Niall Boylan of Classic Hits 4FM made the claims in a Facebook post on Saturday.
Well-known and often controversial radio DJ Niall Boylan has claimed that he was bullied by “very prominent” DJs at the PPI awards in Kilkenny on Friday night.
Boylan, who hosts the Niall Boylan talk show on Classic Hits 4FM, shared a post titled ‘Bullying and the Irony’ on his personal Facebook page on Saturday, recalling an incident that took place in the early hours of Saturday morning following the awards on Friday night.
Pic via Facebook/The Niall Boylan Show
In the post, as background to what happened at the PPI Awards, Boylan recalled his experiences with alopecia, an autoimmune disease that causes hair loss, and how it led to him being bullied in school at a young age.
He then went onto accuse one “very prominent DJ in Dublin” of pulling at his hair at approximately 2.30am and laughing about it with two acquaintances, who Boylan said “are also very prominent DJs in Dublin”.
Boylan, who wasn’t drinking on the night, claimed that the person tugging his hair “knew exactly what they were doing” and says he whispered “I spent years of my life dealing with people like you” in their ear before walking away.
The extracts in Italics below reference the incident on the night in question and you can read Boylan’s post in full at the bottom of the page.
“OK so know you the background to the story, let’s get back to the radio awards. It was 2:30 am and as I mentioned I’m not drinking. I spoke to very prominent DJ in Dublin who over the las few years I considered a nice enough guy and an acquaintance. He was with two other very familiar acquaintances who are also very prominent DJs in Dublin, one of whom made remarks before (on social media) and I asked him to have some consideration my feelings and I believed he understood.
“I turn my back and was speaking to good friends and the mood was really great. Suddenly without warning I feel this first guy behind me tugging at the back of my hair and heard them laughing. I ignored it briefly and it continued. The person I was talking to knew exactly what they were doing and the reason and said “give it up”. I turned and I said “it doesn’t come off lads”. They were laughing and thought the fact they upset me was hilarious. I put my arm around the ring leader and whispered in his ear “I spent years of my life dealing with people like you”. I walked away from the situation immediately and for some reason all the memories of how I felt as a child being called names came back to me.
“I spoke briefly to another friend but I was physically there but mentally miles away and completely distracted by what had just happed. To those reading this, you might think this is nothing and I should ignore it but when you have been through this in your life, these silly moments become monumental. I decided it was time to leave and made my exit early, in case I had to deal with looking at these guys again.”
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