{"id":113303,"date":"2025-10-10T12:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T12:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/113303\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T12:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T12:07:07","slug":"joe-brolly-video-depicting-sex-act-by-presidential-candidate-is-misogynistic-says-heather-humphreys-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/113303\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Brolly video depicting sex act by presidential candidate is \u2018misogynistic\u2019, says Heather Humphreys \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heather Humphreys<\/a> has criticised as \u201cmisogynistic\u201d a video where commentator Joe Brolly<\/a> performed an impression of a presidential candidate performing a sex act. <\/p>\n

Ms Humphreys, who is running as the Fine Gael<\/a> candidate in the presidential election<\/a>, said she would not allow it to set her back. <\/p>\n

\u201cPeople can make up their own minds on this, but look, I\u2019m a strong woman, and I can tell you one thing, I\u2019m not going to let this set me back. And it was a misogynistic deed. And you know, women across the country have to deal with this type of abuse,\u201d she told South East Radio\u2019s Morning Mix with Alan Corcoran. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut I stand up for mn\u00e1 na h\u00c9ireann, and won\u2019t let this knock me back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms Humphreys said that Brolly \u201cdoesn\u2019t deserve to be talked about, as far as I\u2019m concerned. \u201cI don\u2019t want to dignify it with a further response.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms Humphreys told the local radio station that she did not know \u201cwhat the thinking was\u201d behind the video. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut what I can say is, I\u2019m a strong woman, and I\u2019m not going to let something like that knock me back. And in fact, it\u2019ll probably help me, to drive me on even further.\u201d <\/p>\n

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In the clip, which was widely shared online on Thursday evening, Brolly appears to be impersonating a presidential candidate who is answering questions while performing a graphic depiction of a sex act. <\/p>\n

The clip, which was originally posted and then deleted by the Free State podcast, was broadly assumed to be referring to Ms Humphreys. <\/p>\n

The Free State podcast recently did a long-form interview with Independent candidate Catherine Connolly<\/a>. <\/p>\n

On Friday morning Brolly issued a statement saying he was referring to the Fianna F\u00e1il candidate Jim Gavin when performing the impression of a sex act, which was captured in a video clip of his podcast recording. <\/p>\n

But in a media engagement shortly afterwards, Ms Humphreys said that she felt the video was \u201cvery misogynistic\u201d and \u201cit was targeted at women\u201d. <\/p>\n

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The original podcast episode, posted on Tuesday, had been about how Mr Gavin \u201ccame undone\u201d in his bid for the presidency. <\/p>\n

The Fianna F\u00e1il candidate announced on Sunday evening following media reports that, 16 years ago, a tenant had accidentally overpaid him by \u20ac3,300 and despite repeated requests, he had not returned it.<\/p>\n

Using a comparison between the Rose of Tralee pageant and the presidential election, Brolly had suggested on the podcast that Mr Gavin was not suited to the campaign. <\/p>\n

\u201cJust to be clear, on the podcast I was talking about Jim Gavin being unsuited to the insubstantial nature of the presidential campaign. It was nothing to do with Heather,\u201d Brolly said on Friday. <\/p>\n

The Sunday Independent columnist posted a transcript from the deleted clip, where Brolly says \u201ca lot of us know Jim well and … he\u2019s not sort of, the Irish presidential campaign. You know, it\u2019s a bit like a nasty Rose of Tralee.\u201d <\/p>\n

He goes on to attempt to make a joke where a presidential candidate is compared to a fictional pageant contestant who is performing a sex act while describing how they would be a unifying force as president and would lobby for world peace. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd all of that sounded terribly false coming from Jim,\u201d Brolly concludes. <\/p>\n

The Free State podcast has so far declined to comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heather Humphreys has criticised as \u201cmisogynistic\u201d a video where commentator Joe Brolly performed an impression of a presidential…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,1921,18,13,14,6,555,19,17,19487,46040,11,12,15,16,5,59,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-113303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-catherine-connolly","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-heather-humphreys","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-jim-gavin","19":"tag-joe-brolly","20":"tag-latest-news","21":"tag-latestnews","22":"tag-main-news","23":"tag-mainnews","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-presidential-election","26":"tag-top-stories","27":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}