[Article] Limerick leader: Racists Quit

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Racists Quit
Limerick Leader, 2 August

IT'S official - Limerick people are not racist. An international white-supremacist group, NSRUS, have disbanded their local branch due to the lack of support.

NSRUS, whose motto "Say no to black Ireland" was distributed around the People's Park earlier this year, have withdrawn from Limerick due to the poor response to their racist cause.

The Limerick-based group had been receiving support from fascist groups in the US, who now describe the response to them in Ireland as "pitiful."

Prior to the withdrawal, NSRUS's estimated three Limerick members main activities were the posting of racist stickers and the defacement of walls around the Grattan Street/John Street area of the city.

According to a spokesperson for the local branch of Anti-Fascist Action, Limerick people should be proud of its low level of participation in the controversial group.

Last month, a white-supremacist claiming to represent NSRUS suggested that fellow-racists should confront and take pictures of people associated with asylum seekers in Limerick.

Responding to these comments, Sr Ann Scully of Limerick's Justice and Mercy Office said that she was very concerned about it, but that Limerick was not an especially racist place.

"This has nothing to do with Limerick - racists are probably no more active here than anywhere else," she said.

Oddly enough, the first and last lines in the article don't make all that much sense when put next to each other. Three members eh? Recruitment drive can't have been all that successful then. Give me two days and I could probably find three militant Maoists who think the PDs should be in power, for goodness sake

The Beer Baron

I don't really think it's a case of Limerick not being racist as people just not giving a hoot (word used for the sake of censorship scripts).

Limerick people are racist although not activly so. Growing up there I hear a lot of comments, racist, sexist, everythingist. I'll be a little cheeky here and say that Dr Dré and Bob Marley have done more for racial tolerance in Limerick than anybody else. But I mean christ- ever heard Kelly interviewed on the radio? Perfect example.
Limerick people are quick to blame other people for their sorrows- the thought of foreigners coming in and taking jobs that should by rights belong to them infuriate them. The thought of "dare wimmin" going out with a black man is inconcievable- but it happens. And the resulting dialogue is so hatefilled and oh so predictible.

In honesty that article just reeks of a quick "see Limerick isn't too bad- ok, so over half the kids are bastards and we've got scumbags sitting on an arsenal that'd make Hezbollah green with envy- but at least we're not racists!" - Horrah fur Limrake Ciddy!

Whadda loada crap. You want my honest opinion? If they were recruiting for some Combat18-esque gob****es they'd get no better reaction than if they were recruiting for Greenpeace, Militant Maoists, the PD's, collecting for charity, handing out flyers for a nightclub- whatever. Certainly people don't want "get involved" certainly not in the Peepil's Park they wouldn't.
You're asking them to do something, I mean- that ain't gonna happen is it?

Yes I have a bleak outlook on Limerick.
And why shouldn't I? Having to walk to school in my bare feet to be buggered by the Christian Brothers, living in a leaky tenemant where the cold torrential rain froze me to the bones and the hunger and consupmtion and the...oh no wait that wasn't me was it?