Campaigners in Dromahair, Co Leitrim, have said that community engagement with locals is not genuine, and is a “smokescreen” to “distract” concerns after a proposed asylum centre in the village got the green light. They added that an Taoiseach had said just last week that the government should not “just rock up” and use the only hotel in a village for asylum.
The former Abbey Manor Hotel has now been cleared to house 155 asylum applicants by the High Court. Dromahair has a population of 939 people according to the last census.
Dromahair Concerned Citizen Group, who oppose the centre, said in a statement: “We the residents of Dromahair have asked our local representative Frank Feighan TD, to extend an invitation to Simon Harris to Dromahair this weekend. We are asking that the Taoiseach explain to us why he is allowing the departments of Integration Justice to completely disregard the judicial process.”
“It is our understanding that Leitrim County Council, have as with any court case the right to lodge an appeal. We also believe that there are outstanding issues with the basement and other internal works to the building.”
They said that they had been told by the community engagement team on the 14th of January that the matter was now the subject of legal actions, and that DCEDIY “cannot review the situation until all matters are resolved”.
“To any communities in our position who are waiting for community engagement, please be assured that this is a smokescreen, designed to distract the local community. It is not engagement and anything said at those meetings cannot be relied upon,” the committee said.
“This government has completely lost control of the immigration crisis and we in Dromahair are to be the next casualty of it. There has been a complete disregard for the people of Dromahair throughout the whole process.”
“Simon Harris announced only last week that this government would not continue to place asylum seekers and refugees into unsuitable locations, or the last hotel in the town or village, which is the case in this village and in North Leitrim,” they said.
“If he is to ignore this statement in relation to Dromahair he needs to be held accountable,” the statement said.
In February, Leitrim County Council issued High Court enforcement proceedings to prevent the being used to house 150 asylum claimants because, it said, planning permission was granted for commercial tourism use, not asylum accommodation.
However, on Monday, Mr Justice Richard Humphreys found the proposed use of the hotel was not unlawful and “can go ahead” because the owner, Dromaprop Limited, was entitled to avail of a planning exemption to change the use to accommodate “protected persons” under 12-month contract with the Department of Integration.
Dromaprop’s barrister, Niall Handy, told the court the council’s decision to invalidate the company’s compliance certification and to issue enforcement proceedings was preventing the building from operating as the owners wished.
Now Judge Humphreys has found the development can go ahead – and he also refused the council’s request for an order prohibiting the temporary housing of asylum seekers at the premises.
Dromaprop Limited has an address in Lucan, Co Dublin.
More than 200 locals protested outside the Abbey Manor Hotel last November. One woman, Mary Kelly, told the Leitrim Observer that: “We have a lovely village and community here that is very safe and people here have put a lot of effort into developing a park and getting loads of facilities for the young children around here and it won’t be safe to let children walk around. I myself, as an adult, will not walk alone anymore either.”
200-strong crowd protest outside Abbey Manor Hotel in Dromahair https://t.co/G37Bol0iHN
— Leitrim Observer / Leitrim Live (@LeitrimLive) November 23, 2023
At the time, a newly formed group ‘Leitrim For All’ ‘ called for the inclusion and support of asylum seekers and refugees.
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Is Simon Harris for real????
He has already insulted his constituents in Wicklow by accusing them of attacking the Gardai!
Now he’s launching a similar charm offensive on the people of Leitrim!
It really IS a race towards unelectability between himself and Martin.
May the worst man win!!
It’s also a race between the two to be regarded as the most untrustworthy snake that ever became Taoiseach. Its hard to believe that Harris has a very decent chance of out-snaking Martin.
The UN, EU, and the WEF are running everything now. They do what they are told to do.
He is obviously a foreign plant! The next general election, if they allow it to happen, could be the last one!
This government’s vision for the country is to have an asylum centre and a Starbucks in every village in the land.
Excellent summation. A vision that’s unfortunately supported by the parasitic NGOs and their activist journalist friends in the legacy media.
We are witnessing the plantation of Europe by middle Eastern and Asian people to dilute our culture. How long before we hear the expressions ” global village” popping up in our “independent ” news media?
