{"id":568627,"date":"2026-07-26T07:46:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T07:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/568627\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T07:46:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T07:46:20","slug":"former-miss-ireland-slams-classist-online-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/568627\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Miss Ireland slams ‘classist’ online abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Miss Ireland and model Sarah Morrissey has hit back at online trolls after facing criticism over her accent<\/p>\n

Morrissey, an accomplished model and content creator, has faced criticism over her accent, having been raised in the Liberties in Dublin<\/a>, and revealed that she has been instructed to \u2018speak properly\u2019 during certain media appearances.<\/p>\n

Throughout her modelling career, Sarah said that any negative feedback she encounters is invariably linked to the way she talks, and when creating content, she revealed that critics will claim they have to watch her content on mute because of her accent.<\/p>\n

\"FormerFormer Miss Ireland and model Sarah Morrissey at the Assets Models Christmas Party and Awards at 37 Dawson in Dublin. Pic: Brian McEvoy Photography<\/p>\n

On social media, Morrissey said that her accent represents the resilience of the community she hails from, and praised her upbringing.<\/p>\n

\u2018I never thought I deserved any less or any more than anybody else. And do you know why? Because another thing the inner city has is we have deadly mas,\u2019 she said. \u2018I had a ma who told me when I was growing up I could do anything I wanted to do.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018I couldn\u2019t just be a model, I could be a supermodel. \u201cSure, of course, love, you can do that. Why can\u2019t you?\u201d\u2018 <\/p>\n

\u2018We have mas that think we can do no wrong, especially the sons, but that\u2019s for another video.\u2019<\/p>\n

\"SarahFormer Miss Ireland and model Sarah Morrissey pictured at the Style Awards 2026 at the InterContinental Dublin. Pic: Brian McEvoy<\/p>\n

She continued: \u2018We also have the best friends in the whole world. Mine, from junior infants, never once were jealous about what I did, how I looked, you know, the things I got, and vice versa. They big you up in everything you do.<\/p>\n

\u2018We have the best community. I had\u00a0neighbours who would be going to mass, and they\u2019d pop in a magazine cover in the door that they saw me in. They never begrudged anything that you did. And they would always take you down a peg if you\u2019re too big for your boots!\u2019<\/p>\n

She went on to say that no one would ever pass comment on a man\u2019s accent, and that the criticism she faces \u2018screams of misogyny.\u2019<\/p>\n

\"SarahFormer Miss Ireland and model Sarah Morrissey at the Stadium Panto, Beauty and the Beast, A Sammy and Buffy Adventure, at the National Stadium, Dublin. Pic: Brian McEvoy<\/p>\n

\u2018I don\u2019t want a girl or anyone growing up that\u2019s watching this that speaks the way that I do thinking that there\u2019s something wrong with how we talk.<\/p>\n

\u2018And I\u2019m sure there\u2019s so much psychology behind why people troll or send messages like this, but I\u2019m convinced it\u2019s because you didn\u2019t have a ma who told you you were deadly, or friends to big you up and love you no matter what, or a community that was behind you, because you wouldn\u2019t send messages like this.\u2019<\/p>\n

Morrissey was invited on by Newstalk to speak to Andrea Gilligan on her radio show about the ordeal the following day, with the host agreeing with the model, saying: \u2018It\u2019s classist, derogatory and just downright brutally ignorant.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Miss Ireland and model Sarah Morrissey has hit back at online trolls after facing criticism over her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-568627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568627","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=568627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}