Dublin GAA legend Michael Darragh MacAuley has blasted 'embarrassing' Andrew Tate as he spoke out against the controversial influencer.
Tate has become a viral sensation over the past 12 months and popular among young men and Tate and his brother Tristan, as well as two unnamed Romanian female suspects, were detained on December 29 on suspicion of human trafficking, rape and forming an organised crime group to exploit women. Both men have denied any wrongdoing
MacAuley appeared on Off The Ball alongside Eamon McGee as they spoke about Tate.
MacAuley works in Dublin's inner city alongside the youth in the area and said of Tate: "It's missed my generation a bit. Lads in their 30s are more at home with themselves and probably found whatever their version of masculinity is and Andrew Tate hasn't been a big factor in our lives and it's only recently that we started talking about him.
"And it is worrying when you start talking to the younger people and start talking to people in their teens and Andrew Tate is big noise.
"People are believing what he's saying. Anyone who is spouting views like that it has to be clocked and watched."
And MacAuley warned you have to be careful how you approach the topic.
He added: "You have to be very careful how you speak about it because at that age if you tell me not to listen to someone I'm going to listen to them even more and I'd buy their t-shirt too, I would have been that kid. So it needs to be explained and talked through why people are listening to this dude so people have an understanding where these views are coming from and what nonsense it is.
"There is just a snakier level of how this has been done and it's been well aknowledged how he has gamed the system.
"It's absolutely deplorable and embrassing. Who is watching that and saying I want to be like him.
"That narrative of you're under attack these feminists are coming out to get you. That's what is driving it."
McGee also appeared on the segment and added: "It's incredibly hard to be a young male now. You leave your teens to the late 20s and it's hard work. We are going through this movement and we had our rules in the 1960s and 70s and it was clearly defined and we are moving towards a better society here.
"There is a lot of guilt there, and I don't want to use the words patriarchy, because it's one of those words where people will roll the eyes at but there's a lot of guilt towards the whole patriarchy and of course there should be.
"But maybe the message getting across to all these young boys is that you have to atone for all these sins. The Tate thing is easier to get on board with because you just go back to the old ways and don't have to change too much. Its an easier fit to get into rather than embrace this change that we're inevitably go towards anyway.
"Tate's taken it to the next level. Young kids it is hard to go the extra way and easier to get on board with what these boys are saying.."
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