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kicking racism out of ireland- SARI football tournament

category national | rights, freedoms and repression | news report author Monday September 20, 2004 11:03author by dunk - indymediaauthor email fuspey at yahoo dot co dot uk Report this post to the editors

we are all part of the global village

the weather was not as good as previous years but that has not stopped SARI growing bigger every year.
FATIMA were the overall winners of the cup and DUN LAOIGHRE won the plate
lots of people, lots of color, lots of fun
well done to everyone who was involved
and fair play to the bohs girls, yesterday wasnt the warmest of days but the still went around smiling in their bohs tops

we stopped and had little interviews with people yesterday. so enjoy the audio clips and tell more people that this and other thing like it are growing nationwide

its a strange time for ireland, untill recently we were the ones leaving home, hoping to be made welcome in new countries. now the tables have turned and people are arriving on our shores
people from all backrounds and coutries are learnign to live, work and play together
diversity is healthy
we celebrate this and hope it grows and grows
as Peter said: we are all part of the global village
no division- SARI, 8 years and growing
no division- SARI, 8 years and growing

SARI website
http://www.sari.ie

1- chat with one of the "bohs girls". 1.21mns
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/bohs_girls.wav

2- history of SARI from volunteer Loraine Hayes. 3mns
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/loraine_hayes.wav

3- Peter from ASK (asylum seekers kilkenny) chats about their matches, life, hurling and football in kilkenny, racism in ireland, how things can improve. Peter is from Nigeria, lived in dublin for a while and has been in Kikenny for over a year. 6mns
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/peter.wav

4- sounds of the tournament, local drumming group bang away ahead of plate final. 46seconds
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/drums.wav

5- friends of SARI. 1.28mns
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/friends_of_sari.wav

6- the presentations, FATIMA, the winners of the cup, DUN LAOIGHRE, winners of the plate. 8.41mns
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/presentations.wav

Sports Against Racism Ireland, (SARI) is a non-profit making organisation with Charitable Status that was set up in July 1997 as a direct response to the growth of racist attacks from a small but vocal section of people in Ireland.

SARI uses sport to integrate people from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
Sports Against Racism Ireland annual SoccerFest (Sept. 18-19)
This year’s soccerfest took place in the sports grounds of St Brendan’s Hospital in Grangegorman, Dublin, which is now the new DIT campus,
on Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th September 2004

Side show entertainment included:
Capoeire (Brazilian Martial Arts), FAI penalty shoot out competition, Face Painting, Clowns, Stilt walkers, World Music, 7 A Side celebrity football challenge, Chess tournament, More to be announced.....

for further information
contact Frank Buckley
on 087 244 5154
Email [email protected]

SARI attempt to create a positive attitude towards all minority groups by way of our multi-cultural events to ensure that young people of this country grow up with a tolerant attitude towards people with different backgrounds.

The main aims of SARI are:

i) To create an awareness of the problems of racism and xenophobia in Ireland today and to highlight the benefits of integrating the new cultures that are becoming part of life in Ireland today.

ii) To use sport and cultural events to bring together people from different cultures and backgrounds.

iii) To promote a positive attitude towards people from different ethnic backgrounds.

iv) To increase the discussion and debate about racism, discrimination and xenophobia.

http://www.sari.ie

drums and dun laoighre, plate champions
drums and dun laoighre, plate champions

the champions, FATIMA @ the army tent
the champions, FATIMA @ the army tent

keeping the bellies full
keeping the bellies full

ASK- asylum seekers kilkenny
ASK- asylum seekers kilkenny

author by dunkpublication date Mon Sep 20, 2004 11:17author address author phone Report this post to the editors

original post of this event was here
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=66161

indymedia had hoped to have a stall or table up at the tournament but we dident get it fully together, sorry for that, next time.......
its tough trying to explain to people what this media network is without having a computer handy

anway, the pix....

faces in the crowd
faces in the crowd

joe costello, bohs players and the final presentation to FATIMA
joe costello, bohs players and the final presentation to FATIMA

author by CC TVpublication date Mon Sep 20, 2004 14:24author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Fair play to sari for another great day out.It was great to go and see some soccer without idiots throwing bananas and making monkey noises every time a colored player got the ball.The eircom league should take a note out of their book.

author by Eircom league supporterpublication date Mon Sep 20, 2004 15:07author address author phone Report this post to the editors

"Fair play to sari for another great day out.It was great to go and see some soccer without idiots throwing bananas and making monkey noises every time a colored player got the ball.The eircom league should take a note out of their book."

I take it you don't go to too many eircom league games. I on the other hand have been to scores of games and not once have I seen idiots throwing bananas or making monkey noises. Which games have you been to?

author by Tonypublication date Mon Sep 20, 2004 22:31author address author phone Report this post to the editors

It is interesting that these "asylum seekers" have no fear of worldwide publicity and having their photos posted on websites - freely accessible to the entire world.

author by paulcpublication date Tue Sep 21, 2004 01:39author address author phone Report this post to the editors

i went to it early saturday morning, and already there were teams playing 20 minute matches. There were teams from lots of different places Fatima, Amnesty, Kilkenny Asylum seekers,Spirasi, Ennis, Roma support group, Rainbow centre Rialto, Pavee Point, Africans in Ireland Galway. It was impressive to see Sari had organised to get all these people in one place to have games of football.

