Kenny's Heroes

From 'Dáil Sketch' by Frank McNally

'A huffy Fine Gael leader demanded an apology for Brian Lenihan's suggestion that his party was "racist" in raising the issue (of early childcare payments to migrant workers). And while Mr Ahern accepted it was not, he said that if the Government had excluded migrants, "I'd have been called the biggest racist in this house".
Irish emigrants in the EU had benefited for decades from similar arrangements and there was no use "groaning and moaning now" because the situation had been reversed, he said.'

Copyright The Irish Times

Good point by Bertie. But why did he accept that FG was not being racist in raising the issue. The cost to the exchequer will be minimal, including migrants in the scheme is not only fair play, it is an acknowledgement of EU law, and in raising the issue on Questions and Answers, Mad Cow McGuinness nourished her thinly veiled attack on sustained immigration with the inference that concern on this point among the voters of middle Ireland was steadily increasing.

How is this not racism?

And another salient point. Why is the media, in its silent complicity, not bringing the Opposition to book over this??