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Tuesday March 22, 2005 13:47

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and Blonde Ministers.

This week the minster of Justice, Michael mc Dowell addressed the Garda Siochana (his police force) on several issues.
Improvements to their housing.
What he terms "SF/IRA" criminality with very special references made to two events outside the jurisdiction of his department in Northern Ireland of the UK.
And reminded everyone that he supports the GFA (to wash hands of ethnicity issues and crucify the Christ).

Meanwhile the local "experts" on the Good Friday thing had earlier the same Dail holiday weekend
spoken out against his policies.

He made no reference to either speed lasers or
the deportation of a young black chap in his school uniform to Nigeria last week.

if the cap fits wear it...

This issue concerns many and here is selected reactions to the case -

+ 1. The Roman Catholic Church.

Bishop Raymond Field, has hit out against the government’s new revised arrangements for migrant parents of Irish children applying for permission to remain in the State, saying that they are causing heartache and desperation.

Under the new residency laws parents are required to formally renounce any entitlement to be reunited with a spouse or with their children currently living outside the State.

“In a country whose Constitution recognises the family as the natural primary and fundamental unit of Society, with inalienable and imprescriptible rights, we firmly believe that the heartache, desperation and anguish, which families suffer as a result of these procedures cannot be justified,” said Bishop Field, Auxilliary Bishop of Dublin and Chairman of the newly constituted Irish Commission for Justice and Social Affairs (ICJSA).

He pointed out that the right to live in a united family was constantly reaffirmed in the social teaching of the Church, and resonated with Irish mothers and fathers “who know too well the grief and loneliness of enforced separation.”

At the time of the year when Irish people all over the world were celebrating their identity, there was a responsibility at home to similarly “welcome the stranger – and their families - to our shores,” he said.

The ICJSA, which is a committee of the Bishops’ Conference, has called on Justice Minister Michael McDowell to amend the new residency regulations to ensure that basic justice is ensured for migrant families with Irish born children who are being forced, unjustly, to sign away their right to live as a family unit.

“Many migrant families living here in Ireland, along with their Irish born children, wait in fear and trepidation on the eve of the deadline: 31 March 2005, as they lodge their residency applications. Their hope is overshadowed by the knowledge that, even with a positive response, they will now be prohibited from being reunited with their family members abroad,” said Bishop Field.

The ICJSA, formerly known as the Commission for Justice and Peace, was established by the Irish Bishops’ Conference in 1970, one of the many initiatives taken by the Bishops to implement the teachings of the Second Vatican Council.

The bishop’s warning came as students from a secondary school protested for three hours outside the Dail against the forced deportation of their school mate 18 year old Olunkunkle Eluhanla's last Tuesday. Mr Eluhanla was still wearing his school uniform and his classmates from Pobalscoil Iosolde in Palmerstown told the Irish Independent that Mr Eluhanla, who had fled Nigeria after his father was murdered, was not even allowed to collect his possessions from his flat.
- CatholicIreland Parishes (CIP) a project of CatholicIreland.net.

€ 2. the Green Party

he Green Party has called on the Government to inquire into the circumstances surrounding the deportation of Olunkunle Eluhanla. Mr. Eluhanla (19) was a student at Palmerston Community School up until his arrest and deportation on a government charter flight to Nigeria last Tuesday 15 March

Green Party Justice spokesperson Ciarán Cuffe TD said today that, “Mr. Eluhanla was deported in his school uniform without identity papers. I am told that he was briefly detained in Alagbon Prison in Nigeria and that he was subsequently attacked and molested. I am calling on the Minister for Justice to show some compassion and allow Mr. Eluhanla to sit his Leaving Certificate in Ireland. ”

“I have tabled questions to the Minister McDowell in regard to this issue, and I am hoping that he will reconsider the deportation Order and allow this young man return to complete his studies in Ireland.

“It is wrong to deport someone who is weeks away from sitting his Leaving Certificate. I believe that there should be an inquiry into the events surrounding his arrest, deportation and subsequent treatment in Nigeria. Mr. Eluhanla should be allowed complete his studies.

