Suzanne Harrington: I'm a white Irish parent of brown children - I didn't want them growing up in Ireland

"Why? Because for all our céad míle fáilte, for all our international reputation for warm-heartedly putting the kettle on, I didn’t trust Ireland."

Suzanne Harrington: "Institutional and systemic racism are baked in, and need to be dug out." Picture: iStock

There is a video doing the rounds at the moment of a gymnastic event in March 2022. It shows a judge handing out participation medals to a line of young gymnasts, but ignoring the only black girl.

A photographer, coach, and other officials look on without intervening, with an audience of hundreds in the stands. The sight of the 10-year-old child being denied a medal made my throat swell and my eyes fill up.