The Central Criminal Court has heard how a 15 year-old Nigerian boy was stabbed in the heart following a row in West Dublin with 'racist undertones'.

YOU climb out of bed in the morning to survey the trail of destruction already zig-zagging to the half-open front door. You summon the courage to slowly peel open another credit card bill.

ACTIVITY on a neo-Nazi internet-based forum has dramatically increased since the killing of 15-year-old Nigerian boy Toyosi Shitta-bey on Good Friday.

Hundreds of friends and family of slain Dublin teenager Toyosi Shitabbey will march in Dublin city centre later today.

A TENSE silence was broken in a west Dublin graveyard yesterday when cries of sorrow went up as a the embalmed body of schoolboy Toyosi Shitta-bey was lowered into the ground.

The funeral of teenager Toyosi Shittabey who was fatally stabbed in West Dublin on Good Friday, is due to take place this afternoon.

FAMILY and friends of Toyosi Shittabey gathered during an emotional candlelight vigil in north-west Dublin yesterday as community leaders moved to ease tensions in the community.

TWO men appeared before a special sitting of Dublin District Court yesterday on charges related to the death of a young Nigerian student in west Dublin on Friday night.

RESIDENTS of a west Dublin suburb turned out in large numbers yesterday to pay tribute to a young Nigerian student who died in a stabbing incident at the weekend.

Integration Minister Mary White has said she is shocked and saddened at the death of a 15-year-old Nigerian boy in Tyrellstown in Dublin.

A teenage boy stabbed to death may have been attacked following a row sparked by racist jibes, it was disclosed tonight.