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?
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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.