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‘We’ll put a bullet in your brain’ - Irish politician Aodhan O Riordain receives racist hate mail

Labour TD continues to receive threatening mail

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KERRY O'SHEA,
IrishCentral Staff Writer
Published Thursday, February 16, 2012, 8:04 AM
Updated Thursday, February 16, 2012, 10:16 AM

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Labour Party politician, Aodhan O Riordain
Labour Party politician, Aodhan O Riordain
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Aodhan O Riordain, Labour politician and Dublin North Central TD, is “shocked” and “upset” after receiving racist threats from anonymous sources. O Riordain believes he is being targeted for his views on multiculturalism, which he supports, in Ireland.

The Herald, which viewed the hate letters first hand, reports that largely grammatically incorrect letters said, “get the f*** out of our town before we put a bukllet [sic] in your brain,” among other vulgar things. The notes were hand-written and anonymous.

"We will get you -- just wait and see," the letter also says.

O Riordain is undecided as whether or not he will report the incident to local Gardai, but has concerns about photographs that were included in the letter, which are of him and a group of children at a recent event. The photo has “f****** twisted pervert" scrawled beneath it.
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“I'm going to take soundings and I'll decide what to do in the next few days,” said O Riordain. “This is hate mail. My staff have been at the receiving end of it too and it's fairly upsetting.”

O Riordain first became a target of hate mail following the Darren Scully controversy late last year. It was O Riordain who reported Scully, the former mayor of Naas, for saying that he would not represent black people in his districts.

O Riordain believes he is being targeted again over the same matter.

"It is not nice and I intend to investigate further whether An Post could better filter out this type of mail,” said O Riordain. “All I was doing was raising how we discuss the issues like immigration in this country and since then, I began to get a lot of emails and letters to both my home and my office.”

"I'm raising this and I hope it gives people an indication as to what's out there. People who send these letters have a hateful mindset and they are far from clever," he added.

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ciaradexy | Feb 22, 2012, 09:11 AM EST
Georgie, your ramblings are getting worse! Youre making even less sense now that a few months ago. Has a name been given to your condition or syndrome yet?

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awoken32 | Feb 21, 2012, 01:51 PM EST
thats good atleast we agree on one thing eh lol

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ciaradexy | Feb 21, 2012, 12:59 PM EST
Funnily enough, I was a paid up member of the Labour Party and left before the last election because of many of their policies. There is now no-one I would vote for in this country. Not one single party or politician.

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awoken32 | Feb 21, 2012, 12:52 PM EST
fools,there you go ciara,that better for ye,speaking of labour party,youd fit in very well

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ciaradexy | Feb 21, 2012, 12:42 PM EST
Fooles?? *sigh*

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awoken32 | Feb 21, 2012, 11:07 AM EST
@sirpeter,i know not all irish people are fooles,i know that 100%,the silent majority are been silenced by the politicans,sure about 3 weeks ago labour were having a conferance in a pub near me,an i happend to be in the pub when they came down from an upstairs conferance room,an i did i challenged bruton an a few of their local tds,everyone in the pub aggreed with my points,the labour traitors did not know what say to me,as i know my stuff,everyone in the pub was agreeing with my,then labours pr man stepped in an stopped them from talking to me,they all left soon after that,an im not messing right on the last orders the gardai stormed the pub an threw everyone out,ive no time for any politican that sells out their own people for personal short term gain,its actually hard to beleive that your own people would do such things,who do they think they are,the people should take back power,you should google how iceland are recovering after leaving the EH facist stae peter,i read an article today about it,we all should take note

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sirpeter | Feb 21, 2012, 09:10 AM EST
@awoken32 OK.Only time will tell.You could be right,but lets hope it doesn't happen.Cheers for reasonable conversation.I only ask one thing of you.Laws are made without the consent of the people a lot of the time.I voted against every EU treaty.Place your criticism at the feet of the Irish government in your comments and not at the Irish people.Not all of us are fooled by their lies.Cheers

