State's hate crime awareness campaign in 'planning' stage despite 2023 target launch date

Protesters at the community group Dublin South-West Together (DSWT) anti-racism protest in Tallaght to condemned a vicious racist attack in Kilnamanagh which left an Indian man needing hospital treatment in July. Picture: Leah Farrell/© RollingNews.ie

A public awareness campaign to tackle hate crime, which was supposed to have started by the end of 2023, is still at the “planning” stage, a government report says.

The national action plan against racism, published in March 2023, recommended that the State carries out a “public education and awareness raising programme” in support of it.