Gemma O’Doherty, the journalist who hopes to become president, is taking legal advice and may call in gardaí because she is being stalked online.

Yesterday she told Cork’s 96fm that several of her tweets had been interfered with. She had written online about a law to allow people under 18 to identify as a different gender if they have the consent of their parents, and said that her tweets had been edited. She felt the way she was targeted on social media amounted to harassment.

She also addressed accusations that she was opposed to vaccinations. “My father was a pharmacist and my mother was a nurse,” she said. “My father was a traditional chemist in that he had huge respect for drugs and knew how