The Immigrant Council of Ireland says it's monitoring the situation here closely after a spike in racism in the UK following Brexit.
The fallout from the British vote to leave the EU has triggered an increase in racist incidents with eyewitnesses taking to social media to describe abuse they've encountered.
Immigrants have reported being verbally abused in public using the hashtag Post Ref Racism on Twitter and Facebook.
Just had my first taste of #PostRefRacism.White van driver shouts out of window "Go back to your country you dirty Cuban immigrant" facepalm
— Ougoala (@ObiomaUgoala) June 29, 2016
My home town of Newcastle. This afternoon. I feel like I am back in the 1980s. pic.twitter.com/8THD1xsn1N
— David Olusoga (@DavidOlusoga) June 25, 2016
In Ealing tday, an angry old white man approached me in the street and demanded to know if I was Polish. Told him to fuck off #postrefracism
— Jam Shambles (@eviljobob) June 29, 2016
Meanwhile - two men who were arrested after a US Army veteran was racially abused on a tram in Manchester have now been bailed.
Susan Keogh has been speaking to Teresa Buczkowska from the Immigrant Council of Ireland.
She says it's an extremely worrying trend and they'll be keeping a close eye on the situation here:
