Waterford Whispers News: “DUBLIN’S river Liffey was dotted with dozens of inflatable life rafts this morning after ingenious homeless asylum seekers switched from living in tents on the banks of the Grand Canal to living on the water instead to avoid being moved by Dublin City Council.
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The white-water rafting facility won’t recover
please dont give the housing minister ideas
Good WWN, but it missed the mark in that the asylum seekers actively want to be moved and complain about being in tents – they want, and are receiving, brick and mortar accommodation. Sure that’s why they came here after all.
The illusion of them “reappearing” is the hundreds of new arrivals every week.
I know this is a skit but it’s not impossible to imagine it happening soon.
NGOs and other taxpayer-funded bodies are directing refugees to set up camps in prominent locations so as to cause public uproar and secure more funding for them. In terms of visibility and exposure rafts on the Liffey would be highly visible and couldn’t be ignored so it’s not impossible to imagine them doing this eventually.
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Waterford Whispers News on Instagram: “DUBLIN’S river Liffey was dotted with dozens of inflatable life rafts this morning after ingenious homeless asylum seekers switched from living in tents on the banks of the Grand Canal to living on the water instead to avoid being moved by Dublin City Council.
“I sick of moving all time so now live on the river,” explained Amed, a Palestinian man who is now anchored under the Ha’penny bridge after fleeing the genocide in Gaza.
Despite removing dozens of homeless people from the Grand Canal, tents kept reappearing across the city as Ireland’s homeless tent city crisis goes into overdrive with no end in sight to the government’s mishandling of just about everything.
“I haven’t been pissed on once since I moved here, so that’s something, I guess,” another homeless man explains, “it’s actually quite tranquil bobbing around here, although the swim to the shops every morning is a bit cold”.
Meanwhile, Taoiseach Simon Harris has proposed that the Liffey’s new residents should be made pay a permit fee if they want to stay there and warned that if they refused payment they should be sank immediately, ‘Italian coastguard style’.”