“As Ireland continues its St. Patrick’s Festival celebrations it is worthwhile remembering that Patrick himself was an immigrant who suffered poverty and imprisonment in his quest for justice.”
Questions Tabled to the Minister for Justice follow

“To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to make an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the deportation of Olunkunle Eluhanla, a student at Palmerston Community School in his school uniform without identity papers to Nigeria, and to make a statement on the matter?”

“To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to explain his reasons for the deportation of Olunkunle Eluhanla, a student at Palmerston Community School in his school uniforms without identity papers to Nigeria, to ask whether he is aware that Mr. Eluhanla was subsequently attacked and molested and to make a statement on the matter?”

Green Party
16/17 Suffolk Street, Dublin 2, Ireland.
Tel: +353 (0)1 6790012, Fax: +353 (0)1 6797168, Email: info@greenparty.ie
Green Party / Comhaontas Glas 2004

3. @* the students and lefties on their various hubs.
http://www.ucdsu.net/newswire.php?story_id=511
http://www.fairsociety.com/press/listing/20050316114049.html

4. $ our American friends and activist groups of the UNHCR who have taken an interest in the Minister, and his trickle down effects, since he passed legislation which was praised by extremist racist groups in the USA, and earned him the nickname KKK Mc Dowell.
http://www.usaforunhcr.org/news2.cfm?ID=2654&catid=2&cat=Hot%20News
http://unrefugees.org/news2.cfm?ID=2654&catid=2&cat=Hot%20News

Lastly but not leastly.
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mise Mé Fein, an t-uasal Iosaf Mac Diarmada.
the ipsiphi.

The minister for Justice Michael mc Dowell, has become an unwelcome focus of interests which are counter to the good governance and security of Europe, however well his intentions might appear to those of his constituency, (the beurocrats and foot soldiers of the Garda Siochana), (the voters of the Progressive Democrats) the long term effects of his deportations on ethnic diversity and an end to racism in the north of Europe as much as in Ireland either side of his jurisdiction, can not be much longer ignored or underestimated.

Make it simple-

My Dear Minister,
How many Black Gardaí are there?

I remember during the 1980s before your time, there was amongst many other cultural initiatives, an attempt to bring Irish society forward to multi-culturalism by favouring the appointment of Gardaí who belonged to religious minorities in the Irish State. Thus we saw members of the Cof I, presbytarian and jewish Gardaí be seen to serve the state, and serve it well.

yours etc.,

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link to the Minister's speech-
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=69057&condense_comments=false#comment103191
last link to the minister's speed lasers failure-

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make it really simple.

by -

Tue Mar 22, 2005 13:50

There are NO black Gardaí.

theres one !!

by Barry

Tue Mar 22, 2005 14:56

Well he used to be there at any rate with the branch a few years ago.

Yeah

by Desperate Dan

Tue Mar 22, 2005 15:22

You are right Barry, I remember him clearly because I watched him at a demo and it took me a wee while to work out what he was. Definitely a Brancher. He was Black. But there was another Mixed Race guy who was (maybe still is) a uniform copper. There were a few press reports a couple of years back where he was wheeled out to 'prove' the Guards were not racist.

well spotted Dan

Tue Mar 22, 2005 15:28

I know this sounds a bit racist but a black fella is the last type youd expect to see with the branch. Over the years you get used to the guys with sideburns, beer bellies red faces and whiskey breath. This guy doesnt seem to be much cop though, he was very fidgety and obtrusive and didnt blend in at all.

Jesus I hate the branch, they are utter slime no matter what colour they come in.

i know this is a bit off topic, but

by barry

Tue Mar 22, 2005 15:39

in order to blend in they also use an old fat woman with glasses, and sometimes bring their kids with them when they follow you about so they can pose as a normal family.

them branchmen, crafty and low down in equal measure.

I heard a rumour

by jeff

Tue Mar 22, 2005 16:45

that there was a Chinese one in the drug squad, she was meant to be well fit, but she was going round the Ormond (?) at the time( mid nineties), pointing out de dealers to the filth.

Anyone any other alleged stories?

I wonder if ??

Tue Mar 22, 2005 17:47

Asylum seekers and foreign nationals are being targetted by the filth to become informers ??
of course the gards would never do that to vulnerable people, and take advantage of unfortunate circumstances

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nosirree bob, god bless the boys in blue.

Barry is a racist...

