Amid a huge immigration surge, a shortfall of 250,000 homes and soaring rents, the Irish Government has sent in riot police to Tipperary where locals are protesting the closure of their last hotel to accommodate asylum seekers. The Telegraph has more.
Riot police standing guard outside the Racket Hall hotel in rural Tipperary are tetchy. The 40-room guest house in one of Ireland’s oldest market towns remains intact but recent history suggests that it could soon be reduced to a smouldering wreck.
Local lorry driver Justin Phelan has no intention of setting the building alight but his message to the 160 asylum seekers destined for his hometown is clear: “Roscrea is full”.
“The services are on the ground here in this town,” Mr. Phelan, 34, told the Telegraph. “Not just in this town – all across the country they’re on the ground. There’s God knows how many people on trolleys today in Limerick hospital.
“We have around five GPs in this town. You call any of them this minute and he’ll say, ‘I don’t have space, I’m full up.’ There’s 33 children in my daughter’s class. Just imagine adding two more, with language difficulties. What effect is that going to have on the rest of the children already in the class?”
Mr. Phelan is one many holding vigil outside the hotel in what has become a snapshot of unrest across rural Ireland at the Government’s perceived clumsy handling of a surge in migration.
Protests have been rising across the country at resettlement programmes as Ireland’s housing system creaks, leading in some extreme cases to public buildings being torched.
Huddled around one of the open fires at the Roscrea hotel entrance, Mr. Phelan said he has “been here every day” since last Thursday, when the Irish Government gave local politicians 24-hours notice that the hotel was being closed down to the public to house asylum seekers.
Weddings and parties scheduled to take place in the town’s only hotel have been cancelled after the owners reached an agreement with the Government.
After some demonstrators tried on Monday to block a bus carrying the first 17 arrivals, mainly women and children, from entering the car park, violent scuffles with the gardaí, members of the Irish police force, broke out.
Immigration to Ireland rose by 32% to more than 140,000 in the year ending April 2023. Of these arrivals, more than 13,000 were asylum seekers. And since the Russian invasion, nearly 100,000 Ukrainians have arrived in Ireland.
The immigration influx – the largest since 2007 – comes amid a shortfall of 250,000 homes in Ireland and astronomical rent prices.
The Irish Government recently admitted that there is not enough room to house new arrivals, slashing the monetary allowance for Ukrainians by four fifths and offering new asylum seekers tents to sleep in.
In Roscrea, many locals have been camping outside the Racket Hall hotel through the night.
“This is the only hotel in our town and if you take it away, as bad as our town is now, it’s going to be worse,” said Mr. Phelan.
But the local reaction in Roscrea has not all been negative, with some leaving toys outside the hotel’s doors for its young guests. A number of families who have attended the demonstrations are at pains to point out that their gripe is with Government policy, not with the individuals arriving in their town.
While Leo Varadkar, the Taoiseach, acknowledged people living in communities where asylum seekers are being housed have legitimate “fears”, he said “nobody in a democracy has the right to veto … who moves into their area”.
A poll by the Business Post/Red C in May 2023 found that 75% of Irish voters believed Ireland had taken in “too many” refugees.
Migration protests have also been staged in the disadvantaged suburb of Ballymun and rural towns in counties Carlow and Mayo.
The disaffection has escalated to full-blown revolt by some in local government, with Mayo County Council on Tuesday voting unanimously to cease co-operation with the central Government over the housing of asylum seekers – the first council in Ireland to do so.
Tipperary would seem a long way for asylum seekers to go to seek a safe shore (there’s a song about that). But Ireland, like many Western countries, is clearly a long way from finding an immigration and asylum policy that its population is content to live with.
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” . . . where locals are protesting the closure of their last hotel to accommodate asylum seekers.”
” . . . where locals are protesting the closure of their last hotel to accommodate economic migrants who have no right to be in the country.”
There’s never been a better time for the return of the IRA! This time, not to fight the brits, but to fight for freedom against their own fecking government!
It appears the Shinners have given up the policy of “Ourselves Alone” and are doing SFA about the invasion of Ireland.
Ah the “Irish independence” in which the USA financed a bunch of terrorists to form a militia and break away from great Britain in order to further undermine Britain post ww1. Never mind the Irish ppl would never voted for that reality and the bloody civil war that followed it, Britain’s (London) ruling class essentially handed off the south to a bunch of terrorists. It was never going to take so long for such a ruling class to decide their “own ppl”, the Irish, were a nuisance in need of replacement.
