Emer McLysaght
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3,014 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 4d ago
Emer McLysaght’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Incite incitement to hatred, I think.
Yeah, making racist and anti-Semitic.
Yeah, because there was a couple of different incidents, but one in particular, he was filmed uh making anti-Semitic comments.
Another incident, he was accused of going on this terade against a woman who was Jewish and he was making these disgusting anti-Semitic remarks.
He was also racist towards her friend who was Asian.
He said he supported um Adolf Hitler.
He just went through a series
of these horrific incidents.
Um he ended up apologizing for that and uh his lawyer had said that he was undergoing an a massive amount of work stress and also um addiction to numerous substances and you know didn't fully place the blame on that but said that that was you know a big kind of
they had said when when it was announced that he was going to be the focus of the theme this year, that his past indiscretions and bad behavior was going to form part of
the exhibition and it wasn't going to be kind of papered over and not mentioned, but that obviously wasn't enough for a lot of the kind of donors and supporters of the Met, many of whom are
from the Jewish faith and
A lot of people since it was announced had been kind of criticizing Anna Wintor, who is the editor of Vogue but also kind of organizes a lot of the Met.
as well.
And um some of the kind of big names who spoke out against it was Julie Menon, who's in uh on the New York City Council, which gives three million in funding to the Met every year for kind of educational pro uh
educational programmes and she said she I had production productive conversations with Andrew Bolton and with Anna Winter and with Met officials and Met board members.
So
You know, we know it wasn't just John Galeano who said, You know what, guys, actually this isn't you know, this isn't going well.
I'm sure he was
cancelled and and said, We can make it be your decision to pull the exhibition, but it cannot go ahead.
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