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Palatine
Sorry for derailing this thread by asking for the source of the rumours being propogated here. Just like you did. Except you didn't get the snidey patronising response that I got. It's all grand. I'm having a beautiful weekend away and I really shouldn't be spoiling it engaging in a thread that reminds me that my country is going down the road of respectful ordinary joe fascism less than a decade after the US and the UK did.
There's a lot of me that agrees we need sensible and robust immigration and asylum policy, rooted in international law and backed by effective courts and policing. I've no argument with that. What I do regret is having that debate every time a brown person commits a crime, because that to me seems to be a wink nudge to a deeper, uglier motivation that I have no truck with and want nothing to do with.
An immigrant commited a horrendous act. Hundreds of native Irish people then compounded that. Fascists and racists who would boot many of us on this thead, and most of the sex workers advertising here, out of their Gaelic, white, heterosexual, catholic country. Their ideology is 100% repugnant to me and I'm not really willing to mine for a valid point around immigration policy that I might overlap with them in any way. They are scum and us having this discussion right now is an outcome they would celebrate. Hundreds more white Irish people then looted and burned out public property, and destroyed livelihoods for many at a critical time of the year. They weren't brown or Muslim. They did it yards from where Muslim women operate a free food service that feeds many Irish people on the streets.
Am I upset by some numpty flashing his arsehole online because he's asked for a source. Not really. It's to be expected online and it doesn't really matter. What does bother me is where my country is going and seeing otherwise reasonable people fall into an old fascist trap.
Now, back to my relaxing weekend. I have a few hours in a spa and pool ahead of me, followed by a Michelin dinner I've been looking forward to for months with someone special. Adios.