The Giants hitmaker has been slammed by Traveller Rights activists after he used the term "knackered" as an example of Irish slang.
"If you call somebody a knacker that's really bad, really bad, because the knacker is - to the best of my knowledge - like a horse in the yard that is like dying," he said. The video clip from the interview - "#DermotKennedy taught us something new," with a laughing emoji - was posted across multiple social media channels before it was promptly deleted.
Traveller activist Dr Rosaleen McDonagh said the word was "deeply offensive" and akin to similar "racist-type language that has been used to demean many indigenous and aboriginal peoples".
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