Some quick-thinking from a pair of Green Party members saw racist graffiti outside a Cork school quickly covered up.

When Kathy D'Arcy saw some graffiti with a racist message in an area that would be clearly visible for pupils of Gaelscoil na Duglaise, she took to social media.

Kathy was eager to have the graffiti painted over immediately on Wednesday night and she didn't have long to wait before the Green Party's Dan Boyle and Lorna Bogue responded.

The pair joined forces and met Kathy, who'd managed to get her hands on some paint at that point, when the trio went to work with their brushes.

The racist message was covered up with a large white love heart, which is still up there today.

"If it goes up again, we'll take it down again," Lorna told Cork Beo.

"If you were coming into school, you would have seen it. We have quite a diverse population in Cork and that should be celebrated. Children shouldn't have to see racist messages on their way to school. Parents shouldn't have to either. Nobody should.

"We just all got together and got paint, which is no easy task at 8.30pm, but we proved that there's no place for that kind of attitude or behaviour in Cork.

Lorna Bogue, Dan Boyle and Kathy D'Arcy pose with the love heart they painted

"What kind of place do you have to be in to think that's appropriate? I just think that they're lonely, sad individuals who are cowards and bullies at the end of the day and they only do it because they don't think they'll get caught.

"But for every one person who thinks that's acceptable, I believe there are hundreds and thousands of people who will fight for what's right and not tolerate this."