This post is a real time account of a spiritual con and a demonstration of the gargantuan ego cult leaders display, driving them to indulge their most unhinged fantasies, presented as facts to their followers, who accept them without even blinking.

The rhetoric you are about to read is not uncommon for cult leaders, though you may associate it with padded cells; it’s the following/ cult that remains fascinating to observe.

The level of hatred and delusion, in Thomas Sheridan’s case, is disturbing (funny at the same time, nonetheless). In the current month, August of 2025, angered by the backlash to the far-right “music festival” Mise Eire, he has made the following claims, many detailed in this post using his own comments:

  • The 600 Irish artists who signed the open letter for Mise Eire to not be held at the Mayflower in Drumshanbo destroyed themselves, damned themselves and will never escape the consequences of their evil deed;
  • The artists are possessed by demons and engaged in black magic against festival organisers;
  • The small town of Drumshanbo is now despised around the world;
  • He harvested the lifeforce of a cartoonist for ridiculing speakers at Mise Eire, himself included;
  • His audience will contact the US Embassy in Dublin and the US State Department with the list of 600 names, to ensure their US work visas are cancelled (the visa restriction doesn’t even apply to this situation, as it only applies to foreigners who censor Americans);
  • He is responsible for Kneecap cancelling their US tour (he is not, since his visa stunt is impossible and they’ve got well known reasons for cancelling);
  • Drumshanbo is a cursed town (“it is now a fact“) and decent residents should pack up and move, especially if they have children, as life will become miserable there;
  • The town was spiritually affected by the government’s black magic during Covid lockdowns and vaccinations;
  • Accidents, suicides and deaths in general will increase because of the curse; more people will die than in other parts of the country; locals should expect “horrors”;
  • The Mayflower is now a vortex of demonic energy that not even a priest can get rid of; locals should demolish it and take the rubble elsewhere to break the curse.

A follower with some semblance of a brain would be worried at this point, if they believed he was sincere. This sounds like a psychotic episode, completely detached from reality. However, whether there’s any sincerity in what he tells cult members is highly debatable.

Courtesy of YouTube’s transcript feature, it’s easier to paste exact quotes without watching the videos, hence there will be many included below.

The visa cancellation “success” (a demonstrable and shameless lie)

Cult members are incredibly gullible. If any decided to look up the US policy Sheridan was referencing, they did not inform the wider audience that he was talking bollocks. Again, this is the announcement, which takes under a minute to locate and read:

Sheridan misremembered or misunderstood it, describing it falsely in the video pictured below. According to him, anyone who impeded free speech anywhere, or engaged in “cancel culture”, was to be banned from entering the US. That would’ve been bad news for some of Trump’s favourite people, like Russian oligarchs, Chinese entrepreneurs (who by default are members of the communist party, a censorious entity), and other high-flying people from countries where dissent is punished, like Saudi Arabia. He emphasised Europe for some reason.

From the transcript:

They basically stopped an Irish cultural event happening and at the behest of 600 artists and musicians who signed this thing saying it should be shut down. Well, it just so turns out that the US State Department is refusing visas to groups and organizations who impede free speech. Now, they think about this when they eagerly signed it off. And this would also include the local politicians in Drumshanbo. Uh you might have trouble getting your US visa for your St. Paddy’s Day visit. You didn’t think about that one, did you? Yes, the US State Department is actively looking for anyone that includes artists, politicians, musicians, anyone who who interferes in the process of free speech in Europe. JD Vance and President Trump have both made this very clear. The US State Department has issued a press release on this. So, the reason why Kneecap got into the USA was because they were seen as vanguards of free speech even though they weren’t. But now it turns out that then DC Fontaine and a whole bunch of others have actually signed a thing banning free speech and free expression. So the US State Department will find this very interesting I’m sure the list of names and the St. Patrick’s Day junket for the Leitrim politicians to the USA. Ah, maybe you shouldn’t have listened to those uh those noisy people who told you lies that it was a Nazi event. Oh, well, you live and you learn.

Ten days after asking his followers to pester US authorities, still unaware (or pretending to be) that the visa restriction did not apply to Irish people censoring other Irish people on Irish soil, he posted the full list of 600 names, egging his followers on to keep brigading. It’s unclear whether any did, as they didn’t brag about it in his comment sections.

