Cork religious leader hits out at video describing African Presentation Brothers as 'military-aged males'

Brother Barry Noel, congregation leader of the Presentation Brothers, said the order has sought legal advice arising out of some of the language used in a video by anti-migrant activist Derek Blighe.

The Presentation Brothers' Mount St Joseph’s headquarters in Cork City. Picture: Eddie O'Hare

The head of a religious order has condemned the actions of anti-migrant activists in Cork for describing six religious brothers returning from a conference as “African military-aged males” and for suggesting their landmark property “fit the bill for plantation” by asylum seekers.

Brother Barry Noel, congregation leader of the Presentation Brothers, spoke out after a video, recorded on the grounds of the order’s Mount St Joseph’s headquarters in Cork City, was viewed more than 3,000 times on YouTube in recent days and led to a wave of racist and anti-migrant commentary online.