Sending Great home ‘a disgrace’

FORMER Irish soccer manager Brian Kerr has accused the Government of being unchristian for deporting autistic Nigerian schoolboy Great Agbonlahor.

Kerr, a board member of Sport Against Racism Ireland, said he believed there was more racism here now than ever and he was alarmed by the message sent out by decisions such as the Agbonlahor deportation.

He was speaking at the launch of the SARI multicultural soccerfest tournament yesterday when he raised the example of the six-year-old who was ordered out of the country with his twin sister and their mother despite the lack of education or treatment centres for autistic children in Nigeria.