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In the Irish Times Former Irish President Mary McAleese urges Ireland to show kindness to strangers and speaks of ‘cowardly’ bishops.

By Patsy McGarry

Former president Mary McAleese has said it bothers her greatly to see people who are strangers to Ireland treated in ways that are contrary “to the ethic of our country and our people”.

Without specific reference to protests against accommodating asylum seekers in Achill, Ballinamore, and Oughterard, she spoke on Saturday of people who had to leave their homes and:

suddenly they have nowhere, and nothing. And now they rely on the kindness of strangers …  My God tells me I have to be the stranger who is kind. That simple . . . it bothers me greatly finding that [in] a country that I’m so proud of, that sometimes people are not experiencing the kindness that I know is the ethic of our country and our people.
She pointed out: “We relied on it [kindness] ourselves so often when we went as emigrants to other countries, poor, our two hands the one length, looking for opportunity.”

Continue reading @ the Irish Times.

Strangers & Cowardly Bishops

In the Irish Times Former Irish President Mary McAleese urges Ireland to show kindness to strangers and speaks of ‘cowardly’ bishops.

By Patsy McGarry

Former president Mary McAleese has said it bothers her greatly to see people who are strangers to Ireland treated in ways that are contrary “to the ethic of our country and our people”.

Without specific reference to protests against accommodating asylum seekers in Achill, Ballinamore, and Oughterard, she spoke on Saturday of people who had to leave their homes and:

suddenly they have nowhere, and nothing. And now they rely on the kindness of strangers …  My God tells me I have to be the stranger who is kind. That simple . . . it bothers me greatly finding that [in] a country that I’m so proud of, that sometimes people are not experiencing the kindness that I know is the ethic of our country and our people.
She pointed out: “We relied on it [kindness] ourselves so often when we went as emigrants to other countries, poor, our two hands the one length, looking for opportunity.”

Continue reading @ the Irish Times.
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6 comments:

  1. DaithiOD8:35 PM, November 11, 2019

    How many of us emigrated to Syria?

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  2. Barry Gilheany11:04 PM, November 11, 2019

    How many Irish people emigrated to the USA and Britain down the generations and what sort of reception did they receive?

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  3. Barry Gilheany4:46 PM, November 12, 2019

    How many of us emigrated to Nazi Germany or the USSR?

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  4. DaithiOD3:26 PM, November 13, 2019

    It’s a shame you couldn’t migrate to Nazi Germany you fucking faggit.

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  5. Barry Gilheany9:38 PM, November 13, 2019

    Daith

    You may wish to consult a spellchecker before firing off homophobic epithets.

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  6. DaithiOD5:11 AM, November 14, 2019

    Everything was typed as it should of been. Save the spelling lessons for the Syrians.

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