A Clare based spokesperson for the Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland hopes that proposed legislation around hate crime will make it clear for Gardaí as to what constitutes such a crime.
A petition calling for hate crime legislation to be enacted has been handed into the Oireachtas and anti-racism campaigners held a demonstration outside Leinster House this morning.
15 thousand people signed a petition calling for a bill – which would give tougher sentences for racially motivated crimes – to be brought through the Oireachtas quickly.
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Knockalisheen Resident Bulelani Mfaco believes education is also needed to help build a racism free society and says this takes longer than passing legislation.
