A Dublin woman has spoken of her terror after being followed by a group of aggressive teenagers who hurled vile racial abuse at her in broad daylight.
Gonchigkhand Byambaa told Dublin Live she thought she was "going to die and her soul would never get justice" as she was followed down Dominic Street in Dublin's north-inner city on Wednesday afternoon.
She said: "I was walking to the Luas stop when a group of boys started following me and asked me for money.
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"I just ignored and pretended to not understand. They kept following me and my body started shaking."
Gonchigkhand said she continued to ignore them but her silence only made them angrier as they began to shout foul racist abuse at her.
She said: "Then they called me a ‘f*****g, useless, s***e refugee’ and all sorts of other horrible names. Then they shouted, ‘refugee, go back to your country,’ loudly.
"When they were following me, all I could think of was, ‘Oh my God, I’m going to die here and my poor soul is never going to get justice’."
The incident left Gonchigkhand scared and angry and she said: "The thing is now what are we going to do with those kinds of teenagers? So, should we keep on ignoring, or give in and let them do whatever they want to do to us?
"If you challenge them, they could kill us. They could do whatever they want and they’ll probably get away with it."
This isn't the first time she has been targeted on the streets of Dublin. Gonchigkhand recalled an incident where she was sprayed with a liquid by laughing youths outside a restaurant in the city centre in January.
Her young daughter was standing next to her and Gonchigkhand had to pretend it was a joke because she didn't want to scare her little girl.
Gonchigkhand, who moved from Mongolia five years ago, said that 99% of her experiences in Ireland have been positive.
She said: "I’m so grateful and thankful for all the opportunities that Ireland has given me.
"After I landed here in Ireland I lost my parents, my heart was broken but good Irish people healed my broken heart, my soul was restored, and I rebuilt my life in Ireland."
She added that she isn't going to let racist incidents stop her from fighting for justice and making Ireland a better place for her children.
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