Gardaí investigating a stabbing at a railway station in Co. Kildare have made an arrest.

A 50-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a suspected hate crime in the North.

A kissing protest has taken place outside the Dáil to highlight the lack of hate-crime legislation to prevent homophobic attacks.

Ireland is “ripe” for a far-right party to emerge if such a group is able to “sell” its story to the people, a terrorism expert has said.

Gardaí have met with Muslim leaders in Limerick as fears spread through the local migrant community following a number of suspected racially motivated attacks in the city.

A widely shared video of a woman being attacked by a man outside a Parisian cafe when she told him to “shut up” after he allegedly used “dirty words that were humiliating and provocative” brought the issue of misogynistic hate crime to the attention of millions, write Louise Mullany and Loretta Trickett.

Emily Logan, chief commissioner of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, believes Ireland is deficient in addressing hate crime.

Ireland has the highest rate of hate crime against people of African descent and transgender people in the EU.

The State has a responsibility to send “a clear message” that hate crime will not be tolerated, the head of the country’s human rights agency has said.

There has been a “dramatic” increase in hate crime in recent years after changes in recording practices by gardaí, according to an international report.

The Life Cycle of a Hate Crime report which was published yesterday must set alarm bells ringing. It records a

Only a small number of hate crime perpetrators received prison sentences, Criminal Justice Inspection Northern Ireland said.

Youths have targeted the home of a foreign national family in north Belfast in what police are treating as a hate crime.

British police are investigating a suspected hate crime after a man was accused of trying to pull off a Muslim woman’s hijab and spitting at her friend.

The shooting dead of a New York City mosque leader and a friend as they left afternoon prayers is being described as a hate crime by shocked members of the community.

Police are treating the theft of flags from a Derry Orange hall as a hate crime.

LGBT people are calling on the Government to introduce hate crime legislation.

David Cameron has condemned "despicable" racism directed at immigrants and ethnic minority Britons after the vote to leave the European Union.

The parents of a British lawyer shot dead in Berlin say they believe their son was the victim of a hate crime.

Judgment has been reserved in the high-profile case of an evangelical preacher accused of insulting Muslims.

“As with all allegations of hate crime we are taking the matter extremely seriously.”

Police have released footage of a man trying to set alight a jerry can full of petrol before hurling it into a mosque in an attack detectives have called an “Islamophobic hate crime”.

The number of hate crimes against Muslims in London has risen by almost three quarters in a year.

Current anti-racism laws are “not functioning” and the Government must introduce specific hate crime legislation, according to an immigrant support group.

Her children now call their home the “scary movie house” in west Dublin.

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties has urged the Government to legislate for hate crime as a matter of urgency, saying it is widespread, yet “remains in the shadows” of our criminal justice system.

The Government is being called on to legislate for hate crimes.