'My lifetime of work was incinerated because of ignorance, gossip, and racism.'

As immigration protests become more widespread across Irish communities, some agitators have decided they would rather take a match to a local building than see international protection applicants move in. But what if that "empty building" was actually your family home? Shannon Kincaid's tells Ellen Coyne about the fire that destroyed her home in Rosscahill, Co Galway.

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