Violence and harassment in Ireland
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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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Convictions follow Dublin racist killing
Two men, and two youths, aged 16 and 15, have been found guilty of various charges arising out of the death in Dublin, in January 2001, of Zhao Liu Tao.
26 June 2003 (190 words)
Rise in racial harassment linked to political campaigning
The Equality Authority, reporting in May 2003, states that there has been a 25 per cent increase in racist violence.
29 May 2003 (171 words)
Update: racial violence and hatred
Serious racist attacks on foreigners, particularly immigrants from south-east Asia, are on the increase. And many of the attacks appear to take place in the nation's capital. Yet the response from the authorities is patchy.
12 March 2003 (1158 words)
Chinese national killed in racist attack
Zhao Liu Tao, a 29-year-old Chinese national has been killed in Dublin in what the National Consultative Committee on Racism (NCCR) believes could well have been Ireland's first racist murder.
1 August 2002 (363 words)
Know racism project outlines extent of violence
One third of all racist attacks that occurred in Summer 2001 occurred outside the greater Dublin area, and some ten per cent were in rural areas.
1 August 2002 (83 words)
Another racist attack in Dublin
Vasile Cozma, a Romanian construction worker who has lived in Ireland for four years, had his face slashed after a group of men attacked him and his friend, shouting racist abuse.
1 August 2002 (131 words)
Two women sentenced after vicious attack
Following an attack on a French woman that was so severe that she may never be able to have children, two women have been sentenced to three years in prison for a racially-motivated attack.
1 August 2002 (70 words)
Fact file on racial violence in Dublin
Popular African church attacked
1 January 2002 (297 words)
Attacks on travellers on the rise
The Irish Traveller Movement have called on the Minister of Justice to investigate why it took the police ninety minutes to arrive at a caravan site in Bantry after a group of thirteen men attacked six traveller families.
1 March 1995 (83 words)
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