“Violence erupted in central Dublin on Thursday night with several vehicles set ablaze and gangs of youths attacking police following a knife attack near a school which left three small children and two adults injured.
Drew Harris, commissioner of Ireland’s Garda Síochána police force, blamed the unrest on a “lunatic hooligan faction driven by far-right ideology”. The clashes erupted after the knifing and had escalated.
Harris said some officers had been injured in “disgraceful scenes”.
A Dublin bus and a tram were among vehicles set on fire in the centre of the Irish capital and images shared on social media showed fireworks being directed at police. Young people set a police car ablaze and jumped on another. Officers with riot shields tried to drive people back. The violence reached as far into town as areas round O’Connell Street.
There were also reports of looting spreading in parts of the city centre. Public transport services were suspended.
Some protesters were heard to chant anti-immigrant slogans, according to media reports, though police have not identified the assailant.
The children injured in the afternoon stabbing were aged five and six. One five-year-old girl underwent emergency surgery and a woman crèche worker was also receiving emergency treatment. Another girl had less serious injuries and a boy was discharged from hospital.
A male in his 50s also suffered serious injuries, according to police. He is believed to be the attacker.
None were understood to have life-threatening injuries, according to police sources.
“An Garda Síochána is following a definite line of inquiry. The male in his 50s is a person of interest in this investigation. An Garda Síochána is not looking for any other person at this time,” a police statement said.
Justice minister Helen McEntee appealed for calm and said Ireland “will not tolerate” a “thuggish and manipulative element” seeking to use the knife attack to spread division. She told broadcaster RTÉ: “This is a mob of people who are criminals and thugs.”
Irish President Michael D Higgins condemned the “appalling” knife attack and went on in a statement: “That it would be used or abused by groups with an agenda that attacks the principle of social inclusion is reprehensive and deserves condemnation by all those who believe in the rule of law and democracy.”
Ireland, which has seen record immigration in the past year, has witnessed sporadic far-right protests in recent months and several serious assaults in the city centre, including one which left a US tourist in a coma for several days. But Thursday night’s scenes were the worst in years.
According to official statistics, Ireland received 141,600 immigrants in the year to April 2023, a 16-year high and the second successive 12-month period in which more than 100,000 people arrived in the country.”
This doesn’t seem very proportional
They first said it was a Muslim who did it so racists started to riot. Turns out it wasn’t, so now Irish people are burning down Ireland because of right wing propaganda about immigrants ruining Ireland.
I am agisnt riot esspicly like french one
But irish make sense , its waybto govremnet you fucked up , +angry irish personilty
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Total absolute scum, they sure made their point how we need to get the immigrants out because they’re violent and criminal.
Meanwhile they’re burning emergency accomodations for refugees, burning luas and buses, smashing up shops, breaking into stores and shopping centres to loot them, breaking into and vandalising hotels full of guests, stealing buses, attacking gardai in groups and inciting the killing of any foreigners in their communication channels.
I thought riots were a good thing and happened when peoples’ voices aren’t heard?
I understand them protesting against immigration but this is the worst way possible to do it. Burning down immigration camps is such a shitty thing to do.
Coked up dole heads, spurred on by right wing fruitcakes on social media, hijacking a tragedy to do some looting and destroy ‘their city’.
what happens when you fail children
Wait, I thought it was the official left-wing position that people can riot and destroy things if they feel “oppressed.”
Did the French do anything like this after the Bataclan massacre? Charlie Hebdo? Nice?
People are finally getting fed up, better late than never.
These guys looove Hamas. Ironic.
Because the best way to show your support and care for your country is to burn it down
Finally, it’s happening. And what better place than Ireland, a land where its gen z natives are famously anti-west.
Not a European.,.. and I don’t know why reddit suggested this …
I feel quite odd though…. On one hand the left wing and governments across Europe ignore concerns of masses, they dismiss them as fascist, racist NAZIs and when concerns become too big masses end up voting politicians who are called ‘far right’ like Meloni and Wilders. At which point left and liberal governments are astonished as to how a big chunk of their country can become NAZIs ….
People need to understand one thing, the amount of voters who vote in democracies across the globe who vote on the basis of ideology are far and few, most vote on the basis of issues they are facing and who is promising to solve those. If liberal governments aren’t even ready to acknowledge the concerns of the masses, they sure as hell can’t solve them.
I agree that some concerns might be propaganda or misplaced, but still they must be addressed, people must feel their concerns are being solved one way or another. When you simply dismiss them as racist, fascist etc, all you do is increase the number of people who move away from liberal discourse.
There were anti-Islam rallies and protests in likes of Italy and Netherlands, they were dismissed at a bunch of racists and NAZIs, now you know who rules them.
Instead of dismissing these rioters as a bunch of low life hooligans and scum, look up their motivations and try to solve(apart from prosecuting them) them. Otherwise in a few years Ireland will have its own Irish Wilders.
Now watch how the r/europe that regularly calls all Muslims bad won’t call all white people bad, and may even justify this.
Not paying to read it. Who stabbed who and why? And why are people rioting??
