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

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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,123 ✭✭✭yagan


    The priority for this and the previous government has been rent roll, so as long as property prices recovered the majority of those who do vote don't give a fig what happens to north inner city Dublin, and let's be honest for an awful lot of the country their only interaction is events in Croke Park.

    The pandemic set a few trends too like teams no longer hanging around in Dublin after a final, preferring to return that night.

    These riots will have put a lot of people off shopping in Dublin this xmas, and that could have a spiral effect. The key is breaking up the creational violence lifestyle that's been ignored for decades. However if you told a community they'll be hosting a bus of Ukrainian refugees or a bus of inner city scrotes they'll pick the Ukranians every time.



  • Registered Users Posts: 167 ✭✭noserider




  • Registered Users Posts: 4,314 ✭✭✭Potatoeman


    So the rioters are far right but no mention of the attacker being a Muslim? Funny how there is never any proof needed to call people far right.

    The attacker being a Muslim is pretty obviously playing the refugee game, I’m pretty sure the Brazilian guy that jumped in to help was not a refugee. You won’t hear the media talk about the chancers playing the refugee system from backwards Islamic countries coming here to live off the welfare state and you see the same apologists comparing working migrants to fakugees.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,146 ✭✭✭Sigma101


    A false dichotomy repeated ad nauseum by far right nutters on social media this morning.



  • Registered Users Posts: 432 ✭✭BagofWeed


    Official Ireland caught with it's pants down last night, like a rabbit dazzled by the headlights. Nothing will be done about this.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 9,771 ✭✭✭hynesie08




  • Registered Users Posts: 8,393 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    Paul Reyonlds on RTE News talking about how rioters stole trainers from shop displays, sometines taking two right trainers and how police can identify them by examing the discarded old trainers on the street. Shouldn't laugh really.

    I didn't know there was such shoe poverty in the far fright community.



  • Registered Users Posts: 12,078 ✭✭✭✭Rjd2


    A lot of people who come to Dublin for Xmas to get their gifts and have a day/night out will be reconsidering after last night. Yeah its unlikely to happen anytime again soon but could you blame people for swerving Dublin for Xmas which is a crucial time when it comes to making money?

    Catastrophic when it comes to guessing the overall economic cost of this.



  • Registered Users Posts: 303 ✭✭davepatr07


    Politicians from the top involved in community think tanks, listen more to peoples needs and concerns from a local, regional and national level. There needs to be an overall of policies that are currently outdated (especially justice, law) that don't reflect society today also cater to larger population. So far Gov have had their head in the sand with regards to tackling problems and issues. There needs to be a collective proactive involvement for the good of the country. I'm from Dublin, born and bred, I don't want to see this country run into the gutter. I was disgusted as much as the next person at what happened last night.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,614 ✭✭✭WrenBoy


    The people who volunteer with the charity MSoE do yes, I'm aware. A great pity that a country who boasts such economic achievements depend on the charity of the religious groups in this country to help those on the margins.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,454 ✭✭✭TokTik


    Really? I’d love to go to Australia again. Could I just rock up, get a gaff, a few quid pocket money, free healthcare etc?? Where do I sign up?



  • Registered Users Posts: 14,155 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    if you had reason to claim asylum you could, yeah, they take in refugees in Australia and provide for them



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,568 ✭✭✭Hamachi


    And I work for an MNC with several thousand employees in Dublin, the majority of whom are Irish..



  • Registered Users Posts: 29,527 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    What happened to the children was worse but it was more than a few bust windows and you know it.

    Citizens, shopworkers terrified by a riot.

    Hotel lobby attacked.

    Maternity hospital put into lockdown.

    Looting.

    Public transport set on fire.

    Fire brigade attacked trying to put out fires.

    You show zero concern for any of them.

    But of course, here you are trying to gaslight what happened last night to get scumbag rioters off the hook. Do you condemn them or cheer them on?


    We can see the pictures ourselves, it wasn't just a few bust windows, that is a lie that won't stick.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,678 ✭✭✭Multipass


    How can someone living on welfare be described as far-right? It’s ludicrous, the labels are unsuitable, and seem to be part of an ongoing media campaign to create a false dichotomy. We don’t have a huge left/right divide in Ireland, stop trying to make one.



