5 stabbed in Dublin | 3 of them children

calodo2003 said:
How prevalent is the far right in Ireland politics currently?
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Non-existent. Not yet anyway, thankfully.

It's actually likely that our next Government will be quite left wing. It's paradoxical that this is going on while the country is on course to shift the left in the next election, in the form of a Sinn Fein government.
 
calodo2003 said:
How prevalent is the far right in Ireland politics currently?
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Not very. They’re consistently a non-event at the polls. They barely even have a political party to coalesce behind. But there’s a nasty undercurrent of xenophobia and racism that’s been building over the last few years. Same as every other country basically. Comes with the territory in an economic downturn. Only without the political clout you get in other countries.
 
Dr. StrangeHate said:
How many immigrants are there in Ireland?

Do the protesters have legitimate grievances about immigrants in Ireland?
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These weren't protesters but in a wider sense the answer is still no.
There's legitimate grievances (like the state of policing) but its a completely misguided target. The services they lack are generally being held together by immigration.
 
GDaly95 said:
Non-existent. Not yet anyway, thankfully.

It's actually likely that our next Government will be quite left wing. It's paradoxical that this is going on while the country is on course to shift the left in the next election, in the form of a Sinn Fein government.
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Pogue Mahone said:
Not very. They’re consistently a non-event at the polls. They barely even have a political party to coalesce behind. But there’s a nasty undercurrent of xenophobia and racism that’s been building over the last few years. Same as every other country basically. Comes with the territory in an economic downturn. Only without the political clout you get in other countries.
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Interesting.

At least there is no party of note which the cnuts can get behind.
 
calodo2003 said:
How prevalent is the far right in Ireland politics currently?
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It barely exists politically for several reasons, the largest probably being the fact that Sinn Fein swallows a lot of the oxygen that fuels far-right parties in other countries.
 
So odd that the mensas who are protesting immigrants in their country are destroying the infrastructure of their own country.

Not too many rocket surgeons in that bunch. w
 
unchanged_lineup said:
... Who have been facing horrific racist attacks themselves lately.
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Yeah they’ve been on the frontline for the last three/four years facing the deterioration of the city head on.
 
Watching this on the news. Most of the gowls on the streets are standing just there taking selfies.

But it looks like for the most this is mostly young scrotes who used the incident today as an excuse to wreak havoc and get christmas sorted before the culchies arrive on the 8th to take all the good stuff.
 
calodo2003 said:
So odd that the mensas who are protesting immigrants in their country are destroying the infrastructure of their own country.

Not too many rocket surgeons in that bunch. w
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My first thought watching them torch the police car was that their parents would be paying for the new one.
 
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Ad I'm getting tonight here.
 
mu4c_20le said:
My first thought watching them torch the police car was that their parents would be paying for the new one.
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How? Most of them are probably on the dole, some will have picked up a few knocks today and they'll be going looking for disability next week.
 
calodo2003 said:
How prevalent is the far right in Ireland politics currently?
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They're a political non entity for now but there's been a real rise in nastiness towards foreigners since the start of COVID. I think a lot of people have been led down the garden path by the far right with issues like anti vax, anti mask, anti tras, etc.

There's always been casual racism in Ireland though, I remember sitting in art class as a 17 year old and one of my teachers commented on one of my class mates tans after the summer holidays, saying she had a lovely colour. My class mate responded (to my teacher) "ya, I'm like a n*****". To which my teacher replied "ya, hahaha". My mind was blown, having just moved back from England where that would have been an expulsion.
 
DickDastardly said:
Of all the nations in the world, it's the Irish who are against immigration?

Who would have thought.
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I don’t think I’ve ever met a person who’s against immigration in and of itself. Only nativist nutters live in that particular gutter.

One of the real questions to ask is what’s an acceptable level of immigration, and how does one determine that? It’s a matter of fact that Ireland has experienced a level of immigration over the last 15 years or more that it has never experienced before in the history of the state and…the nation itself. Indeed immigration hasn’t ever been a feature of Irish life.

So when you have that new ‘phenomenon’ mixed with the serious housing crisis others have mentioned then there’s going to be trouble unfortunately.
 
Kinsella said:
I don’t think I’ve ever met a person who’s against immigration in and of itself. Only nativist nutters live in that particular gutter.

One of the real questions to ask is what’s an acceptable level of immigration, and how does one determine that? It’s a matter of fact that Ireland has experienced a level of immigration over the last 15 years or more that it has never experienced before in the history of the state and…the nation itself. Indeed immigration hasn’t ever been a feature of Irish life.

So when you have that new ‘phenomenon’ mixed with the serious housing crisis others have mentioned then there’s going to be trouble unfortunately.
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Nah, you don't have to explain it to me. I'm fully aware of the shit going on.

It's just that little bit of historical self acknowledgedment could come in handy.

You cnuts nearly abandoned the fecking island 200 years ago looking for a better life, and now some are wondering why are others coming to Ireland.

That's the funny bit.
 
sullydnl said:
Striking how often people who intervene in incidents like this genuinely seem to think they just did what anyone would do, when in reality a lot of people would freeze.
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I'm betting most of the knuckle draggers "protesting" tonight first instinct would be to whip out their phone and start filming.
 
Conor said:
Saw a lovely video of some cretins attacking Deliveroo drivers tonight. Not a hope of any of them doing something like that.
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To be fair there's been times when I've wanted to attack the deliveroo driver when they've "gone offline" and appear again, 20 minutes later 5 miles further away from my house.
 
DickDastardly said:
Of all the nations in the world, it's the Irish who are against immigration?

Who would have thought.
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DickDastardly said:
Nah, you don't have to explain it to me. I'm fully aware of the shit going on.

It's just that little bit of historical self acknowledgedment could come in handy.

You cnuts nearly abandoned the fecking island 200 years ago looking for a better life, and now some are wondering why are others coming to Ireland.

That's the funny bit.
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Are you trying to wum?
 
DickDastardly said:
Nah, you don't have to explain it to me. I'm fully aware of the shit going on.

It's just that little bit of historical self acknowledgedment could come in handy.

You cnuts nearly abandoned the fecking island 200 years ago looking for a better life, and now some are wondering why are others coming to Ireland.

That's the funny bit.
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Yeah, people starving to death in ditches while the food produced from the land was being exported by absentee landlords is fecking hilarious.

It's just a little bit of historical context could come in handy, for you.
 
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