Irish campaigners call for hate crime legislation

Rights groups have renewed calls for hate crime legislation after only 47 incidents were recorded in the first half of the year.

Irish campaigners call for hate crime legislation
Sun, 12 Oct, 2014 - 13:18

Rights groups have renewed calls for hate crime legislation after only 47 incidents were recorded in the first half of the year.

Officially, the number of racist, homophobic and anti-semitic cases up to the end of June is slightly below the previous two years which saw 111 reports for the whole of 2013 and 118 in 2012.

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