Originally Posted by rebs23
Racist, What are you talking about?
Absolute rubbish. Our City and it's people have the best record in Ireland bar none for welcoming people of different religions and races over the last few centuries not just years. The Cities motto is a safe harbour for all. The quakers, the heugenots, the jews, and of course more recent influxes of immigrants have all settled exttremely well here. A former Lord Mayor was a jew. in the last census the CSO statistics of population show that nearly 8% of people living in the city council area (admittedly that is just half the city but thats a different story) are born outside of Ireland.
As a percentage of population our city and county has always had significant numbers of non Irish, much more so than any othder county mainly due to our position and trade with Europe and America. That is just a fact. Read David Marcuses book a Land Not Ours.
Please don't come on here and make such a stupid comment about the shed being a place of refuge for racists absolutely not. It's just not true and is alien to most Cork people. I honestly have never heard any racist chants or comments there.
Now if you mean we are a bit nasty towards Dubs well then thats a completely differnet story.
Bad form to make ignorant comments like that.