LENNON FACES FURTHER THREATS ON FACEBOOK

Facebook 'kill threat' at Celtic manager Neil Lennon


Tuesday, 18 January 2011 1:07PM GMT | Sport, Football


A Facebook page making menacing threats to Celtic manager Neil Lennon appears to have been removed by the website.

Last night Facebook said that the page named 'Let's get 100,000 people that want to see Neil Lennon get shot’ did not violate their terms and conditions and it was merely ‘distasteful’ but not a serious threat.

The creation of the page follows bullets being posted from Northern Ireland to Lennon as well as winger Niall McGinn recently.

Northern Ireland politicians condemned the webpage yesterday that had attracted over 600 members. Users following the page had left threatening and abusive messages towards Lennon.

SDLP MLA Dolores Kelly has said those responsible for the creation of the Facebook page should be charged under hate crime legislation.

“The SDLP has called on Facebook to shut this page down immediately. This sectarianism must not be tolerated in our community and those responsible for setting up this sinister campaign should be pursued under hate crime legislation," she said.

“The warped individuals who established this site after Celtic players were sent bullets in the post last week, are a stark contrast to Neil Lennon- a positive role model and a fine ambassador for Lurgan, who has given so much pleasure to people locally, across our island, and indeed, throughout the world.

“I have contacted police and have urged them to thoroughly investigate who is responsible for the creation of this site.

“Unfortunately hate crime legislation here has proven to be weak in the past and is something which the Justice Minster needs to urgently address,” she added.

The webpage in question does not appear on Facebook searches today and appears to have been removed.

 

so its not breaking rules to want somebody killed? very * good, i seen one banned for wanting likes to get a boy kicked out a common room! this is alot more serious you stupid yank *.

 

loyalist scum! wish these * would fuckoff this planet

 

Everyone that "liked" that page deserves every thing that's coming their way and more. Slow painful deaths.

 

irony here

 

indeed there is, the irony that these idiots have posted their personal details on a very public website

 

Everybody should report it. I did the other day.

 

same, but facebook are claiming theres nothing wrong with it

 

The page has been taken down.

 

I must say i question the wisdom of Lenny using websites like Twitter. By using they websites your leaving yourself open too threats,etc.

 

Let's be honest here, these threats have got sweet * all to do with Twitter and everything to do with the fact that he's an Irish Catholic from the o6.

 

Excellent point...

The invention of twitter or facebook did not make these people hateful...

 

i'm done with facebook. any site that feels it's ok to leave this sort of garbage up is not for me. they should be stepping up and stating that this is unacceptable. instead they patronize us by saying it's just distasteful. sorry, cheerio facebook. havent' been on it in ages anyway

 

Aye of course the threats are un-needed and cowardly but does it suprise you?

Lenny is the manager of this club now and with that will be under the spotlight like never before.

I just dont think Lenny having facebooks and twitter help things and just gives these cowards a platform too spout their hate and abuse.

That being said the people abusing Lenny (and McCourt,etc) are bitter cowardly *. I just hope they dont put off Lenny from doing the job he's supposed too. Hes the manager now not a player like before - with that comes a certain amount of resposiblity IMO.

 

Even over on RM theyve got a smiley thats Lennon being decapitated.The level of hatred off of that mob is repulsive,i know not all are like that but they have a serious problem that needs sorting.

 

I e-mailed the press about that as spreading sectarian hatred. Did I get a reply..? Have we seen it mentioned in the gutteroids?

 

These people are sick in the head, a whole brainwashed race!

 

does this strike none of u as a bit hypocritical when we sing "i hope u die in your sleep nacho novo"?

i'm glad the page got closed down but we're not exactly whiter than white either

 

It is what it is mate - thats why im not gonna get too upset about it.

Hatred and taunts arent anything new between the OF and its employees but the Rangers' fans do seem to be a particular bitter bunch IMO.

 

I can't really defend that song at all, as much as we all hated Nacho Novo it was more because of his delusions of grandeur with all the 'I said No' business and shooting his mouth off to the Daily Record every single week.

There is something deeper, more ethnic to this hatred of Lennon. No way he would get this amount of bile directed towards him if he was English.

The likes of Paddy McCourt has done absolutely nothing to antagonise anyone yet the amount of 'scruffy, pikey, tattie muncher' I hear in reference to him. I bet they would * their trunks if Paddy did come out and actually say something overtly Irish Nationalist.