Even in 2018, they absolutely did not say she was “a member”The Irish Times’ Ursula Ní Shionnáin story is not journalism. But in the social preview — the snippet readers see when they share the link — it has:“Éirígí says Ursula Ní Shionnáin still member…”. It might be a real thing that Ursula Ní Shionnáin could agree with or deny. The Irish Times boasts millions of monthly users of its stale and boring take on the world. Both distortions serve the same function: to smear someone more radical than the unserious Irish Times, to police the boundaries of political respectability.
