I don't know if what other Irish people think, but me personally, I find that Ireland can be an extremely racist country at times. It's weird, I find that as a country we are forward thinking in many ways, like getting same-sex marriage approved and that was fantastic - a huge win for the country and of course, the people who want to marry the same sex. But then, there is so much casual racism and people think it is nothing.
For example, there is a talk show on the radio I listen to all the time, and they did a topic about that H&M debacle with the little boy wearing the "coolest monkey in the jungle" top, and I promise you that at least 8 out of every 10 people that called said it wasn't racist and that and I quote the presenter of the show here
"The people getting offended by this are nothing more than snowflakes, who want to be offended and overreact to everything that happens."
And then they did a poll on the topic where they asked if it was racist and people texted in, and it was like 84% of people thought it was not racist.
I was sitting there like
"Am I the only fucking sane person in this country"
