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The rally and march to the dail in memory of Toyosi Shitta-bey was a well attended affair. The opinions of the speakers were as varied as the groups that attended.

One of the common treads amongst the local Tyrrelstown speakers was  that they wanted to impress on people that the murder of Toyosi was not a typical event and that Tyrrelstown was not a particularly racist area. My apologies to the first speaker for missing your name and the start of the speech but heres a podcast of what I got.

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Speakers in this clip from before the march to the dail are Eric Yao of the Africa centre , Rosanna Flynn of Residents against racism, Summy Wong of the United Chinese association of Ireland and Maurice Hurley principle of Tyrrelstown Educate together primary school.

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Ciarán Cuffe of the Green party speaking as a representative of the minister for integration Mary White certainly talked the talk on her behalf, will she walk the walk? We shall see. 

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There is a good photo diary of the event  over on indymedia if my modest offering isn’t enough.

Apparently Enniscorthy was missing its idiot for the day. 

A march/rally is to be held on Saturday in memory of murdered Tyrrelstown schoolboy Toyosi Shitta-Bey, departing from garden of remembrance at 2.00 pm .  To quote the poster below …

We are appealing to all communities to come together and turn out this Saturday in Dublin City Centre for a united show of solidarity with Toyosi’s family and friends and for a tolerant society, free of racism.

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