Official figures record 138 racist hate crimes.
The Equality Authority of Ireland commissioned and published a report reviewing policy, provisions and practices in relation to dealing with racist crimes and racist incidents in Ireland, with a specific focus on police responses.
Official figures record 3 anti-Semitic crimes.
Official figures record 21 crimes based on bias against LGBT people.
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) recommended that Ireland create systems to encourage reporting of hate crimes; ensure racist motivation is consistently taken into account in sentencing for bias crimes; and deliver training for judiciary on racist crimes.
The UN Human Rights Council encouraged Ireland to develop a training programme for the judiciary to ensure judges take into account racist motivation in sentencing; to establish a system to encourage reporting of racist crimes; and to investigate the reports of knife stabbings of people of African descent, ensuring the perpetrators are prosecuted and appropriately punished.