“Fascist, racist and women haters” are just some of the insults Councillor Melissa O’Neill says staff at a local hotel have had to deal with in the last few days.
It’s all because the Ferrybank representative chose to rent a conference room in the Rhu Glenn Hotel for her campaign launch on Friday.
There was a strong ‘Irexit’ theme to the launch itself.
She says she and the business were targeted for abuse from a local campaign group for no apparent reason.
Speaking to KCLR News, Councillor O’Neill says some of them even turned up on the night and had to be thrown out.
She says it’s one thing to come after her, but it’s another to target a rural business.
Meanwhile, management at the Rhu Glenn have told KCLR today that they were receiving the abusive communications through email, phonecalls and their Facebook page up until Saturday afternoon.
However, they say it has all stopped now and it’s business as usual for them.
