As you can guess, this self-described “professional journalist” (probably, “independent”, too) has spread more Russian narratives than TASS and RT combined. Usually you see people picking up the stories that fit their world view, but Eoin just went and picked them ALL.

Before the full-scale invasion, Ó Murchú was of course skeptical about Russia attacking Ukraine. He stated that the invasion wouldn’t have any purpose, and that the only way the war could start is by “US agents” conducting a false flag attack in Donbas and by stopping NS2.

Then we have the biolabs, or as Eoin put it, “the US funded biological warfare labs found in Ukraine”. He was also bummed that the Ireland’s National Television and Radio Broadcaster RTÉ didn’t find this worthy of reporting.

It’s worth noting here that Russians and the al-Assad regime had a campaign (!) of hospital bombings, including a bombing of Tarmala Maternity and Children’s Hospital in South Idlib, so this has already become a kind of a trademark for the Russian military.

Then there’s the Kramatorsk railway station attack. Ó Murchú stated that the missile that was used was actually Ukrainian, referring to Scott Ritter’s report on the “AltWorld” blog. This was of course contradicted by the Amnesty and Conflict Intelligence Team reports, that…10/17

… said the Russian forces had used these missiles in multiple parts of Ukraine prior. After the strike, Russian media claimed they’d made a successful attack in Kramatorsk and denied the attack only after it became clear that there were a lot of civilian casualties.

He has said that “when the Ukrainians are expelled from the Donbas you will hear the voice of the people.” Ethnic Ukrainians made up over 57% of the population of the Donbas according to the last census before the start of the conflict in 2014.
In 1991, when Ukraine had their Independence Referendum, 83% of people from Donbas voted for it.
Ó Murchú writes a regular column for
@tuairiscnuacht, and his column on 14 January 2023 was headlined “Beware the Ghost of Racism”.

He criticized recent anti-refugee protests in Ireland, stating that it is “shameful” that people were “shouting insults and threats” at refugees. This didn’t stop him from attacking
@NadiaDobryanska, an actual Ukrainian refugee in Ireland.


Some have speculated that Murchú is a contributor in the magazine The Phoenix (
@ThePhoenixMag). All the articles in it are written anonymously, but its content about Ukraine is remarkably like Ó Murchú’s output, right down to his dislike of the 🇺🇦 refugee Nadia Dobryanska.
To conclude: there’s nothing new about Eoin Ó Murchú — he’s just an Irish copy of other pro-Russian communists you can find in most countries. But there’s just something icky about a person who spreads outright lies and calls themselves a “professional journalist”.
