Complaints over Facebook ‘racial hatred’ page

A Cork-based migrant rights group has made an official complaint to gardaí about a Facebook page which it claims is inciting racial hatred.

A Sinn Féin town councillor yesterday defriended himself from the “Athlone Con Artists” page, which was set up less than two weeks ago to “name and shame the people who are coming into our town and bleeding us dry and then add insult to injury beg on our streets and beg at our church gates”.

Among the 600-plus “friends” is a fake account for model Georgia Salpa. Last night, she said it may prompt her to complain about the number of fake accounts in her name.