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| Turmoil in Ireland amid 300% rise in asylum seekers with violence | |
| 2025-02-24 | |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Ireland has exploded into a wave of violence with anti-migrant anger at an all time high - after the number of people applying to come into the country rocketed by nearly 300 per cent in five years. Shocking new videos show Dublin descending into chaos - with fighting thugs throwing themselves into busses, knife fights on their streets and mass brawls sparking in residential roads. In others, men patrol the capital to keep the city 'safe' while police can be seen using riot shields and pepper spray as they crack down on protests. As many as 150,000 people moved to Ireland in 2023-24, Central Statistics Office (CSO) figures revealed, the highest number in 17 years - with many of them accommodated in poor areas of central Dublin or small provincial towns. Only 30,000 of these were returning Irish citizens. There are now nearly 33,000 international protection applicants being housed across the nation, up from 7,244 in 2017. Alongside arrivals from Africa and the Middle East, 100,000 refugees flocked to the country following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Each costs the nation nearly £70 a day, a figure that has increased by a third in two years. At the end of last year the Irish Refugee Council revealed there were a record 3,001 asylum seekers homeless in Ireland. The budget for housing Ukranian refugees has been slashed from £910million in 2023 to less than £340million this year, with officials saying the reduction is expected to continue. Once sleepy towns are now homes to hundreds of asylum seekers while tent cities have been set up along Dublin's Grand Canal. And with far-right sentiment at fever pitch the country is on a knife edge - with even Ireland's left-wing politicians admitting that the influx of migrants was driving a spike in homelessness. Aoife Gallagher, from the Institute of Strategic Dialogue, who monitors far right activity, has previously said that there has been an escalation in migrants being targeted in Ireland. 'We see consistently, a couple of times every week, horrific attacks on migrants,' she told the BBC. 'We see people standing outside IPAS centres waiting for asylum seekers in order to confront them and intimidate them. 'There's a level of political violence that we haven't seen before.'
Gardai clashed with hundreds of people gathered at the former Crown Paints factory in Coolock as fighting exploded throughout the day. A number of fires were started at the site after anti-immigration protesters set up a makeshift camp, with dramatic photos showing a digger in flames. The police force charged 15 people in relation to the public order incidents at the north Dublin site. The November before right wing figures including MMA star Conor McGregor had ramped up fury on social media before people took to the streets over online misinformation and unsubstantiated rumours that a Algerian migrant had stabbed three children outside a kindergarten. The fighter posted: 'Ireland is at war'. | |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #3 Not enough action with the Troubles these days, so the govt decided to import some to keep things lively. |
| Posted by: KBK 2025-02-24 18:34 |
| #2 A nation that produced the Ribbonmen, the Molly McGuires and the IRA should have no trouble adjusting the behavior of newly arrived immigrants. But being the Irish, |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2025-02-24 14:28 |
| #1 And the Irish used to be able to organize a proper militia. They say it only takes one generation, and it looks to be true. |
| Posted by: mossomo 2025-02-24 12:39 |