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Around Ireland: redemptorists say sorry

February 16, 2011

By Staff Reporter

“Sometimes we Redemptorists put a foot wrong and badly hurt our Jewish brothers and sisters, for which we seek repentance,” said Rev. Robert McNamara of the confraternity.
In a fiery January 1904 sermon, which was reprinted in the Limerick press, its director, the Rev. John Creagh denounced money lending as a major evil and identified the city’s Jewish immigrants as behind the activity.
The main figures in the money-lending business in Limerick were not in fact Jews and Fr Creagh probably got much of his information from Christian business people who feared the Jewish peddlers as unwelcome competitors.
McNamara said that Creagh was motivated by a concern for the city’s poor, but that his “vicious tirade” had led to a boycott of Jewish businesses, resulting in the ruination of many families.

MEATH: COMMUTERS PREFER HOME
A massive 91 per cent of Meath’s commuters would prefer to work in the Royal County and 62 per cent would be willing to take a drop in wages to find work closer to home, according to new research carried out by county council, the Meath Chronicle reports this week.
The research showed that as many as 20,000 commuters leave the county every day, the overwhelming majority of them traveling to Dublin to work.
It found also that Meath’s commuters represent a broad cross-section of the workforce sectors.
The chairman of council, Oliver Brooks, welcomed the research. “We are delighted with the decision to decentralize two government bodies to Meath announced last week [in the 2003 Budget]. We hope that this will be the start of a new focus on our county, because as this research points out, we have a very large number of people looking for employment locally,” he said. “This is a stark message that should not go unnoticed by government and by the private sector.”

CARLOW: ROAD DEATHS DECREASE
Road deaths in County Carlow have dropped dramatically since the introduction of the penalty points system exactly one year ago, the Carlow People has reported
In November 2002, a total of 11 people had died on the roads in the year to that point – but since then, only three people have been killed in accidents.
The Carlow figures reflect a nationwide drop in road fatalities — there have been 76 fewer deaths from road crashes nationally since the introduction of the penalty points system.
Under the system, a total of 800 drivers have now received points for driving offences in Carlow, according to statistics released by the Department of Transport.

GALWAY: WORK TO BEGIN ON MUSEUM
Work is likely to begin before Christmas on Galway City’s new civic museum, which will cost the council more than

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