O hEochagain impersonated on Facebook shock

RTE 2fm's new breakfast presenter Hector O hEochagain has revealed that he is being impersonated on Facebook.

In an interview for Hot Press, which will be published in the magazine next Thursday, he gives Olaf Tyaransen the full monty on the scam.

"That is not me!" the 2fm star insists. "There’s a guy impersonating me on Facebook, who has fifteen hundred, sixteen hundred, two thousand friends. I’m going to ‘out’ him on radio next week! I’ve written to Facebook through my solicitors for the last two years. I’ve had Bebo pages taken down. I don’t do any of that stuff. These are all impostors."

O hEochagain admits that he does 'tweet'. But it's been two months since his last posting...

"Yes," he tells Olaf. "I do twitter and then I stop because I don’t want to go [picks up Blackberry and pretends to type] ‘I’m doing an interview with Olaf Tyaransen’. I get into it, and I get out of it. But there’s a guy masquerading as me on Facebook who answers people back as me."

Clearly fans believe that it is indeed Hector.

"A girl asked me yesterday, ‘Why won’t you invite me on to your page?’ I said, ‘I don’t have a page. I’m not on Facebook’. But yer man answers back saying, ‘Great to see you the other day at the Róisín Dubh. Yeah, great gig, wasn’t it?’ That’s not me! So I’m going to ‘out’ this guy starting on next Monday. This guy is going to get it! If he doesn’t have red hair, I’m going to cut the balls off him. He’d better have ginger pubes, or he’s for it!

"But that Facebook/Twitter thing, what’s it all about?" he concludes. "I’m not a big Facebook head. I think it’s more of a singles thing. It’s all about, ‘Oh, look at yer wan, she’s lovely! Oh, look at this one!’ Like, there’s a bit of flippin’ soft Redtube about it, isn’t there? Porntube."

In a remarkably candid interview, he also talks about being propositioned by two girls in Woodie's in Navan!

The next issue of Hot Press will feature the full interview with Hector by Olaf Tyaransen. It hits the streets on October 7.