As a mixed-race child, RTÉ múinteoir Emer O’Neill and her mum suffered horrific abuse and attacks on their home. Now she’s determined her own children will live in a much more tolerant Ireland
The term ‘influencer’ is bandied about as freely as air these days, but if there’s one person who is truly living up to the concept of influencing people in a positive manner, it has to be Emer O’Neill. The 35-year-old mother-of-two from Bray, Co Wicklow, has been using social media to educate and inform young and old alike on racism and, in particular, racism in Ireland.
Updated: 1 Feb 2021, 18:17
RTE teacher Emer O Neil has opened up about the living nightmare of racist attacks she experienced as a child.
The PE teacher from Bray told how her house was once set on fire and in another incident flooded when she was growing up.
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Emer s mum returned to Ireland from Nigeria in the 80s
The Home School Hub star, who is mixed race, revealed her mum came home to Ireland from Nigeria as an unwed pregnant woman and Emer herself was born in 1985.
The PE teacher admitted that she was not well received from a majority Catholic Ireland.
She wrote: I was born in 1985 to my mom Phyl. She had been in Nigeria for two years prior to that working as a voluntary nurse and it was there that she met my dad Sonny.
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