**A suspected arson at a hotel in remote Rosscahill is the latest in a wave of attacks on asylum seeker housing, amid rising anti-immigrant rhetoric fuelled by far-right groups.**
A hotel earmarked to house 70 asylum seekers has been destroyed in a suspicious fire in rural Ireland, only weeks after the Irish capital was rocked by major anti-immigrant riots.
The blaze destroyed much of the large, disused hotel in Rosscahill, a remote village in County Galway, late on Saturday night. Police investigating the incident said nobody was inside the building at the time of the fire, which is being treated as suspected criminal damage.
It followed days of angry protests outside the hotel, intended to halt work on preparing the site for the arrival of asylum seekers.
The suspected arson incident is the latest in a string of recent attacks targeting housing intended for asylum across Ireland, amid a wave of xenophobic agitation linking immigration and crime.
On Monday, Irish Integration Minister Roderic O’Gorman described the fire as a criminal act intended to intimidate foreigners seeking asylum in Ireland.
“What we saw in Galway was deeply sinister,” Mr O’Gorman said on public broadcaster RTÉ Radio. “I think people who use the international protection process have a right to be safely accommodated while their application is being adjudicated on.”
Earlier he had called on politicians “across the board” to “condemn this disgraceful act and the fear mongering that led to it.”
In the days leading up to the fire, protesters had staged an attempted blockade of the hotel grounds, blocking the entrance and lighting fires in steel drums, following the news that the Department for Integration had signed a year-long contract for 70 migrants to be accommodated at the site.
O’Gorman’s condemnation was echoed by other politicians, including Justice Minister Helen McEntee, who said the suspected arson did “not represent the values of Irish people.” Sinn Féin housing spokesperson Eoin Ó Broin said: “This is not who we are as a people. We must not tolerate this hatred.”
But a local councillor for conservative party Fianna Fáil, Noel Thomas, who attended the protest outside the hotel, told Irish media he blamed the government for the unrest, saying the intended placement of such a large number of asylum seekers in the village had caused huge distress in the community.
“A lot of the blame needs to be laid in the lap of the government. As long as they deal with it [immigration] the way they are dealing with it, there will be more of this,” he said, calling for asylum seekers to be banned from the country.
“The inn is full,” he told RTÉ Radio.
The fire is only the latest attack targeting asylum seeker accommodation, amid roiling anti-immigration unrest.
That’s very smart, I’m sure they will notice less of the immigrants now that they don’t have a house to stay in 👍🏻
Shameful
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/r/ireland are divided over this, blaming far right countries abroad and saying that ‘Yank’ politics are ruining Ireland. Some are even justifying it saying it was bound to happen since the government wasn’t listening.
They have their head in the sand that members of the local community did this simply for the fact that they are xenophobic and racist.
Then how about they take care of their own shit instead of hating on Israel?
I wont be shocked if we saw a real pogroms.
But, coming from a country with a significant population of economic migrants currently in Ireland i dont want to see comming.
“xenophobic”
“racist”
“fear-mongering”
I suppose we’re just suppose to ignore rapidly escalating sexual brutality, crime, and murder in areas with extreme immigration. Because mentioning it is…. off-limits? I guess?
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Ignore the actual locals at your peril!
Better criminalize free speech. That should calm the waters.
r/worldnews Really has become a racist cesspool since 10/7. Some of you really have no care for people that don’t look like you and it’s damn shamefull.
Canada isn’t far behind. We need mass immigration to be stopped. This is literally insane.
Pathetic how the reaction and dismissal of Irish People regarding the mass influx of „refugees“, bringing Crime and religiously-motivated violence with them, is being demonized in this thead. It‘s the Right of the Irish to decide who is being let into the country. Instead they and many other European Countries Are being steamrolled infringing their Culture, safety and prosperity.
Irish people being against immigration is laughably hypocritical
Ireland has a:
• Housing crisis;
• Hospital waiting list crisis
• Cost of living crisis
• Crime and anti-social behaviour crisis. The police force (the Garda) is extremely lenient with crime and also faces serious understaffing issues.
Yet the politicians ignore these issues and will instead call anyone who opposes immigration far right, despite a lot of people being in favor of helping people, but not when the resources are so scarce and working people end up homeless in droves or are forced to emigrate. Not to mention that immigrants aren’t being given real help either, as they are dumped in Direct Provisions (which attracted serious criticism from human rights groups) and are forgotten about.
so you guys are gonna justify this cuz… immigrants?
Craziest part is how many people are commenting here “that’s this is bound to happen”….
Canada and Ireland on the same shit train headed south
It struck me as the perfect crime if this was insurance fraud and the owner just blamed protesters.
I thought they wanted all those Palestinians
I mean… maybe don’t commit arson?
No matter what political views you have, can we not all agree on *that*?
Coming from somewhere full of Irish immigrants, that’s a little rich. The Irish are one of the most prolific emmigrators around.
So now the govt will spend even more money on even fancier accommodations to house the asylum seekers.
This achieves nothing.
These immigrants are not compatible with our way of life or our values. The politicians in the west have completely sold out their native populations, and the repercussions are just beginning.
If there is an actual link between immigration and crime, it’s not xenophobic to point it out.
