Was/is the protesting at East Wall Racist?

Possible the tax payer can put them in the houses the tax payer pays for wherever that is? I don't pay for my neighbors house. I do pay for some scumbag with 200 convictions in sheriff street or cherry orchard seeing as that's on the news (got legal aid by the way, more tax payers money for a man who has never worked but could knock back pints before kicking a Garda while on the ground)

Can't be bussed in to private estates. I'm sorry but if you down own the property, your ability to comment is eroded greatly .

"Screw your facts, I've got my FEELINGS"

A competent, centralist Nationalist party would clean up in future elections.

I can sympathise with the argument that the allocation of areas for housing of arrivals to our shores might be done with more of a spread — and I don't think it's all that unfair to say that many of those who sneer at what they see as tracksuit-wearing n'er-do-wells with working class accents berating foreigners would be quick to shed their compassion if migrant / refugee housing was being plopped down in Killiney.

I don't think we should utterly and completely dismiss the concerns of Dublin communities whose areas are not just often the first port of call for initiatives to house new arrivals to the country, but who are also watching their home areas being gentrified and put financially out of reach for any of their children who work but simply don't have the type of money to compete with many of those vying for homes in the city these days. Many of the people who sneer at them are originally from far less affected rural areas or small towns down the country.

But when you have people posting videos of them just straight up berating foreigners you cannot help but acknowledge that — even if all these things were done completely equitably and certain areas shared the 'burden' fairly — there would still be a lot of the same clowns frothing at the mouth anyway at the mere sight of foreigners arriving into Ireland.

Still feel though that if we want to keep the xenophobes and racists at bay, we should be careful not to completely alienate people who might otherwise get sucked in by them.

I see two problems here.

The legitimate concerns of local residents are not taken into consideration. The strain on healthcare, education, law enforcement, infrastructure is not ever looked at, the impact on local business. How many bedrooms are not available in killarney now that will impact the bars / restaurants of the town??

The change in use of a building thats contrary to the planning permission that was granted for it must be a part of the problem. Planning was granted for buildings to be used in a certain way and people had a legitimate right to object at the time. Now those buildings are being used for a completely different purpose and people cant object.

The change in use should be subject to planning permission and people can have constructive objections with due process to them.

Any update on the parts of London women and children wont walk around?

You mean with the same ethos as FG or FF?

Or do you mean nationalist like the National Party means nationalist? Which by its nature cannot be centrist.

FF and FG are for the most part very competent. If they weren't, we wouldn't be weathering this economic storm better than any other nation in Europe. The problem with being centrist (as opposed to populist or extremist), especially in Ireland, is that its a very broad church and you can only satisfy some of the people, some of the time.

But as long as the unsatisfied are merely grumbling, as opposed to burning the gaff down, you're doing your job right.

Take the Pro Life marches that happen occasionally, or the recent Cost of Living crisis marches, or the anti-vaxxer anti-lockdown marches that took place over Covid. Political issues from across the spectrum but, damp squibs all of them. Numbers in the hundreds not the thousands. Why? Cos most of the people are satisfied most of the time. And any centrist is pretty happy with that.

And thats why they do clean up at election time and have done for a hundred years.

Think about that.