Call for specific hate crime law amid attacks

Current anti-racism laws are “not functioning” and the Government must introduce specific hate crime legislation, according to an immigrant support group.

Cork-based Nasc said the lack of such laws meant some people felt it was “okay” to abuse ethnic minorities.

Nasc campaign officer Jennifer DeWan was responding to yesterday’s report in the Irish Examiner of racist attacks at the Dublin home of a single mother-of-two, where graffiti ‘Blacks Out’ was daubed across the front window.