A black British woman says she was shocked and horrified at the level of racist abuse she's been subjected to since taking over the @Ireland twitter account.
Michelle Marie began tweeting from the account on Monday describing herself as a mother, blogger, and plus size model.
She's originally from Oxford and has been living here since 2013 and in her first post wrote that Ireland has her heart.
But only hours later she was forced to defend herself from hundreds of trolls.
The colour of my skin tells you nothing other than the colour of my skin.
— Ireland / Michelle (@ireland) August 23, 2016
The @ireland account was opened in 2012 and is curated by a different person every week and has around 40,000 followers.
Speaking to Anton Savage earlier Michelle said she has never experienced prejudice like it but that she won't be letting the trolls get her down:
The vast majority of the racist abuse has come from outside Ireland.
That's according to the organiser of the account, Darragh Doyle.
@AnGiogoir @ireland The abuse isn't constant, it's not, for the vast vast majority, coming from Ireland and appears to be racist troll accs
— Darragh Doyle (@darraghdoyle) August 23, 2016
Speaking to the Last Word Daragh says thinks most of the abuse was from US-based accounts:
