Anti-mask group intimidates Waterford businesses with fraudulent letters

Ken Cunningham Solicitors have denied "any involvement with any group that is anti-face mask or anti-vaccine”

It is understood that the anti-mask and vaccine groups have been mobilising on Facebook and WhatsApp Groups and the original letter, which contained the fake signature of solicitor Ken Cunningham, was downloaded from a group and each locality was told to sign it from a “well-known local solicitor”. File photo

Dozens of Waterford businesses have received fake ‘pre-action’ legal letters from a group calling themselves ‘Anti-Corruption Ireland’ about their policies of refusing entry to customers who are not wearing masks. 

In the letter, which has been sent to shops, pubs, restaurants and a number of other small businesses, the group claims that refusing entry to people not wearing a mask “is a serious matter, involving a systematic breach of the law and serious infringement of the civil and human rights under the Constitution of the European Convention of Human Rights”. The letter is then signed, fraudulently, by “Ken Cunningham Solicitors, South Parade, Waterford”.