Some of the incidents reported by ethnic minority communities in Ireland since the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon:

An Algerian asylum-seeker who arrived in Ireland shortly after September 11th requested and was granted relocation from a small rural town in Co Cork as he feared for his safety.

A French national of Japanese ethnic origin visiting Ireland was slapped across the face on October 1st by a man who blamed her for the attacks on the US. The man, who was on a motorcycle with a child passenger, stopped and assaulted the woman on a street in Dublin in daylight. She stayed in a friend's house for four days and has since returned to France.

A man from Yemen in the south of the Arabian peninsula who is an asylum-seeker was hospitalised following an attack outside a supermarket as he was using a public pay phone on September 28th. His assailants blamed him for being involved in the September 11th attacks. The case is being investigated by the Garda.

Bricks were thrown at a mosque in Wellington Park, Belfast, on September 14th. No one was hurt in the attack.