She didn’t hold back when it came to fuming about the troll’s comment on her Instagram Stories Broadcaster Muireann O'Connell. Photo: Steve Humphreys Muireann O’Connell has apologised for her heated comments after nasty trolls went after her mum Marie. The Ireland AM presenter admitted she ‘lost it’ when one person left a cruel comment saying ‘dementia’ under a video she uploaded to Instagram on Friday of her mum sharing some gardening tips.
She didn’t hold back when it came to fuming about the troll’s comment on her Instagram Stories, ranting: “This is the f**king internet. A comment about my mother. I am absolutely fuming.
.. “And Instagram wouldn’t allow me to call her a d**khead.
The utter hate in people’s hearts. D**k. “‘You need to have a thicker skin’.
No, people need to not be thunder***ts.” But Muireann has since cooled off and apologised for her “very strong language” in an update. “I saw that comment yesterday and just kind of lost it.
So, I’m very sorry – I used some very strong language,” she explained. ‘You’ve all been very lovely. I just think mothers are out of bounds.
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don’t do it,’ she said. Muireann has previously spoken about her experiences with trolls, although she said most people she encounters are “really lovely”. “That’s what social media has become and however you choose to interact with it is, I suppose, a reflection of your life.
“Some people use it as an outlet. Some people use it as a place to be angry and maybe that gets their anger out so they’re not as angry in their everyday, real life. “I think people like having an opinion and they’re fully allowed to express it.
” She continued: “What I do – and sometimes I forget to do – and I’ve been doing this for a long time, is if there is something that has really gotten to me, I will write a reply that says all of the words that I’m not allowed to say and then I delete it. It’s out of me, so I get it out of my head. I do it that way.
“I’m like, ‘OK, I’ve said what I wanted to say, I don’t have to put that out in the world’, but I feel like it has left my body so I don’t have to carry that negativity around. “In all fairness, a bit of criticism, I think there’s bigger (things). I am incredibly lucky.
I’m a very, very lucky and privileged person, I have a lovely job, I work with absolutely delightful human beings. “I have a smile on my face most days and you know, there’s bigger things in the world than people hating you on the internet.”.
