Great, Now the Irish are Racist

It used to be the Irish could could just stagger through life in various stages of sobriety, weaving week-long benders together with weeks of moderate sobriety all the while complaining about the wussy English or the stupid Italians. But now, thanks to Fianna Fáil party member Martin Cullen (who is Ireland's Minister for Arts, Sport, and Tourism), my people are totally ignorant. In an interview with some other idiot about how micks can win more medals at the Summer Olympics . . .

"Obviously, unless you're black and African you're not going to do well in sprint or middle distance," he says. "We'll get the odd one coming through, like a Sonia or an Eamonn Coghlan, but we'll deal with them as they come. But the likes of the javelin, the discus, the pole vaulting, these are the ones being won by white Europeans. Physically and mentally we're suited to them, and it's easy to see how we could do well here."

We'll get the odd one coming through, but we'll deal with them as they come?

What the fuck, dude? What. The. Fuck.