Answer: An ignorant, thoughtless scumbag.

An ignorant, thoughtless scumbag with no idea, not only of how to behave, but of the hypocrisy of his actions.

On Sunday evening, a Romanian family's home in the Nelson Drive estate was attacked by paint bombers. The family have three young toddlers and one of them suffered cuts to his foot when their living room window was smashed.

The family also discovered paint smeared across the front door spelling the word 'OUT'. I'm surprised the cretins who carried out the stupefyingly pointless, and dangerous attack, managed to spell 'OUT' correctly. A child could have been killed.

Malin Rostas, his wife Elena and their three children were all at home when the attackers struck on Sunday evening.

Mr Rostas told the 'Foyle News': "I just saw two guys in black but I didn't see their faces. They broke the windows and the three children were sitting on the sofa by the window when it happened. You can imagine they were terrified. I came out and they ran away. We have had nothing like this happen before, we have just moved here."

The Rostas family only arrived in Derry last month to start a new life. What a welcome!? Cead mile failte indeed.

Mr Rostas says he will have to think about moving if they are targeted again, and nobody could blame him.

"I have a few friends round here and they are ok so that is why we came. I got a job here and brought my family over. Derry people seem to be ok but if this happens again we will have to think about leaving.

"I just want to know why someone would do this. They know there are children in the house and they shouldn't do this," he said.

The Irish people pride themselves on being a jovial, welcoming bunch in whatever part of the world you meet them. We had to be - because we travelled all over the world to find work and raise families.

We had to endear ourselves to the people of America, Canada, Australia, Europe, Africa, and beyond because we landed on their shores looking to thrive and prosper.

Integrate

We needed to integrate into their societies in order to survive and they way we did it was by being nice, charming and jocular. It became a stereotype which is still prevalent today: "Ah, to be sure, to be sure - the craic'll be mighty so it will" etc etc.

It is a pleasure to travel to other parts of the world as an Irish man because, for the most part, we are treated with affection and kindness.

The same cannot be said of the English because they have a history spiked with imperialism and colonialism.

If the poisonous seed of racism is allowed to take root here then we could soon be heading down the same road and our good name will be destroyed.

As the Irish economy has been flourishing in the last decade it is no wonder that more and more people want to come here to live.

Our ancestors left these shores and headed West to the Americas where there were no taxes nor tithes to pay.