Racism rife as Dublin shows least tolerance

THE number of racist incidents reported to one of the country’s top intercultural watchdogs soared by 60% in the last six months of last year.

The National Consultative Committee on Racism and Inter-culturalism (NCCRI) revealed that it received 40 complaints of racist incidents between July and December last year, compared with 25 in the first half of 2006.

The NCCRI said that more than 70% of those incidents took place in Dublin, and ranged from verbal abuse right up to serious physical assault.