Woeful people there and journalists.
Woman suffers racist abuse while putting Kerry flag on car
Friday, September 11, 2015 - 04:11 PM
A woman has said that she is still in shock following racist abuse she suffered while putting a Kerry flag on her car.
Beverley, who is originally from South Africa, was putting a Kerry flag on her car in Tralee when she and her Irish husband Dermot were subjected to verbal abuse by a passer-by.
The man told her to get her “filthy hands” off the flag.
Beverley has been living in Ireland for 15 years and has Irish citizenship and although shocked by the incident, she said it will not stop her supporting the Kerry team.
“Everybody came to a standstill,” she said. "They thought maybe we had the argument with him.
"We did not. He was the one who had a problem with us, over me handling the flag.
“We just left here. We got into the car and we were shocked.”
Donal O’Leary, Chairman of Kerry Supporters Club, condemned the abuse and said it did not reflect the views of the majority of Kerry supporters.
We would be very much against racism,” O’Leary told Radio Kerry this afternoon. “We value everybody.
"They are welcome to come and wear the green and gold. We’d have no problem with that.”
We would be very much against racism.
Some people would say anything to try get their hands on a couple of tickets!!
How do we know this is racism? Was her race mentioned anywhere?
You read it as “Beverley, who is black, was putting a Kerry flag. …” didn’t you?
Sorry, just remembering your roaster point. As you were.
Declan Lynch’s usual bullshit rant in todays Sindo.
link?
I know he probably had a tight deadline but Damian Lawlor’s match report for Limerick-Wexford the other night. 
Said Cian Lynch wasn’t up to much.
Praised Ronan Lynch.
Said Jack O’Connor was Wexford’s top man in the first half (Barry Nash gave him such a run-around I couldn’t believe the management didn’t react to it).
A few other things too which make me think he watched the game blindfolded.
What number was Jack O’Connor?
If he was number 10 then, from the TV at least, he was one of the few forward to do anything in the first half.
Some erratic shooting but he was on the ball a lot and tried to take the fight to them at least.
No he was one of the half backs, possibly number 7?
I thought 5 did well enough in the first half. Was one of the few who was winning puck outs.
He probably wrote his report at half time.
Cian Lynch had a fairly quiet opening 20 minutes, roared into it after that though.
Ronan Lynch was probably the poorest forward all night.
I’ve always been a big fan of the Engagement Announcements section in the Irish Times on Saturdays. It’s always a real tonic for the soul to read about such happiness amongst the real people of Ireland, or in some cases the UK, USA, South Africa, Australia, France or Switzerland, given that a good number of these engagements are of an international nature.
Recently, I saw that the Times has built on this long-standing tradition by introducing an “Our Wedding Story” piece on Saturdays, so we get to hear about the real lived experiences and stories behin the bare facts of engagement, sort of like a matrimonial version of when couples on Blind Date used to return the next week to tell us how they got on together.
I was just looking for today’s piece, when I came across a beauty from a few weeks back. It’s pure quality.
The comments section underneath is a good read, too.
That is just brilliant
I should introduce a disclaimer in that I knew the author of the piece in college and thought she was a really lovely person. It would pain me if I found out she’s just contacted a load of her friends to get them feature in these articles, or got this gig through her mother, or something like that.
I thought you’re from Wexford?