from Dublin Evening Herald:

BY IAN MALLON

THREE Sinn Fein activists pre-planned a race hate ambush of foreign workers.

The men, who are key Sinn Fein election workers, were jailed for an orgy of violence against a group of non-national workers.

The vicious thugs also attacked gardai, leaving one officer seriously injured.

A court heard how the three party workers waded into a group of about 20 foreign nationals while shouting racial abuse and screaming republican slogans.

David Smith, Neville Murray and Declan Gannon were all imprisoned for their part in the brutal assaults.

Assuming that Divis speaking about "my own country" means Ireland and not just six provinces of Ireland I'm sure he's ready to condemn that incident as well.

But as for the whole picture, McGrath may well be right thinking that in Northern Ireland one of the two large communities is more prone to racist assaults than the other. From my point of view, that is a most welcome change from the stupid positions (not held by McGrath) often found in other threads that all groups are equally likely to commit atrocities and so on. In some cases, some groups are more guilty than others and this here seems to be one such instance despite me being able to find a racist attack by Shinners.

Wolfgang