Irish singer Dermot Kennedy has been urged to apologise after using an offensive term usually aimed at members of the Travelling community during a live interview with the Canadian music channel Much.
"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. Dermot Kennedy using “K word” as a demonstration of ‘Irish Slang’ makes me feel so angry and nauseous.reflect a bit on how this might make Travellers who have this term flung at them everyday might feel to hear you saying thisA knacker is described as"a person whose business is the disposal of dead or unwanted animals, especially those whoseis not fit for human consumption", but has been used as a slur towards member of the travelling community.
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