Not sure. I'm in Athlone on the day so I'll probably make it to Burgess Park there instead.
The event will be held at Burgess Park on Saturday, May 28th, 2022, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. This event will allow the African community to celebrate and showcase their various cultures and enable the African community to participate, volunteer, socialise and integrate with the Irish community and other ethnic groups by presenting African cuisines, fashions, music, art, and dancing. AAC has taken the initiative to invite the Irish, Polish, Indian and other communities to join in and celebrate with us with an estimated attendance of 400 people.
Activities will include kids’ entertainment, such as face painting and simple beaded braiding. The kids will be encouraged to participate in showcasing African attire and cultural dance. Also African short stories and poems for kids. The event will promote trade and development in the community; all the ingredients for the African cuisine and general food are bought in the local shops. AAC will promote local shops by providing a platform to create awareness of their products and services. The event will strengthen relations between the local businesses and the African community by participating in the day’s events.
There's events on all around the country, feel free to take a look on the site
I would have been more impressed with the inclusivity and integration if it was a African-Irish event with the focus being on Africans engaging in traditionally Irish expressions, such as Irish dancing, Irish songs, sporting etc.
Promoting African culture in Ireland simply reinforces the differences between the cultural groups, and encourages them to remain apart. Because they can. It always makes me smile when I see the "inclusivity and integration" phrase being trotted out for activities that don't encourage what they claim to be.. and yet, there's so little interest in pointing out the stupidity of it.
there are ones that won't like or not even accept being treated by a black doctor. They are openly racist and they are aware of their racism
I dunno. I think the people who don't like it, and simply prefer to be treated by another ethnicity aren't actively being racist. I think racism has to involve the open expression of it, or the implementation of some kind of discrimination.
I sometimes wonder what kind of society we will have in a few decades time if the interpretation of racism continues to evolve. It doesn't fill me with much hope about a tolerant and accepting society. What goes on inside the minds of people is of no concern to anyone else. What is actively expressed is what matters.
There are 2 types of racists and I'll use an example / analogy to make my point as clear as possible: let's assume there is a black doctor going to treat you, or your loved one:
In the second category we can also put people that are openly supporting diversity for the sake of diversity. They don't see the diverse people as people, they just see them as a tool to achieve their goals.
It's a real nod to the "progressive stack" too, the hierarchy of the oppressed, when African cultural events seem to get a lot of focus, while other minority groups will never get a fraction of the focus. The "anti hierarchists" have ironically created a reverse hierarchy of victims.
Don't they deserve better that to have people that only appreciates them for their skin colour and origin ruining their celebration with their virtue signaling?
Will you be there yourself
It’s madness that the waits are that long. Like half a decade to get into court in some instances, is insane.
Couldn’t give a fcuk about him tbh. @Dyr was making the point that the media were reluctant to publish where he was originally from. If he’d wanted to make a point about immigrants committing rape and the media not reporting on them, it was a shìt example.
Not to worry, there are at least 3,000 more sexual offences cases to go, from this year alone. Have to wait anywhere between 3 and 5 years though before they’ll come before the Courts, and we can all have a good snicker about the perpetrators nationality isn’t being reported in the media, even when it is, because that’s the real important aspect of these cases -
Sexual offences - 3,039
https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-rc/recordedcrimeq42021/
Well, I’m just all choked up about the fact he only gets visits from his solicitor, has medical issues and was (rightfully) attacked in prison.
The article doesn’t look to have been updated, maybe you missed it -
Bernard Madden SC, defending, said his client had arrived in Ireland from Romania in December 2017
’Formerly’, because he’s been in prison since 2018 -
Mr Madden said Pirvu has been in prison since August 2018 and that the only visits he gets are from his solicitor.
Another sterling contribution to society from our new friends, its gas that the Irish media will tell you that this scumbag was "formerly of loughrea" but apparently informing the public where he's originally from is a no no 😂. Three previous is Romania and Germany including one for attempted rape, but sure what harm letting him in, lads?
