Listen onIn the News podcast: Anger over who should be entitled to housing boils over into criminal damage Listen | 21:07Messages of 'Irish only' have been daubed on various vacant council properties around Dublin. Photograph: Conor Lally Tue Jun 09 2026 - 07:00For the past 18 months, Dublin City Council has been keeping track of a worrying trend: an increase in the number of vacant council houses being targeted in racist attacks. The criminal damage, which happens just before the council moves a new tenant in, ranges from racist graffiti to making the house uninhabitable. So where is this happening? And what can be done to stop it? Irish Times crime and security editor Conor Lally explains what’s behind the recent surge in these attacks, and the reaction from local communities. Presented by Bernice Harrison. Produced by Suzanne Brennan. Bernice HarrisonBernice Harrison is an Irish Times journalist and cohost of In the News podcast
‘Irish only or it burns’ – the rise in racist attacks on Dublin council houses
In the News podcast: Anger over who should be entitled to council housing boils over into criminal damage
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