The best proof there could be: prominent artists featured on Sheridan’s target list, whose US visas had supposedly been revoked after his brigading campaign, are in fact performing in the US this year. Some performed last year as well, after Sheridan’s stunt.

This is likely the last post on the subject, since things could not be clearer, even to people who wanted this witch hunt to be real. The lie was so easily disproven, yet people continue to fall for it, or have forgotten altogether, leaving them prone to absorbing more lies.

To avoid repeating everything, you can find details of Sheridan’s fake initiative and why it was unworkable to begin with here, here and here. Briefly, they show the following:

  • An impulsive claim Sheridan made, with no minimal research, in August of 2025: that the 600 signatories of the LARAF petition fell foul of a new visa restriction policy the US had announced;
  • A call to action to his audience, to contact the US embassy in Dublin with the list of names, in a bid to have these artists banned from entering the US to perform there;
  • Sporadically reassuring his audience, for the past 8 months, that this campaign had worked, by invoking completely unrelated issues and claiming victory.

To start with, most signatories were local artists with no history of performing abroad. Some only performed abroad in the UK and Europe. A momentary US ban would’ve been irrelevant to them.

Had Sheridan’s brigading worked, none of the following internationally touring artists would have been able to perform in the US after August of 2025.

Katie Ball (Just Mustard) performed in Boston and New York in September of 2025

As mentioned on Femmusic.com and BrooklynVegan, Just Mustard performed in Boston, at the Seisiun Festival, held on on the 6th and 7th of September of 2025. Then, they performed in New York, on the 9th of September, at National Sawdust.

Fontaines DC are performing in Atlanta, Georgia, in September of 2026

As shown on their website, FontainesDC.com, they will be performing at the Shaky Knees festival in Atlanta, Georgia, on the 18th of September of this year.

Stefan Murphy (The Sleeveens) performed in Memphis at the end of September of 2025; the are also performing this year

As shown on ConcertArchives, The Sleeveens performed at Gonerfest in Memphis, Tennessee, on the 29th of September of 2025, and have several performances scheduled in April of this year:

Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh (Altan) is performing in several US states this month

As confirmed by ConcertArchives, Altan have several scheduled performances in the US this month, including one today:

Mike Scott (The Waterboys) is touring the US this year

As shown on their website, TheWaterboysTour.com, their tour this year spans Europe, the US and Canada. As you can see there, the US and Canada dates have not been announced yet; however, the locations are known: New York and Los Angeles.

The strange phenomenon of continuing to lie (or is it…?)

Now that we’re done with the last batch of evidence (the primary evidence being the policy announcement itself, clearly not applying to the petition signatories), let’s explore why someone would continue such an egregious lie, bound to be proven false any minute, for 8 months and ongoing.

Personally, I find it fascinating, if not a bit disturbing. However, in context (making tall claims, unsupported by evidence, all the time, receiving positive feedback from the audience) it does make sense. This is where the cult dynamic comes in. Reality has ceased to matter; emotional comfort and narrative reinforcement have replaced it.

The imminence of contrary evidence surfacing doesn’t bother someone like this in the slightest: it can be reinterpreted to fit into the cult’s narrative. When someone creatively shapes followers’ reality constantly, knowing that they won’t notice the weaselly excuse making, it’s not a problem. It’s only to the average person that being caught in a lie poses a major issue, as in “FFS, I can’t explain this away; it’s in black and white”.

This is a short analysis of the issue, synthesised excellently (better than I could, anyway):

To be anal about his, it’s unknown whether anyone in his inner circle has confronted him and how he justified the plan’s failure, if he ever has. Publicly, he still claims the brigading worked. It’s also unknown what he would come up with if publicly confronted with the facts – what is certain is that he would come up with something.

Very strangely, assuming the list he fed to his audience (the Google doc) was the actual list of signatories, the Mary Wallopers appear as the “Hairy Wallopers”. This indicates that the list was edited.

The last sentence leads neatly into the next subject, which can’t be divorced from the travel ban hoax.

The visa ban’s sister-fantasy, the Drumshanbo curse

The post wouldn’t be as funny without revisiting this subject and taking a look at more comments under Sheridan’s announcement, that the small town of Drumshanbo had cursed itself by not allowing him to speak at the Mayflower Community Centre. His vision was dire: sudden deaths, accidents, suicides, young people leaving for good, atrophy, eeriness and discomfort for visitors. “Expect horrors”, he had proclaimed.

Someone in his audience found the perfect way to weasel his predictions out of verification, thus turning them impossible to verify in the near future. This shows you exactly how people in this group (and similar ones) protect themselves from reality:

The 10-20 years timeline was pulled out of a place where the sun don’t shine, just like the curse itself. By that time, the claim will have long become irrelevant to anyone hearing it today. Today however it serves the purposes described above, of unifying the group and providing it with a belief system (if you do so-and-so, you curse yourself). The rules, of course, only apply to the enemy, and not the group or Sheridan himself. He can attack others as he pleases.

“Their main strength is weakness” – something that seems to come out of Orwell’s writings. If only these people realised how incoherent their thinking is.

By “They profaned this”, Sheridan is making the following claim: the people of Drumshanbo profaned the stone sculpture of the goddess Danu by not letting him and his mates speak at their community centre. How does that sound to a functioning mind?

Today, one normally disowns a band they like for Epstein-adjacent issues or other serious crimes. The zealotry is palpable. It comes from the same types complaining that SJWs want to cancel everyone they disagree with.

This was a response to Sheridan’s description of the devastation Drumshanbo was to suffer, as divine punishment. The Auschwitz comparison is off this planet.

These two comments start from the premise that the signatories were in fact engaging in black magic against Sheridan and his mates, on his word alone. The first commenter disagrees with Sheridan’s solution (of demolishing the Mayflower), but continues to assume demons were involved, and that the town was indeed cursed. Why, if dismissing Sheridan’s solution, did this person still take his other claims seriously?

“Reporting the truth” (instead of making up an evidence-free and absurd-sounding story). A desecration of the words “reporting” and “truth”, of course.

The cabaret of absurdity wasn’t complete without fake pity on Sheridan’s part, for the imagined suffering, based on imagined consequences of imagined offences. This wasn’t a narcissistic revenge fantasy, but the immutable forces of the universe at play. It was out of his hands, most regrettably.

The comment had come from a fellow fascist, who followed up with some words I will not repost here. The fascist in question, however, had managed to see how absurd Sheridan’s narrative was.

The response betrays an impulsive, whimsical way (to avoid saying brainless, but hey ho, I just did) of interacting with audience members. Criticism attracts instant ire and the projection (from out of nowhere) of certain attitudes onto the commenter. Whatever he can throw first. “I don’t believe in spiritual nonsense” instantly becomes “I have no problem with the Muslim call to prayer”. This is what happens when us vs. them becomes a way of life.

The fascist had placed himself in the out-group, not because he disagreed with Sheridan generally, on political issues (he clearly didn’t). He just didn’t adhere to the woo-woo, agreeing with him completely. That placed him in the enemy camp. Four legs good, two legs bad.

The famous cartoon

I hope it’s OK to repost here; I found it on a far-right website.

This seems to be the famous cartoon Sheridan claimed had bequeathed him and fellow Mise Eire speakers the life force of the cartoonist.

Pretty tame given none of these claims are exaggerated. Funny as well – with the true-to-life “SAVE ARE COUNTRY” and “IMAGRUNTS”. By now illiteracy is a staple of racist comments online. You can even find one in this post (“betray there own people”).

To paraphrase Sheridan, feck’em if they can’t take a doodle.