Tommy Tiernan viewers were praising the bravery of a reformed neo-Nazi for speaking about his troubled past.
Mathew Collins joined a neo-Nazi gang as a teenager in London in the 1970s. He suggested the reason for the hatred he harboured may have been down to his father leaving his mother for the babysitter, who happened to be black.
Mathew even said he "hated" the black kids he went to school with in south London. The former neo-Nazi told the RTE host he had to turn his life around after a took part in a violent attack on innocent women holding a public meeting on racism.
