Kellie Harrington. Was she hung out to dry or did she hang herself out to dry?

It's been said a million times why it was most definitely not off topic. I'm happy spar kept her on though. I wouldn't like her to lose her deal for being a bit thick.

Ken Early along with his colleagues resigned from Newstalk. For 10 years they have had their own very successful podcast.

She was there to also talk about diversity in the community , it was a relevant question and I've probably never seen such a dumb response to a question. Yeah it's funny enough he's got himself in a bit of heat haha.

"I switched off when I heard diversity being mentioned" (paraphrase). Topic of discussion, sports teams and other community initiatives. She doesn't appear to have wanted to answer questions on anything if she switches off at the word diversity.

If you are going to put yourself forward as some "ambassador for the community" then you are going to be called out if there are contradictions to that. It would happen to anyone in the public eye and there's no reason why KH should get a free pass.

The issue is that nobody really knows what she thinks one way or the other, her responses/actions have been less than clear and in the vacuum everyone is making their own judgement. All completely avoidable.

Should be noted too that there was very little controversy around the original tweets in October. It was Kellie's evasiveness this week that landed her in hot water. She may have been caught on the hop slightly and not realised that refusing point blank to answer the questions might be a bad look. Virtually any answer at all would have been better than saying 'move on' and 'I have nothing to say'.

Kelly was right not to comment further. If she wasn’t prepped for it anything she said would have been twisted. She shouldn’t have apologised though

when did off the ball become about geo politics ? Will we have klaus shwaub on the panel next week ?

The sanctimonious fella conducting the interview has now been outed as a vicious bigot and for using dehumanising language towards disabled people.

So just so I have it right, we have two main posters who are furious she insulted all immigrants.

They can't point out where in the tweet she used racist language.

One of them opened a thread yesterday giving out that people weren't protesting a pedophile being jailed.

The other has been referring to all people from the East wall as knackers and scumbags etc based on a small minority of people who protested.

Before this so called journalist who has a past of insulting transvestites and disabled people, very people would have known about the tweet.

Now we have an Irish hero and role model to young kids being attacked publicly and making everyone aware of the tweet.

She could have lost sponsorship and been fincinacially and publicly ruined.

Yet people are happy to see this happen as some sort of punishment for a tweet months ago that was deleted.

These are the same people who go around telling people to be kind but are the same people who love ruining other people's lives at any opportunity.

She is a national hero and let's hope this dies down and that journalist is further exposed for his hypocrisy and maybe he might be the one that suffers.

Being good at punching people should mean you're above criticism?

Did I say that? Show me where I said that?

I never said he should be financially ruined.

He set out to make a show of her while having opportunities in the past with men and avoided it.

I hope he suffers publicly for being a hypocrite considering his past tweets.

He might have done a bit of preparation and deleted those tweets before going after someone else for past tweets.

The sin Kellie committed that has so many luvvies on Twitter (and here) so worked up is that she exposed a fact.

It is a fact that the little girl (who is conveniently never mentioned in these attacks) was raped, mutilated, and murdered by migrants.

Progressives, or whatever they call themselves, hate facts. Their whole world view is based on a denial of facts.

Like JK Rowling, with her crazy assertion that women are women, Kellie dared to share a fact that didn't suit the woke agenda.

People (especially women for some reason) who state anti-woke facts must not only be berated, but, if possible, must be destroyed.

I don't believe she was targeted as such, but it was definitely fishing exercise by Eva (And her team), Harrington was the unfortunate that was caught out by it. Shane would have know this, he's in the news/media business, so again, why did he ask the question if he knows it's stunt?

Sorry to break this to ya, but journalists asking Women questions that they wouldn't ask Men is actually a thing. I get #CoverTheAthlete was 7 years ago and Irish people forget, but it's still going on today.

The vast majority of the disgusting crimes that have happened in France in the last 10 years or so have largely been committed by the "new French". This case, the beheading a few years ago, the Irish man who was stabbed to death for his views, and all of the terrorism that's killed hundreds of people, have been committed by non natives. You're quickly becoming one of the worst posters on this site for twisting truths, constantly downplaying the results of an ideology that you care so deeply about. People like yourself are far more impassioned about the likes of Kelly, than the absolute filth who commit these acts, and that says so much about you all.

How many murders of girls from outside the UK where the murderer was not from an immigrant background do GB news report on?

Heard Joe Molloy on the other evening say that OTB never flag questions up front

I was shocked she didn't have a simple two liner like that ready to word off if she ever needed to during an interview. It was fairly naive think it would never come up.

Do you honestly believe if she was a Middle class UCD orts girl background that the broader left would have jumped as hard on her.

We both know her accent and background were blood in the water for these sharks.

She's a Nurse so defo went to college. <<< wrong

I'd agree with you though people need to take responsibility for their actions, but I don't feel she was given the proper chance. It was just jumped on her.

There isn't a person on here who hasn't done, said or thought something seriously stupid when they were younger. The Problem in today's society is that any oul sh*t stirrer can go back through a persons tweets and dig up some post from 10+ years ago and go Well, what do you have to say about this tweet you posted in 2012 about X.

I know there are people here who feel that those ancient tweets are still relevant today, but to me that whole practice is complete and utter horsesh*t.

Even worse are those that screenshot before a tweet is deleted #keepthatoneforlater

My Apologies, you are correct, She worked at St Vincent's doing non medical stuff