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Joe Brolly was taken off the air from Claire Byrne’s live show tonight after he made allegations against the DUP.
The sports and political commentator was among the many guests on the show who voiced their views on the prospect of a United Ireland when he was asked by presenter Claire Byrne to refrain from suggesting that the DUP was homophobic and racist while there was no party representative there. to defend.
Brolly said: “You see them giggling and laughing out loud when people try to have a serious discussion. Laughing at the Irish language, laughing at Gaelic sports, homophobia, racism, all these things, ”while speaking live via video link.
Byrne asked Brolly to refrain from making accusations against the DUP and its representative Gregory Campbell, who had previously been on the show, as neither he nor the party could counter the claims on their own.
When Brolly asked, “Which ones would you deny?” Byrne requested that Brolly’s video link be removed from the screen.
Byrne said she refused to be put in a position to deny comments made against people who were not there to defend themselves and would not allow it on the show.
Brolly then took to Twitter saying: “They took me off the air and told me it was because RTÉ couldn’t risk me saying that the DUP was homophobic, racist or sectarian. I must apologize to the DUP immediately, ”while sharing screenshots of articles in which he appears to link the DUP or its members with racist and homophobic comments.
At the beginning of the show, Campbell could be seen laughing at the suggestions that a United Ireland was a realistic possibility and said: “It will never happen, we will not accept it.”
Campbell said that the people of Northern Ireland would be better served if they were based on the current state of Northern Ireland rather than going to “the land of the clouds and trying to develop mechanisms that we will never agree with.”
“We are British, there is nothing you can say or anything you can do to change that,” Campbell said of the possibility of Unionists participating in the discussion on a united Ireland.
Other contributors to last night’s special edition of Claire Byrne Live included Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald, Taoiseach Micheál Martin, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar, former Taoiseach John Bruton, Alliance Party leader Naomi Long, rugby player Andrew Trimble and loyal activist Jamie Bryson.
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