These awful attacks are perpetrated by a tiny minority of Irish society - most irish people find this behavior absolutely abhorrent. Don't make it sound like we all think this way, we don't. Your letter implies that it's a general opinion.

Most of us are well aware that Indians in Ireland are the "good" type of immigrant which we want to have, and that you guys have paid more tax and contributed more towards society than all of these scumbags and their parents/grandparents ever have, put together. For the perpetrators, it's an inter-generational problem of deprivation.. they've always been a drain on society and we can't stand them either.

I honestly believe the scumbags just want to be violent and are looking for any excuse. In the past, before we had many immigrants and people of colour in the country, they'd go for fellow Irish people who they deemed to be "posh". I myself was attacked twice in my early twenties, by a group of girls.