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First Dates Ireland star forced to defend 'horrible' date after backlash from fans

The spark wasn't there between Richard McNeil and Timmy Murphy on First Dates Ireland. Credit: RTE Expand

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The spark wasn't there between Richard McNeil and Timmy Murphy on First Dates Ireland. Credit: RTE

The spark wasn't there between Richard McNeil and Timmy Murphy on First Dates Ireland. Credit: RTE

The spark wasn't there between Richard McNeil and Timmy Murphy on First Dates Ireland. Credit: RTE

Sasha Brady

One of the stars of last week's First Dates Ireland has been forced to defend his "horrible" date after fans of the show criticised him online.

Richard McNeil has defended his date Timmie Murphy after fans of the show slated him for the way he rejected Richard.

Both men had seemingly enjoyed a pleasant first date, despite the fact that Timmie said things like: "When people look at me they think they see an alpha male but what I actually am is a princess.”

When it came to the awkward question 'is a second date on the cards?', Timmie encouraged a visibly keen Richard to go first, only to let him down when it was his turn to speak.

After the brutal rejection, a crushed Richard put his heads in his hands and appeared to cry on camera. It took a moment for the Donegal man to compose himself before he could speak.

Fans of the show took to Twitter to slate Timmie for friend-zoning Richard in such a brutal way.

"I'm sorry if you know you're going to turn someone down for a second date why would you make them go first? It's so mean," wrote one viewer.

However, despite what happened on the show, the 43-year-old engineer insists that Timmie is a "nice guy".

"He was very easy to get on with. He was very friendly, very sociable but there was just no spark," he told The Star newspaper.

"How he dealt with it is just a different story, but at the end of the day, he is not a horrible person.

"I was actually happy to go first because I have watched this so many times and if had went first and said no, I can't think what I would have done."

Richard revealed on the show that he had been married for 10 years only to come out when he was 39.

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