A Traveller comedian has come to the defence of Dermot Kennedy after the popstar apologised for using the word k*****r in an interview.
The comments, which emerged on social media via a clip on Irish slang, caused a major backlash, with Traveller activists calling for the Giants singer to apologise. Dr Rosaleen McDonagh and human rights activist Rose Marie Maughan were both critical of Dermot's use of the offensive term.
He said in the clip: "If you call somebody a k*****r that's really bad, really bad, because the k*****r is - to the best of my knowledge - like a horse in the yard that is like dying," he said.
