Is this the Ireland we live in now?

Saw that on X, but that's not really an explanation of what the context is though. We can see what is happening in the clip, but context would be what actually happened before that.

I did say fairly small. Thankfully the far-right don't have the same type of wider support here as has been the case in some parts of Europe.

But it's a serious problem and there are a sizable amount of these thugs involved.

With AGS stretched as they are, and our laws I would think outdated around hate crimes and domestic terrorism, it's very worrying.

I worry it's being treated in a very blasé manner by out government. Lots of comments about this and that being unacceptable but no concrete change or action.

I think it's that part of society in Ireland which has no perspectives on the housing market, is increasingly frustrated and angered and seeing also that immigrants are taking their housing.

The problem won't go away, and certainly not if there are less Guards on the streets.

Is this Tablet street?

I was reading about plans to spend millions, to gentrify the street and make it safer.

What a joke. There needs to be Garda presence here 24/7.

This part of the city has always been occupied by dodgy scrotes. I’ve worked in many deprived areas and this was by far the worst for having feral elements dominate so much street life.
Taking likes of Dublin 8, there was always a mix of cultures from long, long back, and friendships formed between people of different backgrounds. However Dublin 1 has been pretty much exclusively Dublin working class people who haven’t got to socialise at any level with other cultures, and have become tribal, and with a long tradition of feral behaviour this is a heady mix for explosive behaviour.
Of course there are tons of very solid good people living here, it’s just over-represented by a less socially functional sector of society.

Yes, I think so.

They are taking out their anger and frustration on foreigners.

Either they identify foreigners visually, looking foreign, or by hearing a foreign language.

Foreigners coming to Ireland are certainly not responsible for the lack of construction and the limited supply, but they certainly contribute to the demand.

Considering streets are now being closed off entirely because of criminal behaviour wouldn't it make more sense to block off a few more streets as a prison entirely?

Ah, yeah. Sure I’d let them live out their pointless lives. Just want to prevent them spawning.

The language is further evidence that it's also the feeling of "is this the Ireland we live in now?".

I don't think the words Gulag or Gas Chamber were used 7 or 10 years ago to describe a challenge or problem.