Coolock Incident

Cant see the thread lasting but anyway. Saw that video, can't see it being true, don't believe the place is near ready for 150 people, and sure the concrete bollards are still across the entrance. Will need work along the perimeter for security camera's etc before anyone is moved in, imo.

Major fire inside the barricade about an hour or so ago.

Law and order breaking down again this week.

I think the government have lost this battle

Hopefully the current Taoiseach will go down and quench the fire with one of the leftover pints of Guinness he was scooping yesterday with Starmer.

Whatever your views, the State has to ensure law and order. And it appears to have failed this week.

Do the state own the site ?

If they move the asylum seekers elsewhere, they just need to make sure to move the money that would have been allocated to Coolock with them. Leave the people of Coolock to live with their burned out and vandalized buildings etc. Back of the queue for further funding.

Some Irish tax exile living in Switzerland apparently.

https://gript.ie/owners-of-proposed-coolock-asylum-centre-have-pocketed-more-than-e38-million-since-2021/

Hope the Swiss investment funds or whoever owns the site gets an Invoice from Drew Harris.

How do you know all of them don’t have a job?

Are you saying only unemployed people commit crimes?

Agreed. Too many young guys with no prospects, no facilities and no opportunities will eventually find something to get angry about and will cause trouble.

So we definitely shouldn't import thousands of the same sort from overseas, right?

True. Maybe they're on their annual leave?

Maybe they work 9-5.

This is the solution 😀

No prospects and no opportunities? Sure a huge issue with our housing issue is a lack of people who can work in the area. There's plenty of jobs out there.

The only place they should move these migrants is out of the country and stop others coming into the country.

Lol as if the area was going to get extra resources.

Government can't back down here otherwise it becomes the template for every other community that doesn't want these centres.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out. Government have been lucky that the weather has been shite so far this summer.

Who said "extra"? The post explicitly referenced "further funding".

Unless you think there is no money spent in the area at all? And that there will no money spent on the area in the next year or so?

The way things are going, this island is starting to look way more unsafe than the vast majority of countries that these asylum seekers are fleeing from.

Yes even 18 months ago they would have, the movement of international protection immigrants in to deprived areas was an ingenious way for the government to kill off the growing support for Paul Murphy/PBP and SF.

It's the same crowd going around Ireland starting all the issues. They are all over TikTok etc live streaming and go from one part of Ireland to another

Work and family etc don't seem to be a requirement for them.

Reminds me of the group of "people" who followed the water meter installers across the country, abusing the workers and any residents who wouldn't agree with them.

Cut off the social welfare and that will be end of it

In reality the people coming in via immigration will be working and adding to Ireland a lot quicker than the so called "protestors"

Funny how they could all start a protest in the middle of the day, in the middle of the week when everyone else was at work.

No prospects? no opportunities? every company in Ireland is crying out for workers. Offering to train the people up etc. So making up excuses doesn't work, if they wanted a job and add something to ireland, they could. Fact is they won't and never will.

Good

Collective punishment? I think that's actually illegal