Children stabbed in Dublin city centre **Read OP before posting**

It’s an unprecedented event in terms of scale- the last time I saw anything similar or close to this were the 1981 hunger strike riots on Dawson st and surrounds - most people posting here weren’t even born then or too young to remember.

So naturally it will get wall to wall coverage - I hope though that it doesn’t become the norm- if we have a generation of scrotes who’ve decided that rioting around the time when shops are fully stocked with the latest styles of 1000 euro jackets and 300 euro runners whilst pretending they “care” about the ethnic make up of Irish society, then it’s only the beginning of something very new to these shores

My take on this a Garda spokesman said '' the riot has no connection whatsoever with the incident on Parnell Street " .

What a sad day yesterday. As a parent the stabbing incident was heartbreaking, as a parent you would be terrified if one of yours was a guard and faced what they did last night

To all those thugs last night I hope you have a good rest today after last night, and don't worry we'll all work away and pay taxes to help with the clean up cost of last night. At least some of you will be dressed well for your day in court !

Well done to guards, paramedics and all who helped out yesterday

Those immigrants are filling jobs, paying taxes and contributing positively to society.

The most successful countries and cities throughout all of human history have been those who have actively encouraged immigration. It works! Look at the currently most successful country in the world - the USA. Built on immigration. (current nativist tendencies notwithstanding)

This riot may have started as a protest by the far right, but it is obvious that it's the usual scum who cause low level trouble each day in the city, saw this as an opportunity to cause chaos.

Why?

They've grown up getting away with it.

Never face consequences for their actions

And they still, right now, believe and could be right, that they will only get a slap on the wrist.

QFT

Micheál Martin out now saying this undermines who we are as a 'decent' people or some such nonsense.

From the same fella that had donations from a property developer just resting in his wife's bank account. (I only found out about this lately)

That's that kind of systematic corruption and cronyism that has this country divided. Makes me angry as hell. This is where our problems come from, not migrants.

It wasn’t long ago that the very fabric of our democracy/society was attacked when elected officials were harassed and attacked by scumbags whilst our officials were on their way to and from work. And gardai protecting them with the bare minim of force.

When are we going to crack down really hard on these people, and send out a strong message that societal thuggery will be crushed, and those responsible punished properly.

Temple bar is still “junkie filled” today

Or not enough.

The issue is where are they supposed to go? Like other sectors in Ireland, the prisons were no doubt neglected too. As for the TV livence non payers going to prison, I do t know anyone but I think, they show up to prison and told to go home or they only stay for a few hours because prisons are so underresourced too.

The rioting that happened yesterday, it's been growing for years. Thugs would often target just stuff like even traffic on roads and surround innocent people and just intimate them and the gardai don't do anything.

I would be in favour of a mantory army for all young lads to attend after they finish school for a few years. It will take many of these young lads off the streets and away and they can redirect their energy into the army.

Nearly every country in Europe has a non national population of at least 10%, even non-EU members. Treating immigration as unnatural or an aberration is not exactly helping.....people are more mobile now than at any point in human history.

Fintan O’Toole wrote in the IT a month or two ago that if you consume the mainstream/tradtional media RTE, BBC, Indo etc you are now in the minority. Most people get their news from Facebook, Telegram, links on WhatsApp etc.

No oversight, no editors, no responsibility. Yesterday was the result of this fracturing of the media. Whereas once, kids and teenagers would hear news from their parents watching or reading the usual sources, now two generations are seeing this incendiary and violent content.

The Clare hotel protests were the canary in the coalmine. Library attacks were this crowd flexing their muscles. Yesterday was them in full confidence.

It doesn’t matter what the cause is, if it is a wedge, they’ll push it.

Perhaps but a hell of a lot nicer than in those days!

Thinking back on it, my mother specifically warned us off Temple Bar and O'Connell Street as the two no-go places in town. The entire place was crumbling and properly poor. People forget just how steep our economic growth was. Dublin today is a completely different city to those days.