Simon Bourke: Tallaght attack harks back to Jim Crow-era in its dehumanisation and humiliation of victim
Sadly, Ms Murray was not a historian, was not recounting the tale of another horrific lynching in the Deep South during the Jim Crow years. No, she is living very much in the here and now, in an era where Irish people see fit to beat and strip those of a different colour, those who, by virtue of originating from another land, are to be viewed with suspicion, with antipathy, with hate.
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