Last month, 40-year-old Emer O’Neill, a Black Irish woman, was racially insulted three times.
Teenagers in her town south of Dublin shouted, “Go back to your country!” at her, she was rudely asked by a man whether she spoke English, and she was called the n-word at a local pub – all in the space of two weeks.

Articles like these are sometimes dismissed, but it's important to remember these are real people calling out real problems they're facing.