Was/is the protesting at East Wall Racist?

Having talked directly to locals who live down there I've discovered the following

1: The ESB used that building while their old build in town was being renovated, they moved out of there recently enough. The expectation was that some other business would move in

2: The building was rezoned from Z6 to Z10. no one local was told about this. https://www.dublincity.ie/sites/default/files/2021-11/mapsete.pdf

3: Work began a number of weeks ago to convert the building to house people. The sub contractors started work in the late evening and worked through until the early hours of the morning.

4: Coaches of people to be housed arrived at the building late in the evening.

5: When the locals did finally find out what was happening they were told it would be used to house Ukrainian refugee families, but so far it's only holding about 200 Male African economic migrants.

The whole thing was so clandestine, is it any wonder that people's backs have been riled up about this.

When will politicians learn, we live in the information age, it is impossible to hide stuff like this or try and be sneaky.

Also, something like this would not have happened in Dalkey, Blackrock or Dundrum so why is it happening in East Wall

I also definitely know a lot of skangers showed up that are racist "just cause"

No, but anything that relies on self reporting isn't going to reflect reality. It's absurd to think that such a method could result in totally accuracy.

and they're all African? one guy I saw being interviewed by some far right racist piece of sh*t with a helium northie accent I would have thought was Middle Eastern.

Oh okay, no one official, just a lads opinion. He couldn't possibly know where they are from. So we will rate your claim as unfounded.

There were 80 moved in on Friday and there’ll be a total of 380 to be accommodated there in total,” she said.

“There’ll be a mixture of singles and families included in the unit. When people get their applications assessed they’ll be moved as soon as possible.

“In the meantime, some of the people are from a hotel on Amiens Street that is no longer available, some are coming from one part of a locality to another rather than from further afield

Also no way the protest was racist.

When Murphy said that the asylum seekers in the building were not the enemy, there were further shouts from the crowd, including “they are the enemy”. 

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I seen one of the interviews, he seems like a reasonable man. He does live there after all, he's more idea of what's going on there more so than people that don't live there.

yep, irish people leave in their droves in times of recession, the only difference is we are privileged enough to come from a rich country where we get education and the ability to move legally to other countries. if ireland was still dirt poor lots of young men would be doing the exact same thing.

this is why i find it abhorrent for those scumbags to be shouting at the lads.

I have no idea who is, but the baying mob disagree with him and you.

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Yeah, tend to agree. There is plenty of Canada Goose clad little scrotes in that area that will latch onto this and cause trouble for non nationals.

I had a run in with one not so long back in McDonald's car park. Eating his food sitting on his moped and throwing his rubbish everywhere on the ground. No respect for the local area.

Exactly. Nobody would have issues with people coming here that will support themselves and contribute to society. If I went to Australia would I get in if I burned my passport on arrival? Would I get free money off the Australian tax payer? This is the type of immigration policy we need.

edit: removed the quoted post, had the wrong 1

In my experience, using Brazilian's as an example is not too clever really. The majority I work with/meet are tax paying and hard working. The few Brazilian cleaners I had here in my office during 2020/2021 was only here as a means of getting out of covid riddled Brazil at the time and as soon as they could, they went back home to continue their college educations.

Any Brazilian I've met who isn't toeing the line is usually a scrote on a Deliveroo bike with a couple of wraps of sniff in his socks for sale. There's truth in what you're saying, our service industry would be almost crippled without migrants of some sort, but singling out Brazilian's is just inflammatory and directed at a group of people that I really feel like they don't deserve to be looked down upon.

You're also forgetting that Brazilian's contribute a massive amount to our nightlife in Dublin city whereas migrants from other countries would not - You won't often see a Pakistan night in Dicey's during the week.

tldr: leave it out the brazilians look super sexy and they're actually a contributing factor to making Dublin worth living in. They also know how to compromise and live in our culture without sacrificing their own and/or ramming it down our necks.

London is that dangerous a place we now need to take asylum seekers from there? 🤣

Beggars belief that we entertain this nonsense. They should be swiftly deported and stop wasting resources that other genuine asylum seekers do need.

I don't think this is an Ireland is full racist march, don't get me wrong I'm sure there's an under current of people there for that. But this is about grown men arriving in, not fleeing war in Ukraine. It's other grown men fleeing god knows what, or from god knows where. They seem to be arriving here with no paper work, how does anybody know they are not here because they are feeling sentencing for some hideous crime in what ever country they're from.

Or perhaps we could swap him for a 50-something male, who spends his days perpetually posting inane nonsense on an obscure website?

That seems like a more productive trade.

I wouldn't swap you for anyone Hamachi. 👊