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Just to state that I have submitted a letter to the @IrishTimes as a right to reply to #thePutinPiece in which one accusation levelled against those of us who participated in the #Liveline discussion is that we are right wing and engage in Muslim bashing. My letter may not appear
But in the meanwhile, in an attempt to publicly defend myself, I want to post a few thing’s from the IT in order to try to defend my name. Here is one article I write for the IT in June 2013 when I fasted for Ramadan in solidarity with Muslims in Ireland irishtimes.com/life-and-style…
And here is a piece by @conorkane covering a major event that I organised in order to try to increase understanding and acceptance of Muslims in Ireland in 2017: irishtimes.com/news/social-af…
This week Noel Grealish was outgoing chair of the Oireachtas golf club, when 81 guests from all over the country, including Minister Darragh Calleary, went on the piss together in Galway.
#golfgate
#golfgate
Noel Grealish in the past, claimed that people seeking asylum in Ireland are here to "sponge off the system".
In 2008 Darragh Calleary opposed a direct provision centre in his area because it would "drive tourists away".
Just a sample of Oireachtas members' approaches to DP
In 2008 Darragh Calleary opposed a direct provision centre in his area because it would "drive tourists away".
Just a sample of Oireachtas members' approaches to DP
Fast forward to this week & we've a situation where some people who demonised asylum seekers, left them in dreadful conditions, where Covid19 could spread rapidly, are having a jolly in Galway while the virus runs riot in Direct Provision centres.
Hailey will be on #liveline shortly to explain why she sent this card to Jean Claude Juncker @joeliveline 
I attended secondary school in the 1980s. In my first week, standing against a wall on the peripheries of a school concert, a boy said something to me and I replied to him. A teacher ran at me and punched me in the stomach. #liveline
I remember sliding down the wall, the back of my head hitting off a radiator as I blacked out. That was my introduction to a place infected completely by a culture of bullying, a place where violence seemed to seep from the walls.
Corporal punishment was outlawed in Ireland in 1982, but nobody told some of our teachers. One ancient relic, an algebra teacher, offered an amnesty to boys who had failed to complete his daily tests. Three wallops of his cane to the hand if you owned up, six if you didn't.
