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Asylum seekers allege intimidation at centres
The department of justice is investigating allegations of intimidation, assault and sub-standard care in some of the state-funded accommodation centres for asylum seekers across the state.
10 December 2004 (102 words)
Racist graffiti sprayed in Tramore
On a slip road leading to the Splashworld complex of Tramore in luminous paint graffiti reads: 'Blaze the Blacks are Back, by Eddie Walsh'.
23 November 2004 (65 words)
Anti-racism campaign in Limerick
A new anti-racism campaign was launched in Limerick in November 2004 organised by the Limerick Network Against Racism.
19 November 2004 (65 words)
Migrant workers crucial for farming
During Anti-Racist Workplace Week, the Irish Farmers Association (IFA) launched a booklet on equality for migrant farm workers which stressed how such workers (7,000 at any one time) are now crucial to the economy, particularly to horticulture.
10 November 2004 (111 words)
Mayo: farmer shoots Traveller dead
A Mayo farmer, who told police how, because he had been targeted by robbers before, he lived in fear of intruders, was being questioned by gardai after he shot and killed a Traveller who he saw leaving the back door of his house.
19 October 2004 (96 words)
Employers accused of enslaving foreign workers
Four hundred delegates at the Siptu regional conference in Tralee, Co Kerry voted unanimously to end the employer-led work permit system for non-nationals and to give the permits to the immigrant workers so as to prevent 'further exploitation and abuse' of the vulnerable.
19 October 2004 (130 words)
Dublin charity accused of funding bin Laden
The US government has accused the Irish representative of the Islamic African Relief Agency (IARA), Ibrahim Buisir, of raising funds for bin Laden and other terrorists.
16 October 2004 (137 words)
Dublin: travellers fight against concrete barrier
Following a spate of illegal dumping, Dublin City Council decided to block off Finglas Road with concrete boulders, angering the resident Traveller community.
12 October 2004 (145 words)
Man fighting for his life after attack
A 48-year-old Lithuanian man who had just arrived in Ireland, was fighting for his life in Mater hospital, Dublin at the beginning of October, after having been savagely beaten near the Binns Bridge at the Royal Canal in Drumcondra.
6 October 2004 (70 words)
Libyan brutally assaulted in Dublin
A Libyan man was seriously ill after he was savagely beaten by two men in the Temple Bar area on 4 October.
6 October 2004 (81 words)
Asylum hostel opponents face huge legal bill
The Dublin Road Action Group, in Kilkenny, which led protests against the building of an asylum centre in their community, now faces a legal bill of up to e100,000 after successfully taking on the Department of Justice.
2 September 2004 (125 words)
Justice minister upbraided for anti-refugee message
Sinn Fein equality spokesman Aengus O'Snodaigh has attacked the Irish justice minister, Michael McDowell, for conducting a war against refugees, during the general election period, and using them as scapegoats for a lack of public services.
22 June 2004 (161 words)
Race attacker jailed
A Glen of the Downs protestor who thrust a knife into a Somali's mouth after insulting him racially at a Dublin night club was jailed for three years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
17 June 2004 (40 words)
Did the government play the race card in citizenship referendum?
Voters have endorsed a government plan to remove the automatic right of citizenship to children born in Ireland by 80 per cent in a turnout of 60 per cent in a referendum held on 11 June, the same day as local and European elections.
15 June 2004 (717 words)
Neo-Nazi thugs stage and video incident in Longford
Two thugs in balaclavas hung a life-size doll with a bag over its head and a sign 'nigers [sic] go home, you'll never be Irish' over a railway bridge on which they had scrawled three swastikas on the Dublin Road.
11 June 2004 (93 words)
Inquest into Chinese death returns unlawful killing verdict
The inquest into the death of Chen Li Ming (22) who was attacked in Dublin on 11 October 2002 has been unable to establish how he died.
8 June 2004 (130 words)
Killarney: 'sinister' shooting at Travellers' home
On the edge of Killarney town a shot was fired through the front window of an occupied bedroom of a settled Traveller family on 29 March.
30 March 2004 (89 words)
Gardai says racist incidents are down
According to Garda authorities offences against non-nationals have dropped significantly in the past year.
16 October 2003 (95 words)
South African minister appalled at racism and intolerance
Addressing the SIPTU conference in Galway, Kadar Ismal, South Africa's Education Minister drew attention to the rising levels of racism in Ireland.
1 September 2003 (134 words)
Call to remove Nazi collaborator's statue
Moves to dismantle the statue of IRA Chief of Staff, Sean Russell, who was complicit in Nazi plans to exterminate Irish Jews and who died aboard a German U-boat off Galway in 1940 as he returned from meeting Hitler, are growing.
8 August 2003 (85 words)
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