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# racism - Monday 24 February, 2020
'We were segregated in 'the reject ward'': Survivor describes experience of mixed-race children in mother and baby homes
An unpublished report has found that mixed-race children were routinely withheld for adoption and some children’s skin colour was listed as a “defect”.
# racism - Wednesday 8 January, 2020
Lazio avoid serious sanction for Balotelli abuse
The Rome club have been fined €20,000.
# racism - Wednesday 25 December, 2019
Punishing teams with points deductions the only way to tackle racist abuse - West Ham star
Michail Antonio insists that harsher punishments have to be introduced.
# racism - Tuesday 24 December, 2019
Tottenham ban supporter for throwing cup at Kepa while racism investigation continues
A supporter who threw a cup onto the pitch during Sunday’s Premier League game with Chelsea has been banned by Spurs.
# racism - Monday 23 December, 2019
Rudiger abuse probe 'inconclusive' as Spurs call in lip-readers to assess footage
The Germany international was allegedly targeted shortly after Son Heung-min had been sent off.
Lampard confirms Rudiger and Azpilicueta are taking up alleged racist incident with officials
Antonio Rudiger alleges he was targeted with racist abuse during Sunday’s 2-0 win at Tottenham and it has been raised with officials.
# racism - Sunday 22 December, 2019
'It's accepted in the highest office in the country' - Gary Neville on racism in Spurs-Chelsea clash
Antonio Rudiger was targeted by spectators during today’s Premier League match.
Varadkar says he is 'thankful' he hasn't had much experiences of homophobia or racism
He said he has been subjected to name-calling but never anything violent.
# racism - Tuesday 17 December, 2019
Serie A chief apologises for controversial anti-racism campaign
Serie A has apologised after an anti-racism campaign it had fronted was focused around artwork involving primates.
Serie A clubs condemn league's controversial anti-racism campaign
Roma and AC Milan have both responded to the initiative via social media.
# racism - Monday 16 December, 2019
Serie A use monkey paintings for anti-racism initiative
The new artwork sparked a backlash on social media but the artist explained that he wanted to turn the derogatory term on racists who use it.
# racism - Sunday 8 December, 2019
Man arrested after appearing to make racist gestures during Manchester derby
Videos circulated on social media showed a man appearing to make monkey gestures.
# racism - Friday 6 December, 2019
Corriere dello Sport complains of 'lynching' in front-page defence of 'Black Friday' headline
Roma and Milan banned Corriere dello Sport after Thursday’s headline but the newspaper’s editor said: “I don’t have to justify myself.”
# racism - Thursday 5 December, 2019
Italian newspaper criticised for 'Black Friday' headline about Lukaku and Smalling
Corriere dello Sport used the term in reference to tomorrow’s Serie A game between Inter Milan and Roma.
# racism - Wednesday 4 December, 2019
Rapinoe asks Ronaldo and Messi to 'help' in fight against racism, sexism
The United States international won the women’s Ballon d’Or this week.
# racism - Sunday 1 December, 2019
Archbishop of Dublin horrified at ‘new language of racism’ in Ireland
Dr Diarmuid Martin made his remarks during a sermon to mark the beginning of Advent.
# racism - Monday 25 November, 2019
# racism - Monday 18 November, 2019
RTÉ journalist experienced racist abuse online for over two years
Zainab Boladale said she has been dealing with much of the abuse since 2017.
# racism - Saturday 16 November, 2019
Sweden striker racially abused during Euro qualifier in Romania
Sweden’s 2-0 win was temporarily halted by the referee last night.
# racism - Tuesday 12 November, 2019
Noel Grealish accused of 'disgraceful racism' in Dáil after raising questions about money being sent to Nigeria
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said that Irish people had ‘for centuries’ sent money back to Ireland.
# racism - Sunday 10 November, 2019
Labour Party leader says 'new toxic racism' has entered Irish politics
Howlin made the comments during a speech at the party’s annual conference in Mullingar.
# racism - Wednesday 6 November, 2019
Taoiseach says racist 'scaremongering' in communities needs to be called out
Defending Direct provision, he said it ‘is an imperfect system, but not an inhumane one’.
# racism - Tuesday 5 November, 2019
Ancelotti lauds Balotelli's response to racist abuse
Mario Balotelli’s response to racist abuse is further proof that football is on the right track to combat the issue, says Carlo Ancelotti.
# racism - Sunday 3 November, 2019
'Shame on you in front of your families' - Mario Balotelli slams racist abuse deniers
The Brescia forward almost walked off the pitch before being convinced to finish the game, and scoring a stunning goal
# racism - Monday 28 October, 2019
Far-right party makes major gains in German state election
Bjoern Hoecke previously labelled Berlin’s Holocaust memorial a “monument of shame”.
# racism - Friday 25 October, 2019
Irish hip hop group who Rory Stewart called 'minor gangsters' say his comments 'come from a racist place'
Hare Squead said the former Tory member “was only looking for a photo opp”.
# racism - Thursday 24 October, 2019
'The law is weak': Government launches public consultation on hate speech
The Department of Justice is currently finalising research on legislative approaches to tackling hate crime in other countries.
# racism - Monday 14 October, 2019
England match halted as Bulgaria fans warned for racist behaviour
The Three Lions’ Euro qualifier was stopped twice after abuse was registered from the stands.
# racism - Wednesday 9 October, 2019
'If you feel uncomfortable or threatened, report it': Hate crime definition introduced for gardaí
The Garda Commissioner said gardaí want to encourage victims to report these incidents to them.
Twitter defends response to 'absolutely abhorrent' abuse directed at Ryan family
TD Jack Chambers described their response to the situation as “weak”.
# racism - Saturday 5 October, 2019
'I am not going to stay in country where this is allowed': Couple from supermarket ad leave Ireland after online abuse
A death threat was made against the couple after speaking out last week.
# racism - Friday 4 October, 2019
An underage Irish sportswoman was racially abused and punched on a bus last year
The assault occurred on 3 October 2018.
# racism - Thursday 3 October, 2019
Poll: Have you ever witnessed a racist incident on public transport?
Members of the public complained to the NTA that its anti-racism campaign was “anti-white”.
'It is just pure anti-whiteism': NTA hit by complaints over anti-racism campaign
In August, the NTA launched a week-long public campaign to highlight experiences of racism.
# racism - Friday 27 September, 2019
Couple from supermarket ad campaign 'considering leaving Ireland' after online abuse
They have called for more robust hate-crime legislation to be introduced.
# racism - Friday 20 September, 2019
Inter boss Conte despairs of Italian football's worsening 'hate' culture
‘I came back after three years and found everything worse,’ the former Chelsea manager said.
# racism - Thursday 19 September, 2019
New video emerges of Justin Trudeau wearing brownface makeup
The controversy has come as a blow to the Canadian prime minister’s re-election campaign ahead of next month’s election.
Ex-England striker Peter Beardsley guilty of racial abuse and suspended for 32 weeks
The 58-year-old was found guilty on three counts of racist language towards Newcastle U23 players.
# racism - Tuesday 17 September, 2019
Cagliari avoid punishment for Lukaku racist abuse
The club have vowed to ban the supporters responsible.
# racism - Wednesday 11 September, 2019
Man accused of racist attack on taxi driver after video went viral to plead guilty
Clive Mason appeared before Judge Bryan Smyth at Dublin District Court today.
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Brescia president Cellino in hot water over 'black' Balotelli comment
The Serie A club has released a statement insisting it was a joke that has been misunderstood.
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