Graffiti saying 'No Blacks' has been spray-painted on a wall at Dublin's Poolbeg lighthouse.

Is Ireland tolerant? The week just past, and a few preceding it, provide mixed results.

Hate is just emotion, however distasteful the comment, whomever the target. It should not be prosecutable, unless it becomes incitement or violence, says Margaret Hickey

The racist abuse that local councillor Hazel Chu has received has emboldened her to run for the Senate, as well as for President of Ireland.

Hazel Chu, who was born in Dublin, says she has received hundreds of hate messages and anonymous phone calls after online trolls posted abusive tweets about her nationality.

There are calls for Gardaí to enforce hate speech legislation and social media companies to do more to combat racism.

Protesters gathered in Dublin today to call on the Gardaí to enforce hate speech legislation.

She said in a post on the group last night that the "Chu Chu train arrived in the station" with her election.

Green leader Eamon Ryan has called for a series of rainbow alliances with other parties following his party’s historic election wins.

You could sum up the one recurring negative comment about the ‘Green Wave’ thus: “Oh, the Greens are going to come after us and take our cars from us and make us get up on our bikes or go on public transport.”

The first elected councillor in Dublin City has pledged to press for better housing and cycle facilities after topping the poll and becoming the country's first Irish-Chinese local representative.

A multinational alcohol company has denied claims that it influenced Cork pubs to remove the produce of independent craft brewers from its taps last weekend.