  • Registered Users Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    Yes, Arnotts said they were open until 9pm but had to close at 7pm due to safety. Staff would have been rostered on to 9 and were probably just restocking and preparing for tomorrow.


    I used to work with BT (same company). When it closes at night, everybody is out of there bar some Security and cash office folk. Staff would never work late but would occasionally work early the next day. Thats why I was confused as to why staff were there.



  • Registered Users Posts: 12,078 ✭✭✭✭Rjd2


    Yeah the government has failed this country and many of its people in so many ways we can all agree.

    However has it failed the lifelong scrounger who coasts by on welfare?

    I don't believe it has, in fact this government has provided many of them with a much more comfortable style of living then they deserve.

    Regarding foreigners , it would be naïve to suggest none are gaming the system, but overall the vast majority have contributed more to society than some of these home grown lifelong scroungers.

    Also and this is somewhat antidotal, having spoke to plenty over the years foreigners who come hear and work hard they also hate these scroungers, while they are bursting their backside to make a living they see all these freeloaders getting all the benefits for doing sweet **** all.

    =



  • Registered Users Posts: 17,852 ✭✭✭✭Idbatterim


    They are in a real predicament now... massive public pressure v getting totally out of their comfort zone and giving a proper sentence... I've said it before and ill say it again, the country is run by scum, for scum, at the very top and bottom. They look after those down the " bottom" to quell social revolut. The rest of us merely vote for these fools and exist, pay your taxes, and shut up...



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,326 ✭✭✭SAMTALK


    So you want a society that punishes as they see fit ? Can see that ending well for the country



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,167 ✭✭✭Quitelife


    Just walked down West Moreland street - all back to normal - drug dealers and their runners are back selling outside KFC and O Connell Bridge - lot of drug addicts wearing new runners and jackets the only thing different - there is a lack of normal shoppers and tourists but all the usual drug people are back up and selling gear -lots of burn scorch marks on the road where they burned vehicles last night



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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,326 ✭✭✭SAMTALK


    Maybe get off your high horse for a minute and read what I said. I think it will only add fuel to the fire for those that have a problem with this man on social media and being interviewed. i can understand the good intentions behind but it will only feed the trolls



  • Registered Users Posts: 17,852 ✭✭✭✭Idbatterim


    Leo varadkar and co will be giving them free homes shortly though and access to the world's most generous welfare state. Meanwhile young people leave here in their droves, as they can't access housing, that is given to blow in's and welfare lifers for nothing. Thats some social contract...



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,314 ✭✭✭Potatoeman


    He must of mastered teleportation, I guess he’s one of those doctors and scientists we hear about,



  • Registered Users Posts: 943 ✭✭✭boetstark


    Have you arrived at Australian immigration without identification documents.



  • Registered Users Posts: 14,155 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    yes, and they held me in a detention centre until they determined who i was before granting me asylum and helping me get on my feet



  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 14,117 Mod ✭✭✭✭pc7


    Is there any update on the little girl and woman?



  • Registered Users Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    The left/right thing is so outdated and not even accurate as to it's original meaning.

    If you grabbed those over 18 protesters and pulled their voting history, they'd have probably voted for PBP in the past.

    It's basically just change versus conservationism. Some people want a lot of change, some people want very little change.



  • Registered Users Posts: 3,123 ✭✭✭yagan


    I won't be surprised if belfast gets an extra retail boost thanks to the riots.

    I can't actually see anything changing policy wise, McEntee will make an appearance under heavy escort again and then insist yet again that our streets are safe.

    She should be held to account for burying her head in the sand with that stupid remark.



  • Registered Users Posts: 483 ✭✭hymenelectra


    Sorry no time for that, it's all about the inconvenience caused by rioters.

    Priorities, priorities, priorities.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,764 ✭✭✭ArthurDayne


    Yes. And in response we should all set fire to the Luas, smash up the city and terrify citizens until, from the ashes of our national dignity, a new utopia arises in which we create a system by which no person born outside Ireland can ever commit any form of crime whatsoever on this island. And then all the angry, bitter people will no longer be angry and bitter because their natural state as rational, reasonable, thoughtful and roundly-informed people will no longer be corrupted and distorted by this issue.



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