Woman running @Ireland vows to stay strong against racist trolling

A black British woman has been submerged by racist abuse after she took over the @Ireland Twitter account.

Michelle Marie, a plus-size model and blogger originally from Oxford, moved to Ireland in 2013 and was chosen to run the account -- which is run by a different person in the country every week.

In her first post, Marie wrote that she had settled in Ireland and “it has my heart.”

But just hours after taking over the profile, Marie was forced to defend herself from trolls who disguised their racist and body-shaming hatred as nationalism:

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Here are just a few of the offensive tweets she received, with people telling her to "return to her ancestral lands":

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Others expressed support for the "disgusting racism and ignorance" she experienced:

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Such was the abuse that Marie had to take a break:

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She later posted a statement saying she "experienced racism, sexism, fatphobia and homophobia to a degree I have never known":

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"I have had 8hrs of nonstop hate thrown at me. I am hurt, shocked and appalled," she wrote.

A British man who took over the account in the past said the abuse was "clearly racism" because nobody took issue with him in the past:

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Despite all that though, on Tuesday, Marie was tweeting again.

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