Tue Mar 22, 2005 18:36

I am not 'well spotted' at all, how dare you make this presumption! On the contrary I have swirly stripes :)

Anyway all the guards are, to use a favourite term of my aged Dad, "Black Enamel Bastards'.

there's one! honestly there is = BIG SWINGING MICKEY!

by ipsiphi

Tue Mar 22, 2005 18:56

I have this day bought a post-card, which shall by evening post be on it's way to Minister Mc Dowell's public address, as Minister of Justice, at Leinster House.
I shall share with ye all the contents and image-

It shows Copita de Nieve, the now dead albino Gorilla who for years charmed the citizens of Barcelona whilst living out his captivity and dying from skin cancer brought on by the depleting ozone level.

The Albino Gorilla was and is a symbol of my city.
On the message side, is a wee Latin axiom,
"and who shall guard your guards?"

and a simple question
"how many blackguards have you got?"

and a simple statement of fact-
"My security clearance is higher than yours".

I await the response of the Blonde Minister for Justice and his justification of his actions which are further stoking the possibilty of west african terrorist retaliation against the Irish state in the generations to come.

to stripey Dan

Tue Mar 22, 2005 18:57

That was a favourite saying of my own late fathers who hated the guards worse than the peelers.

Not the most politically correct type of chap at the best of times, im thankfull he never met that black branchman.

I honestly shudder to think what he might have said to him.

Brrrrrr

Suspend cruel and heartless deportations urges Rabbitte

by Pat Rabbite

Tue Mar 22, 2005 20:20

This government now appears to be running a deportation policy for those who seek refuge in this country, certainly in respect of some of those selected for expulsion, that is devoid of any degree of compassion or humanity.

This is the only conclusion that can be drawn from shocking events we have seen during the past week including the deportation of a leaving certificate student to Nigeria where he has neither family or friends; reports of terrified children going into hiding to avoid the knock on the door from the Immigration Service; a mother being so traumatised by her deportation that she had to be medically sedated.

At the same time mass deportations of frightened immigrants has become an almost weekly feature of Irish life, with aircraft being chartered at enormous expense to the Irish taxpayer.

When the government was rushing through the Citizenship Referendum last year, we were told that once that was enacted people who were already here but without any legal right to remain would be treated in a sympathetic way. Instead vulnerable, frightened people are being treated in a manner that can only be described as cruel and heartless. I do not believe that this is what the majority of Irish people want.

What we are now witnessing appears to reflect the ethos of the Department of Justice. This has always been driven by a security agenda and its institutional response is to regard people from abroad as a threat rather than a potential asset to the country. A different Minister for Justice might act as a restraining influence on the Department’s agenda. Unfortunately this Minister for Justice is an enthusiastic supporter of the most extreme views in his Department.

As a country that has exported entire generations of young people in search of a better life abroad and when our own Taoiseach was only last week seeking commitments from the Bush administration of sympathetic treatment of Irish illegals in the United States we, of all people, should treat those seeking a better life in our country with some degree of humanity.

It is time to suspend the current programme of deportation to allow a review of the entire system. Institutionalised cruelty must not be allowed to become part of public policy in this country.

http://www.labour.ie/press/listing/20050322124434.html

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Fact is Minister, you've no idea what's going to happen to those little Nigerian kids, and *who* has invested in their education, both at school and extra-curricular, and who is going to care for them now, and at what cost it is valued.
- But you will.

The British version-

by BBC

Tue Mar 22, 2005 20:47

Ireland's government has rejected an appeal for a deported Nigerian student to be allowed back into the country to complete his high school exams.

Olukunle Eluhanla, 19, was among more than 30 Nigerians deported last week after their asylum applications failed.

Opposition politicians have called for the student - apparently deported in his school uniform - to be allowed back to the Irish Republic from Nigeria.

But the Irish government said reversing the decision would set a bad precedent.

'Chaos' warning

The case of Mr Eluhanla, now in the Nigerian capital, Lagos, has sparked widespread concern.

He has been pictured in Irish newspapers wearing his uniform from Palmerstown Community School in Dublin.

The teenager, who arrived in Dublin unaccompanied two years ago, says he has no family in Nigeria but that supporters in Ireland have arranged somewhere for him to stay.

