700 reports of racism in 2020
Reports of racism in Ireland reached record highs in 2020.
700 reports of racist incidents were reported to the Irish Network Against Racism's iReport service last year.
That's a 25% on 2019 record numbers of hate speech incidents and racist assaults.
The report's author Dr Lucy Michael says it's a worrying development.
"Reports overall were up including criminal offence, hate speech and graffiti.
"We saw that very high rate of physical injury continuing too, along with psychological impact and social isolation that results from that doubling for victims of racist crime and violence in 2020."
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