A young black woman was assaulted unprovoked by a man in a shop, three teenage boys racially abused a security guard, and a teenage boy was the victim of a homophobic assault by three other male teens.
These are just three of the 582 hate crimes and hate-related incidents recorded in 2022, according to new Garda statistics revealed today. Gardai say they've been noticing a steady increase of hate crimes compared to 2021 when there were 389.
A total of 617 discriminatory motives were recorded this year. And nearly half of these incidents (47 per cent) were in the Dublin Metropolitan area. Among the incidents was a man in his 30s receiving a three month conviction following homophobic abuse and public order offences which gardai witnessed.
