You've been looking in the wrong direction, the dangers are coming from the right.

It's strange that the only footage available of this incident is a couple of videos of a few auld lads asking questions and saying they "actually feel sorry for" these poor lads living in that camp.

We've had the article itself, the reaction here where it was immediately the fault of the far right and now the only document we have of it at least on the surface makes it look nothing like it was originally reported to be.

Aside from the narrative that's surrounded this there's a glaringly obvious headline here, namely why is anyone living in these conditions in a modern developed country like Ireland.

The Taoiseach was on the radio this morning talking about how this incident had "all the hallmarks of a racist attack". He forgot to mention that it had all the hallmarks of a broken and divided society where basic human needs cannot be met. That's the fault of successive governments filled with greedy money grabbing landlord class swines.

While we're here arguing over whether this was a far right attack or not the men who are the alleged victims of this are still sleeping rough and their supposed allies on the Irish left and using them as make weights in their culture war nonsense and doing nothing to actually help them.

The whole thing is horrific enough without what seems to be boiling down to heresay and confirmation bias fueled point scoring crap.

And?

Is that all you want to say or do you have a conclusion based on your statement?

Otherwise it's just deflective conjective nonsense

If the testimony of a witness changes. The credibility of that testimony is called into question. There is nothing deflective or any conjecture there.

chattering on the radio isn't testimony. Jaysis wept if Rudy Giuliani was 'testifying' when he rambled on for hours and hours on television!

She is an eye witness who recounted her story differently at different times today. You want to be provided with transcripts of a radio show?

Really?

Believe what you want to believe.

I think the truth is important, whether it is fake rape stories spread to whip up anti immigrant feeling or journalists with an agenda and no evidence, I am sceptical of all.

Any fair observer would acknowledge that this story is below the standard of The Irish Times.

We are asked to believe the word of one journalist and that’s it.

Downplaying?

The rhetoric around making this a "far right" issue rather than a failure of government to deal with the housing crisis issue is a gift for our useless leaders.

These are the symptoms of a broken and divided society as brought to you by FF/FG who will happily push the "far right" narrative because it keeps attention away from their failures that are forcing people to live in tents next to rivers.

What's next? Am I going to be called a far right apologist again?

This is being driven by the loonie Irish left with people like Paul Murphy talking about racism and far right this and that in relation to this. Lest we forget he's a man who is no stranger to gathering a rabble and using them to his own end when it suits him. That's the problem with extremism, you get the same results on the left and the right. These people are all grifters who would say and do anything to further their own careers.

The videos before it were shared around extensively and have now been taken down

You're saying that you heard her recount her story differently at different times today. I did not hear any of it. So yeah, I would like to be able to access the transcripts of the programmes she was on you are talking about, thanks, just like you'd like to see the video of the incident that has been described by her allegedly.

So with that soliloquy about truth and being skeptical of it all, you can surely appreciate how and why I don't take your hearsay. And you are asking me to believe you, just some other person on a message board with zero involvement in the incident?

Any fair observer would acknowledge here a need for the objective record, in this case, from those radio talk programs you were listening to today. Audio recordings also would be particularly great. They are always recording their talk shows, aren't they?

Audio or transcript from the radio?

And definitely no deflection or conjecture here too i presume?

Look, even journalists I know are laughing at this story for what it is. Huge egg on face.

You just said you heard from one of the eye witnesses 3 times today over the radio but refuse to supply the necessary citation or evidence to back up the insinuations you are making about what they had said on this program, or these programs.

What is anyone to make of you repeatedly changing your story?

Nobody is laughing at people being beaten up. We all have already condemned it.

What is raising questions is the journalists changing her narrative in places and then clearly contradicting it.

In the last interview I heard with her this evening on NewsTalk it was clear that she hadn’t seen the attack because she said so.