Racism is a reality for migrant and ethnic minorities living in Ireland. Racism is a significant barrier to integration and limits opportunities for building a cohesive and connected society based on mutual respect and equality.
Many types of racist incidents do not constitute a crime under Irish law, and they are often not recorded by the Gardai. Awareness of the existing equality infrastructure is low among immigrant and ethnic minority residents and real experiences of racism and discrimination are often not reflected in official statistics. As a lead organisation in the
Cork City Integration Strategy, Nasc has worked for several years with its partner organisations in Cork to promote integration and combat racism.
Nasc’s third party racist reporting mechanism emerged as a result of concerns about underreporting of racist incidents. Since the establishment of the
racist reporting mechanism, we have seen a noted increase in reports of online racism. Online racism is an area that is fast becoming a concern as, from our experience, it is very difficult to monitor and even more difficult to prosecute. Nasc made a
submission to the Committee on Transport and Communications during their hearings on social media cyberbullying calling for the need to tackle online racism, which were included in the Committee’s final
report.
http://www.nascireland.org/racism/
Cork Is the most populace city in the SOUTH of Ireland