A NIGERIAN diplomat has broken with long-established protocol to criticise the Government’s lack of leadership on the issue of growing racism in Ireland.

GROUPS working to end female genital mutilation (FGM) have urged the Government to introduce laws specifically outlawing the practice.

The genital mutilation of young girls must be eradicated within ethnic minority communities across Ireland who want to maintain cultural traditions, health chiefs warned today.

RACIST attacks on pregnant black women are on the increase in Dublin city centre, a support group for African women reported yesterday.