Máiría Cahill: Let’s call it: this noxious, racist, poison ‘protest’ shames Ireland to its core

Gardaí at the scene of a recent protest in Coolock, Dublin. Photo: Steve Humphreys “A different breed”. That was one of the insults shouted at non-white people shown on the RTÉ Investigates programme Inside the Protests on Thursday night.

Those whom they verbally abused politely stood guarding Coolock’s former Crown Paints site, while ranting men and women roared the n-word or the c-word, or told them they would be shot, or threw poles at them, or broke into the site and set fires. Join the Irish Independent WhatsApp channel Stay up to date with all the latest news.