• Short plays about (racist) Ireland – 3

    On 20 June, International Refugee Day, Another mass deportation to Nigeria from Ireland took place. According to Joe Moore of Anti Deportation Ireland (ADI: Hostels were raided at 5am approx this morning. The information I have to date is: Carriick-on-Suir, one woman and her three children taken Ashbourne House, Cork, one woman and her three…

  • And now – Israel goes for African asylum seekers

    Last night right wing demonstrators, including Israeli membersof Knesset attacked African asylum seekers in the south of Tel Aviv http://972mag.com/africans-attacked-in-tel-aviv-protest-mks-infiltrators-are-cancer/46537/ The statement by Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu last week regarding the ‘infiltration’ of African asylum seekers via the Israel-Egypt border, is indicative not only of Israeli state racism, but also of the West’s approach…

  • Short plays about (racist) Ireland, 2

    Met Micheal Martin (Fianna Fail leader and former minister) at a do in Cork. I: we did meet before in  2005, on a Questions and Anwers programme after the 2004 Citizenship Referendum, when you told me you knew a Nigerian woman who had quintuplets, had one in Nigeria and hopped on a plane to have…