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/criminal-court/woman-raped-three-times-by-stranger-left-feeling-like-a-piece-of-meat-1.4886275
Just don't bring any blackcurrant juice.
Anyone around Galway on Sat should try to come along
On Saturday next (May 28) in Salthill Park, Galway’s African community invites people to join them in a celebration of culture as part of the national Africa Day celebrations.
Africa United Galway, emerging from lockdown and having hosted online festivals for the past two years, will be delivering a family fun day event.
Africa Day 2022 will reinforce a collaboration between Africa United Galway and Galway Africa Diaspora, Shining Light Galway and GoCom Radio (broadcasting live), who have worked to create a festival that will showcase Galway as a city of culture.
Among the performances on the day will be Afrobeat dancer Lapree Lala of Southside Moves, who will show how to dance in African style; Elikya Band will be bringing indigenous African Congolese music; The Youth Performances will be displaying their talent in rap, singing, speaking, and dancing and for the young at heart.
Galway Afrobeat performer Dave Kody will get the crowd moving and there will be poetry through spoken word and cultural displays. There will be a photo booth and face painting and everyone will get to have a taste of African cuisines.
In the spirit of inclusion and integration, The St Nicholas Collegiate Church Parish Choir will be presenting a special African performance as well as a feature presentation by the Hession School of Irish Dance, who will be presenting the famous Riverdance.
My heart goes out to these young ladies. thankfully they made it here, are safe now and are continuing their studies
Yeah there is something wrong. Your attitude of trying to pit one vulnerable group against another.
Same poster must live a very privileged life, plus knows very little on Irish history. Plus he won't house refugees but will expect others to. Just the way it is with these people.
This is the attitude that sums up why Ireland will never reach its full potential, ever, because too many of the population think like this - "It'll be grand".
Sure there'll be bumps along the way, but overall, we'll be a better nation for it. Multiculturalism has been great for Ireland and the country is richer, culturally speaking, for it. I'm talking about all the Chinese, Polish, Brazilian, Nigerian, Indian etc folks who have come here, who have made this country their home.
Lazy as it might be, I honestly think that all this comes back to self hatred to a degree, as there's honestly no metric in which we can clearly say that we're "culturally richer" for it, never mind that it's been "great" for us. Posters like yourself seem to have an exotic fetish of sorts, where having different cultures alone is considered "great" just because. It's a mental state more than an actuality. At least half of the groups you've mentioned are very inward for the most past, and don't do too much mixing with natives, which makes the supposed positive qualities that you're trying to sell not very sell-able. It all comes back to the same narrative at the end of the day, that being that diversity is good because I think it's good, not because I can actually prove that it's good. As others have said many times, it's a faith like approach to massive civilizational shift, where the supposed goods and rarely seen, and the bads that are often seen, are meant to tolerated in the name of the good that we can't see.
Yeah, the National Party are utter morons
By that logic, just because something is difficult to do or may cause difficulty for some, is reason enough to do nothing?
Avoiding the point made and one definition of stupidity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Again point to a "multicultural" nation in Western Europe, or indeed the West where the exact same negative trends haven't happened. You quite simply can't. It's been and remains "difficult" for ALL. But we'll do it right this time eh? Pity the trends are already emerging here.
Given the large amount of support among communities around the country for newcomers, I think thats public consultation enough.
Citations please. The birth passport loophole was shut by one of the largest majorities of any Irish referendum. In more current news a feelgood survey in the Irish Times proclaimed that 50% of Irish people would take Ukrainians in, while not promoting the codicil "if they had room", never mind the other 50% who wouldn't whether they had the room or not. The gobshíte who reversed a truck into the gates of putin's embassy to the cheers of the clapping seals was the same gobshíte who protested a DP centre in his area. The Irish people, with that one referendum exception have never, not once been asked in any sort of public vote about non EU migration. The political class here across the Dail floor have all been singing from the same hymn sheet. There are no alternative voices, or people simply asking valid questions except for utter morons like the national party who are about as valid as an invalid thing in Invalidland. When that aforementioned referendum was called, the media lost its shít at the time, as did Labour and SF, shouting "racism!!", yet when the result was in...
