Who’s Afraid to Mention Dublin’s Roma Crime Spree?

When Gerry the Monk Hutch recently stood as a general election candidate, he suggested that immigrants should “bring your toolbox and bring your skills” with them to Ireland. 

Although Nigeria’s Black Axe organised crime network and a number of Indian tech support scammers have done just that, large numbers of Romanian criminals have also done the same, not only in Hutch’s inner city Dublin but throughout the rest of Ireland as well.

Although the Roma can be seen collecting cans and bottles all over Dublin, they run their pickpocketing and shoplifting scams from their encampments in Moore Street, Henry Street, and North Earl Street.

The Irish Independent tells us that these Romanian criminal gangs “have been using takeaways, cafes, barbers and even butcher shops in Dublin city centre” as fronts to launder their criminal proceeds, and the Irish Independent tells us how 100 gardai are tied down trying to put a cap on their rackets in counties Dublin, Kildare and Meath,

In counties Dublin and Kildare, meanwhile, Romanian criminal gangs are also car ramming shops, and then we have the brutal murder of Ashling Murphy by Roma gypsy Jozef Puska, whose family and in-laws are currently on trial for trying to help him escape justice. 

As matters currently stand, Jozep Puska has been granted free legal aid to appeal his sentence and, no doubt, the rest of them are also getting a dig out with free solicitors, barristers and interpreters, as is their right. Add in the free medical and dental treatment Roma gypsies get and Ireland seems to be a very good deal for them, when compared to the large number of other countries these problematic people have rocked up in.

But that leaves me with a problem and one Pavee Point, one of the lavishly funded taxpayer funded NGOs that bat for the Roma fail to answer, when they tell us that over 83% of Roma gypsies in Ireland are unemployed, if not unemployable. 

If their unemployment rates are so high, why do they come here and, picking up discarded bottles and cans apart, how do they manage to survive here and remit money back to Romania and the other countries that spawned them? 

Could it be that their toolboxes and skill sets have been honed in the criminal underworld and not by way of universities or apprenticeships?

Although Cork TD Ken O’Flynn and The Irish Inquiry both suspect evidence of a causal relationship there, it is important to stress that theirs is not a universally held belief, even as it pertains to Hutch’s old north Dublin city stomping ground where Roma gypsies and other foreigners far out number Irish born residents and where crime rates are now 1000% times the national average.

Alan McKenna, a researcher with another fat cat NGO, points the finger of blame at “a marked increase in anti-migrant sentiment expressed both locally and online, with a particular focus often put on the case of the north-east inner city so as to create a narrative wherein new arrivals to the community are positioned as direct competitors to the local population in relation to accessing housing, services and education.”

Although McKenna may well have a point, even if I cannot see it, that fails to explain why a mini army of gardai, complete with armed response unit back up, had to be called in to recently break up one of the daily fights those new to the parish engage in in Mountjoy Square, when they are not busy getting drunk and stabbing toddlers around the corner in Parnell Square.

Although Gerry Hutch has done the right thing by himself and his family in getting out of Dublin’s inner city, as well as all of Ireland for most of the year, those who remain do not have the financial resources to abandon the sinking ship that is Ireland. Not only do they have to run the risks of being scammed, raped and murdered by those criminals who are new to the parish, but their boyfriends, parents and families have to run the gauntlet of Ireland’s legacy media, who think they should forget their own personal losses and be grateful some Roma gypsy in need will receive their organs and even their family home when they die.

* Dr Declan Hayes is a retired professor of finance, who has given explicit instructions on what to do and what not to do with his organs when he dies.