PC World

Although Jade Goody is now more famous for the Shakespearean tragedy her life has become, there was a time when the Bermonsdsey blonde was splashed across the papers for an equally dramatic, if less fateful, story. 'Poppadom -gate', and her ignorant treatment of Shilpa Shetty in the Big Brother house made national and global headlines and re-opened the debate on political correctness, cultural ignorance and ofcourse racism in modern Britain.

It seems such discussion has not reached the far reachs of the Republic of Ireland (a country which openly refers to their Taoiseach as BIFFO - you can google the acronym for yourself.)


As if such disregard for the sensititvites of their political leader was not enough (that is if he has any), this was pointed out to me yesterday http://www.hotelium.com/SearchedHotel.aspx?fileName=Court_Hotel_Letterkenny&languageCode=EN&currencyCode=GBP&tabId=Overview&checkin=2009-04-04&checkout=2009-04-05&Adults=3&Rooms=1&pageFrom=SearchResults.

Click on the first hotel that appears, scroll down the page and look at how they describe the first 'amenity.'

With things like this out in the public domain is it any wonder tourists still think we live in cottages and are all called either Mary or John-Joe?

We are a highly politicised society both north and south with many a generation well versed and rehearsed on their feelings of the geographical boundary seperating the two countries. Im not a fan of a nanny state but somewhere along the line people need to be taught boundaries of a different sort - social boundaries.