Who said the following: “The vast majority of asylum seekers are free-loaders, blackguards, and hoodlums. They are hunted out of their own placeby their own people. I’d take a genuine asylum seeker and put him under my own roof. But where is he?

Bus Éireann kindly stepped in to provide transport to bring Sanctuary runners from the Direct Provision centre in Kinsale Road in Cork to Patrick Street today for the city marathon.

The much-hyped new film release BlacKkKlansman has once again brought the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) to public notice, writes Kristofer Allerfeldt.

For a reality TV show about a queer subculture, RuPaul’s Drag Race has achieved extraordinary success, writes Scott McKinnon.

Spain's capital is grappling with the aftermath of violent unrest following the death of an African street vendor who had been running away from police.

An American television presenter has claimed there is an "indefensible and inexcusable" marginalisation of black men and women at Fox News, amid a multibillion takeover deal involving British-based broadcaster Sky.

Yesterday was World Toilet Day, a battleground for everyone from the Suffragettes to the freedom riders, who have fought for access to the bathroom for people of all persuasions, races and genders. Caomhan Keane reports.

He has finally collected his Olympic medal but Rob Heffernan remains as committed to improvement as ever as he vows to ‘go to war’ one last time. He just wishes people wouldn’t take it so personally when he pushes to raise standards for all Irish athletes.

Donald Trump said he was "very troubled" by last week's fatal shooting of a black man by a white police officer in Oklahoma, as he made a fresh appeal to black voters who have supported Democrats in the past by overwhelming margins

You probably won't see this event at Rio.

Last weekend, Cork was basking in glorious sunshine and the masses were enjoying the Red Bull Soapbox race down Patrick's Hill.

Cork's famous St. Patrick's Hill will host the Red Bull Soapbox Race this Sunday, June 5 at 12pm.

A top member of a rising nationalist party has been criticised after reportedly saying many people would not want Jerome Boateng, a German international footballer whose father was born in Ghana, as their neighbour.

This week, we’re getting our packing done. Just like a holidayer on their way to somewhere exotic, we must ensure we have enough to get us through the duration of our trip.

New Hampshire the next stop for candidates seeking delegates’ votes

A jockey and a horse trainer went for a run of the two- legged variety yesterday — and it might just lead to Rio.

Ferrari is becoming a publicly traded company with its shares listing on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol RACE.

The company that managed Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private email server says it has no knowledge that the server was “wiped”. If it wasn’t, 30,000 emails Clinton says she deleted could be recovered, according to a report in The Washington Post.

Caving to intense Republican lobbying, presidential candidate Donald Trump has ruled out an independent White House bid and has vowed to support whomever wins the party’s nomination — a U-turn eased by his position at the front of the field.

Vice president Joe Biden said he was unsure if he will seek the Democratic presidential nomination, telling a Jewish audience that his decision will hinge on whether he and his family have the “emotional energy to run”.

Quite a tricky looking card at Wexford today, where the ground is expected to ride on the easy side of good. Although Miss Me Now would prefer a little more cut in the ground, the Willie Mullins-trained mare will be very hard to beat in the closing bumper.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is outlining a foreign policy in which the US would put ground troops in the fight against IS and demand money from Middle East countries backed by the US.

Half white, half Asian Dubliner Dean Van Nguyen speaks to other mixed-race Irish people in their twenties and thirties about growing up in a primarily white culture, being subjected to racist taunts, and coming to terms with their own sense of self.

A state of emergency has been declared in the US city where an unarmed black teenager was shot by a white police officer a year ago.

Free speech is not cheap. “No dough, no go for presidential hopefuls” (Irish Examiner, August 4) relates the huge amount of money already compiled by US presidential candidates — and the voting doesn’t start for another six months.

A white US police officer who shot a black motorist after stopping him over a missing licence plate has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and voluntary manslaughter.

Mimis Ace, trained by John Kiely for Maura Kiely, Blackrock, earned his ticket to the Boylesports Irish Derby by taking Saturday night’s final of the trial stake at Curraheen Park in great style.

A woman who erroneously claimed to be black, while heading the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), resigned from her position after her parents publicly ‘outed’ her as Caucasian.