He wasn't sacked because he was black, that is obviously a really ignorant thing to say. The colour of his skin never entered into it and I can't believe people are so blinkered.
He was sacked because he's Irish.
"No one likes us!
No one likes us!
No one likes us!
We don't ..... quite understand it and are really quite hurt by it actually. After all we're supercool fans from a right-on, hipster city with the country's only Green MP and ... Ah, now I understand."