Sinn Féin TDs joined a counter-protest against the major anti-immigration march that took place in Dublin recently, holding signs condemning “racism”. Claire Kerrane TD denies that this implied that the marchers were racist, or that the party’s migration stance is “two-faced”:
Packed out meeting hears locals in Carrickmacross are “afraid to walk the streets” because of anti-social behaviour attributed to migrants.
“I THINK WE’RE DONE”: Today journalists in the Leinster House press pool slammed People Before Profit TDs Ruth Coppinger and Paul Murphy for refusing to take a question from Gript’s Ben Scallan, ending the press event early in protest:
Gary Kavanagh and Jason Osborne discuss some of the week’s top stories.
“There’s gangs of men hanging around on the street — it’s getting increasingly dangerous”: Stephanie Simons, owner of Bowie Aesthetics on Dorset Street, says she is shutting her store because the area has become a “no go zone” for her staff and clients.
The asylum seeker housing business laid bare. GRIPT’s Gary Kavanagh has mapped €4.3bn of State payments to private companies to provide accommodation, and related services, for asylum seekers and Ukrainians, firm by firm, name by name. https://www.youtube.com/live/eGLNYYcM6T8?si=OeHj7LZGG8jKxg3e
Ben Scallan asks Jack Chambers if there are any plans to rectify this:
“Micheál is a first class revisionist”
Fatima Gunning and Gary Kavanagh discuss some of the week’s top stories.
Social Democrats’ Immigration spokesman Gary Gannon TD tells Ben Scallan that his party has “certainly never denied” that deportation of false asylum seekers is necessary, adding: “Deportations are part of an effective asylum system.”
Tens of thousands took to the streets of Dublin today to protest the government’s immigration policies.
Gript’s Niamh Uí Bhriain, on Tipp FM, discusses the vote by teachers at the INTO conference against a motion to remove religious education from schools. https://tippfm.com/listen-back/tipp-today-listen-back/tipp-today-podcast-25-04-25/