Ireland running out of accommodation for Ukrainian refugees due to surge in non-Ukrainian refugees?

It looks like Derek Blighes supporters assaulted an undercover guard

Yep. And Gino Kenny getting death threats. And him and Cllr Vincent Jackson spoke out this week about the harassment. Many other public reps havent spoken publicly about all the harassment they are getting on these issues.

Talking up all the threats to politicians and sinister elements of the recent protests (while reprehensible) is a complete sideshow to distract from the issue at hand.

No politician or refugee should be threatened or intimidated.

That being said, some nut jobs making threats does not detract from the fact that we are past our point of capacity. Housing, health, education etc all beyond strained already and this is being exacerbated by international protection applicants (near 20,000 of them now) coming in in addition to the 50,000 Ukrainians.

We are now at the point where new arrivals will be ending up on the streets in bitterly cold Winter conditions. This helps nobody and it’s a situation that could be seen coming from a thousand miles away, has been mentioned for months.

To the moralising fools out there who have spent this time calling for continued acceptance of arrivals, pointing fingers, shouting down and labelling any dissenters as xenophobes for daring to mention the realities of our capacity - I hope you are pleased with yourselves.

Too busy getting high off the smell of your own apparently virtuous farts to consider any of the practicalities involved in this situation. I’d well hope ye all have the pull out couches and sleeping bags ready in your living rooms. You are partly to blame for this and the little few of you that aren’t entirely full of shít, I would expect that you will open your homes to any new arrivals lest they are left shivering in the streets.

I’m somehow skeptical that all these supposed humanitarians will do anything other than quietly slink away, satisfied with the bonfire of our infrastructure and public finances they’ve stoked. A great legacy.

I'm sure Gino Kenny will be leaving his party now that his great leader has stopped accomadation recently in his great leader

Politicians were on the media during the week saying all is in hand so we will see. If we accept any refugee into the country it is our responsibility to make sure they have a roof over their head. If they are going to be homeless then these refugee programmes must be immediately stopped until after suitable accommodation is made available.

I wonder will all the people cheering on this madness be opening there doors to these poor people.

No they will walk over them on the street to get past them.

The honesty should be respected, but it's also a clear own goal against how DP centers are being used at the minute, as they don't exist to support people who want to find work in Ireland.

Emergency legislation will be brought in . Hotels will do as they are told .

However this will just mean more asylum seekers arrive every week seeking accommodation. And the problem gets worse

Well at least the issue is being spoken about in MSM. Irish Times article on Jury's - tick, radio discussion - tick. etc.

It is subtle, but I reckon the Government are making outrageous statements like Greenie O'Gorman and climate change, you know - to rile us up into outrage. Then a few days later they say we are full, asylum seekers under IP will be on the streets.

I think the liner is turning, as always slowly but it is now.

How is capping the number of people coming into our country a far right policy?

That is widely considered a far right policy. Only very recently politicians who tried to suggest that we need to look at limits as we are at capacity were aggressively shouted down in the Dail and portrayed as racist in the media.

Compulsory Lease Orders on hotels might be next. Emergency legislation in one hour.

Such is the age of wonders that we live in, you don't need to rely on the media framing and editing of what happened last night in Fermoy. You can actually watch the whole incident yourself. Quite a few possible takes on it.

https://twitter.com/IrlagainstFash/status/1616169412955881477

https://twitter.com/EamonnVIDF/status/1616147937410547743

Gino is another story. Most politicians at one time or other must have dreamed of giving up on reelection and just telling their constituents what they think of them.

Gino is living that dream.

https://twitter.com/BligheDerek/status/1614025038201585665

He is behaving like he's given up on getting back in. And it seems to be having a really liberating effect on him.

https://twitter.com/gearoidmurphy_/status/1615083354675707905

Given that it's Gino I'd have my doubts about whether he has received all the threats he claims.