The website of a cult watchdog, Dialogue Ireland, has been the subject of a cyber-attack according to its director, Mike Garde. Mr Garde said the website was a target because it contained information that was critical of new religious movements in Ireland.
It had reportedly been hit on two separate occasions by malicious software which generates 2,000 hits per second, causing the host server to crash.
In the past month, website posts had focused on the activities of mind trainer Tony Quinn who runs costly Educo seminars.
Last Sunday, Mr Garde organised a protest outside a seminar venue to higlight stories of alleged, ''financial loss, family break up, abuse of power, and the misuse of hypnosis to brainwash and to subvert the mind of people who are unsuspecting''.
Tony Quinn's seminars on mind technology, which cost about €18,000, were thrown into the spotlight last week as a number of former participants critical of their content spoke to RTÉs radio's Liveline programme.
One caller, Robert Henshaw from Northern Ireland said he got ''nothing'' from the seminars having been ''programmed'' to want to attend them.
But John Boyle, owner of Boylesports bookies, said Quinn's seminars had been beneficial to his business: ''He helped me to open my mind up and go for big goals.''
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