Irish politician questions the actions of the US-Ireland Alliance regarding the undocumented Irish

Questions by committee for Alliance president Trina Vargo on her anti-Irish American statements

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“I offered Ms Vargo the opportunity to apologise for comments attributed to her, comments which are insulting to the 40 million Irish Americans, the 5 million people on this island, our 295,000 civil servants and our department of foreign affairs. Here are some of those comments:

‘‘Some cute hoor spin being put out by the Irish Film Board... Mr O’Donnchu seems to forget he is not giving me money. It is sponsorship for an event... and it’s not ‘his’ money, it’s the Irish tax payer’s money... My personal experience leaves me feeling the Irish taxpayer is too often ill-served by too many (not all) civil servants’’ February 24th, 2012.

“The Irish as so grateful for the attention that they grit their teeth, take it’’ March 2012.

‘’Irish Americans can be just as bad. During the week, it is always people from Ireland and Northern Ireland who tell me how horrified they are by the sham rockery and they are right, it’s embarrassing.’’ March 2012.

‘’They are wrong to single out one group for preferential treatment’’ November 2007.

“Ireland’s national aversion to truth telling is part of the reason for its current difficulties’’ March 14th 2011.

“There is a culture of dependency in Northern Ireland’’

Daly concluded: “As a representative of an organisation that seeks to ‘consolidate the existing relationship between the US and Ireland’, Ms Vargo’s comments do little to promote her organisation and the fostering of US-Ireland relations.”
 

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