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

You have a very low opinion of our citizens from certain areas which you constantly refer to as feral scum. Disgraceful way to label and talk about Irish people.

You also suggest that all those protesters are weak minded, racist or have far right views. Also that they are not educated or intelligent enough to realise what is going on in their own communities. What an arrogant offensive attitude you have up there on your high-horse looking down on Irish people.

They are citizens, voters and tax payers with legitimate concerns and a constitutional right to protest and free speech yet you take nasty swipes at them at every opportunity.

Criminals and trouble makers are managed by our gardai who acted swiftly last week for individuals responsible.

Irish people are the most welcoming, tolerant and charitable, and people from all over the world live here guite happily with no problems. Irish people do not support racists and we dont support bigots either.

You and some other posters should give your aul guff a rest, it is tiresome.

You know, criminals, terrorists, domestic and animal abusers, the people on the microphones? And the small crowd cheering them on. That's even before we even get to the facebook bullshít that brought them there in the first place.

I made no such thing up. I'm hardly going to attend a "protest" with that level of criminal guest speaker. 😂

He is a taxpayer funded trough feeder much like some posters who spend an inordinate amount of time on these boards constantly telling us all how Far Right we are whilst regaling us with anecdotal stories of how wonderful some of these freeloaders arriving will be, since they know some of them, someone like them, a lad that used to know someone like them, they worked for global org in some country where people like them lived, etc etc etc

And those individuals were arrested and reports are that more arrests will be made. No problem with the gardai doing their job which they do very well. As I said, aul guff.

I’m talking about the protests as a whole. All week, any discussion I saw or heard in the media mentioned how the protesters are being manipulated by the “far right”, as if they don’t know their own mind. How patronizing! But patronize and smear is all they seem to have to try and defend this madness, because they’re sure aren’t any legitimate counter arguments as to why the general public should support this or how it benefits our nation.

Problem with these protests is that they are often organised by the far right. A message appears all over social media saying "there will be a protest march in such and such a place on Thursday at 7pm" and ordinary people from the area do come along. What they don't realise though is that it was the far right groups who set up the march and heavily publicised it across all channels.

As a strategy, it is very clever...make it look like all the protests are organic and coming from the ground up, just 'ordinary concerned citizens' and people not realising there are shady and sinister characters with ulterior motives behind the scenes pulling all the strings.

But who are you, or anyone, to say that all the protesters at the various protests are being manipulated into not agreeing with the current asylum system. They can see with their own eyes that not only is it not benefiting Ireland in any way, it’s putting enormous stress our services and resources.

In fact, I would wonder why anyone with any sense, who cares about the wellbeing of the country does support it.

But where is the manipulation coming into it? People have formed their own opinion from what they can see with their own eyes, and that opinion is that this is not good for the country. They are angry. Angry first of all at what is happening with no benefit in return to the country, and angry secondly that their genuine concerns are not being listened to. Their concerns are being shut down. They're being smeared, patronised, gaslighted, and given no legitimate reason by anyone involved why they should support the current system. That's why they might attend a protest - because they have no voice. 

I have heard of a few of these extreme nuts actually being asked not to unfurl banners or to not associate themselves with that particular protest, as even a lot of the protesters find these guys unpalatable and want nothing to do with them. Of course they also know one sighting of them amongst a large number of just concerned citizens will instantly turn it into a "far right" protest in the media 🙄

I don’t think people care at this stage.

They know what they believe in so the bogeyman of the far right won’t deter them.

UK preparing to quit Human Rights Convention amid warnings of 65K migrants crossing the channel this year! They are not wrong. A little bit too late but better late than never. Can we please do the same here?

It does beg the question as to how spontaneous and organic these protest marches are. Are the marches happening because of genuine anger across the country or because the far right groups and parties (and supporters) are very clever at pulling strings and using social media to push their views?

If there was genuine anger and concern across the nation about refugees and asylum laws, you expect attendance at these protests to be much, much higher, not just 200 people at a time.

That was true of the water charges protests - largely initially a far left movement. The same with divorce and repeal. No outcry over that.

What you are witnessing is elements of radical position becoming mainstream. Why is this happening? Because the problem has been ignored or suppressed for 20 years and the ability for communities to adapt has now reached its limit.

The counter strategy here is the tried and tested one. Discredit all those protesting as being far right easily led morons. Led by by the nose by extremists. We've seen it in all the papers today.

But that is just for one side. During the water charges protests there was no such tarring of the protesters as communists - despite leaders of that movement openly espousing for the confiscation and nationalising of the means of production.