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A LEADING MEMBER of Ireland’s African community has said it is “about time to move on” from remarks on race by former Naas mayor Darren Scully.
Eric Yao, the head of the Africa Centre, said he was a “strong believer in forgiveness, and people make mistakes”. However, he added that he hoped the incident would be an opportunity for “some level of education”.
Scully sparked a furore earlier this week when he emailed radio station Classic Hits 4FM to say he would no longer represent “immigrants from African countries” in Naas, saying: “The majority of them I found to be very demanding and very quick to play the race card.” He then appeared on the radio reiterating his comments.
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Scully later resigned and issued an apology, saying: “I realise now that my remarks were open to an interpretation that I did not intend.”
Speaking on the Late Show with Niall Boylan on Classic Hits 4FM last night, Yao said he had been “gobsmacked” by Scully’s comments. “I didn’t expect that it would come from someone at the level of a mayor,” he said. “It just stunned everybody.”
Hwever, Yao said he accepted Scully’s apology. “It’s an issue that has been dealt with, he’s apologised and acknowledged that he has caused offence,” Yao said.
I can understand the pressure he may be under as a local authority, as a councillor. But if he’s under pressure and people are being rude to him, it’s wrong to generalise it. The problem has been the fact that he has painted everybody with the same brush.
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@Willie Marty: Are u still alive Willie d1ckhEad hope you get blown out to sea and I am back Paul Moloney is back tell your friends or in your case the pesents
@N D K: Yea he makes my blood boil, same with hospital Harris, they will be used as a reference point in future history classes about how they fronted the decimation of the Ireland that we knew, we are a small indigenous population being watered down and sold out by these weak mealy mouthed “leaders”
@Freda Peeple:Eamon is the only credible politician in the green party.
ROG etc are just another bunch of woke lefty ideological headbangers.
Nobody will be let forget the multilingual open invitation from ROG for every immigrant scammer to come to ireland and be guaranteed their own front door key.
Something many Iish will never see.
@Freda Peeple: indigenous population being watered down? Are you afraid for the future of your idea of the master race? And you call me a snowflake haha
@Kevin Kerr: Yes Toilet Duck, I’m concerned like any intelligent person, it’s simple maths. once we become a minority in our country which is going to happen with current native birth rates vs immigration levels, (asylum seekers have massive birth rates) we are then in serious trouble, look at Lebanon. You can sneer all you want, you stay tucked up safe in wodericks bumbag like a good boy :)
@Freda Peeple: “asylum seekers have massive birth rates” – now that is hilarious!! Any particular country you’re referring to, or just asylum seekers in general? Anyway, you lot are always going on about them being “single men of fighting age” – now they have massive birthrates. You can’t have it both ways. And you expect these “arguments” to be taken seriously
@Kevin Kerr: Yes toilet Duck, if you Google asylum seeker birth rates in the Uk vs natives you will get your answer, all these men fleeing “war” are waiting for their free house then they will send the call back home for the rest of the family to show up. Are you going to pretend like the family unification referendum never took place? At least now they can’t bring their second cousins and extended families despite the NGO’s and government meddling.
@Freda Peeple: I’ve no love for the Green Party as ye well know, but I thought that type of rascist opinion that you are displaying went out with Hitler and Apartheid.
@Pat Barry: Hahaha go away Pat ya big wally, I won’t gaslit or swayed on my opinion that we have taken too many in, how did the last plantation of thousands of non natives go on this tiny island? Did we all merge into one happy family? Because I think the obvious happened, and we had way more in common with our last planters than what’s arrived recently. Watch this space
@Freda Peeple: what a disingenuous and ridiculous comparison to equate the Ulster Scots plantations, and the issues that arose as a result, to those seeking asylum in Ireland. Your arguments defy logic
@Kevin Kerr: You’re a little sap. Nobody on this site has any time for you and I’m guessing that’s the same in real life. You never add anything to any debate or conversation. All you do is support the party line. Sad little boy.