However, Irish Justice Minister Michael McDowell rejected calls for Mr Eluhanla to be permitted to return to take his Leaving Certificate exams in June.

He said the case had been examined twice by independent bodies, whose findings had cast doubt on parts of the teenager's asylum claim.

Protest planned

Mr McDowell also warned that Ireland's asylum system would fall into chaos if the government granted automatic asylum to orphans.

The head of the Irish Refugee Council called the deportation "inexcusable".

Children and their mothers are said to be in hiding in the Irish town of Athlone because they face being deported back to Nigeria.

Last week's deportation also left some children in Ireland while their mothers were returned to Lagos.

Opponents of the policy, including some of the student's classmates, plan to protest outside the Irish parliament building on Wednesday.

Around 15,000 Nigerians are thought to be in Ireland, with most of them living in Dublin.

Ireland has only witnessed significant immigration relatively recently, following its economic success over the past decade.

regarding the re-admission agreement between Ireland and Nigeria, in the context of deportations

by irish refugee council

Tue Mar 22, 2005 20:58

A re-admission agreement was entered into in August 2001 between the Irish and Nigerian Governments to facilitate the repatriation of nationals of one state residing in the other state who do not - or who no longer - fulfil the criteria for entry and residence. [1] This was the fourth re-admission agreement signed by Ireland, following agreements with Romania, Poland and Bulgaria.

In the light of the apparent imminent deportation of dozens of Nigerians under the re-admission agreement, the Irish Refugee Council urges the Irish Government to meet its own obligations under the Agreement.

The following provisions are particularly noteworthy:

* Ireland has committed itself under the Agreement to safeguarding the human rights and dignity of those being returned, during the deportation process and when repatriation has taken place. The human rights of all persons deported under the Agreement must be respected. This includes the prohibition of undue force, torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment during the deportation process.
* Given the lack of independent monitoring, what measures have been put in place to ensure that the dignity and human rights of persons returned to Nigeria are respected?
* The Agreement provides for the establishment of a Coordinating Committee, comprising immigration and consular officials and 'other relevant experts'.
* Has this body been established and if so, what 'relevant experts' have been appointed to it?
* Has it carried out its functions under the agreement?
* The repatriation of persons under the agreement is subject to certain conditions, including that the repatriated persons must be integrated into the state they are returned to (Article VII (c)). This provision implies a long-term commitment by the returning state.
* What assurances has Ireland received from Nigeria regarding the integration of persons returned to Nigeria and what measures have been put in place to ensure that such integration takes place?
* What commitment does the Irish government have that 'returned' Nigerians will not be sanctioned - imprisoned or 'fined' - purely for having fled, sought asylum in Ireland and been returned?

[1] Agreement Between the Government of Ireland and the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on Immigration Matters.

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in short minister how much are you going to cost us in lost happy faces and bright minds?

Mc dowell replies - (one in five own a holiday home his is in roscommon)

by Irish Independent

Wed Mar 23, 2005 13:13

THE YOUNG Nigerian who had been studying for his Leaving Certificate and was deported last week told gardai he was 21 years old, Justice Minister Michael McDowell said in the Dail last night.

And he insisted that Elukanio Olukunie, who was living in Palmerstown, Co Dublin, was not wearing his Scoil Iosolde uniform when he was deported to Lagos, Nigeria.

Some reports have said he was wearing the uniform and is aged 19.

Mr McDowell said the youth had arrived in Ireland seeking asylum in February 2002. He had been returned to Lagos after due process was made available to him.

His claim for asylum had been assessed by two independent bodies - the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioners and the Refugee Appeals Tribunal - and both recommended he did not quality for refugee status.

The Minister was replying to several deputies.

Deputies claimed the student had been dumped in Lagos, where he had since been assaulted and where he had no family.

But the minister said the charter flight to Nigeria was preceded by a senior Garda advance party, which situated itself in Lagos a day prior to the charter and remained there for 12 hours after the charter returned.

"the Gardaí have no authoritiy in Nigeria, Mc Dowell's jurisidiction ends at the border with Northern Ireland"

All adults, including this man, were handed a letter by a member of the Garda team informing them of the presence of two officers in the advance party and that, upon disembarkation, they could contact them through the Nigerian immigration authorities for any necessary assistance.

