We’re missing the bigger social issue

The row over Darren Scully’s comments about Africans have given ammunition to racist attitudes but obscures the troubles of migrants, writes Jennifer Hough

WHY did the mayor of Naas publicly condemn a whole group of people he had been elected to represent?

Darren Scully, a 38-year-old father of three was forced to resign as mayor on Tuesday evening, after being pilloried for saying he would no longer deal with, as he described them, bad-mannered, aggressive, black Africans.