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January 28 2005: A gaffe from the Irish President
January 28, 2011 14:21
January 28 2005: A gaffe from the Irish President
January 28, 2011 14:21Mary McAleese made headlines round the world – for all the wrong reasons – with comments made just before she attended a Holocaust Memorial day ceremony.
The Irish president, in office since 1997, likened Protestant treatment of Catholics in Northern Ireland to the actions of the Nazis in 1930s and 1940s Germany.
She said: "They gave to their children an irrational hatred of Jews in the same way that people in Northern Ireland transmitted to their children an irrational hatred, for example, of Catholics.
“In the same way that people give to their children an outrageous and irrational hatred of those who are of different colour and all of those things.”