It’s not impossible for him to still be misinformed, but it’s highly unlikely. If one were to give him that grace, then he has spent almost a month promoting a useless and embarrassing campaign. If he does know at this stage, which is far more likely, he is allowing his followers to make absolute idiots of themselves by engaging in this process, whenever they come across his call to action.

A decent person would just announce they had made a mistake; they were very upset and jumped the gun, as they say. Making a mistake is not the end of the world. A highly narcissistic person, in contrast, will lie out of every orifice, to avoid losing face and admitting imperfection/ failure, and will try to cover it up.

That’s exactly what Sheridan did. When finding out Kneecap were cancelling their upcoming US tour, to deal with serious legal issues in the UK (which everyone knows about), he took credit for it, pretending his brigading had worked and declaring victory.

From the video transcript:

It’s not in my nature to be a cancel culture type. I don’t like that kind of carry on. I don’t like that kind of way of doing things. But when it it comes in the form of a declaration of war, which is what the 600 Drum Shambles petition signatures were, you have to you have to meet force with force. So therefore when I had organized that I get as many people as possible from my followers to email the details of the list and the list of people and the details on what they did to the US state department and US embassy in Dublin that they cancelled a free speech event, an Irish event uh which is now what causes refusal of of visas into the United States. Uh, so many have done so. It looks like we actually got Kneecap’s tour, October tour for the US cancelled. Now, they’re saying it’s because of this. One of the idiots in that band uh his ongoing trial. Uh, that’s just an excuse. I’m pretty sure they probably were told the visas were cancelled cuz it wasn’t just that.

This is completely shameless, especially if he knows he was talking bollocks about the visa restrictions. Since the legal issues Kneecap face (over speech, no less) are common knowledge, followers would normally ask themselves whether Sheridan’s claim, pulled out of his own pocket, might be a stretch. But they don’t.

They are used to tasting victory via delusion or speculation – which in practice, makes them a bunch of losers living on their own planet, much like the Napoleons and Cleopatras in happy wards, but unlike those who can’t help their conditions, presumably able to stop.

It’s an absolute fact that Drumshabno is cursed; decent residents should leave

From the video transcript:

This video is directed at the decent people in Drumshanbo or the people in Drumshanbo who were disgusted by the petition that was put out there that has now made the town notorious worldwide. Uh this is for you to prepare yourself and consider possibly leaving Drumshanbo because it’s an absolute fact now that Drumshanbo as a town is cursed. Literally cursed in the supernatural occultic sense and it all emanates from these demons who came into your town and cursed it. And uh there’s nothing you can do about it. Well, there is something you can do about I’ll talk I’ll talk about it later. Uh but the the main thing you can do is probably consider packing your bags and leaving particularly if you have young people. If you’re a young person, I would get out of Drumshanbo.

We would first need to examine the words “absolute fact”, concluding that Sheridan and his cult have long foregone the meaning. It is a fact on their planet, governed by the laws he enounces (makes up), which to them are as real as gravity is on Earth. He seems comfortable enough assuming that people in the real world will take that seriously, and more so, make serious life decisions based on his warning.

It’s notable from a psychology standpoint that he portrays himself as the saviour of the poor accursed residents, magnanimously warning them, even though their town has grievously wronged him. He is a good person. He doesn’t gloat about the fictional misfortunes the town is about to experience.

His followers mirror him and take it even further at times.

Sarnath is an archaeological site in India, the town itself was destroyed in the 12th Century. Again, when you read this stuff, you may be tempted to think it’s satire; the hatred is that absurd.

Sudden deaths will increase; expect horrors, expect misery

From the transcript:

There’s a much darker part to it. Lots of sudden deaths, suicides will increase. Uh families will break up, divorces, seemingly happy homes will just fracture and fall under. See what happened in the Mayflower Committee now expands through the whole town. So that’ll happen to families, to clubs, to organizations. Um within the Drumshanbo area, uh deaths, horrible things. I mean, I’m not gloating, but like expect like expect horrors. Expect misery.

