‘You’re hanging out to dry’: Watch tense moment Irish Olympian Kelly Harrington refuses to answer questions about controversial anti-immigration tweet she posted, then later deleted
An Irish Olympian has awkwardly shut down an interview after a reporter asked her about a controversial tweet she posted last year – accusing him of “hung me out to dry”.
Boxer Kelly Harrington, 33, from Dublin, retweeted a video in October 2022 that contained negative comments about immigration – but she refused to be drawn into her views in a video interview with an Irish sports programme. outside the ball this week.
Harrington was asked by presenter Shane Hannon, who won a gold medal at the 2021 Olympics, for her personal views on immigration, after he told her: “In your position as a role model, those comments carry weight.”
The video of the tense confrontation has now been viewed more than 2.5 million times.
Harrington’s October retweet, which was later deleted, directed her followers to the GB News footage, in which Dutch journalist Eva Vladingerbrock was quoted as saying that European girls were being “sacrificed on the altar of mass immigration”, and also reported on the murder of a woman. A 12-year-old schoolgirl named Lola is in Paris.
stunning-faced Kelly Harrington appears on the sports show Off the Ball; Irish Olympic boxer refused to answer broadcaster Shane Hannon’s questions about a controversial retweet she made in October – but later issued a statement about it
Harrington said the footage delivered a “powerful message” to the leaders and he retweeted it before later deleting it.
After initially claiming to have “hung out” while Hannon was asking his question on the subject, he repeated it, only for Harrington, who grew up in Dublin, to continue avoiding answering it, with PR overhearing in the background the reporter’s question. To desist from his line of questioning.
As the conversation became increasingly tense, the boxer accused Hannon of “hanging me out to dry” before finally ending the interview, with the boxer saying she wasn’t on the show to “answer questions about politics”, and telling the host to “be like Elsa and let her go.”
Harrington said sportscaster Shane Hannon was “like a dog with a bone” when he insistently asked her for her views on immigration.
The sports star looked very uncomfortable when faced with questions about her views on immigration on Sports Off the Ball
“Be like Elsa and let it go,” Harrington and her PR asked the journalist to ask further questions
The player, who grew up in Dublin, took to Twitter yesterday to clarify her position
Harrington won the gold medal in Tokyo in 2021 for Ireland in the women’s lightweight category
Yesterday Harrington released a statement saying she was “surprised” by the line of questioning.
The boxer took to her social media accounts, saying she’s all about “community, inclusion, and diversity.”
When she realized her retweet caused her “hurt,” she said, “I immediately deleted the tweet and apologized to them.”
The boxer added that she was “not ready for a question that had nothing to do with my sport” during the interview with Hanoun, and said: “How this came about does not reflect me as a person or my thoughts.”