Many of the teams had any got together in the past few weeks and were embarrased at their atrocious playing but still had a chance to win the plate if not the overall competition as you heard in the many of these teams play in the night league? And sari supports a team in Crumlim during the year.

it might have been a sorta charity event but there still plenty of cursing for the sideline..

I was a bit nervous just walking up and talking to strangers, so I approached an Irish guy in football strip and introduced myself someone from an online internet newspaper called indymedia Ireland... he recgonised the name cos he was a guard from Bray :) a communtiy liason officer in fact. He had only joined the team to play the game last week so he pointed me towards another man who was egging on a team, he was a ethnic liason? officer from Dun Laoghaire town who's station had sponsored the team of guards and young men from the Old School hostel in Dun Laoghaire to play here today, explaining how he got to know the lads by bringing them on outings seeing touristic spots he hardly seen himself before.Their team had eon well in night league and recently traveleld to Belgium to play in tournament there.There was also a team there from the Gardai National Immigration Bureua and others.

I talked to people about there work with the guys training computers differents centres and gave them printflares as example of the site.aswell as dunk and I writing reports for indymedia we hope and invited people there to write in their owns words about the weekend of football and their lives in general...

author by iosaf - (seemed the most appropriate place to put this)publication date Tue Sep 21, 2004 16:50author address author phone Report this post to the editors

one a day?
two a day?
For all those people who endlessly complain about Ireland being "swamped" by immigration, consider this piece of information released by the Spanish government yesterday-
One "sin papales" has been deported every 5 minutes since January 1st 2004.

that's twelve an hour. (or one football team)
288 a day. (one football league)
almost 80,000 this year. (one football stadium)

Spain, Italy and Portugal are the three entry points to the EU with the most hopefuls looking for work.

Ireland doesn't have a problem.

In fact Ireland isn't doing enough to share the burden of absorbing migrant workers with it's partner states of the EU. So redouble your efforts and get them to "play ball".
:-)

author by Tonypublication date Tue Sep 21, 2004 17:23author address author phone Report this post to the editors

one a day?
two a day?
For all those people who endlessly complain about Ireland being "swamped" by immigration, consider this piece of information released by the Spanish government yesterday-
One "sin papales" has been deported every 5 minutes since January 1st 2004.

Fair point (though unbelievable and unsupported by any eveidence) However, last I checked, This board was concerned with Ireland.

Our deportation record barely amounts to one deportation per day whilst immigration runs to tens of thousands every year not including illegal immigrants.

author by CC TVpublication date Wed Sep 22, 2004 18:33author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Well Mr Eircom league supporter I don't know what games you go to either if you haven't heard any racist abuse or monkey chants at the games.St Pats fans are renowned for it as are Waterford and ive also heard Finn Harps fans doling it out aswell.Do you not remember Hasselbaink getting a banana chucked at him when Holland played Ireland in Landsdowne road?
Theres about another million examples so your talking shit.

author by Statisticianpublication date Wed Sep 22, 2004 18:52author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Impressive figures Iosaf. However, what conclusion ought to be drawn from them?

Are you arguing that the Spaniards ought to have let all those "sin papales" in?

If so, what effect would that have, not least on those legitimately in the country?

It also has implications for Ireland in that it proves that there has to be some form of control on who can enter and stay. It is a difficult problem but one that has to be confronted, and with commonsense not irrationality from either extreme; ie. those who demand that no-one be let in, and those who beleive in a completely open door policy.

author by R. Isiblepublication date Wed Sep 22, 2004 20:01author address author phone Report this post to the editors

QUOTE: It also has implications for Ireland in that it proves that there has to be some form of control on who can enter and stay.

Why? Is Spain directly analogous to Ireland? Why would it be a problem to suddenly have extra people eating, working, making, joking, sleeping and singing? Add to this that they will surely be starting families with Irish people and it seems like a great benefit to the country that we're missing.

author by curiouspublication date Wed Sep 22, 2004 22:20author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Because every state needs to control the number and type of people who enters.

If someone comes here as a refugee from war and oppression and I accept that there are many in that position then they are entitled to asylum. Likewise if someone comes here to study and work. However, when someone comes here illegally and engages in crime as I witness daily from those selling drugs, running prostitution and protection rackets then they should be expelled.

I can't see how anyone could have a problem with that.

author by frifrypublication date Thu Sep 23, 2004 14:37author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Yes, nor why anyone could honestly deny that in this increasing populated and grossly unequal world of ours that one Country ( especially this size of this) has to limit numbers from overloading the whole shebang.

Much ‘anti-racism’ defies basic logic and reason. Hence it's failure to convince anyone with a reasonable, balanced and averagely intelligent outlook.

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