Sunday, 6 August 2017
Saturday, 5 August 2017
Fair hearing - or absolute tyranny ?
No worker, in any land or sector, should ever be instantly fired with NO prior hearing. That is a fundamental principle and an issue of strict Natural Justice and Due Process, and it is also recognized by Irish Courts as a binding duty on ANY employer [ including Govt ] under the rights inherent in the Irish Constitution. Yet the London Editor of the Sunday Times Martin Ivers has now done so - last Sunday - with a columnist for their Irish edition, Kevin Myers. The instant dismissal was even broadcast on British Media before Myers was even told.
A few lines in this one column [ now recognized by Myers himself as ill-judged ] were referenced by London - both the founding Chair of the Irish Holocaust Memorial Cte [ Ollie Donohoe - a former Radio Producer and then a trade union official ] and the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland have declared that in their judgement and experience, Myers is certainly no Anti-Semite. Indeed I and anybody in Ireland knows well how consistent and forceful he has always been in defending the Jewish People, as well as the right of the UN-mandated State of Israel to exist, and to do so in peace and security - like any other State.
I now have 2 choices. Either -
{A} continue to buy this paper as I have done every Sunday all my adult life, and so now collude with this London Editor in this grave wrong, or else
{B} no longer buy it and thereby refuse to collaborate in this fundamental violation of this universal and fundamental right of ANY worker.
I know where I stand, and where I have always stood.
Arbitrary power belongs to Absolute Monarchs - not to Employers in 2017.
And certainly not to London Employers over Irish workers.
This is a war - launched by the London Editor and no Irish person should surrender. This defensive and necessary struggle has nothing to do with Myers himself. I will miss this paper but not as much as I would miss the right to a fair hearing for ANY worker prior to dismissal.
A few lines in this one column [ now recognized by Myers himself as ill-judged ] were referenced by London - both the founding Chair of the Irish Holocaust Memorial Cte [ Ollie Donohoe - a former Radio Producer and then a trade union official ] and the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland have declared that in their judgement and experience, Myers is certainly no Anti-Semite. Indeed I and anybody in Ireland knows well how consistent and forceful he has always been in defending the Jewish People, as well as the right of the UN-mandated State of Israel to exist, and to do so in peace and security - like any other State.
I now have 2 choices. Either -
{A} continue to buy this paper as I have done every Sunday all my adult life, and so now collude with this London Editor in this grave wrong, or else
{B} no longer buy it and thereby refuse to collaborate in this fundamental violation of this universal and fundamental right of ANY worker.
I know where I stand, and where I have always stood.
Arbitrary power belongs to Absolute Monarchs - not to Employers in 2017.
And certainly not to London Employers over Irish workers.
This is a war - launched by the London Editor and no Irish person should surrender. This defensive and necessary struggle has nothing to do with Myers himself. I will miss this paper but not as much as I would miss the right to a fair hearing for ANY worker prior to dismissal.
Friday, 4 August 2017
Wednesday, 2 August 2017
Irish Jewish leader defends ‘well-respected’ Times columnist in anti-Semitism row
Irish Jewish leader defends ‘well-respected’ Times columnist in anti-Semitism row: Chair of the Jewish Representative Council claims ‘idiosyncratic’ writer Kevin Myers ‘inadvertently stumbled into an anti-Semitic trope’
Tuesday, 1 August 2017
Is Kevin Myers really an anti-Semite?
Is Kevin Myers really an anti-Semite?: On Sunday Kevin Myers was pilloried for an article he wrote in the Irish Sunday Times and the tirade......
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