“To be honest, considering where I’m from, considering where I’m from, it’s been happening all my life, even as a teenager.'
Mr Carty is a well known and respected boxer but his sporting reputation did not protect him from being discriminated against on account of his accent.“To be honest, considering where I’m from, considering where I’m from, it’s been happening all my life, even as a teenager,” he toldMr Carty does not go out often and rarely drinks but headed out on Sunday with two friends.“The owner came back and he was chatting to me,” he said.
“He asked me a range of questions and from the answers he gave me he said, ‘I can’t do anything for you.’DDGEA1 Crowd of people with hands up having fun at a nightclub / music concert or festival. One of the questions was where the friends were from - to which Mr Carty replied Phibsborough and Whitehall.
He described his friends as “very respectful young lads” and said he himself was sober when they arrived at the club.“It seems to be, as soon as I mentioned the north inner city, straight away, ‘No, can’t do anything for you.’” Mr Carty recognises that bouncers have a difficult job but says that the “stigma” displayed towards people from inner city Dublin is unwarranted.
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