"The person concerned did not seek any such assistance," Mr McDowell said.

The minister said when people come here from Nigeria they come through other countries.

"most notably the UK which offers the most refugee and asylum assitance in the European Union and has long fulfilled its post-imperialist obligations in this regard."

There had been a notable pattern of unaccompanied minors arriving in Ireland claiming refugee status and, in the case of Nigerians, there were in the region of 105 unaccompanied minors in the last two years, he said.

Mr McDowell also said he needed to make it clear that the gardai offered to escort this man to his house to collect his belongings before they deported him, but he declined the offer.

If the minister was to do what deputies were asking, he said, no person in any form of education and, by implication, none of their family members could ever be deported from the State.

"Ireland would be sending out a message to the world that it is assuming an obligation to provide education to those who, having been found not be to be in need of international protection, have otherwise no right to be in the State," he said.

"saints and scholars"

He also told shouting deputies that they might find themselves severely embarrassed "when all the facts come tumbling out on this."

"as if he has them"

bulk of text Irish Independent (today's date)-
http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=9&si=1362906&issue_id=12237
one in five homes are empty-
http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=9&si=1362848&issue_id=12237

the boy himself speaks- whilst other kids to get "you don't live in a racist state therapy"

by rte - tcm - bbc

Wed Mar 23, 2005 13:24

good digital, VR high quality.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0321/news1pm.html

in addition students at a school in Co Monaghan (where Mc Dowell's jurisidiction ends) are to receive trauma counselling after the deportation of their classmate from a Co Monaghan school, it has emerged.

Ike Okolie, 15, was sent back to Nigeria last week with his mother, younger brother and younger sister.

He had been a transition year student at Castleblaney Community College and had achieved several higher level As in the Junior Certificate.

Principal Gerry Hand said the teenager’s classmates were very upset by the sudden deportation.

“There’s certainly a number of them who still haven’t come to terms with this so we have a trauma counsellor coming in tomorrow to talk to the group that are most affected,” he said.

Mr Okolie had attended school last Monday morning as normal but when he went home, he was detained with his family in a garda station.

“Essentially Ike left here at lunchtime and was deported back to Nigeria in his school uniform without any of his personal belongings,” said Mr Hand.

The school left an empty spot on the stage later that week during its production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves to mark the absence of cast member Mr Okolie.

Mr Hand described Mr Okolie as an "absolute model student" and added that his mother, Nkechie, was very involved in local voluntary groups and charities.

“An absolutely fantastic woman, not someone who just came and used the system,” he said.

Mr Hand said the deportation was difficult for staff and the school’s 325 pupils to deal with.

“We’ve had a number of students that would have died in car accidents but we always came to terms with it because there was a coffin and there was a service and there was closure. This is a funny experience because there’s no closure.”

He added: “We know he’s alive and somewhere in Nigeria but that’s it – he just disappeared in the thin of night.”

The school is organising a meeting on Thursday to discuss setting up a campaign for the return of Mr Okolie. The meeting will also hear proposals from students to set up a scholarship fund so that the teenager and his siblings can continue their education in Nigeria.

Meanwhile, supporters of Olunkunle Eluhanla (19), a Leaving Cert student who was deported last week, are to protest outside Tourism Ireland’s offices in Amsterdam and Glasgow this week.

A Tourism Ireland spokesman said she would not comment because the protests were not directed against tourism policy.
http://breaking.tcm.ie/2005/03/21/story194699.html

You can also listen to the Headmaster there speak on the same RTé program-
http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0321/news1pm.html

Meanwhile time to look back at a BBC article which ponders the new proposals to segregate black kids in education in the UK, and asks "why do mothers send their boys to be educated in Africa?"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4349837.stm

Well

by Dan

Wed Mar 23, 2005 18:41

Why don't we all refer to him as 'Dacha McDowell' then, evoking the feudalism of Tsarist Russia. Split level holiday home on a lake in Roscommom, compared to a homeless schoolboy beaten and robbed on the streets of Lagos.

