Sir, – It was like travelling back in time, to a worse place, to read the banner headline over The Irish Times report on the murder trial of Yousef Palani (News, October 24th).
“Massive cash find sparked fears Sligo murders were terror-related”, it read, over a picture of the young man found guilty.
Even the most cursory reading of the story below revealed that any suspicion a large amount of cash found at the Palani home was terrorism cash had been totally dismissed. But this is the angle you chose to go on, with a picture of a person of Middle Eastern appearance?
Has anyone in there ever heard of profiling?
Ann Ingle: Deliberately going out of my way to move for no particular reason has never appealed to me
Gerry Thornley: How about an alternative look at Ireland’s Six Nations win over England?
Is Ireland anti-Semitic, an outlier of tolerance or in the middle ground?
How risky is it to buy a second-hand EV?
His crimes were dreadful, but associating people from a certain ethnic background with terrorism, when it is not true, is just the sort of thing that contributes to the crises of hatred we see around us today. – Yours, etc,
ANGELA LONG,
Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin.
