Children stabbed in Dublin city centre **Read OP before posting**

It wasn’t long ago that the very fabric of our democracy/society was attacked when elected officials were harassed and attacked by scumbags whilst our officials were on their way to and from work. And gardai protecting them with the bare minim of force.

When are we going to crack down really hard on these people, and send out a strong message that societal thuggery will be crushed, and those responsible punished properly.

Temple bar is still “junkie filled” today

Or not enough.

The issue is where are they supposed to go? Like other sectors in Ireland, the prisons were no doubt neglected too. As for the TV livence non payers going to prison, I do t know anyone but I think, they show up to prison and told to go home or they only stay for a few hours because prisons are so underresourced too.

The rioting that happened yesterday, it's been growing for years. Thugs would often target just stuff like even traffic on roads and surround innocent people and just intimate them and the gardai don't do anything.

I would be in favour of a mantory army for all young lads to attend after they finish school for a few years. It will take many of these young lads off the streets and away and they can redirect their energy into the army.

Nearly every country in Europe has a non national population of at least 10%, even non-EU members. Treating immigration as unnatural or an aberration is not exactly helping.....people are more mobile now than at any point in human history.

Fintan O’Toole wrote in the IT a month or two ago that if you consume the mainstream/tradtional media RTE, BBC, Indo etc you are now in the minority. Most people get their news from Facebook, Telegram, links on WhatsApp etc.

No oversight, no editors, no responsibility. Yesterday was the result of this fracturing of the media. Whereas once, kids and teenagers would hear news from their parents watching or reading the usual sources, now two generations are seeing this incendiary and violent content.

The Clare hotel protests were the canary in the coalmine. Library attacks were this crowd flexing their muscles. Yesterday was them in full confidence.

It doesn’t matter what the cause is, if it is a wedge, they’ll push it.

Perhaps but a hell of a lot nicer than in those days!

Thinking back on it, my mother specifically warned us off Temple Bar and O'Connell Street as the two no-go places in town. The entire place was crumbling and properly poor. People forget just how steep our economic growth was. Dublin today is a completely different city to those days.

How?

I doubt they could even articulate 'the issues'. You are 100% correct.

I hope to God none of them get bail, and that ALL of them are named no matter what age.

Our Minister for Justice is an absolute disgrace , Its not about safety and our streets are safe she announces . This while people are trapped in work , in restaurants, in hospitals, pregnant women told not to travel to the Rotunda , people told not to come to town from £ Arena , no public transport , cars and buses on fire and shops looted .

But we don't have any of that. Our establishment literally cannot plan anything. Last night is the proof of it, if you needed any further proof of their total incompetence.

I was working on a short contract in Dublin city centre just before the pandemic and it was obvious to me that scrotes had free reign to do as they pleased, it was their territory. I had lived between the canals in the 90s, both north and south side and back then there was still enough community cohesion to tackle things at a local level. That seems to be replaced by rent seeking policies.

That was a policy decision to cede the city centre to crime without consequence. The anti lockdown protests and clashes were a coalescence, but last night showed how out of touch the justice minister was. I'm feel confident in saying that no one who makes decisions for Dublin city centre lives within the south and north circular road.