Not really hun, I’m from Cork and I follow all those businesses on social media so would have seen their posts of her along with her own posts on her blog/Instagram.
When you are from the same city and frequent the same places it sticks in your mind a bit better. I went to Alan Kevilles myself and I also would have socialised in East Village and Soho quite a lot back in the day.
I could probably name similar early collaborations for other Cork bloggers too. Doesn’t make me a superfan or a rat, just local to the places that they worked with.
It’s really not a big sinister conspiracy, probably easier for you to write it off as that though.