@Freda Peeple: And tell me “Freda” when you walk down the street, how do you tell those who are here as refugees and who were born here? Hmm? Or do you just tell by skin colour and strange accent like every other racist? How do you tell those male refugees apart from those men who were brought in by Irish companies to do Jobs that some Irish men feel are below them? Finally, there are 3 houses on my estate that are leased to the local council who in turn give them to who need them…..guess what – it is Irish families in all of them. Are you ever tired of being wrong? Do us all a favour and stop spreading your miserable lies and get yourself a job and do something to give back to the rest of us that support you’re lazy ass.
@Kevin Kerr: He reminds me of a guy I knew years ago who emigrated to the States in the 70s and got deported for getting mixed up in stuff he shouldn’t have. The same guy now comes out with the same rubbish “Freda” here comes out with.
@Pat Barry: Opinions are like a-holes Pat, everyone is entitled to theirs, my opinions seem to resonate more than your empty gaslighting, or kevin (ducky’s) staunch government bias, so you can cry in the corner with him and repeat your weary lines all you like, have a lovely weekend “Pat”
@Pat Barry: Pat I have my own successful building company by the way, so no one is supporting me darling. The only ones who need support are you and ducky :)
@Freda Peeple: You are right, every body is entitled to an opinion, but we saw where hate filled ones like your’s lead, as I pointed out above. What your opinion represents is that of the dregs of humanity as far as I’m concerned. As gor your fantastically sucessfull business….. that is some vivid imagination you have….. your opinion proves otherwise.
@Pat Barry: Yea I’m bragging about my achievements under an anonymous account, very easy for you cushioned lefty’s to use the dole merchant stick when you have nothing else to counter as an argument. Enjoy the last few years of retirement “pat”
@Freda Peeple: Yawn, “Freda”.You’re getting boring now. I’m niether right or left in terms of my political beliefs, but the whole country would be to the political left as far as you and your fellow dregs are concerned. So I didn’t actually take that as an insult, as poor an attempt that it was. Now, seeing as you brought it up, I was just wondering how many of the anomymous l accounts on here are yours? Just that I noticed earlier you were replying to another poster as if he had replied to you, when he had been replying to someone else …… it actually looked as if you had forgotten to switch profiles. I thought you professional trolls were a bit smarter than that.
@Thomas Sheridan: there is no such thing as a credible politician when it comes to the “greens”.
Their ideology is based on selected, paid for “scientific” studies. Bit like Al Gore selecting (approx) 376 “studies” that suited his narrative & pushed in An Inconvenient Truth, ignoring over 1100 uncomissioned scientific studies which contradicted his narrative. The greens are the same.
Same can be said of Soc Dems (woke mind virus nutters), PBP (just crazed self-loathing Irish haters) & Labour (intellectually challenged nutters)
Rodders is unapologetically supportive of & aligned to paedophilia (a supporter of Peter Tatchall who wants paedophilia recognised as a sexual orientation (Minor-Attracted people)
@lesidees: Anyone from safe countries straight back on the plane, do you not question why so many “asylum seekers” are willing to pay thousands to smugglers to get them to Western Europe? Why not get budget airlines ? Reason is they can get here undocumented by paying the traffickers. It’s a scam and I’m not partial to them. One in 20 Uk asylum seekers are net contributing we don’t need that with a recession looming in Europe. How come we didn’t take in thousands of Africans during the many famines ? Why is it now that we have such movement of people? Because it’s become an industrial complex with money and cheap labour for those cashing in on treason.
@S Suilleabhain: Well S, what do you call when someone hates those from outside our country with the vehemence “Freda” displays just because of their skin colour or accent or religion? Whatever you do, don’t call it Nationalist. If you do, you will insult every Irish patriot that has ever walked. Now, maybe you are right. Maybe rascist is the wrong term. After all, every human on the planet is the one race, though to listen to some of the predudiced rubbish in the comments here, you would not think so.
@Kevin Kerr: Perhaps they are reflective of the mood of the people who are not happy with Roderic O Gorman tweeting the world inviting them here & offering own door accommodation within months, despite record Homelessness & Housing Crisis. Our own young working people having to pay extortionate rents & knowing they will never own their own homes watching what’s going on. The sooner the Greens & ROG are destroyed the better.
