15 Tweets Highlighting The Mixed Reaction To THAT Michaella McCollum Interview On RTÉ

Michaella McCollum of the ‘Peru Two’ was interviewed by RTÉ on April 3, and it certainly got the nation talking.

Following her arrest for attempting to smuggle €2 million worth of cocaine through Lima’s airport, the Tyrone woman spent two-and-a-half years in a Peruvian prison. Having just been released, but still unable to leave the country, RTÉ sent a correspondent to perform an interview with the newly liberated 23-year-old.

The Irish public had a mixed reaction to the programme to say the least. Some felt that the interview was far too soft, that it was overly sympathetic to a convicted criminal, while others were merely fixated on McCollum’s change in hairstyle…

Interview approach worse than my hairstyle but ultimately she’s ruined her own life, won’t reoffend & danger to nobody. #MichaelaMcCollum

— Eoghan McDermott (@eoghanmcdermo) April 3, 2016

I get that she’s young&made a mistake but for gods sake ask the questions we all want to hear!Terrible interview #MichaelaMcCollum

— Brian Ormond (@brianormond79) April 3, 2016

100% don’t feel sorry for this girl. Obviously terrifying situation but you always have a choice #MichaelaMcCollum #PrisonInPeru

— Alexandra Ryan (@SweetLikeAli) April 3, 2016

Uneasy watching #MichaelaMcCollum interview should we give drug mules media coverage/celebrity etc. Or was she just v young & vulnerable?

— June Shannon (@juneshannon) April 3, 2016

Oh here we go. The poor me act. Blame my environment. #MichaelaMcCollum

— Peter (@peterc83) April 3, 2016

Woman in Ibiza knew nothing about drugs. In other news, a man came home from Rome today and said: “Catholicism? What?” #MichaelaMcCollum

— Philip Nolan (@philipnolan1) April 3, 2016

“I couldn’t afford the deposit for a house, to rent, so I went on holidays”
Sound economic sense there. #MichaelaMcCollum

— Mallow News (@MallowNews) April 3, 2016