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Irishman "Anti-Irish"
When a Londonderry man living in England is forced to resign over "racist" Irish jokes [alternative source: BBC], is this just more evidence of political correctness gone mad?
Denis Patrick Lusby, an Ulster-born Catholic, was editor of a community magazine in Cornwall for 11 years when Ginny Harrison-White, Cornwall County Council's equality and diversity boss, who had previously complained about the publication of Essex-girl jokes, wrote to local schools querying whether it was appropriate to publish school news in a magazine that included jokes about characters called "Murphy" and "Paddy" (remember Mr Lusby's middle-name?), urging headmasters to boycott the publication.
Mr Lusby pointed out that as an Irish Catholic living in England while IRA bombs were going off, he probably knows a lot more about anti-Irish racism than Ms Harrison-White does.