Colin Hassard writes:
As you are probably aware, there is a serious, increasing problem with racially motivated crimes in Ireland, both North and South. I have written this poem that speaks out against racism and hatred and to try and dispel some of the myths about foreign nationals. The real message of the poem is simply that we are all connected – and all have a shared humanity. Hopefully you appreciate the message.
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Excellent, a Poem. Problem solved!
what you been up to ? Here if everyone wrote a poem we might get there …
Beautifully written critique. Will resonate North and South of the border. Thank you. x
Nice piece that
Its good
Only recently in Clondalkin a family had graffiti painted all over their house. Its disgusting.
Nice poem :) #fightracism
This is more of a Northern problem. More isolated down South. Northerners are innately bigoted, particularly the orange coloured ones. Boom!
I don’t think we’re allowed say that. But, yes, it’s true. Hatefully bigoted lot.
…and you don’t sound at all bigoted.
Nope .. our house was graffiti covered while we were on hols back un the 80’s… in Dublin. Something along the lines of ” prod rats out”
at least the spelling is on a par with those in the north who commit such crimes :)
everyone knows if your parents have northern accents you will never ever be able to spell … ever
“A serious, increasing problem of racially motivated crimes, both north and south”
No, actually. I don’t know about north, but racially motivated crimes are in decline in the south. And, by international standards, are thankfully rare.
Ireland’s not such a racist place, actually.
Localised pockets in the north of Ireland are laughably racist, generally areas were the mental horizons of the people don’t stretch beyond the local shaps….
You’d hear the odd Oik commenting in Dublin but nothing compared to certain nuggets of urban failure in the North
Well done on your bigoted statement. I guess the whole meaning of the poem flew straight over your head.
Just because someone wrote a poem doesn’t mean there’s isn’t inherent culture of racism, bigotry and hatred in certain parts of Northern Ireland.
Also, pointing that out isn’t bigoted either.
Also, the poem is poo.
It’s bigoted because you are trying to attach your anger to an entire community instead of a few scumbags, do you not see the difference?
I suggest you go live in the north for many years like I did, in areas reflective of both sides of the coin, maybe then you’ll realise just how few people are actually involved in such crude displays.
Every last one of us in the north is a racist. In fact, there’s very few foreigners in Carndonagh. And on Tory Island a lot of them won’t even speak English to ya.
Ok that’s fantastic, I will be weaving a basket against racialism.
We should all do our part.
I for one have been going out of my way to sleep with a more ethnically diverse cohort.
Please delete this harmless comment, thanks.
Study by Amarach Research conducted last April on Irish attiudes to immigration / immigrants… worth a look…
http://www.slideshare.net/amarach/integration-in-ireland-presentation-april-2015
I am so proud of how we took 600,000 people into this country so they can have a better life. We are an example of welcome. Even if pockets of resistance exist, they are in the small percents and to be expected in the most virtuous of societies. This is something we can celebrate.
Also happens east and west.
“As you are probably aware, there is a serious, increasing problem with racially motivated crimes in Ireland, both North and South.”
Politically correct false equivalence that undermines the whole point.
The republic has been a model of adapation and welcome compared to the rabid hard core minority of troglodytes north of the border. The whole society there is mired in ethnic hatred, comparing them as somehow the same as the (falling) incidences of race crime south of the border is just ridiculous and undermines the issue.
“The whole society there is mired in ethnic hatred”
someone better call the irony police.
How is it ironic? They were burning effigies of the other side just last weekend?
Because it wasn’t the “whole society”, it was a few twats on scumbag estates.
There’s plenty of anti-UK graffiti and symbolism in the dodgy areas in the Republic too. That doesn’t mean the whole society is mired with hatred, just some twisted angry people with little direction in life.
I explicitly said it was a “hard core minority” – but even so the government is completely gridlocked – the May GE was a predictable sectarian headcount.
My point is we don’t see families driven out of estates in the Republic, or effigies of ‘the other side’ being burned, conflating the situation in the two places is weak.
the majority of people are very much against such inane displays and all political parties have condemned them, and the majority of people may wish to remain in the UK but that doesn’t make them sectarian.
The whole purpose of those scumbags is to deepen divisions, create hatred and make outsiders think that’s the norm, and of course the media will lap up such drama.
Don’t let them achieve their goals.
You ok dude? You sound a little irked…
I’m afraid I have to call BS on this. I live in North Dublin, in an area that is probably at this stage more filled with foreign nationals than Irish and in 3 years there I haven’t seen or heard about anyone being subject to racist abuse on the scale described here. The most you are likely to experience is abuse from the local drunks and wasters and sure they give dogs abuse to everyone. The bleeding hearts need to get a life and maybe we should do something useful like band together against the corrupt politicians of this country.