Tourist town accused of racism on ‘a large scale’

IMMIGRANTS are being treated shamefully in one of the country’s leading tourist towns, Amnesty International said yesterday.

Tourist town accused of racism on ‘a large scale’

The organisation’s local branch in Killarney, Co Kerry, has received dozens of calls from asylum seekers who have experienced “sheer, undiluted racism” in the town.

Some local residents have a zero tolerance attitude to poor non-nationals, Killarney Amnesty spokesperson Bea O’Neill said. Many immigrants are without homes and employment and they find it almost impossible to get help, she said.

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