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'You're A Disgrace! Go Back To India': Woman Yells At Ireland Train Passengers

Darpan News Desk IANS, 19 Apr, 2017 12:32 PM
  • 'You're A Disgrace! Go Back To India': Woman Yells At Ireland Train Passengers
A woman hurled racist abuse at passengers on a train in Ireland, telling one of them to "f*** off back to India" after he placed a bag on an empty seat.
 
The rail operator described the Sunday incident as "shocking and disgraceful" after a video of what happened on the train travelling from Limerick Colbert to Limerick Junction was uploaded to YouTube.
 
The video was made by another female commuter who warned the screaming passenger.
 
 
Police in Ireland were investigating, the Irish Independent reported on Tuesday.
 
The problem began when the woman objected to an Asian passenger placing a bag on an empty seat of the train. The nationality of the aggressive woman or the other passengers was not clear.
 
She shouted that they "hadn't paid for four seats" while she had paid for her seat.
 
The woman then yelled: "Respect my f***ing country and get off the seats."
 
Another passenger tried to quieten her down but she went on: "Look at the ugly head of that fella. That's the only reason he's backing you up is because he's ugly."
 
In the footage the woman is seen furiously ranting at a group of people. At one point she told a man to "f*** off back to India" after he referred to her as an old lady.
 
The passengers who were abused eventually moved to another carriage after 16 minutes, the woman who shot the video told the daily.
 
The woman added: "You don't really get the full effect of what happened from the video.
 
"She was literally sitting beside them, screaming bloody murder on their faces. It went on for almost the whole train ride."
 
Irish rail operator Iarnród Éireann said: "It is a shocking and disgraceful incident. Any form of abuse of customers is intolerable, particularly discriminatory abuse.
 
"The incident will have been deeply upsetting to those who were subject to abuse and those who witnessed it and we are grateful to the customer who reported it to us and raised awareness of it."
 
Irish Rail has reported the incident, captured in a series of videos showing the Irish woman’s racist rant on a Limerick train, to the Gardaí, the state police force of the Republic of Ireland.
 
A spokesman for Irish Rail told the report that behaviour like this will not be tolerated on their service.
 
“People should be able to travel on our services without abuse of any kind. The footage is very clear and very shocking and we welcome the fact that another member of the public was able to assist in identifying the person involved,” he said.
 
In March, a study issued by the European Network against Racism Ireland (ENAR Ireland) found that there was an alarming growth in the number of racism incidents being reported over the last six months, the report said

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