Fury over judge’s Polish slur

There has been a furious reaction from the Polish community to a Mayo judge’s comment, made in court, that the social welfare system is a “Polish charity”.

Judge Mary Devins made the remark in the case of a man who pleaded guilty to calling a bouncer at a nightclub a “fat Polish fucker”.

In a previous hearing, Judge Conall Gibbons had described the term as “quasi-racist”. The bouncer was in fact Irish.