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16/01/02
- Government sponsored anti-racism campaign launched
RTÉ
A campaign sponsored by the Department of Justice to combat
racism is being officially launched in Limerick today.
The three-year campaign began work last October and has
a fund of over £5m. It will grant aid local community
organisations that take on initiatives to combat racism
in their localities and work towards including the 160
different nationalities working and living here.
The former GAA president Joe McDonagh is chairing the
campaign. He said that local communities could play a
very positive role in guarding against an escalation of
racism and racist behaviour in Ireland.
He said that there was a perception abroad that racism
and racist attacks were confined to large urban areas.
A report on racist attacks during May and October of last
year disclosed that 34% of these incidents took place
outside Dublin and 10% occurred in rural areas, he added.
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