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

I wouldn't go that far. There could easily have easily been a big media pile on but in fairness the coverage has been quite restrained, with very few articles or opinion pieces in the papers (and the likes of Liveline didn't even go near the story).

Kellie is lucky she doesn't live in the UK. The media there would have turned it into a huge and divisive "culture war" issue a la Gary Lineker with people being encouraged to come down on one side or the other.

What? Nobody, other than those actively searching for this story have any clue about it. It’s an absolute nothing snowflake.

I think that's the point though.

Should we give her a pass on anti immigrant sentiment because she's a woman? Because she's gay?

That's a weird form of equality.

What were the tweets? He started the witch hunt , so f*@k him.

Fair play to Kellie for not answering an off topic question on a sports show.

Fair play to Spar to still back her.

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'.

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?