Yemi Adenuga: 'I’m still trying to gather myself because too many things went through my head.' Photograph: Alan BetsonA Meath county councillor says she was subjected to a racial attack, including being “spat on”, in Navan town on Friday night. Nigerian-Irish Yemi Adenuga was walking back to her car in the centre of Navan on Friday night when she was approached by a man who asked if she was “Yemi”. I’m so used to it now; I brush it off like water, but to get spat at?” Ms Adenuga said. He said Ms Adenuga is a person of the “highest integrity”.

Source: The Irish Times January 25, 2026 01:51 UTC