Dermot Kennedy: Singer urged to apologise for racial slur

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The Irish singer was speaking to a live audience in a video posted online by Much, a popular music channel.Irish Travellers have called for an apology after the videos were deleted without any acknowledgement or explanation. A video clip from the interview - "#DermotKennedy taught us something new 😂" - was posted across multiple social media channels.Image caption,When asked to provide examples of Irish slang, Mr Kennedy explained that "knackered" was a term used to express tiredness."If you call somebody a knacker that's really bad, really bad, because the knacker is - to the best of my knowledge - is like a horse in the yard that is like dying," he said.

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