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Fri 09 Sep 2009Tiernan disappoints Jewish community
A REPRESENTATIVE of Ireland’s Jewish community has expressed disappointment that comedian Tommy Tiernan did not apologised for recent remarks on Jews but chose instead to justify them.
Carl Nelkin, public affairs spokesman for the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland, said the comedian had an opportunity to apologise for them but then “tried to justify them by referring to the comic context. Clearly there are boundaries you cannot cross, even in such a context”.
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