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

seems to be right wing rhetoric

But at the same time they're terrified to actually do anything.

"while around 5,000 people in other direct-provision centres either can’t or won’t leave." what other country would put up with this?

Just the fact that we're supporting people with multiple negative decisions against them. Take away support if the initial decision and appeal has been unsuccessful, no direct provision and no other payments and see how many people stick around for years of appeals.

Also if anyone wants to write a petition that a person with a deportation order should be allowed to stay, they should have to fundraise to pay for housing, healthcare and agree to provide an income for this person for at least 10 years

I'd be anti same sex marriage, anti-abortion, Anti-EU and conservative myself. I wouldn't say no to a "Catholic Republic" if you're offering.

But I agree with you, the National Party are a waste of a vote and are not the solution.

To bring this back to refugee accommodation, something very interesting happened at the protest in Ballsbridge last Saturday. At the end the NP appeared, lead by Justin, and unfurled a party banner. Protestors, mostly from East Wall, moved in on them and demanded that the banner be taken down. East Wall rules were explained to them - they were welcome to support the protest as individuals but not as a party and this met with resistance from Justin.

Most interesting of all it was explained to him, in front of everyone, that by being seen to be in conflict with the protestors over this he was advertising the fact that the NP weren't central to the protest, weren't even welcome and it was showing in a very public way that they weren't involved in organising anything.

The self defeating nature of arguing with the protestors didn't get through to Justin. He continued up Landsdowne Road bannerless and calling the protestors stupid.

This conflict between the protestors and the NP outsiders has continued on Twitter and Telegram since Saturday.

NP members expect electoral success. I don't think Justin does. He seems much more comfortable with the NP as a select and private club. A right wing men's shed.

"Their main policy of looking after the Irish people" 😂

No thanks!

Incompetent owners. Same story with Ballyvaughn in Clare. Right at the edge of the Burren and close to the cliffs and the caves, the large hotel in the town is now an asylum reception centre. It was sold to a builder that struggled to run it for years despite it's prime location close some of the most beautiful and busiest tourist spots in Clare because he knew absolutely nothing about running a hotel and ran it into the ground while working behind it's bar. Fortunately for him our government just loves to bail out builders and incompetent hoteliers. He took a multi million euro contract to convert it into an asylum reception center and hasn’t been seen in the village since.

Reading through these threads a lot of people comment on the lack of an alternative immigration policy that can control numbers and balance the influx against available infrastructure and accommodation.

The main parties are all pro uncontrolled immigration, but unless there is a dialogue between the government and the sections of society whom are expressing concern over immigration policy, the natural outcome would be pent up anger and uptick in support of far right policies due to people feeling like they arent being listened to.

It appears to me that there is a tinderbox situation developing and I hope the govt acknowledge it and begin to better connect with the people that are opposing the current immigration policy.

I'll be honest the coverage on the a Irish Times story today astonishes me. The focus has been in it being a racist "attack". Even disregarding the fact that the majority appear to be European and the same skin colour.

Should we not be far more worried that people would rather live in a tent than use the homeless services provided at over 200m per annum. This including one of those interviewed saying it was too dangerous and full of junkies.

But no let's focus on a minor argument instead of the above....

People are sleeping in tents in our Taoiseach constituency and noone bats an eyelid.

It says the campers are "Polish, Croatian, Hungarian, Portuguese, Indian and Scottish." What exactly are these people even doing in the country? Fleeing persecution or a warzone? I know we've become a dumping ground for the rest of the world, but this is now getting ridiculous.

Well the majority of them are from the EU and apparently employed before losing their house/employment etc.

It's pretty sad they would rather live in a tent than in our homeless accommodation or go home. I feel sad for them

Tbh I would br unlikely to enjoy the company of those accused, nor would I share many of their views.

You seem to be doing your fair best to down play what happened TBF.

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Sorry meant to add down playing it and adding a strawman.

People having to live in tents is awful, vile scum attacking people living in tents is abhorrent.

You can just acknowledge both and move on. 👍️

Is there any evidence of an attack though? No arrests, no damage(See aftermath video). Not to mention what is going on with the article?

At the start:

"One, a Polish man (20) told The Irish Times he had been hit several times with a baseball bat. Visibly distressed, he said his arm was not broken. “I have strong bones, but the tendons are sore”."

Then later:

"A Garda spokesman confirmed there had been an “incident on River Road. Gardaí responded quickly and engaged with those present. There was no report of any injuries and no formal complaints made at this time.”

Unless i'm misreading, its super odd. Surly this would be something the Gardai would investigate, yet there is not a single mention of any investigation.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0ms8eoWrer6TfXZCsfLvzm3oCfj9fneyvcLtN2s2FEHPUf5Mt23q74kjYLbFLhVbbl&id=100063479123912 here is is a video of what actually happened on gript media.

Ruth Coppinger setting it out straight here on virgin media here now.

Serious incident and the rising threat of the far right.