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

How could everyone here know more about the case, when you clearly know nothing about the case, and keep JAQing off about the case?

If I witness you breaking into my neighbours house of course I have witnessed a crime.

If I see you walking in the woods with a dog, carrying a stick? Not so much.

We have a far right party who have no elected representative and got a few hundred votes last election.

With the vast majority probably friends and family members of the party.

It is comical how you mention far right in 90% of your posts in a country with no far right representative.

I can only assume you live elsewhere because nobody else can see how transparent this is because we don't have many far right people in ireland.

Considering you use far right in 90% of your posts it might make sense to learn what the term means.

I believe it is you who lives in an echo chamber who thinks ireland has a load of far right people which only exists in your head and not in reality.

The reality is if this event did actually happen it was done by scumbags and not some sort of far right group.

Here's the information about the Garda response taken from one of the links you posted...

If there's evidence that some far right group perpetrated an attack on migrants it has yet to be provided.

You're making out that there has been or there will be arrests made on foot of this story. The ongoing enquiries are likely to determine the validity of the story as presented in the Irish Times article and if images of the alleged assailants have been passed to the Gardai the people in question are likely being interviewed by Gardai and any footage they recorded is likely being collected.

If there was an assault I like everyone else here will gladly see the perpetrators charged for it but thus far all we have is here say in relation to it and no conclusive evidence of any kind.

Lets try again

"No formal complaints have been made".

With that in mind how does this even get to court to begin with?

That's up for the Gards and prosecutors to decide.

Are all complaints "formal?"

The left in Ireland in recent years has jumped in with both feet on a number of issues and ended up with egg of their faces.

The Carlow school uniform controversy, without the full facts Ruth Coppinger and Hazel Chu started a witch hunt against male teachers and when the facts of the situation were revealed they were proven to be completely wrong. They never apologised.

In the wake of the George Nchenko tragedy the same players stated that we now had evidence of institutionalised racism within our country and the Garden particular. This was demonstrably a pile of nonsense.

The worst example of mob rule and political protest turned into a demonstration of antisocial behaviour and unlawful detention of a public representative was lead by Paul Murphy, the ultimate champagne socialist in the Jobstown riot/demonstration.

And we're supposed to take the Irish left at their word?

At the same time our far right is led by a sad little racist loser who tries to paraphrase Mein Kampf and preaches to a tiny audience that can't seem to agree with each other about who they hate the most long enough to ever be a cohesive unit. In yet they're behind absolutely everything negative in Ireland.

Do you have a copy of the GSOC report?

Can you cite another case where a black person has been shot by the Gardai before or after that case?

With respect, what you believe is not up to any prosecutor to decide.

These men have all of their faculties according to the article at least so in this case they would definitely need to make a statement.

Apologies for the typo, fixed now.

I didn't read it anywhere.

No injuries were reported to the Gardai and even the original article stated all the men in the camp were able to communicate in the aftermath of the alleged attack.

If the men aren't giving statements the Gardai can't press charges against anyone and from the information available it would appear there are no grounds for any investigation to be launched.

The Gards could always choose to open an investigation based on a news report though or in response to the demonstration on the ground there, dozens of demonstrators etc. for whom they'd have at least some motivation to go and chat with the campers (which they presumably did, even though nobody had 'formally complained') and solicited them for these formal statements, which they proceeded to decline.

So let's assume for the time that everything Kitty said was true, she did not see any physical contact, the gards dont report observing any injuries. The banging and noise could be anything from banging pots and pans to people moving around camp quickly in response to newcomer/commotion with bat and dog.

If any assaulting happen it would be my gutcheck to presume that it was either at the low line of what constitutes an assault (someone touched me! We bumped shoulders, the bat was brandished in my face etc) or it was both that and relatively mutual between the suspect and the other alleged victims of reported assault in media.

My other supposition: It's also probable that the camp occupiers are weighing the fact that, maybe they don't want to be formally documented by the Gardai. Maybe they lack documentation, maybe they fear pressing charges will lead to expedited deportation. I've had my forehead cut open and declined to press charges when police responded because my assailant (whom I knew personally) was also going to press charges over my self defense injuries inflicted, and we were both going to wind up in jail for weeks and at great expense, we decided to settle our differences out of court.