If Mayor Mamdani Really Cared About the Irish He Would Have Spoken Some Irish
(Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office)

If Mayor Mamdani Really Cared About the Irish He Would Have Spoken Some Irish

Is masla é nach bhfuil an méara in ann Gaeilge a labhairt.

On Tuesday, St. Patrick's Day, Zohran Mamdani released a video celebrating the long struggle of the Irish people, and how their own battles for sovereignty have mirrored those of oppressed people worldwide. 

He spoke of the way that the Irish were once discriminated against in New York City, but banded together to become part of the vanguard of America's labor movement. "It was Irish hands that helped build so much of the city we recognized today," Mamdani says in the video.

Wow, for a moment, you'd think that Mamdani actually cared about our Irish communities. But THINK AGAIN. 

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