While hurrying for an American departure in Dublin
Airport last week I heard the latecomers being paged on the terminal intercom.
Reaching the gate several seconds later I humorously chided the gate agent for
forgetting to call my name. "No," she said, "I saw your name,
but it was in Irish, so I left it out."
I made my flight, and no damage done, but I returned
to America amazed that casual acts of discrimination like this can still occur
in Ireland without apology or consequence. Would the gate agent still have a
job if she applied this policy to names in German?
Labels: aerfort, baile átha cliath, discrimination, dublin airport, éire, éireannach, Gaeilge, gaelic, irish, leithcheal, us airways
