Irish Government Plan to House IMMIGRANTS, Locals PROTEST

Irish PROTESTING IMMIGRANT Housing

As residents of Coolock were allegedly faced with stiff resistance by Ireland’s police, protests over the government’s intentions to shelter asylum seekers intensified.

The Irish Mirror claims that several demonstrators threw bricks and pyrotechnics at the police, causing damage. Online videos purport to capture people throwing bricks and explosives at law enforcement. GB News (GBN) Ireland Correspondent Dougie Beattie claimed in a video broadcast that residents participating in a peaceful protest were subjected to disproportionate force by law officers.

Journalist David Atherton, a “European Conservative,” uploaded the video on X. He labeled the methods Beattie reported the Irish police employing as “heavy handed.” Beattie claimed to have grown up in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. The cops, according to him, “opened up” on the community. A video of an elderly guy complaining that the cops had pepper sprayed him was also shown on the GBN broadcast.

In the video, Beattie stated, “These protests have been going on for about three months, and last night the Garda here kind of moved in to move these protestors from here.” “And the Garda here kind of opened up on just local people, even pensioners, brandishing pepper spray and riot shields.”

“I was born and raised in Northern Ireland during the height of the Troubles, so I have really seen the script while I’m sitting here in this town. It’s coming out now,” Beattie said, adding that he had seen police cars doing “thunder runs” and “helicopters overhead.”

This was “straight out of the playbook,” he said, trying to “intimidate them” and “almost try and force them out” in order to disperse the gathering.

The correspondent said that “politicians need to ask the local people here what they want, what is their problem, and what they want to see happen with their community.” “But I can tell you in the last ten minutes the crowds are swelling here,” the correspondent stated.

The locals, he claimed, are angry because their demands for additional housing were turned down and because it is now purported that the housing is being given to immigrants.

The Irish government is planning to convert more than 30 buildings into migrant housing facilities, despite criticism regarding the possible entry of a large number of asylum seekers, according to Gript.

According to ITV News, Ireland’s prime minister Simon Harris said the rioters were not protestors. “It was a situation that was hijacked by a group of people who engaged in utter thuggery, and it’s not reflective of the Coolock community in any way,” he allegedly continued.

In Ireland, these protests are not new. The New York Times claims that after a man allegedly stabbed three children in Dublin last year, rioting broke out. There were online reports circulating that the suspect was a migrant from Algeria. He had emigrated to Ireland and obtained Irish citizenship twenty years earlier, according to The Irish Times. In relation to the case, a 50-year-old man by the name of Riad Bouchaker was allegedly charged with attempted murder in November.