Immigration and Ireland - MEGATHREAD *Mod Note Added 02/09/25*

The st Patrick's day parades in america promote another country (ireland ) in America. The dynamic is the same. Irish Americans ( some not even irish citizens) are involved in their organisation so that would be American citizens promoting a foreign country.

And really, at the end of the day, what harm does it cause anyone. There is no good reason to be against them, either paddies day parades in America or India culture day in Ireland.

You took the words right out of my mouth. Adrian Minnock is never going to live that one down.

The British were colonisers of Ireland, they have a total different history with Ireland than India. Maybe some day there will be a st georges day celebration or something similar here.I hope we never reach a stage where we force people with shared heritage to give up their heritage.

I'm glad the Irish don't have to give up their heritage when they go abroad and that every year the Irish can celebrate the paddies day festival in Mumbai, India.

There were three serious attacks on Indians reported. Was this tragic? Absolutely. Did it warrant the widespread hysteria we’ve seen from the media and the left? Absolutely not. Were the Garda and local Irish citizens seriously assaulted within the same timeframe as these mindless attacks? Sure, but they are less important to the media and the left for some reason.

How many were there then?

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41685975.html

more than 3 it seems.

I'm not sure how many of the 16 attacks were classified as serious. I get it, you think there has mass hysteria to the latest three attacks but it seems the community actually affected by the attacks has a different view.

I think at this stage they're not going to accept the opposing view.

It's slightly funny that some posters were initially annoyed that they dared cancel this event and now we have a poster being against the event in principle.

As I said earlier, the standard has now been set to ‘ah shur how bad were the attacks?’

I assume this standard will be applied to attacks where the assailant is an immigrant.

That standard was set a long time ago by people waving away islamic attacks as part of being a big modern city.

Homophobic beheadings no big deal.

Children stabbed in school no big deal.

Gards being stabbed no big deal.

Im still waiting for proof that the attack that set off this hysteria was actually racist in its planning.

The above attacks that ive referenced were very much driven by an ideology.

Ruth Coppinger said, “the far-right and all the politicians who’ve used racist or anti-refugee sentiments or organised charter flights – this is down to you.”

In response to Ruth Coppinger, I would say “To the politicians and broadcasters who deliberately lumped legal immigrants in with international protection applicants when legitimate concerns were being raised about the latter: this is on you.”

Yep, that's what I've been saying, it was just the usual group of feral kids, the same juvenile delinquents who’ve been causing havoc across Dublin since the COVID lockdowns. It certainly wasn’t the “far-right bogeyman” behind the violence, despite the left being all too eager to point fingers and hurl accusations.

Why would you look up such a disturbing story? It doesn't justifiy the attacks on Indians here.