Sir, – Brian English (October 15th) repeated BNP spokesperson Simon Darby’s outrageous assertion that just 30 people were responsible for the Philosophical Society’s disinvitation to Nick Griffin to visit TCD.
There was widespread opposition throughout the entire Trinity community to the possibility of Ireland’s most prestigious university lending a platform to neo-Nazi ideologists. Just last week I proposed a motion at the Graduate Students’ Union AGM urging the Philosophical Society to reconsider its invitation to the BNP. This motion was carried unanimously and unopposed by the postgraduates who filled the Synge Theatre. An impressive democratic expression of our revulsion to neo-Nazism – an ideology that is itself fundamentally anti-democratic and pays no attention to the opinions of its victims.
There is no place for fascist ideology in 21st-century Ireland and neo-Nazis will never be welcome here. – Yours, etc,