Thankfully this is one time where we (Ireland) are proceeding on the basis of what is right to do, rather than on who is shouting their opposition.
What's "Right" has a remarkable fluidity over time and who decides it is fluid too.
Annnnnd... we're back to exoticism. And feck all else. I'm shocked that the Poles even made it into your list, though I suspect that's an insincere addition. And how pray tell is the country richer, culturally speaking? Citations please. Irish Black history month? Which outside the bounds of Montrose and a page on the seemingly endless NGO's pages that was a blink and you'd miss it event. Is it richer, culturally speaking simply because there are more Brown and Black faces around? Would you say somewhere like Zambia would be richer, culturally speaking if a couple of hundred thousand White faces showed up in the last twenty years? I seriously doubt it. As has been repeatedly shown in this thread and wider debate on it, it seems it's only White Western nations that are in such dire need of this "diversity". For our sins or something. More like the sins of ex European colonies desperate to shore up their appalling record with Black and Brown people spouting empty BS about "multiculturalism".
If that were the case we'd never change anything.
Given the exact same trends happen in every single "multicultural" Western nation, across different cultures, with different politics and across generations it's more than beyond ignorant, it's positively delusional. Like I said it's more a religious fervour than a politic.
The vast majority of countries "strive to do better". Thinking otherwise is like those yahoos who consider the American Dream(tm) an amazing outlier, when the rest of the civilised world calls it a basic life aspiration.
And yep there are always issues to be sorted. But AGAIN, why set out to deliberately import more issues with near zero public consultation, issues that AGAIN every single "multicultural" Western nation has and continues to deal with? Never mind doing so for extremely dubious and narrow "positives" that seem remarkably hard to quantify beyond exoticism, charity and some daft if laudable hope that somehow it'll be different this time.
Oh and thinking things typically work out and improve is again laudibly optimistic, but that thinking is quite the recent thing. History has shown that things can go either way. Have we reset history to some degree? I would hope so, but I wouldn't bet on it.
There are ALWAYS issues to be sorted, that has ALWAYS been the case, since the formation of the state and it will never change. Its one of the best things about this country, we are always striving to do better.
Previously it was high unemployment after the crash, sorted now.
Before that it was negative equity, sorted now.
Before that it was high house prices, err ok fair enough, that's a basket case and the only way to fix it is for the govt to become a builder.
But by n large, things typically work out. Sure there's bumps along the way, but cest la vie.
https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058246851/becoming-homeless-with-full-time-job#latest
Tell this man "it will be grand". Both him and his wife working full time, 2 kids, being kicked out by landlord as landlord is selling up, cant find a house anywhere, he is desperate, soon they will be homeless and sleeping in the car! This is a hardworking Irish couple, paid all their taxes here! Meanwhile a friend of mine who has taken in a family of 8 to Kerry from Ukraine has already been offered a choice of TWO houses in for them! Something wrong here.
You're not a big fan of history then I take it? Because it isn't always grand. It's beyond ignorant to say otherwise.
Yeah just working people with nowhere to rent, more and more kids stuck with their parents till late 30s, little chance of a home for a single person, people leaving form as there is no school place nearby for their children and increasing emigration of well educated people.
It's likely, its amazing what you can get away with saying if you keep saying "allegedly" but in the off chance that there is any truth in it, personally I'll wait for the results of any Garda investigation rather than, ya know, Philip and his mob and that particularly sinister type of justice.
Lol. Philip Dwyer. "Citizen Journalist" AKA Violent racist thug and animal abuser who was too extreme for the national (nazi) party. Theres no other source of these abuse stories. He probably made them up.
They? The govt? If so, then it's not the "whole and only plan", far from it, as seen by the regularisation Scheme, the winding down of direct provision, the rapid scaling up of resources to address the influx of Ukrainian refugees and so on.
You can be excused for believing that, but they can't be excused for having "it'll be grand" as the whole and only plan.
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