Mass immigration is destroying local cultures and bonds. This insanity needs to be stopped
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**A suspected arson at a hotel in remote Rosscahill is the latest in a wave of attacks on asylum seeker housing, amid rising anti-immigrant rhetoric fuelled by far-right groups.**
A hotel earmarked to house 70 asylum seekers has been destroyed in a suspicious fire in rural Ireland, only weeks after the Irish capital was rocked by major anti-immigrant riots.
The blaze destroyed much of the large, disused hotel in Rosscahill, a remote village in County Galway, late on Saturday night. Police investigating the incident said nobody was inside the building at the time of the fire, which is being treated as suspected criminal damage.
It followed days of angry protests outside the hotel, intended to halt work on preparing the site for the arrival of asylum seekers.
The suspected arson incident is the latest in a string of recent attacks targeting housing intended for asylum across Ireland, amid a wave of xenophobic agitation linking immigration and crime.
On Monday, Irish Integration Minister Roderic O’Gorman described the fire as a criminal act intended to intimidate foreigners seeking asylum in Ireland.
“What we saw in Galway was deeply sinister,” Mr O’Gorman said on public broadcaster RTÉ Radio. “I think people who use the international protection process have a right to be safely accommodated while their application is being adjudicated on.”
Earlier he had called on politicians “across the board” to “condemn this disgraceful act and the fear mongering that led to it.”
In the days leading up to the fire, protesters had staged an attempted blockade of the hotel grounds, blocking the entrance and lighting fires in steel drums, following the news that the Department for Integration had signed a year-long contract for 70 migrants to be accommodated at the site.
O’Gorman’s condemnation was echoed by other politicians, including Justice Minister Helen McEntee, who said the suspected arson did “not represent the values of Irish people.” Sinn Féin housing spokesperson Eoin Ó Broin said: “This is not who we are as a people. We must not tolerate this hatred.”
But a local councillor for conservative party Fianna Fáil, Noel Thomas, who attended the protest outside the hotel, told Irish media he blamed the government for the unrest, saying the intended placement of such a large number of asylum seekers in the village had caused huge distress in the community.
“A lot of the blame needs to be laid in the lap of the government. As long as they deal with it [immigration] the way they are dealing with it, there will be more of this,” he said, calling for asylum seekers to be banned from the country.
“The inn is full,” he told RTÉ Radio.
The fire is only the latest attack targeting asylum seeker accommodation, amid roiling anti-immigration unrest.
That’s very smart, I’m sure they will notice less of the immigrants now that they don’t have a house to stay in 👍🏻
Shameful
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/r/ireland are divided over this, blaming far right countries abroad and saying that ‘Yank’ politics are ruining Ireland. Some are even justifying it saying it was bound to happen since the government wasn’t listening.
They have their head in the sand that members of the local community did this simply for the fact that they are xenophobic and racist.
Then how about they take care of their own shit instead of hating on Israel?
I wont be shocked if we saw a real pogroms.
But, coming from a country with a significant population of economic migrants currently in Ireland i dont want to see comming.
“xenophobic”
“racist”
“fear-mongering”
I suppose we’re just suppose to ignore rapidly escalating sexual brutality, crime, and murder in areas with extreme immigration. Because mentioning it is…. off-limits? I guess?
[removed]
[removed]
Ignore the actual locals at your peril!
Better criminalize free speech. That should calm the waters.
r/worldnews Really has become a racist cesspool since 10/7. Some of you really have no care for people that don’t look like you and it’s damn shamefull.
Canada isn’t far behind. We need mass immigration to be stopped. This is literally insane.
Pathetic how the reaction and dismissal of Irish People regarding the mass influx of „refugees“, bringing Crime and religiously-motivated violence with them, is being demonized in this thead. It‘s the Right of the Irish to decide who is being let into the country. Instead they and many other European Countries Are being steamrolled infringing their Culture, safety and prosperity.
Irish people being against immigration is laughably hypocritical
Ireland has a:
• Housing crisis;
• Hospital waiting list crisis
• Cost of living crisis
• Crime and anti-social behaviour crisis. The police force (the Garda) is extremely lenient with crime and also faces serious understaffing issues.
Yet the politicians ignore these issues and will instead call anyone who opposes immigration far right, despite a lot of people being in favor of helping people, but not when the resources are so scarce and working people end up homeless in droves or are forced to emigrate. Not to mention that immigrants aren’t being given real help either, as they are dumped in Direct Provisions (which attracted serious criticism from human rights groups) and are forgotten about.
so you guys are gonna justify this cuz… immigrants?
Craziest part is how many people are commenting here “that’s this is bound to happen”….
Canada and Ireland on the same shit train headed south
It struck me as the perfect crime if this was insurance fraud and the owner just blamed protesters.
I thought they wanted all those Palestinians
I mean… maybe don’t commit arson?
No matter what political views you have, can we not all agree on *that*?
Coming from somewhere full of Irish immigrants, that’s a little rich. The Irish are one of the most prolific emmigrators around.
So now the govt will spend even more money on even fancier accommodations to house the asylum seekers.
This achieves nothing.
These immigrants are not compatible with our way of life or our values. The politicians in the west have completely sold out their native populations, and the repercussions are just beginning.
If there is an actual link between immigration and crime, it’s not xenophobic to point it out.
Mass immigration is destroying local cultures and bonds. This insanity needs to be stopped