New campaign seeks to drive out racism from Ireland

The Immigrant Council of Ireland has seen an 11% increase in the number of racist incidents which have been reported to it with physical violence involved in 13% of the incidents.

The council has confirmed the 240 reports it received throughout 2015 were up from 217 a year earlier.

While verbal harassment (99 instances) and discrimination (68 instances) were the most common form of racism, physical violence occurred in 37 of the cases and threats of physical violence and intimidation were encountered in 31.