An anti-immigrant narrative has recently gained popularity in Ireland. People supporting the narrative are blaming the immigrants, including Indians for a number of local problems, including the housing crisis in the country.
A recent machete attack on an Indian man in Melbourne is the latest in a string of violent assaults on Indians abroad. From Australia to Canada and Ireland, racial hatred and targeted violence against Indians are becoming alarmingly frequent.
A brutal assault on an Indian man in Dublin and its whitewashing by Irish media exposes a deeper, global pattern of rising Hinduphobia and anti-Indian racism in the West.
In Ireland's Catholic care homes, after the babies were delivered, the nuns separated them from their mothers immediately after birth without taking any approval of the mother.
Responding to OpIndia’s email query, Indian Ambassador to Ireland Akhilesh Mishra said that The Irish Times has been “extremely negative” towards India.
Israel Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar announced he will be closing Israel’s embassy in Ireland, citing the “extreme anti-Israel policy of the Irish government.”