@Thomas Sheridan: ha have you been through
Ashbourne in the last 3 years. Road works still on going just for bleeping bike lanes . Roads narrowed. Extra traffic fumes with traffic at a halt from 6 am during day and night on your bike Cabbage head ryan needs a good kick up his cycling shorts
@Kevin Kerr: Oh I’m sure he’s very varied and funny.. no idea why that’s a positive for a politician, personally I’d prefer competency over being varied and funny, but that seems a bridge to far for most in current Gov.
@Kevin Kerr: if I wanted humour I’d put on a repeat of the Royale Family……. not some weirdo advertising/ boasting in multiple languages about own door free housing while over 3000 native children are seeking homeless shelters/ a roof over their heads on a winters night
@Frank Mc Carthy: oh and by the way, whilst we do have a housing crisis, there are not “3,000 native children seeking a roof over their head on a winters night”
@Kevin Kerr: Correct Kevin, it’s even worse, it’s 4,418 Irish children classed homeless. Not that you or your employers in Govt care about children. Shameless Shill.
@SV3tN8M4: they are not seeking a roof over their head on a winters night, and they are not all native Irish, far from it. Facts matter as you guys try to twist the narrative that somehow these “Irish” children have nowhere to sleep at night, and that foreigners get preferential treatment over them
@Max: that’s exactly why they want the voting age reduced. A nice way to take advantage of kids who want to do right for the environment but don’t know the real agenda.
Roderick O’Gorman, doing as much if not more harm to Ireland than Oliver Cromwell ever did . Can’t wait to see him and his party disappear from politics for ever .
Hopefully you and your poxy party will be eliminated from the political landscape once and for all. It is truly a disgrace the damage the green party have done to this country and it’s people.
@Darth O’Leary: But while in a minority though, they used the majority government parties’ fear of SF, the fear that made those 2 parties hook up in the first place, to get what they wanted. The Greens were needed to get the government over the line, and they used that to their advantage. Now that there are only months, at most, to the next election, that advantage of theirs is gone and it won’t matter how much the other parties go against the Greens, as any threat the Greens would make now would be an empty one.
@Ben F: Micheal Martin bent the knee to the Greens in order not to be the first Fianna Fail leader not to be Taoiseach, an individuals aspirations were put above that of the Nation. Power seeker Varadkar also let the Greens run riot, just to be in power & then did a runner, the real reasons for, we have yet to find out. The Greens placed massive hardship on working families & enriched the Energy supply companies & others on the backs of ordinary people. ROG has destroyed the social fabric of our society & caused massive social divisions. He has singlehandedly destroyed Tourism in just 2 years along the entire Western Seaboard. His tweet has been a massive pull factor & led to record numbers arriving here. If Greens & ROG are put back in Govt, it will see people take to the streets.
@Pat Hazzard: democracy of homelessness, no health care, children on waiting lists, none of which have nothing to do with SF. So go
Ahead and vote more misery on the people of Ireland.
@H Woo: So did all parties. Even the late great Leo Varadkar, who ran away, personally objected to houses in his own constituency. But don’t let that stop your lies and misinformation.
@H Woo:’SF for years by default have objected to homes being built” on public lands given to private developers so no chance of affordable houses at least finish your sentences
@Joe Kelly: Around half the homeless are foreign born and yet every party in the Dail, including SF, are in favour of increasing the numbers arriving so the homeless issue will ger worse rather than better. This is what the people’s representatives want so you reap what you sow.
@Pat Hazzard: what democracy? FG/FG forget about the dirty deeds some of their members got up to. Have you forgotten how FF bankrupted the country, made us all pay for it and FG well the rich got richer and the poor got poorer with them. Looking after their own. The amount of money this government have wasted, our money and think a measly few pounds a week will keep us happy. Time the Irish electorate woke up and taught them a lesson.
@Pat Hazzard: FF crashed the country, not SF. FG forced austerity onto the Irish people to pay off the private gambling debts of Banks and Finance Houses, not SF. FG has had two leaders in a row, while holding the Taoiseach Office, abdicate in the middle of disasters of their own making. FG supported by FF have caused the Housing and Health emergencies, squandered vast amounts of Tax Payers money on RTE, NCH, Bike Sheds and Security huts,,, ROG supported by FF and FG invited the world to come to Ireland in multiple languages in midst of a Housing Emergency… but, but SF.
@Michale Kane: They are not in power however you woudl be naive to think the opposition constantly bringing up a matter in public has no bearing on Government policy. If that is the case then you woul dhave to give credit to this government increasing social housing provision.
@Michale Kane: No, austerity was caued by narrowing the tax base because we were awash with taxes related to building and a huge increase in public spending. Pretty much the same as now with the current government increasing public spending on the back of corporation taxes. Of course the opposition, including SF, are looking for even more spending and a further narrowing of the tax base. We never learn and when it crashes again who are we going to blame?
@The next small thing: it would be naive to think that those that have been in Gov for over 100 yrs, who have caused and worsened issues like housing and health, who have been promising to fix for almost a decade, as it continues to get worse, will suddenly now start to care and even attempt to fix the problems.
Maybe for a change stop trying to come up with hypothesis of what may or may not happen if a party never in power got into power and examine the history and facts of what those in power have done. History does repeat itself, especially when no action taken from learned lessons.
@Michale Kane: well said. People out there blaming Sinn Fein for all the issues in the land. When they’ve never been given a chance to have a go at fixing things. Yes they got it wrong in the last referendum, and I think they realise that. But if you think that by voting independent, or some Ireland first crowd of nutters is going to get rid of this current shower of wasters, you’re very badly informed and practically guaranteeing another five years of the same. Sinn Fein are the only party big enough to give them a run for their money. If there was another large party capable of giving the government a fight I’d seriously think about them.I despise this government. Time to give the shinners a go. Could it really be any worse than what we’ve got. Vote Sinn Fein.
@Michale Kane: I am no fan of the current government, especially on how the public sector have ran rings around them with spending/delays on projects. However why should anyone vote for SF if they are saying one thing and then plan on doing something else if they get into power. I am basing my opinion on SF on what they are saying they would do, are you saying I shouldn’t take what they are saying at face value.
@The next small thing: Your assertion that half the homeless people are foreign is nonsense. None of those seeking international protection have access to any services nor are they counted in the homeless figures.. so please stick to facts.. not the gibber ya hear at the end of a bar. We’ve had a homeless crisis in this country for a decade now.. long before the war in Ukraine and a surge in asylum seekers. That’s primarily on FG as they’ve been in power for 14 years..
@Brian: You are correct that IPA’s are not counted in homeless figures, however, once they are given leave to remain they get the same access to both social housing supports and are included in the homeless numbers. Yes we have had a homeless crisis for the last decade and yet people think adding more unskilled people into the mix (who won’t be able to fund their own accommodation regardless if they are working or not) will not make the sitution worse.
The Green Party is going to “tell the Taoiseach…” ? Talk about delusions of grandeur….. absolutely no need, no benefit in any election before full term. Spring ’25 is soon enough…
@John Moylan: Yeah, but they’ve been used to getting everything they want, since while they were the smaller party, they were able to use the threat of being able to collapse the coalition, and force an early election, to get what they want. Guess those threats are only hot air now, seeing as an election now has to be held within months
This Brussels Vichy Dublin government would have the election right in the middle of giving away benefits packages all around.
Call me cynical.
They wanted to buy votes.
But I can never stop thinking about how much they spent on their bike shed, gate shed, and the most expensive hospital in Europe.
@Free Mee: Rodders invited them in at the behest of Davos & Brussels
He’s not intelligent enough to understand he is a sock puppet (or maybe he is) either way he is a vile individual. I had the unfortunate experience of being in his company recently (within the last 12 months) & I felt unclean after the encounter, just his presence & what he was saying, the war he was saying it & his overall demeanour. Horrible person.
@Jim: ‘The Irish Republic is entitled to, and hereby claims, the allegiance of every Irishman and Irishwoman. The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue the happiness and prosperity of the whole nation and of all its parts, cherishing all the children of the nation equally and oblivious of the differences carefully fostered by an alien government, which have divided a minority from the majority in the past’
Guess what, the leaders of 1916 think that you’re intolerant, bring in immigrants, kick out racists.
@Brian D’Arcy: we have islamic fundamentalists already in Ireland, financing terror abroad. Ordinary I ignore people like you completely and utterly but on this occasion.. do please, let us know what makes you think that opposition to this is racism?
@Jim: His previous explanation for him being photographed with a particular disgusting vile individual in Britain, was enough for me, anybody else would have been castigated for being in the company of that Pedo, but our Woke media cover up a lot of stuff.
@S Suilleabhain: What will a vote for SF give us? A few more Northern imports like Niall Donnelly ( aka Ó Donnghaile ) to run things down South. In other words a take over by a Northern party. Vote ABSF anybody but SF.
@sean weir: Who controls SF? What input has SF in the South to the running of SF.. Adams a TD for Louth. McGuinness put forward for President. Donnelly leader of SF in the Seanad. Gildernew running in the Midlands North-West in the European elections. McDonald crowned as leader in the South.
I can’t wait to see the back of FFG AND GREENS especially roderic and Helen McEntee oh and don’t forget mehole the 3 most despised politicians in Ireland who sold our sovereignty invited half the third world to our little island and the woke agenda and their infinite amount of Genders what a load of BS the wilful waste of tax payers money oh and don’t forget “lessons will be learned” this lot are beyond hateful they are dictated from Europe and are puppets they don’t have irish people interests. They have to go
@Vincent Hickey: The legacy of that despised three failures, is that they destroyed Ireland & have destroyed the State, all self interest over the good of the Nation. Mc Entee was playing for an EU role with her Woke agenda & forgot the bread & butter issues affecting the working Irish people, who she abandoned.
@SV3tN8M4: she never knew about them, how would she completely elected by the parish pimping in Meath…that’s what it is they pimp themselves out for the gravy train, but she never had any of the skillsets like a proper understanding of people, history or empathy.. she’s a left wing Lucinda creighton. She ain’t done yet, pascal has lasted this long for example (shiver)
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Election tomorrow will do, and we get sf in for real change in this country, we cannot let the far right racists split the vote and hand ffg another 5 years
ROG saying when he wants the election is good. We know it’s imminent so might as well happen. But of course so many here hate the Greens it’s being portrayed as a bad thomg because Greens.
@Rosie Martin: They speak of “clarity”, when it’s they that caused confusion with their Lies & Misinformation. They alone are responsible, so are providing clarity on their own Misinformation. How many times was Harris & Micheal Martin quoted as saying, there would be no General Election, they were going to serve their full term, all lies & it was clear months ago, when no Bye Elections were going to be held & they had all their Selection Conventions held. Clarity on their Lies & Misinformation should be the headline.
@kevin rock: RTE the “public service broadcaster” guilty of Lies & Misinformation will do anything for this Govt after their near Billion Euro Bailout, there is no separation between Govt & RTE now, it’s nothing but the Tass News Agency arm of Govt.
@SV3tN8M4: Gript media the only credible source of information they are the only journalist that are credible and ask our bought politicians the hard awkard questions. They call out the government B.S. AND LIES
I tell you some thing now I’ll tell he’s not going to full fill his promise as he’s never fulfilled anything other than false promises false hope false support false caring he’s only good at ar se kissing and show boating.
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Identify devices based on information transmitted automatically 88 partners can use this feature
Always Active
Your device might be distinguished from other devices based on information it automatically sends when accessing the Internet (for instance, the IP address of your Internet connection or the type of browser you are using) in support of the purposes exposed in this notice.
Save and communicate privacy choices 69 partners can use this special purpose
Always Active
The choices you make regarding the purposes and entities listed in this notice are saved and made available to those entities in the form of digital signals (such as a string of characters). This is necessary in order to enable both this service and those entities to respect such choices.
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