Leo Varadkar admitted that …
“communities where asylum seekers are being housed have legitimate “fears”, he said “nobody in a democracy has the right to veto … who moves into their area”.
Leo, you need to go back to school.
He understand this absolutely correctly: One of the basic rights every citizen of some country usually has is the right of freedom of movement within the country. To Irish people, these are foreigners who could as well have remained abroad. To Varadkar, they’re future voters who need to be fast-tracked into citizenship as quickly as possible, that is, before Irish people notice the ratty smell of the faux party struggle they’ve been sold as democracy and unify behind someone determined to de-Varadkar the country.
Merkel was the World Champion though.
Nobody has the right to veto who moves into their own house maybe!
So if you live in a private secure estate or a large rural estate like most ministers do you won’t need any veto, you just stop them physically from living near you with an 8ft high fence! Nice one Leo!
For ‘police’ read ‘black shirts’ (brown shirts too). The thuggish enablers of undemocratic policies by the Irish branch of the WEF, designed to make the Irish the minority and hence strangers in their own country. Imagine an African country inundated with white immigrants from Europe – we’d be turfed out or put into refugee camps. In Europe of course, they get hotels and benefits. We need to support the Irish somehow because it is happening here in the UK although we have a much larger native population.
Every one of these “asylum seekers” – like every Irish citizen – will have the ability to cross the border into NI unmolested and then to rUK.
Presumably this footage is from yesterday, so maybe some have seen it already, but this lady is off her rocker. Never heard of Tessa Dunlop but she basically symbolizes what is wrong with these ”Refugees Welcome” placard-waving, naive and treacherous idiots. I’m firmly on Team Kelvin here ( 4mins );
https://twitter.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1747917132761809327
Never heard of the Dunlop woman but she is a bloody hypocrite. She can’t accommodate “immigrants” because she lives in London. How convenient.
Why is the excuse of all the immigrant lovers to a request to house a couple … “Oh, we’d love to but we haven’t got room.”
Bloody liars too.
Hasn’t she noticed that the country (UK, Ireland …) hasn’t got room either.
Damn right.
Yes they’re all about the ”refugees welcome”, as long as they’re not living next to them and any ‘cultural enrichment’ issues become someone else’s problem. I think you’d have to be crazy to host them in your home though, especially if they’re men on their own. I’m guessing women with kids would pose less of a risk, but still…..Here’s one such example. Unfortunately no English subtitles but perhaps RW can help us out with the gist of it. I wouldn’t take the risk though. It’s up to the government to accommodate them, not members of the public. Isn’t that a bit of a giveaway that they can’t cope and it’s all gotten completely out of control?
”German family who hosted cultural enricher tries to make him leave but he becomes threatening with a knife in his hand. Why did they host him?”
https://twitter.com/RadioGenoa/status/1747970012403650583
Any countries intake of asylum seekers should be limited to those who can be homed in the houses of volunteers in that country. This way the people that want them have to look after them. I’m sure there are among them some people who are grateful for a new start, but a volunteer scheme would quickly show up the ones who are there to exploit the system.
An excellent suggestion.
Dunlop is a very shouty but articulate lefty who regularly appears on GB News. Besides being bright, she is intensely irritating and always opposed to anything even remotely centrist or right. Oh, and her Scots ancestry includes the famous ‘Dr Dunlop,’ the inventor of the pneumtaic rubber tyre.
I tried to watch this. But I’m absolutely not in the mood for the hysteric antics of this person. Someone needs to take away her microphone or – even better yet – get her out of the room with the camera. Whoever remains might then be able to have reasonable conversation about the topic. For as long as this mindless noise emittor is still there, no reasonable conversation can take place and that’s exactly the point of her presence.
Haha, I know the feeling. I could handle a short clip but not a full segment of her going on like that. What a migraine-inducing barmpot! My pet peeve is when people interrupt and talk over each other too. Some interviewers are guilty of doing this to guests regularly and it’s the height of bad manners. Mind you, if you’re interviewing politicians they can waffle on with evasive nonsense until the cows come home, so perhaps that’s the exception.
Some years ago when I had to deal with the public (work) I developed a strategy for dealing with gobshites who constantly interrupted a telephone conversation:
Me: we are having a conversation. When I am speaking you remain quiet until I have finished and then I will listen to you, understood?
At this point some got the message Some ignored me so:
Me: I have already pointed out we are having a conversation. If you continue to talk over me I will terminate the call.
