Granddad telling kids Irish jokes

[SulisMum]

DS (aged 9) told me an Irish joke last night which he had got from his granddad. I gave him a little talk about how it wasn't nice to make jokes about different nationalities and suggested he didn't repeat it - but only after I'd laughed about it with him. (I actually laughed involuntarily as it was a reasonably funny joke).

DS's response was that his granddad had also told him a joke in which the Englishman was made to look silly.

Questions for the MN jury?

How would you deal with your DC telling jokes based on national stereotypes?
Should I tell my dad not to furnish DS with more similar Englishman/Scotsman/Irishman jokes?
Should I be flamed for laughing?

Surely taig is a term of religious bigotry surely than racism?

Luckily I've never heard anybody say it but I live in the south.

Isn't Taking the Mickey cockney rhyming slang? Taking the Mickey bliss - Taking the piss?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taking_the_piss

Yep, most of the sites seem to favour that explanation, with the context confirmed and referenced, which is more than the Urban Dictionary was able to do. Didn't stop the "truely un PC" accusation being thrown my way though

nah, i didn't know that taig was classified as a hate crime word if there even is such a thing
i knew it was unpleasant but there again all sectarian namecalling is hateful

i was interested to understand the situation pauline described
i'm always interested to understand situations where someone is incensed on another's behalf
especially if the other person is fairly ambivalent
glad to hear that they weren't

i was sorry to hear about your husbands upbringing but can you also clarify was your dp called semtex or what did you mean regarding that?