Eoghan McDermott and his production team have been accused of promoting a gay agenda on his drivetime 2FM show.
A listener believes the RTÉ presenter is conspiring to “only” have homosexual people feature on his show.
Taking to social media, Eoghan shared the message along with his production team’s reaction.
The listener texted into probe, “Do you have a problem with heterosexual people?”
They then continued their accusations stating, “I note that you only ever have homosexual people on your show.”
The message finished by saying that Eoghan’s alleged imbalance of gay and straight guests was, “Definite inequality.”
Today a listener accused the radio show of featuring gay people too prominently because we talked about Nanette on Netflix AND two of the show team are gay. We have changed our group WhatsApp group to reflect the grand gay conspiracy they have uncovered. pic.twitter.com/PV9Sd5WS17
— Eoghan McDermott (@eoghanmcdermo) July 9, 2018
The 2FM presenter tweeted, “Today a listener accused the radio show of featuring gay people too prominently because we talked about Nanette on Netflix AND two of the show team are gay.”
“We have changed our group WhatsApp group to reflect the grand gay conspiracy they have uncovered,” he commented.
He included a screenshot of the production team’s Whatsapp group, the name of which has been changed to ‘The GAY agenda’.
.@JamesKavanagh_ is on board to help launch our #JustCarryOne campaign in partnership with @dublinbusnews and #Durex. To win a goodie bag full of safer sex #Durex essentials, retweet and tell us ‘where do you carry your #condom?’ with the hashtag #justcarryone. *over 17s only pic.twitter.com/X8jEOdm3b5
— HIV Ireland (@HIV_Ireland) June 27, 2018
This isn’t the first time in the presenter has had to defend the content of his show.
James Kavanagh joined him on air recently to discuss safe sex, which he was promoting on behalf of HIV Ireland.
The segment, which urged people to practice safe sex and get regular STI tests, led a listener to complain.
Eoghan defended the segment by calling it “public service broadcasting.”
