{"id":7475,"date":"2023-03-29T03:50:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T03:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/kellie-harrington-irish-boxer-caught-off-guard-in-interview\/"},"modified":"2023-03-29T03:50:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T03:50:21","slug":"kellie-harrington-irish-boxer-caught-off-guard-in-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/kellie-harrington-irish-boxer-caught-off-guard-in-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Kellie Harrington: Irish boxer &#8216;caught off guard&#8217; in interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Irish Olympic champion Kellie Harrington has said she is aware of the &#8220;hurt&#8221; caused by her decision to retweet a video featuring anti-immigration comments. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">In an interview on Irish radio on Monday, she was asked about a Twitter post from October linking to a clip from GB News, in which a journalist claimed European girls were being &#8220;sacrificed on the altar of mass migration&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Harrington later deleted her retweet, but in tense interview on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newstalk.com\/news\/kellie-harrington-im-all-about-community-inclusion-and-diversity-1450506\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Monday&#8217;s Off the Ball programme<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e1y6uwnp0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> on Newstalk she was repeatedly asked about the issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">She refused to answer, later saying she was &#8220;caught off guard&#8221; by the question. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Presenter Shane Hannon asked Harrington to clarify her &#8220;strongly held views on immigration&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"> &#8220;In your position as a role model, those comments carry weight,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">She responded by accusing him of &#8220;hanging me out to dry&#8221; and requested that he ask her different questions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Harrington&#8217;s appearance has now been viewed at least 2.5m times on Twitter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cd1yjelekggo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irish Olympic champion Kellie Harrington has said she is aware of the &#8220;hurt&#8221; caused by her decision to retweet a video featuring anti-immigration comments. In an interview on Irish radio on Monday, she was asked about a Twitter post from October linking to a clip from GB News, in which a journalist claimed European girls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7477,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7475\/revisions\/7477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}