Gardaí are investigating a suspected racist attack in which a seven-week old baby girl narrowly avoided serious injury. Thugs tossed a 10ft iron bar, and a lump of wood, through her bedroom window, in a brazen daylight attack.

“He has decided to go to the match as life must carry on.”

Last week, a woman and her two children were forced to leave their Clondalkin home after the racist message was spray-painted on the front of their house.

A 15-year-old boy arrested after sending an alleged racist tweet aimed at Arsenal striker Danny Welbeck has been cautioned.