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ENAR IRELAND HAS said 112 incidents of racism were reported through it’s iReport system in the first three months of this year.
The most common form of racist incidents reported in this quarter were shouting and strong language and incidents involving social media.
A significant number came from north and south Dublin as well as Cork. Young black African males are most at risk of physical attacks, according to the data:
ENAR said incidents occurred more frequently during midweek days and daylight hours, particularly connected to encounters in public places.
Fourteen assaults were reported with racists language used in twelve of these incidents.
Two of the victims were hospitalised as a result of the violence, one of which involved the victim being kicked unconscious, the other a punch to the jaw which broke it.
Both of these incidents happened in Dublin city centre in daylight hours and involved small groups of white Irish assailants in unprovoked and sudden attacks. In these two instances, the victims were Brazilian and Asian Muslim.
The report gives examples of a number of other incidents including:
Today ENAR was particuarly critical of the response by gardaí to racist incidents, saying that twice as many people reporting racism to gardaí receive a negative response as do a positive response.
“These vary from the misidentification of racist incidents, to garda actively refusing to take statements from victims of racism. These experiences also reflect the much lower levels of racism recorded by An Garda Síochána than what is being reported via ENAR Ireland’s iReport system,” the organisation said today.
It said An Garda Síochána needs to “dramatically change” how it deal with racism in order to restore victims’ confidence in its ability to deal with the problem.
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Great to see this company going under. We let far too many of these hyper greedy capitalists unconditionally meddle in our affairs.
@Dissasociated Follower: darn capitalists creating all that economic value!! How dare they!!
@Dissasociated Follower: cos communism/socialism has worked out so well for the countries where its the economic model.
@Dissasociated Follower: a little jealous you couldn’t do it yourself???
Rebranding coming….. “It won’t work”
@Mark Callinan:
or for 2024 “ please for the love of god will ya come to work ffs ”
@Mark Callinan: The business model was a good idea but ultimately is a failure. No amount of restructuring will fix it
Exactly what’s wrong with our economy, company acting as middle man, completely unneeded in most situations, being prioritised by government, paying low tax in Ireland, restrain the building of some of those offices and build apartments..
@Noncinbo: A bit like Enron.
(Does anyone remember Enron?)
Enron started out as an electricity supplier, then discovered they could corner the market by “buying” up the output of other electricity suppliers and, when they had the supply locked in, charge what they wanted to sell it on.
(Shareholder) Capitalism 101.
Of course, Enron were also very naughty with certain accounting practices.
€45 per day for a hotdesk … good luck finding mugs
@Temp Stuff: it’s actually €25 per day. I’m heading to Charlemont Street tomorrow. While that’ll be my first time in a WeWork, they have an on-site barista (free) and apparently beers from 3pm everyday (free). Easily see why they going under, you could make your €25 back no prob!
@Temp Stuff: €45????….where are you getting that figure?
@Alison Hughes: from the article….
@Eoin O Shea: Why does it say 45 per day on their own website? Charlemont Exchange -> Hot Desk Day Pass -> from 45 per day
It never worked.
I don’t think WeWork is filing for bankruptcy.
I think it is filing for bankruptcy protection, known as Chapter 11 in the US.
I think this is somewhat equivalent to our own examinership.
Michael Martin should know on his trip to China that he is representing Ireland and not the EU. He needs to think for Ireland and not be repeating whatever Ursula Von Der Lying says. Are we not a sovereign country anymore or what.
@: agree but you have to understand that precisely because the opinion polls are showing they are likely to get pasted in Irish elections so they are pushing their international credentials for to take the stage eu political gravy train – I mean to represent us as MEP in future – it’s so blatantly obvious watch the number of times they all appear on RTE news stories on anything , any war , any geo political distraction that doesn’t involve answering hard questions about housing , homeless , poor infrastructure , health “crisis” – or any actual IRISH problems , border management , international welfare abuse , prisons , criminal justice the list is endless , but no we have to listen to their BS hot air pontificating about Gaza ffs
@Dave Hammond: Well spotted. They can all take a long-term view when it comes to career planning.
Big egos what can you not do at your kitchen table with a laptop on good WiFi.why would anyone starting up waste at least €45 a day to rent a hot desk
@Pj Browne: Depends on the size of the kitchen, depends on the size of the table, depends on the number of people vying for your attention, depends on the hardware available to you, depends on the networking opportunities, depends on the separation of work and home, depends on the type of work …
@Pj Browne: When the work expands, though? They’d otherwise be leasing offices and buying new desks and chairs and so on. It must be a lot cheaper than having their own building for the sake of prestige?
Why do investors keep failing for this crap…bitcoin is next
@David Cotter: I’d say you’re a huge business expert!
Surely the logical thing to do is convert some of the floors in these empty buildings into apartments?
Imagine if the central bank and many other office sites had been designated for residential use. Offices sit empty (can be assumed more to come), this will lead to the further demise of the city. Meanwhile so many cannot find somewhere to live.
@Bat Boy: It’s daft; the more people living & working in Dublin, the better for the city.
Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t they offer shorter leases then their competition. That was the risky part when demand dropped.
This fellas articles are always interesting.
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