An Irishman can go to a Police station and say "Someone called me a pykie Irish **** I want them arrested". And they will An Englishman says "I was called an English **** ". No further action. I lived with a Polish guy and called him a Polish **** in East London and a Pakistani policeman called me to Investigate a hate crime . I **** you not.
"Incidents against women that are motivated by an attitude of a man towards a woman and includes behaviour targeted towards a woman by men simply because they are a woman." The classification now means people can report incidents which might not be considered to be a crime and the police will investigate.
Most of the 4th generation English migrants in Ireland are still sadly not even considered Irish by some bigots.