Someday-

by community blackguard

Thu Mar 24, 2005 11:54

Irish people with Nigerian surnames, or Irish people with decent levels of melanin and other surnames will live in split level homes as well.
And before that day, many "rank & file" gardaí will fulfil orders they don't like, many unpopular ministers will come and go, and many junior certificate students will learn.

we call it "progressing" to "democracy".
= reclaim "progressive democracy"!

link to all the photos of the RAR action at Leinster House.

Mr Mc Dermott, would you mind explaining something to me

by traditional pre-neo-conservative anarcho-syndicalist

Thu Mar 24, 2005 17:49

I know we're all moving the rights of man as defined at the french revolution, first international and international declarations; fraternity ; liberty ; the republic ; equality ; inclusive democracy ; environmentalism, pacifism ; discourse and concensus ever forward by the use of creative tactics harnessing yet newer generations both old and young at both grass root local community level and transnational levels whilst holding up and demonstrating replicable models of struggle by which the oppressed in the non developed world may finally take control of their political and cultural destinies......

just one thing gets me.

How will a nigerian / turkish / Kyrgyz chess master, radio enthusiast, football playing member of the
Garda Siochana make things better for the working class???

can't answer that last comment all @ all.

by iosaf

Wed Mar 30, 2005 21:39

for the moment I think providing working class kids with basic nutrition at school is more important.
Anyway, the former Chief of Police of Nigeria with whom the Minister for Justice Michael Mc Dowell negotiated to agree joint policing and deportation matters has been arrested in connection to an investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Like the Minister Mc Dowell, Tafa Balogun has a holiday home on which he didn't pay tax. Unlike Minister Mc Dowell he got a school dinner whilst a kid. There has been no comment on this matter from the Ministry of Justice and how this investigation may colour previous agreements made between the Irish and Nigerian state and the trustworthyness of Nigerian assurances of safety for deportees, as instead Minister Mc Dowell is considering an invite to the Masters golf tournament.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4394423.stm

I still can't answer the last question @ all.

Wed Oct 19, 2005 00:08

The Nigerian local government and federal governers have not appeared to improve the situation referred to in the last comment. One governer has just appeared in a court in London charged with money laundering after he attempted to smuggle 1 million through Heathrow at the end of August.

It has become clear that the Nigerian migrant community in some countries (such as Ireland) are suffering inordinately from the mass media perception of corruption and globalised criminalisation.

Of course in Ireland the last months saw a garda swoop on nigerian gangs accused of narco-traffic, we were told by both gardaí and a cross body of local representatives and TDs in that particular area of Dublin (Ahern's constituency) that national criminal intelligence was capable of dealing through national judicial means with that problem.

Thus we know no Nigerian criminal, taken to mean a Nigerian national convicted or accused of a crime in Ireland has been deported in relation to that crime to Nigeria. Nigerians who sell lots of drugs in Dublin goto Irish prison.

Thus who are we deporting back to Nigeria? & why is that we as a society ought care? Well for one in teh last month Europe decided at E.U. level to closely co-ordinate deportation to "sub-saharan countries". This was to assist Morocco in returning an estikmated 30,000 african migrants in its territory awaiting a chance to jump the razor wire fence to the Spanish Ceuta & Melilla enclaves.
But two countries were noted, to not be co-operating with repatriation processes.

Nigeria was one of those countries.
Now if I can qoute chapter & verse on recent political processes as regards the repatriation / deportation of Nigerian migrants to Nigeria as reported at International Summit press conferences by other African states (African Union) and the European Union, and assure you that there has been no significant improvement in guarantees of what awaits them when their flight touches down..,

why is that Mc Dowell is still sending them away.

"Ma'at that blind old Goddess of Egyptian justice who just won't look you in the eye".

Wed Oct 19, 2005 12:53

a) A female drug courier sentenced to 10 years in jail in 1999 for smuggling €50,000 worth of cocaine was granted refugee status in April.

b) A Nigerian mother of four-year-old twins - one of whom is autistic - has been arrested, brutalised, and is awaiting Mc Dowell's decision on her deportation to a state we can't trust.

One of the females at least has friends in the Irish community...

read the Irish independent report this morning
http://unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=9&si=1490083&issue_id=13150

read about the latest stage in Mc Dowell's career:-
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=72514

"Comment 23"... caloo calay! Foreigners pass first test to join Gardaí (& there's a black one!)

