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# Et Tu, Irish? 
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/1663/
- Published: 2005-07-12T22:32:58.000Z
- Updated: 2005-07-12T22:32:58.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Politics, #wpChunk

Have even the Irish have succumbed to the paranoid/humorless-thinskinned crowd? [Link](http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=52074&ref=thedailyeudemon.com). Excerpt:

> Democratic candidate for mayor C. Virginia Fields is apologizing for using the term "paddy wagon" in an interview with NY1 last week.

> In Alabama on Friday, the Manhattan borough president talked about being arrested during a civil rights protest in 1963\. In her comments, she described police vans as "paddy wagons" ”“ a term that's considered offensive by some Irish-Americans. "Paddy" is a common Irish name and was used in the past as a pejorative to insult Irish people.