We’re fuelling the fires of racism

A WIDESPREAD and significant increase in the incidence of racially motivated attacks, both physical and verbal, following the referendum on citizenship was reported by church leaders in all areas.

This was announced at the recent meeting of the Midlands and Southern District Synod of the Methodist Church.

The members of the synod, which represents Methodists in 13 counties in Munster, Leinster and Connacht, expressed serious concern that racism was becoming institutionalised and respectable in this country in a way never before experienced owing to the Government’s failure to implement a consistent, transparent and unambiguous immigration policy.