Your View: Far-right groups should hang their heads in shame

A reader says a woman's decision to go public about being assaulted on the Luas should be a wake-up call to those sprouting anti-immigrant sentiment

The young woman gave an account of how she was taunted and then physically assaulted on the Luas for no other reason than the colour of her skin. File picture: Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie

The high point of RTÉ’s Monday night debate on immigration was surely the young woman’s heart-rending account of how she was taunted and then physically assaulted on the Luas for no other reason than the colour of her skin.

I hope this woman’s decision to go public will have been a wake-up call for all those people who mount protests hollering “get them out!” or who spout virulently anti-immigrant sentiment at public meetings or on social media, often under the guise of concern about unknown newcomers to the community, “lack of amenities in the area”, or a vague notion that “Ireland is full” (which is most definitely isn’t), a slogan that, revoltingly, was among the words used by the cowardly assailant on the Luas.