Expect the pages of rip.ie to have Drumshanbo all over it in much higher numbers. Expect young people to leave the town and never come back because they say there’s something this place isn’t right.

Sheridan is casually talking, with detachment and a feigned sliver of pity, about a community of roughly 1240 starting to die off unexpectedly and experiencing personal tragedies because Waters, Flanagan and himself were not allowed to speak there for one day. To call his imagination sick and malicious would be an understatement.

While the level of delusion can be funny, it won’t be when someday he reads about a tragic car accident in Drumshanbo and blames it on Christy Moore, Kneecap and the Mayflower. He may actually use the demise of real people in the future to reinforce his curse fantasy to the cult. The prospect of that is certainly not funny. It’s deranged, and people like him should not be able to get away with it.

Demolish the Mayflower to save your town from the curse

From the transcript:

But absolutely this the central location of where the grimoire was focused on the Mayflower ballroom which is now basically think of it as a spiritual tumor that’s metastasizing in the whole town of Drumshanbo and everyone in it. It’s now a curse. It’s a cursed location and by extension Drumshanbo and its envir are a cursed town.

We’ve all experienced resentment at some point. Anger, bitterness, perhaps thoughts that something should happen as an unseen hand of justice, to restore the balance. This guy takes rejection to level 1000.

Demolish the building that rejected me. It’s infecting your entire town.

His fascist crew held the event in Castlebar, with no issues (there were attempts from locals to have it cancelled there, but unsuccessful). They were even able to sell more tickets – almost twice as many. So in effect, barely anything happened. The venue change proved to their advantage.

From the transcript:

If you’re in a cursed town and you’re a decent person, you’re still affected by it. So, I’m telling you like the best way is to move out. The only other way you could do and it won’t happen would be to demolish the uh Mayfair sorry Mayflower ballroom and just remove the rubble out of town and scatter it because that’s where the psychic energetic force is contained in a kind of like a a psychometric stone tape thing within the walls of that building.

I bet like people that don’t even really care much want probably go into the Mayfair switch on the lights and go oh can’t stand this place and that’s what they did. That’s the curse. That’s the doom that came to Drumshanbo. It’s the last I’m going to talk about it. You can take it any way you want, but believe me, I take this stuff very seriously. And uh it’s no use getting a priest in and blessing the place because it’s something else beyond that. It’s a different thing, you know. That’ll be like, you know, trying to put out a fire by throwing rocks at it.

Again, it’s funny now, but it won’t be if his followers decide to vandalise the Mayflower community centre based on his insane claims.

The hatred and thirst for destruction is cartoonish; it’s so ridiculous it’s hard to even take it seriously as a critic. But alas, the video is not satire; Sheridan uses it to promote his books on the occult (which reminds me I might’ve forgotten to throw my copies in the blue bin, to be recycled into bog roll).

Most importantly, Sheridan and his audience argue that rejecting the 2025 version of Mise Eire was an attempt to censor, if not erase Irish culture. Yet here he is, asking for a venue hosting traditional Irish music regularly to be demolished brick by brick (not even the rubble should be kept), after he claimed he would get US visas cancelled for 600 artists, to stop them from promoting Irish music abroad. A person in his comment section talked about brigading pub singers who did gigs for cash while on benefits, reporting them to the welfare office.

Who is actually targeting Irish traditional music and culture here? Sheridan and his crew.

Mind that the open letter and petition didn’t object to traditional music or other benign aspects of Mise Eire – merely to the fascist speakers scheduled, himself included.

The 600 artists engaged in black magic against festival organisers

If Sheridan says it, it must be so. If he claims the signatories of the open letter engaged in black magic against festival organisers, they must have.

Here’s someone who jumps to the assertion that they had done so on purpose (by the way, Sanguine Gnosis seems to be cult jargon, as some members end their comments with this phrase). I forgot to mention Sheridan designed a symbol for the cult to use, now using it himself as a profile picture on YouTube, encouraging followers to print it and display it in their homes, or even tattoo it on themselves, which I have no doubt some will.

Delusional audience/ cult

I could paste 50 comments. It’s unnecessary. The one above melts them all into a blob of sheer delusion.

What is it that they think he’s doing, based on all of the above, if not speaking out of personal dysfunction?