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

Whatever her opinion I think there's too much expected of sports people in general to be fully up to day and paying attention to all the rights and wrongs of politics and society. Just let her be a boxer and leave it at that. Michael Jordan famously never got involved in anything other basketball talk (albeit for commercial reasons) maybe we should stop expecting more of sports people than just being pros

also OTB are really going down the clickbait route

Her response reminded me of another boxer when asked about his friendship with Daniel Kinahan.

The mistake she made was posting her opinions - big mistake when you are a public figure.

She never went on that show to discuss immigration and it shouldn't have been bought up. He definitely hung her out to dry!

it's a f**king stupid thing to say immigrants pose a higher risk, never mind tweet about it as a high profile person. the word immigrant describes a huge spectrum of people in ireland. you wouldn't say a similar thing like black people pose a higher risk, because it's braindead.

Everyone is entitled to an opinion but when someone in the public puts and moreso a brand ambassador for a community company puts an opinion out like that they have every right to be judged and questioned as do the company they are ambassador for!

She handled that terribly, "you lost me at diversity" it just an awful response. I do feel like whoever that PR person was should have had her prepared for the interview. The following statement and apology is not never going to be taken as sincere given the timing of it.

If she wants to be a sportsperson and that alone then she needs to keep away from these things.

No he didn't handle the interview professionally at all! He was peddling his own agenda career wise and trying to make himself appear woke. She wasn't doing the interview to discuss immigration.

Yep he has damaged Katie's sponsorship deal and public profile. The idiot also damaged his own career though - media companies won't be lining up to employ him either!

Who is the beardy gobshite with the laptop and the mic? Does he have many Olympic medals himself?

She deleted the tweet almost immediately, because she felt it came across wrongly, fair enough.

The 'journalist' in an interview about her sport, decided to ambush her about something she regretted doing, and she clearly states this is how she felt.

A decent media outlet wouldn't have broadcast the clip.

I know which one came out of this with some integrity and it isn't the journo.

I'm no fan of Harrington but I listened to the first 2 minutes of the clip in the OP and the interviewer can go **** himself. She is right, she went on a sports talk show and the little prick decided to make a bollocks out of her.

**** him and all the sanctimonious weasels that will try to justify his bullshit.

Not hung out to dry, but i think she panicked and taught however she answers will be reflected badly.

I honestly think this has been blown out of proportion, and is one of the worst "going after" of someone I can remember over nothing. Now shes being branded a big racist.

Regarding the deleted tweet wasnt it about a girl murdered in France, was it factual?

Ok, show us another sports person on the OTB site being harrassed about deleted tweets?

Why the surprise at this? People who box aren't exactly known to be the brightest sparks. You don't expect them to be founts of wisdom, just to knock the crap out of each other.

He's on newstalk now trying to justify himself

I guess you work in Media,he was being a complete plonker putting Kellie on the spot like that. She is a BOXER not a politician and has achieved more in her life that a XXXX with a microphone and a laptop like him ever will. Very poor journalism from OTB and I am really disappointed in them. There are 4 mins here of him asking the same question and in the end he just cut her off because he did`nt his own way. Very childish and immature.

lots of boxers have had very political views throughout the years and have been questioned about them

I don't know the background to this other than she posted the tweet back in October and subsequently deleted it and apologised.

Did the OTB presenter blindside her with this out of the blue or had there been other discussion about the tweet in recent weeks?

She deleted the tweet immediately as it wasn't representative of her views.

Did you find another sportsperson treated the same way on OTB?