Thu Jan 05, 2006 11:32

Michael Mc Dowell has made his first public statement of 2006. It was in response to a report published in an english newspaper which claimed only one foreigner had passed the Garda recruitment process.
Oh well, Mickey the big swinging one was very upset. He's been hiding these last weeks since the Connolly affair when he single-handedly decided article 38 of the constitution wasn't enough to stop his weekly glorious bluster in the press.
This morning The Irish Independent reports that 193 foreigners have passed the first Garda tests.
http://unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=9&si=1536905&issue_id=13503 Of the 6000+ who wanted to be gardaí, this is how they checked the boxes on "race/ethnicity"
75 as 'black Africans', another 5 'other Africans', 322 from Eastern European countries, 119 'others', 112 in 'no other category', and 5,416 'white Irish', including 7 Travellers.

This article "black chaps" was written in response to Mc Dowell's deportation of a schoolboy in uniform to Nigeria, which he then relented. It made me thing he had some type of complex. Which is why I call him "Michael big swinging Mickey Mc Dowell". Because its quite obvious it isn't and for the moment there is still no Garda of African or Carribean ethnic origin in Ireland. But soon there will be.
As one of the later comments above asks-

"will this help the working class?"

Interesting that Jeff calls the cops filth when they are out catching drug dealers!!

by rooster

Thu Jan 05, 2006 16:03

"by jeff Tuesday, Mar 22 2005, 3:45pm
that there was a Chinese one in the drug squad, she was meant to be well fit, but she was going round the Ormond (?) at the time( mid nineties), pointing out de dealers to the filth."

Should it not be the other way around??

No point in posting links to Irish Independent articles

by stool pigeon

Thu Jan 05, 2006 16:55

Irish independent is "subscription only" and many people would have qualms about supporting Sir Anthony's media empire - obviously not applicable to our dear ipsiphi-iosaf.

If you do insist in continuing to post such links, then please at least have the good grace to indicate "subscription required".

re: No point in posting links to Irish Independent articles

by redjade

Thu Jan 05, 2006 17:09

hey Stool

you can access Sir Anthony's archives this way...

http://bugmenot.com/view.php?url=unison.ie

try another media site of your choice...
http://bugmenot.com

Any Junior Government partner must now investigate institutionalised racism & repair the Gardai

by Ethical Iosaf sits in judgement

Sat May 26, 2007 13:04

in January of 2006 after a report published in the English Guardian newspaper, the Irish Independent cast its eye on Garda recruitment. The background details on what Mickey was avoiding at the time are up the page (193 foreigners have passed the first Garda tests.
http://unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=9&si...13503 Of the 6000+ who wanted to be gardaí, this is how they checked the boxes on "race/ethnicity"
75 as 'black Africans', another 5 'other Africans', 322 from Eastern European countries, 119 'others', 112 in 'no other category', and 5,416 'white Irish', including 7 Travellers).

It is impossible to summarize or quantify the damage done to our society, newest citizens' or residents' future, national police force's recruitment base & inter-community relations in the future Ireland by Michael McDowell.

McDowell deported a child in his school-uniform and when forced by international outcry to bring that child home to this country engaged on a campaign of vilification. That there was too much power in one small mind ought have become clear long before the wish of the inner core of FF needed a junior partner to blame & credit for the liberal economic boom which brought new citizens and neighbours to our land.

McDowell is a racist. We do not need racists in charge of immigration policy. We do not need racists in charge of our police.
Childrens' lives were destroyed by the ex-minister's actions. What a dis-service he did our nation what a betrayal of our honour and international obligations. You all deserve your ounce of flesh. Most of all those who were silent, who were not the quickest to comment, write, shout, scream or rant or wave your garters in the air. Take your ounce. Ensure the next ministers with responsibility for these areas of policy and implementation of law are not to be suspected of -
1) covertly supporting a foreign power
2) facilitating a shoot to kill policy.
3) evaluating states in either war or enduring criminal regimes as being safe or trustworthy for return of living people.
4) being a small dicked racist nursing a problem with black men.

In short - no Michael Mc Dowell means "no!" cut his cancer out of the system. That ought be the objective of any decent deputy forming the next government.

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