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FOLLOWING LAST WEEK’S clashes between protesters and gardaí outside Leinster House, the force was taking no chances today ahead of another expected demonstration.
Last Wednesday night, two Labour senators were forced to abandon their cars on Kildare Street after protesters prevented them from leaving the Oireachtas complex.
During the scuffles, a Garda was hit and injured by a traffic cone. One person was also arrested on the day. A sit-down protest was only ended after gardaí agreed to stand down.
On Friday, the Garda Commissioner was asked to account for what happened in front of a Dáil committee.
This afternoon, from around lunchtime, a number of barriers were erected around the Kildare Street entrance to the Oireachtas complex with Molesworth Street also blocked off.
Over two-dozen gardaí and two officers on horses were deployed with several barriers also erected in anticipation of another significant protest…
But it never happened. Instead there were a number of small demonstrations by a number of groups on issues not related to water.
A number of people were protesting in relation to alleged garda mishandling of cases involving the death of family members. These included the families of John Kelly and Dolores Maxwell.
These cases have been examined by a review panel established by the Department of Justice to examine over 300 cases in the wake of the garda controversies that played out over the course of last year.
There was also a demonstration by a group remembering the massacre at Srebrenica, the 20th anniversary of which is being commemorated across Europe this year:
But as the afternoon wore on the large-scale protest that had clearly been expected never happened. By this evening the gardaí were gone and the barriers had been removed.
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We are a small country with services stretched to breaking point thanks to Fine Fail Fine Gael. We must prioritise our people while providing protection to refugees that we can handle.
I’m waiting for the comments from the underclass who help absolutely nobody – ‘“ere wha abou de homeless and de peeples on de trollies in de hospitals”
@Robert Johnson Fagan: The underclass ? Explain please.
@Robert Johnson Fagan: Underclass = poor who need housing and health.
I suggest cutting the millions which are given to ‘charity’ NGOs and advocacy groups. Does anyone know how many and how much the are costing?
@John Lynch: It makes sense to help our poor who need housing and healthcare. However for some, especially the chattering classes who like to be seen doing the “right thing”, telescopic philanthropy is sexier.
@Robert Johnson Fagan:
You being in the Upper Class no doubt? lol
This piece we are commenting on is classic NGO advocacy output.
They are onto Ukraine like vultures.
If there is fighting to be done – it will be the underclass who will be called to do it.
If “Women, children and older people make up the vast majority of this population” then why is it that in every single photo I see of Ukrainian refugees that have arrived here there are a large number of men under the age of forty, all of whom seem to have a completely different ethnic background to the women?
https://carlow-nationalist.ie/2022/04/15/carlow-takes-in-200-ukrainian-refugees
https://carlow-nationalist.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Joe-OBrien-TD-visit-to-Carlow-College-s-4.jpg
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