Ireland is ‘wealthier but more racist’

“WE are wealthier, greedier, more self-centred and racist now in Ireland than we were 20 years ago.”

That’s the verdict of one of the Dunnes Stores workers who went on strike 20 years ago in support of the black South Africans who were suffering shocking discrimination under the apartheid system there.

Karen Guerin believes that back in 1984, when there were very few black people in Ireland, we were more tolerant.