Family driven from Dublin home after ‘blacks out’ graffiti scrawled on front

A family – a mother and two children – have moved out of their house on Lealand Avenue in Clondalkin after two men painted the words “blacks out” across their front window last Tuesday night.

It was just one in a series of attacks on Jane’s property in recent weeks, with the tyres on her auto slashed twice in the fortnight preceding the graffiti, and slashed again two nights later, the Irish Examiner reports today.

“They said they were not going to the “horrible house”, “the scary movie house”, she said.

Her son, aged 12, and her daughter, 8, were born in Ireland and are Irish citizens. Jane says they are now too scared to return to their home in Clondalkin.

“I was really shocked because she is clearly a woman who is quite well integrated into the community, she had lived there for some time”, said Deputy Dowds.

“They’re so mad and they are so upset”.

“I thought it was terrible”, Jane, a single mother, told the Irish Examiner.

A woman who had sickening racist graffiti sprayed on her family home has told how she can “never live in the house again”. “We lived there for six years but I can’t let my children live there anymore”, said Rebecca (39).

“I want to know why – if the person is racist why are you racist?”

“I want to know why – that is what I want to know”.

“After that, I couldn’t think of anything”.

Local residents helped organise a clean up of the house with local councillor Gino Kenny.

“This racist attack is an attack on the whole estate, the whole of Clondalkin and the whole country”.

He said statistics showed there were 137 racist hate crimes in 2014.

“There’s no theory” around the motivation for the attack, Mr Kenny added.

“It’s not going to be tolerated”. The family are a very quiet family and have a very good relationship with their neighbours.

“This can not be allowed to manifest itself”.

“Racism is a cancerous poison that needs to be weeded out and isolated by solidarity and neighbours and communities coming together”.

It’s repulsive. People here are sickened.