 After the Birmingham pub bombings, for example, there were reports of isolated attacks on Irish people and Irish-owned businesses in the Australian press.In the 1990s, writers for the "Daily Mail" newspaper "called for Irish people to be banned from UK sporting events and fined for IRA disruption to public transport", one of numerous opinions expressed over many years which has led the "Daily Mail" to be accused by some in Ireland of publishing "some of the most virulently anti-Irish journalism in Britain for decades".In 2002, English journalist Julie Burchill narrowly escaped prosecution for incitement to racial hatred, following a column in "The Guardian" where she described Ireland as being synonymous with "child molestation, Nazi-sympathising, and the oppression of women."