Recently a site in Coolock in North Dublin was the source of a major riot after a protest against the conversion of an abandoned paint factory into an asylum center meant to hold at least 500 asylum seekers/migrants via the International Protection Accommodation Service. Coolock is a depressed working-class area with a known reputation for a rough 'scumbag' character and contempt for the police (lots of bad drug use in North Dublin in general).
There was a makeshift barricade and protest camp set up on the site to block any government workers or contractors to enter the site to set up the asylum center. It was only recently where the barricade was forcibly taken down by the Gardai and Public Order Units prompted a protest that blocked off the main road where an excavator was set on fire and other vehicles damaged where a pile of pallets were set against the building entrance was set alight. This drew a much larger Garda presence and a crowd of protestors near the site sadly turned more violent at approx. 6pm today.
The violence has dragged on all day today. I've tried to collect some articles and threads on r/Ireland and r/Dublin ( insane lefty shitholes btw ) about it. Ireland had seen a growing trend of violence aimed at these asylum accommodation centers as more right-leaning or even ethnonat types see them as a neo-Plantation, the British deliberately "planted" non-Irish immigrants in Ireland to solidify their hold over the island due to fears of a threat to security ever arising from the island after the repercussions of the Reformation surged across Europe (Ireland remained majority Catholic as England became Protestant). Right-wing to extreme right people see this trend replayed with modern mass migration and the Government and typically left-leaning people strenuously deny this and decry this as racist and fascist agitation while near fifth of the total population is either foreign or foreign-born and the crisis on housing demand and supply continues along with high cost of living. Tragically, a police officer stationed to police the protest was seriously injured and had to be hurriedly taken out by med-evac. The tension over immigration in Ireland will remain strained as the Government, particularly Minister for Integration Roderic O'Gorman (a queer homosexual from the Green Party) and Minister for Justice McEntee seem dead set to continue their immigration and asylum policy especially the advent of the EU Migration Pact.
Xitter thread archive
Xitter thread archive
r/Dublin thread archive
r/Ireland archive
RTE archived article - 15 arrested so far
There was a makeshift barricade and protest camp set up on the site to block any government workers or contractors to enter the site to set up the asylum center. It was only recently where the barricade was forcibly taken down by the Gardai and Public Order Units prompted a protest that blocked off the main road where an excavator was set on fire and other vehicles damaged where a pile of pallets were set against the building entrance was set alight. This drew a much larger Garda presence and a crowd of protestors near the site sadly turned more violent at approx. 6pm today.
The violence has dragged on all day today. I've tried to collect some articles and threads on r/Ireland and r/Dublin ( insane lefty shitholes btw ) about it. Ireland had seen a growing trend of violence aimed at these asylum accommodation centers as more right-leaning or even ethnonat types see them as a neo-Plantation, the British deliberately "planted" non-Irish immigrants in Ireland to solidify their hold over the island due to fears of a threat to security ever arising from the island after the repercussions of the Reformation surged across Europe (Ireland remained majority Catholic as England became Protestant). Right-wing to extreme right people see this trend replayed with modern mass migration and the Government and typically left-leaning people strenuously deny this and decry this as racist and fascist agitation while near fifth of the total population is either foreign or foreign-born and the crisis on housing demand and supply continues along with high cost of living. Tragically, a police officer stationed to police the protest was seriously injured and had to be hurriedly taken out by med-evac. The tension over immigration in Ireland will remain strained as the Government, particularly Minister for Integration Roderic O'Gorman (a queer homosexual from the Green Party) and Minister for Justice McEntee seem dead set to continue their immigration and asylum policy especially the advent of the EU Migration Pact.
Xitter thread archive
Xitter thread archive
r/Dublin thread archive
r/Ireland archive
RTE archived article - 15 arrested so far
