President Michael D Higgins has condemned racism in his annual St. Patrick's Day message.
He also addressed the war in Ukraine, the climate crisis, global hunger and poverty.
President Higgins said, as a country, we must stand in solidarity with all those across the globe who are vulnerable and in need.
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He added there are many powerful echoes from St. Patrick's life that resonate with our contemporary circumstances:
'Ones that have brought new forms of slavery into being, where racism is increasing instead of decreasing.
In so many parts of the world, where a poisonous xenophobia new and recalled has taken hold.
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It is in these spaces that fear is being sold'
