09/05/2026
BOYCOTT THE KILKENNY PEOPLE CAMPAIGN - ARTIST AND BOOK BANNED!
BOYCOTT THE KILKENNY PEOPLE is what artist Gabriel Murray asks all his friends & associates to do as the paper has him shadow-banned, that is, banned without admitting it.
It's all part of a cancel culture campaign against Gabriel by the local paper. In turn he has lodged a complaint against the paper with the Press Council.
Gabriel had alleged that there's a clique in Kilkenny centred around the local paper who think they are better than everybody else in town, calling them "The Philistines of Kilkenny".
For instance the paper's editor also went back on his word to publish a review of the book, "The Wisdom of the Irish Druids" out of sheer narrow-minded bigotry, it seems. That book is now shadow-banned in Kilkenny city as well!
And he also banned any mention of Independent Noel Walsh, the legal adviser, from the official list of candidates in the last Kilkenny local elections.
All this has happened since the editor Sam Matthews took over at the helm of the local Kilkenny newspaper. Here is a photo of the book banned by The Kilkenny People newspaper and also taken out of Kilkenny bookshops - but it's still available freely on Amazon, as should be in a free society such as ours. Also from IngramSpark ISA, Hodges Figgis Dublin, Garners and Waterstones UK. See less