An Irish ex-political candidate has asked the courts to force Google to remove articles which brand him a ‘homophobe’.

Mark Savage, of Swords, Co Dublin, said he is seeking judicial orders in the Circuit Civil Court against the Data Protection Commissioner and Google Ireland.

The Irish Times reports Savage told reporters that articles found on Google “deliberately mark me out as a homophobe, which I am not”.

The cause for this may be the mainfesto he published during his 2014 campaign. In it, Savage described himself as an “advocate for family values” and claimed that a local beach had been overrun by “Gay Perverts”.

He also claimed the “hedonism” of gay culture must not be allowed to “denigrate the Integrity of the Institute of Marriage”.

Savage said he had been refused a Google take-down request, and the Data Protection Commissioner “put off” his application for some time.

As Google Ireland was not represented in court, Judge Groarke adjourned the matter until July so both motions could be heard together.

The flyer which held his manifesto also consisted of picture of Savage in a t-shirt that said ‘Stop Aids Now’, claiming he was on a fact-finding mission to illustrate the kind of “detritus left behind by the Gay Perverts.”

It reads:

Mark Savage – is an Advocate of FAMILY VALUES and allowing Parents and Children to enjoy the amenity of Donabate beach without witnessing the lewd behavious of Gay Perverts cavorting in flagrante on the beach in broad daylight as was reported in the media last summer and condemned as DISGUSTING by Fine Gael TD Alan Farrell and Labour TD Senator Brendan Ryan. Mr Savage is seen here on a fact finding mission to the location and illustrates the kind of detritus left behind by the Gay Perverts. This Hedonistic Integral part of Gay “Culture” known as “Cruisin,” cannot be allowed to conflate with and denigrate the integrity of the Institute of Marriage. In the referendum for MARRIAGE INTEGRITY, It is the fallacy of fools to believe otherwise.

He was not elected to Fingal County Council.