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    4. Ashamed_Counter8408 on

      As a Soc Dem voter myself, I can’t see how this fella is kept around. Just embarrassing stuff.

    5. bigpadQ on

      Wearing blackface and working for Peter Thiel, he’d fit right into the Trump White House

    6. Gwanbulance on

      My brother wore a Mr T mask at Halloween when he was 8. We got it in Hector Grey’s.

      He had gold tinsel from the Christmas decorations around his neck instead of gold chains.

      I pity the fool.

      Edit: I think there’s also a picture of him dressed up in a Native American feather headdress, with one of those bow and arrow sets with the suckers on the arrows. I often remind him that he can never be President.

    7. Low-Fuel-674 on

      Was black face ok in 2009? I remember a 1995 Paddies Day float in Ballyporeen. Two lads covered in shoe polish pretending to be Tyson & Holyfield…it seemed harmless at the time.

    8. Griss27 on

      Incredibly unpopular opinion on here, but outside of the USA (which is to say divorced of the history of US slavery and minstrel shows) there’s nothing wrong with changing your skin colour as part of a costume.

      If it wasn’t for US cultural imperialism, none of it would find it offensive unless the intent of the costume itself was to offend.

      That’s not going to help him, though.

    17. Noobeater1 on

      Be interesting to see what the party’s reaction to this is, cause it is a nothing burger but I can 100% see them feeling like they need to punish him somehow

    21. Timmytron6 on

      Don’t see the issue here really. See people of opposite races dress up as people / characters from opposite skin colour every Halloween. The man should t have to apologise for this 🙄

    22. futbolitoireland on

      In all honesty and I’m not personally invested in defending or attacking Eoin Hayes, but BLACKFACE is a specific look which came with a specific type of performance/way of acting. There are obvious racial connotations visibly reinforced. Dressing up as Barack Obama, albeit will wait to see the picture, but I would IMAGINE is not the same thing

    24. PJR3811 on

      This is nonsense, like it’s 16 years ago, we all did stupid sh1t when we were young

    25. Due-Background8370 on

      The bar staff of a pub in my hometown dressed up as the Jackson 5 around the same time, complete with blackface. It raised an eyebrow but no more than that. I don’t think we can hold a student in 2009 to the standard we should rightfully hold a politician in 2025.

    26. ConorYEAH on

      In fairness, it’d be a pretty shit costume if he hadn’t put on makeup.

    28. KeyboardWarrior90210 on

      I don’t really know him or his position but to drag up this kind of crap from his student days is BS. A non story and he’s come out quick with a statement to address it. Let it go.

    32. Garibon on

      I’m honestly impressed with the chill response to this here in the comments. Like this was something drunk Irish students used to do all the time with 0% derogation towards black people and usually because they thought black lads were cool from tv and movies. My friend dressed up as Samuel L Jackson in Pulp Fiction one halloween for a fancy dress competition and won the fucking competition everyone liked it so much.

    34. yityatyurt on

      Maybe I’m naive but growing up in Ireland none of us would’ve thought twice about covering ourselves in brown make up or face paint if it was fancy dress… I’m thinking Mr T, Paul McGrath etc

    36. DorkyODorable on

      Ah, come on! This guy AGAIN?!

      I thought people knew in the 90s that black face was not an acceptable thing to do?

    37. DaithiOSeac on

      The most insulting thing about this is realising that I was nearly finished college 16 fucking years ago! 😭

    38. reallybrutallyhonest on

      I’m glad there’s not too many photos floating around of the stupid shit I did in college. Leave him off, the digital footprint thing is a bit tiring. Literally everyone has said and done stupid shit. If we don’t expect perfection from ourselves, our families or our friends why do we expect it from others?

    39. GerbertVonTroff on

      Completely agree with the comments saying this is a non story and imported American rubbish.
      And I hope people would keep the same energy regardless of who did it.
      I feel a lot of people, from all sides of the political spectrum, would base their reaction off how much they liked or didn’t like the person in question and how many points they could score for their „side“.

    42. Willingness_Mammoth on

      The guy is 37. He was like 21 when he did this. 21 year olds are idiots.

      Let they who have not done something fucking stupid in college cast the first stone.

    43. iHyPeRize on

      It was 16 years ago ffs, who actually cares?

      The fact he has to apologies for something like this shows how far things have gone.

      Can we have a bit of common sense?

    44. itsdareoh on

      The man has absolutely no spine and I personally dislike him but chasing him over something as petty as this, is embarrassing and sad

      Edit: just saw I got a notification from RTE News on it. Jesus Christ.

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