A MAN racially abused a General Election candidate in an anonymous phone call by telling him: “Don’t get involved in Irish politics. Irish politics is for Irish people,” a court has heard. Edward Smith (61) made the phonecall to Dublin Fingal People Before Profit 2020 General Election candidate John Uwhumiakpor just weeks before last year’s election. His actions left a “profound effect” on the victim and his family, Balbriggan District Court heard. Smith claimed he consumed alcohol on the day he made the anonymous phone call and “lost the run of himself.” The court heard Mr Uwhumiakpor - who ran in the Dublin Fingal constituency in last year’s General Election -received a phone call to his home in Balbriggan, Co Dublin at 12.26pm on January 29 last year.