Jamie has the walk of a middle aged nun
Is he one of the Daly’s in Delmege?
He is yeah… Has done a good bit of community work in the past.
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https://twitter.com/limerick_now/status/1782397580078395720?s=46
Trying to pit one group of people who’ve been shafted against another group of people who’ve been shafted.
This is what the rich and powerful want. To turn on each other.
aontu not playing to their base - the responses 
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How are you going to house the 500k asylum seekers you want to import every year mate? Once they whisper the magic word ‘asylum’ they expect some accommodation at least. You’re a green party man - do you and Eamomn have solutions to this?
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It’s an absolute disgrace. These right wing head cases have destroyed Ireland.
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These scumbags are straight off the same page as the people who burned Bombay Street in 1969.
https://twitter.com/IrishRebel1965/status/1783233070902001746
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The sheer chutzpah of Nazis like this Niall O’Hara piece of shit.
“Social cohesion is breaking down in Ireland.”
Eh, that would be the social cohesion Niall O’Hara and his Nazi ilk have been desperately trying to destroy any way they can for years now.
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https://twitter.com/griptmedia/status/1783610616714015229?s=46
It’s a pity it wasn’t McQuirk who got pepper sprayed
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Meanwhile in the Torygraph…
Ruth Dudley Edwards
Leo Varadkar left his job as Irish prime minister last month with compliments being lavished on him from all directions — especially the White House — for his triumph over Brexit Britain in forcing the retention of an open land border on Northern Ireland.
For many, the damage it did to relationships with unionists was a matter for satisfaction – one up on the old enemy. But while the Irish are traditionally uninterested in the law of unintended consequences, the results this time are potentially catastrophic.
The “Ah-sure-it’ll-be-grand” cheery optimism of my countrymen can be very attractive, but it’s no way to address major crises. Take the Ukraine war, and the subsequent massive displacement of people.
The Irish love visionaries and virtue-signallers. Angela Merkel became widely admired as a heroine when in 2015 she opened her arms to 1.2 million refugees, mostly from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. Europe has been reaping the consequences of such a cultural upheaval ever since.
Ireland was as open-handed when it came to welcoming Ukrainians. A country of 5,000,000 took in more than 100,000. There was much self-congratulation for its generosity along with sneering at the mean-spirited Brits. But so unstinting were the benefits showered on Ukrainian refugees that some already safely in the EU relocated to Ireland.
And as Dublin’s reputation for being an even softer touch than London grew, non-Ukrainian applications for asylum (aka international protection) showed a 186% increase from 13,651 in 2019 to 2022.
Now practically every little town in Ireland is seeing hotels and hostels commandeered and packed out, and there are unfortunate asylum seekers sleeping in tents in front of government buildings in Dublin.
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Making everything worse is the unintended consequence of the border. The Minister for Justice, Helen McEntee, has had to admit that more than 80% of people applying for asylum in the Republic are pouring over the border from Northern Ireland and she clearly has absolutely no idea what to do about it.
On top of this, the Irish government, apparently deeply unbothered about preserving the country’s sovereignty, has decided to opt into the EU Pact on Asylum and Migration without giving any but the most cursory parliamentary scrutiny.
According to Senator Michael McDowell – the distinguished lawyer who almost single-handedly recently persuaded the Irish electorate to reject two ill-thought out and deeply foolish referendums – it illustrates the “massive black hole” in Ireland’s legislative relationship with the EU.
For a country that mocked Britain’s desire for sovereignty, and sought to use obstinate insistence as an open border as a means for punishment, it is a brutal comeuppance. Ireland’s elites are being hoist by their own petard.
Even RDE is laughing up her sleeve at our carryon
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I think the far rightys are misjudging how angry people are about this issue in general because they are all on twitter.
Most peoples general feeling I’d say is the government have made a bollox of it, allowed too many asylum seekers in etc. However, in true Irish fashion they don’t really care all that much. Those hotels have been in certain towns for a few years and nobody really cared. Most people know foreigners through work or their kids school or sports and they are well liked and integrated. And when push comes to shove the vast majority will back them and the guards over the likes of those protesters.
The government are going to completely quietly pivot on this issue too without ever admitting they were wrong like they did with covid and it will die away.
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Lovely stuff
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I haven’t been following… Are they locals or outside scumbags doing the protesting?