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awoken32 | Feb 21, 2012, 05:52 AM EST
@sirpeter no probs peter,but we beg to differ about the asia an african communities you should come to dublin or google irish mosques to see how many there are,we already have those communities in ireland an they are growing at a high rate you are wrongalso about those immigrants leaving,they will never leaved until they are deported,which i will support the first party that comes along that have the intentions to do so,i dont want my kids or my sisters kids or the all of our younger generation become under threth in our own country,as there is no doubt about it that they will,why should ireland be any differant than any country in europe?? answer is we wont unless we get the mindset of protecting our peoples from this threath,our government make me sick,even my nanny says this country needs revolution an she right,good talking to you as always peter,takecare

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seanomelb | Feb 20, 2012, 05:56 PM EST
George cannot answer a simple request so he resorts to his usual stupidty. Most people will integrate it usually take a couple of generations.I have lived in Australia for 45 years and have seen Poles/serbs/croats and so on adapt Australian.Most immigrants want to "fit in" to the society they are living,it's a natural progression.

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sirpeter | Feb 20, 2012, 05:43 PM EST
awoken32.Well given that the Polish are unlikely to establish their own inward looking communities.I think the rest are to small in numbers to do much damage.90% of black applicants are refused their applications for asylum.But only one in ten is implemented where they send them home.Now that we can't afford to keep these people they will be sent home over the next few years.The rest only amount to only 3 or 4 per cent.I don't think they will get a grip on Ireland.Whats here for them now?The state ain't going to keep paying for them.So I really don't think we have a problem with mass immigration.That about sums it up for me.Believe it or not the biggest threat to Irish culture has always been American and English culture.But then Irish culture has influenced their ways too.

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awoken32 | Feb 20, 2012, 03:56 PM EST
@sirpeter i nothing much really to say as wht you say makes perfect sence peter,so yeh we move on,what you thinking?

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sirpeter | Feb 20, 2012, 12:46 PM EST
awoken32.In answer to your question I honestly think it would be a very bad thing.I can't see Moslems,Blacks and to a slightly lesser degree Asian people integrating with Irish society.They stick together.They actively look after their own.In other words they discriminate.I wouldn't be for any large numbers of any of these groups.While the Polish at the moment are sending money out of the Country back home I think that will end.Very soon too.Most Polish end up leaving the pack and getting a place of their own as they get older and marry.Also they can't keep working for small wages.Not when kids come along and they can't share the rent with 5 adults.All in all I think the only long term problem will be spelling their surnames.Also I haven't met any Polish in years who couldn't speak English.Their kids will have too If they want good jobs.They still need a dose of personality but I think that will change in time.That's what I think anyway.What do you think?Am I missing anything with the Polish?If you think this is the way it will pan out with the Polish.We can move on to what I believe is alot more serious in terms of Irish culture.

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GeorgeDillon | Feb 20, 2012, 12:02 PM EST
The poster from Clown Under asks me to discuss the color of foreign migrants in Ireland. I don't know their color and I don't care, you nazi racist. I'll take lectures from you about multiculturalism when you quit being a settler in other people's land. Australia for the Aborigines! Send racist jerks like seanomel right back to whatever dump in Ireland they crawled out of!

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Springfield9 | Feb 20, 2012, 09:58 AM EST
"Multiculturalism" = "Diversity" = "Stupid" Ireland is committing ethnic suicide with these policies. So the situation is that the University graduates leave Ireland for America and some barely literate soul from South Africa moves in. The logic escapes me.

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awoken32 | Feb 20, 2012, 09:21 AM EST
@sirpeter id like to ask you a question also,what do you think the impact of ireland having a large african asian an moslem community in ireland would have for the natives of our land?? an do you think the peole should be asked to they want this??? you fire away with your questions,atleast you wanna debate it,thats cool

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