Déanfar an 'Famine Song', a bhíonn lucht tacaíochta Rangers ag seinm, déanfar é a thógáil ag Eoin Ryan i bParlimint na hEorpa an tseachtain seo. Ach bíodh is gur tógadh an cheist sa Dáil, gur thóg taidhleoirí na hÉireann é le parlimint Alban agus go ndearnadh é a thógáil i bparlimint Westminster níl na meáin in Albain togtha faoi. Gan trácht ar sciar mhór den phobal atá ar nos cuma liom ar fad faoi. Tá argóint ann nach bhfuil se a dhath ar bith níos measa ná cuid de na rudaí granna eile a canann lucht tacaíochta foirne sacair eagsúla sa Bhreatain. Ní ghlacann George Galloway, Feisire leis an pháirtí Respect, leis an argóint sin, rud is léir ar a cholún ar an Daily Record inniu. Beidh Alex Salmond mar aoi ag Gradaim na hAislinge an tseachtain seo ag óstan an Europa i mBéal Feirste. B'fhéidir gur féidir an cheist a chur ina láthair siúd.
le George Galloway
Former parliamentary legend Tam Dalyell once put on a five-aside tourney for Labour in West Lothian and I turned out against a Blackburn Miners select who were as hard as the coal-face they hewed. When I scored while falling over to my right, and at my second attempt, from just six yards, Tam said in that plummy, unique voice of his: "George, I haven't seen a left foot like that since Puskas!"
Our common left foot, however, didn't make Murphy view any more kindly my parliamentary question last week about the "Famine Song".
Speaking through his amanuensis Ann McKechin, Murphy contemptuously booted my request that he discuss this matter with Alex Salmond into Row Z. And I know he's not alone in regarding this as a storm in a tea-cup, so let me explain.
Systematically abusing people, in this case thousands of people singing at away grounds all over Scotland that approximately one in four of their countrymen are not wanted, aliens who should "go home" is racism pure and simple.
If it was being sung against Jews (the Holocaust is over)or blacks (slavery is over)it would be headline news on CNN.
But in Scotland "The Greatest Small Country In The World", it's apparently not a matter of even local concern. Indeed its targets are being regarded as whingers for even minding.
When my ancestors, on my mother's side, arrived in cattle boats at Anderston Quay (where sits the Daily Record and where I grew up to be the MP) they were greeted, literally, with boarding house signs which said: "No Dogs. No Irish."
And there are some in Scotland who have never accepted people like me, and Murphy, and Mckechin as Scottish at all.
We are children, it seems, of a lesser God.
In my young days I was used to being told "Go back to Russia" which later became "Baghdad".
But the only time I was ever told to get "back on the boat to my own country, you Fenian b*****" was 15 years ago while campaigning in Helen Liddell's by-election in the Airdrie and Coatbridge constituency.
Up with this, as Mr Churchill said, we will not put.
So, my message to the bigots is this. Get over it. We are going nowhere. We are Scots, of Irish background, and we're proud of it.
It's the days when you could put up barriers against us that are over. We are not the equivalent of dogs, we are not here at your sufferance.
And if you continue to behave like knuckle-dragging red-necked hicks in Mississippi, we'll continue to name you and shame you, whatever Murphy's law says.
'If it was being sung against Jews or blacks it would be headline news. But in Scotland, "The Greatest Small Country in the World", it's not a matter of even local concern'