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“Violence erupted in central Dublin on Thursday night with several vehicles set ablaze and gangs of youths attacking police following a knife attack near a school which left three small children and two adults injured.
Drew Harris, commissioner of Ireland’s Garda Síochána police force, blamed the unrest on a “lunatic hooligan faction driven by far-right ideology”. The clashes erupted after the knifing and had escalated.
Harris said some officers had been injured in “disgraceful scenes”.
A Dublin bus and a tram were among vehicles set on fire in the centre of the Irish capital and images shared on social media showed fireworks being directed at police. Young people set a police car ablaze and jumped on another. Officers with riot shields tried to drive people back. The violence reached as far into town as areas round O’Connell Street.
There were also reports of looting spreading in parts of the city centre. Public transport services were suspended.
Some protesters were heard to chant anti-immigrant slogans, according to media reports, though police have not identified the assailant.
The children injured in the afternoon stabbing were aged five and six. One five-year-old girl underwent emergency surgery and a woman crèche worker was also receiving emergency treatment. Another girl had less serious injuries and a boy was discharged from hospital.
A male in his 50s also suffered serious injuries, according to police. He is believed to be the attacker.
None were understood to have life-threatening injuries, according to police sources.
“An Garda Síochána is following a definite line of inquiry. The male in his 50s is a person of interest in this investigation. An Garda Síochána is not looking for any other person at this time,” a police statement said.
Justice minister Helen McEntee appealed for calm and said Ireland “will not tolerate” a “thuggish and manipulative element” seeking to use the knife attack to spread division. She told broadcaster RTÉ: “This is a mob of people who are criminals and thugs.”
Irish President Michael D Higgins condemned the “appalling” knife attack and went on in a statement: “That it would be used or abused by groups with an agenda that attacks the principle of social inclusion is reprehensive and deserves condemnation by all those who believe in the rule of law and democracy.”
Ireland, which has seen record immigration in the past year, has witnessed sporadic far-right protests in recent months and several serious assaults in the city centre, including one which left a US tourist in a coma for several days. But Thursday night’s scenes were the worst in years.
According to official statistics, Ireland received 141,600 immigrants in the year to April 2023, a 16-year high and the second successive 12-month period in which more than 100,000 people arrived in the country.”
This doesn’t seem very proportional
They first said it was a Muslim who did it so racists started to riot. Turns out it wasn’t, so now Irish people are burning down Ireland because of right wing propaganda about immigrants ruining Ireland.
I am agisnt riot esspicly like french one
But irish make sense , its waybto govremnet you fucked up , +angry irish personilty
[deleted]
Total absolute scum, they sure made their point how we need to get the immigrants out because they’re violent and criminal.
Meanwhile they’re burning emergency accomodations for refugees, burning luas and buses, smashing up shops, breaking into stores and shopping centres to loot them, breaking into and vandalising hotels full of guests, stealing buses, attacking gardai in groups and inciting the killing of any foreigners in their communication channels.
I thought riots were a good thing and happened when peoples’ voices aren’t heard?
I understand them protesting against immigration but this is the worst way possible to do it. Burning down immigration camps is such a shitty thing to do.
Coked up dole heads, spurred on by right wing fruitcakes on social media, hijacking a tragedy to do some looting and destroy ‘their city’.
what happens when you fail children
Wait, I thought it was the official left-wing position that people can riot and destroy things if they feel “oppressed.”
Did the French do anything like this after the Bataclan massacre? Charlie Hebdo? Nice?
People are finally getting fed up, better late than never.
These guys looove Hamas. Ironic.
Because the best way to show your support and care for your country is to burn it down
Finally, it’s happening. And what better place than Ireland, a land where its gen z natives are famously anti-west.
Not a European.,.. and I don’t know why reddit suggested this …
I feel quite odd though…. On one hand the left wing and governments across Europe ignore concerns of masses, they dismiss them as fascist, racist NAZIs and when concerns become too big masses end up voting politicians who are called ‘far right’ like Meloni and Wilders. At which point left and liberal governments are astonished as to how a big chunk of their country can become NAZIs ….
People need to understand one thing, the amount of voters who vote in democracies across the globe who vote on the basis of ideology are far and few, most vote on the basis of issues they are facing and who is promising to solve those. If liberal governments aren’t even ready to acknowledge the concerns of the masses, they sure as hell can’t solve them.
I agree that some concerns might be propaganda or misplaced, but still they must be addressed, people must feel their concerns are being solved one way or another. When you simply dismiss them as racist, fascist etc, all you do is increase the number of people who move away from liberal discourse.
There were anti-Islam rallies and protests in likes of Italy and Netherlands, they were dismissed at a bunch of racists and NAZIs, now you know who rules them.
Instead of dismissing these rioters as a bunch of low life hooligans and scum, look up their motivations and try to solve(apart from prosecuting them) them. Otherwise in a few years Ireland will have its own Irish Wilders.
Now watch how the r/europe that regularly calls all Muslims bad won’t call all white people bad, and may even justify this.
Not paying to read it. Who stabbed who and why? And why are people rioting??