Hate mail ‘highlights need to stamp out rampant racism’

HATE mail sent to a Nigerian woman in Tralee reflects Ireland’s rampant racism, a leading civil rights campaigner has claimed.

Killarney Green Party candidate Bea O’Neill, one of the country’s leading civil rights campaigners, said yesterday: “It is ongoing on a daily basis, and unless the Government and local authorities do something to combat it, things will get much worse.”

Earlier this week, Tralee food store owner Lara Olukunle received a series of hate letters accusing Africans of trying to take over the town.