Tag: Migration
The State’s Response to Anti-Immigration Protests
It would do us well, given the recent unprecedented protests against migration, to take a look at how the State and its various front organisations have responded. Fake Community Groups The first course of action was to implement a plan...
David McWilliams is Wrong About Immigration. A Critical Response.
Introduction Last Sunday, David McWilliams published a piece in the Irish Times, wheeling out the familiar argument that immigrants are an unambiguous economic blessing to the host country. The piece is nothing original, those familiar with the politics of immigration...
Liberal Ireland’s Disingenuous Response to the Asylum Crisis
The Irish government, following the growth of anti-immigrant sentiment in various protests across the country, has mobilised its efforts to save face on its purposeful negligence towards the topic of immigration. Simon Harris says that the state is deporting people...
Emails Reveal Irish Government Plans to House Refugees in Boats and Car Parks
A reply to a Freedom of Information request have revealed a collection of emails from the Department of Transport regarding the housing of Ukrainian refugees in boats, car parks and repurposed buildings. The emails span most of last year’s Refugee...
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...