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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
Entertainment
Sandra Mallon

Tommy Tiernan breaks silence over controversial joke as he makes public apology

Tommy Tiernan has broken his silence and publicly apologised to RTE star Emer O’Neill after he told a controversial joke about taxi drivers during one of his gigs.

Emer told us how she was left upset and walked out of Tiernan’s Vicar Street gig on January 6 after the Navan funnyman made a joke about Dublin Zoo and taxi drivers.

The RTE presenter told us how she had received an apology from Tiernan last week via email and on the phone – but now the comedian has made a public statement addressing the furore.

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