidency.”
“They saw the scenes that unfolded here on the streets this week – there was a total collapse in law enforcement in what should be one of the safest cities in the world,” he said.
There were concerns that the insurgents could return to Washington DC when the time for the handover comes, he said.
“What we saw here at the capitol on Wednesday was thousands of conspiracy theorists descend, listen to their chief conspiracy theorist, President Donald Trump, and then march on the United States Capitol,” he said.
“We were on the ground with them, we actually walked with them when they got to Capitol Hill, and then they were repeating this lie, this misinformation that Trump somehow didn’t lose the election.”
Disinformation is also growing in Ireland, he warned. Facebook, with a significant presence in Ireland, is not taking the threat seriously enough, he warned.
He told viewers how he started his global career with Storyful in Dublin, who had the foresight to see disinformation become a major problem on social media.
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