Any further breaches from the Joe and I simply hung up without further warning. Life is too short.
If you thought she was bad, another guest on GBN is Narinder Kaur. You are in for a treat!
Suggest renaming all Irish hotels under the Racket Hall TM brand. “Stay at home but feel abroad”.
Unless the immigrants going to Ireland are unrepresentative there is little chance the local school will get two additional pupils as almost all the people arriving illegally into Europe are single young men. Some 24year olds may claim to be 16 but surely the authorities check that now – ah, I now see the problem!
The article does say the first 17 in the bus were !mainly women and children”. I guess this was a deliberate choice to skew the argument away from the fact that they are entirely unrepresentative.
And irrelevant, the beef is with the government not the immigrants!
Late teen age male children, doubtlessly.
The gatecrashing is even more a problem in Ireland than here (or is it?) But maybe that is what the Irish should have expected when they had voted to leave the EU and then changed their minds because of the bribes they were offered.
The EU isn’t responsible for national immigration policy and government of EU members committed to that (Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland) have successfully refused to accept ‘asylum seekers’ other EU countries wanted to assign to them. In related news, the UK taking back control of its own borders resulted in immigration soaring to record levels, just ‘global majority immigration’, exactly as announced beforehand.
That you habitually kick a particular post in your backyard whenever encountering any problem doesn’t mean the post is really responsible for this and kicking against it will improve the situation. But the people who put the post there and told you to kick it are glad that you’re thus safely occupied with something other than the problem itself.
The EU were the instigators of the open border stuff. How many did Mutti bring into a once lovely country called Germany? You should not have been surprised what happened in Koln etc. —Sure individual countries who pretend they are still “nations” can decide who comes to their country but the stench of the open border people still stinks around UK parliament buildings.
The EU were the instigators of the open border stuff.
Open borders between EU countries, not open borders between the EU and the rest of the world.
There was someone who died recently who was high up in the machinations on the EU who said something along the lines of….”The more immigration into Europe the better, that way we can weaken National Sovereignty of the EU states.
I million migrants invited into Germany is not an open border? All the flooding of migrants into Greece and Italy is not open border? The place is swarming in illegals and that is the whole idea since the EU is the star pupil of the world government in waiting at the UN.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/sunak-so-generous-with-other-peoples-money/
Laura Perrins dissecting Fishy economics. Apparently, although this country is all but bankrupt, Fishy has found £2.5 billion to hand over to Ukraine in order to continue a war that is lost and which is none of our business.
The fact that people cannot heat their homes or feed their families is irrelevant seemingly.
Fishy’s destruction of the country continues unabated.
We are not so much a Nation now.—- More like a Region of the Global Community. The political class have more on their minds than gatecrashing migrants. They insist they want to “halt the boats” but their pandering to open border UN world government directives really means the opposite. Or as the Red Indian used to say “You speak with forked tongue”
Hear, hear.
Melei Goes SCORCHED-EARTH At World Economic Forum
I’m surprised they let him in!
They won’t, next time.
The original IRA would be turning in their graves
True! They once burned down an abandoned castle to stop the brits converting it into a barracks, and they where hero’s!
It’s getting beyond techy over here!
People are really getting angry.
Any large uninhabited buildings like hotels are now at great risk of accidental fire damage anywhere in the country!
It’s about time Snipe nose and Varadkar started listening to the people and not their puppet master in Europe and wef or ireland will burn!
In the early 1960s there was a short televised drama called Stranger on the Shore. It was a story about a young French woman who had come to work in Brighton and her life amidst the differences between this country and hers.
It was a very wistful, heart-appealing dramatization that evoked a nostalgia that anyone might sympathise with whoever has felt that sort of homesickness; especially as her homeland was just over the horizon, so near and yet so far.
Oh for those simple days, ones far removed from todays mass migration and the government’s frenzied, Ponzi-scheme responses. Issue tents to the migrants? There’s lots of green real estate in Ireland for favelas, but it’s still finite. Have they never heard of the proliferation of migrant-tented housing in the streets in Chicago?
Speaking of Ireland:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6HABE2eDYk
“Hey buddy ….. got a match?”
Beyond sad. I fear for how current policies will play out in Ireland, the U.K. and around the world. You can only silence and suppress the people for so long before the impotence and rage find expression in violence that can no longer be suppressed. We live in very scary times.
It’s all to do with one world government ask George Soros.
is this when people take charge? when people get desperate of being ignored by the very people who are supposed to serve The People?