The experience of growing up black and Irish in a country where the majority of the population are white. "Close Up" was a European Broadcasting Union (EBU) series on the subject of racism.

Sat, 23 Dec, 2023 - 02:00 Mary Cate Smith I grew up in Tallaght with my mam, a white Irish Catholic woman, and for the first few years of my life, my dad. He was a black Senegalese Muslim man.