{"id":403354,"date":"2026-04-17T12:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/403354\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T12:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:10:07","slug":"illegal-immigrants-comment-saw-radio-station-rebuked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/403354\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Illegal immigrants&#8217; comment saw radio station rebuked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staff at a popular radio station were required to participate in terminology training \u201cparticularly in relation to asylum and migration\u201d after Coimisi\u00fan na Me\u00e1n investigated a complaint made against one of its broadcasters over the use of the phrase \u201cillegal immigrants\u201d by a contributor discussing US politics.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint related to comments made by a contributor on Classic Hits Radio\u2019s Nighttime Talk with Niall Boylan January 3, 2024, no longer available online, in which the contributor referred to migrants lodged in New York City\u2019s famous Roosevelt Hotel as \u201cillegal immigrants\u201d rather than as \u201casylum seekers\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This article is premium content<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Get unlimited access to Gript<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Support Gript and get exclusive content, full archives and an ad-free experience<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"v-btn v-btn--block v-btn--has-bg theme--light v-size--large accent mb-6\" href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/membership\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Staff at a popular radio station were required to participate in terminology training \u201cparticularly in relation to asylum&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3584,42,1629,43,177729,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-403354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-coimisiun-na-mean","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-immigration","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-niall-boylan","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}