A Change.org petition seeking to keep a controversial ‘pick-up artist’ from entering Ireland has received more than 7,500 signatures.

Julien Blanc, who was forced to leave Australia after the country revoked his visa and who has been denied admission to the UK, is scheduled to run a weekend workshop in Ireland in June 2015. For a €1,600 ticket, the 25-year-old American promises to coach men to use psychological tricks to manipulate women.

The ‘dating coach’ became a figure of international criticism when more than 50,000 people signed a petition to have his Australian visa revoked. Mr Blanc was forced to leave Australia, and has now been barred from entering the UK, after 150,000 rallied against him online.

Mr Blanc also received considerable criticism when extracts from conversations he had with women on the Tinder dating app were published online. In the messages, he tried to convince women to sleep with him by using aggressive language and telling them that his father had died and that he sister had been sexually assaulted.  

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He also recently tweeted an image used to alert women to the signs of domestic abuse, describing the information as a “checklist” for influencing women. He deleted the tweet, but it has since been spread online by others:

This is NOT ok. Help stop this man who mocks domestic violence from speaking in Melbourne http://t.co/JmZETbX91x pic.twitter.com/mnbDKft5tj

— navycrockett (@navycrockett) November 4, 2014

Earlier this week, Mr Blanc appeared in a CNN interview in which he apologised for his comments and described himself as the most hated man in the world.

You can sign the petition to support keeping Mr Blanc outside of Ireland here.