Tag: Migration
We’re Full: Irish Government Asks Refugees to Stop Coming
Yesterday’s low-level rioting at the Citywest asylum facility has put into focus the reality of the state’s overstretched international protection services. Less than a year into the Ukrainian conflict, the Department of Children and Integration tasked with managing the failing...
Shelbourne Hotel Protests: How ‘Dublin Says No’ Outwitted the Left
“Considerable fear about losing working class support to the nativist right was also expressed” – ‘Le Chéile: Ireland's Newest Censorship Org Off to an Uninspiring Start’, Ciaran Brennan Introduction When ‘Dublin Says No’ announced Saturday’s protest adjacent to the Shelbourne...
Asylum Industry, Vulture Funds, and Irish Displacement
Narrative Control Last Monday, National Party representative Paul McWeeney tweeted that a work colleague of his was unable to make an appointment for his sick baby in his local GP practice in Ballaghaderreen, county Roscommon. McWeeney’s tweet alleged that the...
The New Plantation of Ireland
It is interesting how Government and elected politicians will decry working-class attempts to stop the plantation of their communities with outsiders as ‘intimidation’ and ‘racist’ because they are loud, but shy away like cowards when wealthy communities stop the plantations...
East Wall Fights on with Busáras Blockade
The asylum standoff at East Wall shows no sign subsiding with coordinated shutdowns by residents yesterday evening at Busáras bus terminal and the Samuel Beckett Bridge simultaneously. Beginning after 5pm, protestors successfully stalled traffic at key transport arteries in the...
East Wall Residents Promise to Escalate Port Blockade Over Asylum Centre
Attempts to remedy the ongoing asylum dispute at East Wall appear to have failed with a further commitment by residents to continue the periodic blockage of the Port Tunnel. Arising from the Department of Children’s placement of a 380 person...
The End of the Nursing Home-Asylum Centre Controversy, or Just the Beginning?
Sunday, the Junior Minister for Older People, Mary Butler, called for a ban on the controversial trend of Irish nursing homes being closed only to subsequently house asylum seekers. Just last week, this publication's investigation into cases of elderly Irish...
East Wall: Sinn Féin Grassroots Break Ranks on Asylum
For the second night in the past week, East Wall residents rallied to protest the planting of an asylum centre in the former ESB Building by an overstretched Department of Equality. Numbering north of 300 at its peak, the crowd...
East Wall: Dublin Working Class Turns Against Asylum Racket
Men, women and children from East Wall, Ballybough and North Strand gathered in their hundreds to protest outside the nearby Old ESB offices on East Wall Road today, which has been transformed, literally overnight, into a military style barracks for...
Asylum Standoff in East Wall
This evening locals have reported the new arrival of young male asylum seekers into a former ESB office block situated on East Wall Road in Dublin. Shortly after the arrival of a full bus of asylum seekers mattresses were seen...