Colm Costello
Possibly as a result of his unfamiliarity with the areaand its history Cllr. Costello made a big mistake in tryingto play the Irish Card, in this particular part of London.All through from the 30's to the 60's at least, WestLondon in terms of the Great West Road Factories,The Western Avenue, Greenford with Lyons Rockwareand Glaxo etc, London Transport and others provided thousands of welcome jobs managerial, clerical,and manual for Irish people wanting to avoid poverty and joblessness back home. Those thousands settled in Ealing, bought homes, and raised families many of whom still live in the Borough.And for all anyone can tell without ever being laughed at on account of being Irish , or of being "thick". And for the information of Cllr Costello the claim that there ever were " No Dogs No Irish" signs appears to be a fabrication.And of course this is hardly a recent phenomenon.the London Docks were mainly built by Irishlabourers who then settled in the area andwhose families were a foundation of the docklabour force.So scratch many Londoners and you won't need togo very deep to find some Irish blood.But of course the likes of a recent arrivalsuch as Colm Costello couldn't be expected to know that.Hence his surprise to discover that Cllr. Wall was in fact part Irish himself. Which apparently Cllr. Costellostill doesn't fully accept.Thus to many people of Irish descent, if not othersCllr Costello's ready resort to accusations of bigotry onthe part of Cllr Wall when this is totally unwarrented isdeeply offensive. One somehow suspects that Colm Costellohas led a relatively soft life, where prejudice andbigotry are things he's mainly read about in thebooks of his favourite author, Frank McCourt.Please don't forget that the only person on this forumwho has ever referred to the possibility of Irish peoplebeing described as "thick" is Colm Costello himself, postingas Mark Stevens. Nobody else. Everything else is a productof Costello's fevered imagination in posting bogusconversations between Mark Stevens and himself on thisforumSo that if there is any apologising to do to Irish people in general - as Costello was demanding of Cllr Wall, in the now sickening exchanges between Costelloand himself - then it is in fact Colm Costellowho needs to do the apologising.michael adams...
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