Online abuse 'getting worse' says academic who was told to 'go home to his shanty town in India'

Senior UCC lecturer says online racist and Islamophobic abuse is 'getting worse'

Amanullah De Sondy from Glasgow is a senior lecturer at University College Cork. Picture: Dan Linehan

A Cork academic has said the level of online racist and Islamophobic abuse he is experiencing is “getting worse”.

Dr Amanullah De Sondy suffered the latest attack after he spoke online at an integration conference on Monday — where a right-wing activist uploaded a video of part of his address and told him to “go home to his shanty town in India” and that Ireland was a “white Christian nation”.