When she was a child, maybe 4 or 5 years old, Emer O’Neill’s mother found her sitting in the bath, scrubbing herself furiously. Her mother asked her what she was doing. “And I said I was trying to get the brown off but it wouldn’t come off.” On Wednesday’s Ryan Tubridy Show, Emer talked about growing up as a black girl born in Ireland in the 1980s. …
