Imasha Costa: 'I am not the reason your system is failing'

Ahead of Saturday's anti-migrant protest in Cork City, 'Irish Examiner' journalist Imasha Costa describes life for immigrants in a changed Ireland 

Members of the Irish far right protesting outside Leinster House in July. Picture: Sasko Lazarov / © RollingNews.ie

For the last few months, I’ve been watching my back, keeping a close eye on the news, making sure that what I see does not take a turn where immigrants who look like me are being assaulted and harassed online.

I find myself taking multiple safety precautions, forcing myself to double check my front door is locked, making sure that my friends and I do not always end up in the same pub, and making sure that I know the people serving me at the coffee shop or my local pub so that, if things took a turn for the worse, I would have an escape route.