I have to take issue with that generalisation @Purple.
We have a history of caring for black Africans. In my infant school there was a collection every single week for the "Black Babies", "Na Leanaí Gorma" where irrespective of our families' rung on the wealth ladder, we were each expected to contribute 1/2d or 1d to a collection box in their aid. There were collection boxes in every class-room, in every grocery shop, post-office, vegetable shop and The Merciless Nuns ran concerts where the likes of the HarmoniChords, who morphed into the Bachelors, Othmar Remy Arthur, Frankie Blowers, and so on played weekly concerts in the "halla" to raise funds for the missions to black Africa. When concerts became passé, past pupils organised discos in the halla and the funds collected at the door went to the African missions - Irish teenage sweat and hormones supporting black child welfare thousands of miles away.
My late father's 1st cousin, a nursing nun, though I can't remember what order, died back in Ireland from an illness contracted while helping to run a children's hospital in Africa. My childhood best friend's older sister from a CoI family on our street nursed at a children's clinic in Africa. She met her husband out there. They came home to marry, went back out and settled there, still caring for Africans their entire working lives.
Please don't generalise about who and what we support and have supported as a nation,; we have been catholic in our caring.
