Is this the Ireland we live in now?

Saw that on X, but that's not really an explanation of what the context is though. We can see what is happening in the clip, but context would be what actually happened before that.

I did say fairly small. Thankfully the far-right don't have the same type of wider support here as has been the case in some parts of Europe.

But it's a serious problem and there are a sizable amount of these thugs involved.

With AGS stretched as they are, and our laws I would think outdated around hate crimes and domestic terrorism, it's very worrying.

I worry it's being treated in a very blasé manner by out government. Lots of comments about this and that being unacceptable but no concrete change or action.

I think it's that part of society in Ireland which has no perspectives on the housing market, is increasingly frustrated and angered and seeing also that immigrants are taking their housing.

The problem won't go away, and certainly not if there are less Guards on the streets.

Is this Tablet street?

I was reading about plans to spend millions, to gentrify the street and make it safer.

What a joke. There needs to be Garda presence here 24/7.

This part of the city has always been occupied by dodgy scrotes. I’ve worked in many deprived areas and this was by far the worst for having feral elements dominate so much street life.
Taking likes of Dublin 8, there was always a mix of cultures from long, long back, and friendships formed between people of different backgrounds. However Dublin 1 has been pretty much exclusively Dublin working class people who haven’t got to socialise at any level with other cultures, and have become tribal, and with a long tradition of feral behaviour this is a heady mix for explosive behaviour.
Of course there are tons of very solid good people living here, it’s just over-represented by a less socially functional sector of society.

This is what happens when people get their news and validation exclusively from social media and scummy racist propaganda outlets like Gript

In the UK in the 70s it was right wing tabloids like the Sun and the Daily mail that pushed this propaganda. Now it's twitter, Facebook and Gript

Yes, I think so.

They are taking out their anger and frustration on foreigners.

Either they identify foreigners visually, looking foreign, or by hearing a foreign language.

Foreigners coming to Ireland are certainly not responsible for the lack of construction and the limited supply, but they certainly contribute to the demand.

I mean it's going to just get worse unless the goverment do something.

Their are people walking the streets who should be in jail because we don't have enough prison space.

Yet they are increasing the population while not increasing prison space.

These scumbags should be locked up but will more than likely be still walking the streets.

Considering streets are now being closed off entirely because of criminal behaviour wouldn't it make more sense to block off a few more streets as a prison entirely?

Ah, yeah. Sure I’d let them live out their pointless lives. Just want to prevent them spawning.

W ho

Who is snatching children? I haven't seen any reports of attempted abductions anywhere?

And no, I don't believe in vigilantism. If someone breaks a law, then they can be detained and handed to authorities.

The language is further evidence that it's also the feeling of "is this the Ireland we live in now?".

I don't think the words Gulag or Gas Chamber were used 7 or 10 years ago to describe a challenge or problem.

It's the dregs of the inner city doing what they have always done. New target is foreigners for their hatred and to blame for their awful lives. Nothing that new really as I remember some addicts giving out about refugees getting free cars etc. in what must have been 1999 on Abbey St.

I really hope the Garda investigate this and throw the book at them.

Irish citizen of asian descent here( Filipino) Ive lived in Ireland for over 20 yrs now, my wife works as a director of nursing for the hse and I lead an opd department in one of the healthcare facilities here in Dublin, Ive got in laws that are Irish, my kids are into sports and they race abroad and they both race for leinster and both are hoping to wear the green someday.

I volunteer and coach kids in our club and both me and my wife also volunteer as medics for club sporting events as both of us are first aid trained as part of our work

I recently went with a mate of mine out for a bite near Stephens green, He is an IT consultant and he is also an Irish citizen of asian descent and his daughter is a junior doctor, His family has been here for nearly 50 yrs , while walking towards Ramen bar in Williams St. A mature man stopped in front of us shouted abuse, spat at us and told us to go back where we came from while a group of teenagers cheered him on.

We were angry but we cant match negativity with the same energy so we just walked off and ignored them but it has basically put us off from going into town at this stage.

Another thing, Us as a family were also assaulted in a park last year by a group of youths when we collected our kids from training, we had to get the gards involved in the end but nothing was done after they got identified( my wife took a video that night) As the gards told us the kids parents were junkies or had unstable family dynamics and most the kids apparently had emotional issues and were known already for antisocial behaviour and were going to special schools.

Its just mad because we pay tax, work hard , integrate, not spent a day in social welfare,love the country still gets into the crossfire of all of the migrant issue thats going on now because of our skin color.

Dont get me wrong 99 percent of the residents of this country are sound and that's what made us fall in love with the country, the banter from taxi men , I used to go solo on my motorbike stop kn the middle of nowhere stay over night go to a local pub and you'll have locals buying you drink and chat to you all night, the warmth and friendliness is amazing, my wife's family are based in Italy they have been there for over 40 yrs and i lived most of my life in Vienna before moving here.

I'm curious do you mean all the area's residents, Roma, African, Arab, Latin American etc. or is your fatwa for ethnic cleansing solely an anti Irish sentiment?

Non-fatal crimes in working class communities are typically ignored by the Gardaí in my experience though. So you won't see many reports, just hand written statements, taken begrudgingly and then shredded.

Edit: I'm not saying that the accusation is true, I'm saying it could be (although unlikely in my opinion) and either way, that assault was not justified, it were true they would be justified in holding him there until the gardaí arrived.

Renting foreign prisons now...I've never heard such nonsense.

Your experience is different to mine then, I have found Gardai take crimes like abduction extremely seriously.

We both agree the assault was not justified in any case.

I think the debate would a very different one, if there was a better and bigger choice of housing for all.

But sadly that's not the case.

As long as choice is either unaffordable or limited, it'll always be a feeling of robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Scumbags have been getting away with violent conduct for decades, no consequences, suspended sentences, off they go on their merry way being scumbags.

The idea that because this is now happening to non nationals that it's a new thing (yeah, scumbags love accusing people of being child molesters, as they're the only thing lower than them) and that it's being orchestrated by "the far right" is laughable.

If we hadn't had such a lax attitude towards sentencing over the last twenty or thirty years we wouldn't be seeing this now.

Social deprivation exacerbates the problem for sure, plus perceptions around the way asylum seekers are being dealt with by the state add fuel to the fire but these type of social problems are endemic in certain parts of this country, and people were happy to turn a blind eye until it started being a useful topic to link to the far right that are supposedly running everything negative in Ireland but can't manage a decent level of support at the ballot box.

You really think that's what's happening in the video, or the thugs actually care why they are beating the crap out of someone.