We need to get FF/FG out of every public position they hold. The old media is slowly dying. The growth in the news media in Ireland are sites like this which actually report the truth.
A while back on news talk as I recall.
The level of hate the government has for Ireland is amazing. A beautiful Irish town where people have lived the same way for generations is being destroyed by immigration: 15% of the town overnight to become foreign born. There’s no sense of loss in the government’s eyes, no sense that culture, tradition and community will be destroyed. They don’t value that. It’s just a scramble and a numbers game for them.
15% of the town, about 40 or fifty percent of the male demographic between the ages of 20 and forty.
With those kind of percentages, I think it is veering into genocide territory, particularly when put in the context of the male age group most likely to father children as you have done.
Absolutely terrible if it’s allowed to proceed in these kinds of proportions.
Somebody posted this speech here today – the delivery is a bit melodramatic, but the details she highlights – on the demographic changes of this europe-wide invasion – are correct and its worth a listen –
https://www.bitchute.com/video/8qH3uYPvbncb/
They may as well abandon the town if this goes ahead, maybe that’s what the government wants. I wonder also if the residents would a case for the devaluation of their properties.
There’s nowhere to retreat to. We stand and we fight.
100%
A panicking reaction to a situation that they’re too cowardly to say no to!
Bung them anywhere out of sight.
If the boggers say anything.
Tell them they’re a gang of racists.
Send a few buses of antifa activists down and get the media to take a few shots saying everyone is delighted to be getting their diversity quota.
How the hell does anything the tea boy said make any sense. We will not take the only hotel but we will in an emergency that is completely created by his marxist party. I think he should write down what he says, read it ten times before actually saying it. He is a liar, a nwo puppet and a classic example of why someone without an education should not be let near a government position in any form , not even to make the tea. I dont actually know why he even bothers to blow smoke up peoples holes anymore, seems his only job is to make the tyranny last to the last second. I really hope all the people who voted ff and fg in the last election learned their lessons. You literally voted for complete and utter idiots who are getting paid to ruin your future and your kids future.
I wouldn’t trust Simon Harris to run a bath. His hand would no sooner have touched the handle of the bath tap than the sink and toilet would start backing up, and the light bulb overhead would blow leaving the room in the dark.
Simon and co. would of course then come out to lay the blame on the bathmat, the toilet brush, the shaver outlet, and the dishwasher down in the kitchen, rather than admit their own incompetence.
Hahahahahahahaha… and he would still get promoted after that and blame the greens….lol
Simon is a college dropout not uneducated just no staying power no resolve hopefully he runs out of steam sooner rather than later
Hopefully but I doubt it because what people dont see is that he is proving himself to the higher ups who he answers to and he is desperate for that. He is fighting a war he cannot win and people like that tend to make really stupid mistakes. One example of this would be to introduce legislation that would give the illegals the vote in all elections like communist holly cairns wanted to do. That would get him hung. The only thing that can stop him now is if 100k rammed right through the black n tans in the dail on a tuesday and dragged the lot of them out by the ears. Short of that, I am anticipating the near complete eradication of all the existing parties.
Those kind of voting changes would need a constitutional change, so we needn’t worry about that.
It shows, though, that Holly Cairns is even thicker than hitherto suspected.
He is gonna try, starting with presidential vote for illegals, he will use that and i think he is going to rig it.
Mr Justice Richard Humphreys found the proposed use of the hotel was not unlawful and “can go ahead” because the owner, Dromaprop Limited, was entitled to avail of a planning exemption to change the use to accommodate “protected persons” under 12-month contract with the Department of Integration.
Laws suspended by government.
This is a rogue government, abusing their position and using the gardaí as an army against us, using cased metal batons on the heads of pensioners.
We are at the stage where they need to be physically removed by force.
Suspend the laws + beat up protestors to enforce policy.
Not a government with any legitimacy.
Yes, this is the point when this should be done.
The Leitrim for all gang can house them in their own homes.
Bet they are all wealthy greens.
They don’t care they all nutcases.
Has anyone now a comprehensive list of the towns/villages/suburbs throughout Ireland that is being used or going to be used as a settlement camp for all these supposed asylum seekers?
I can think of new proposed ones or ones recently on the drawing board, but possibly scrapped or should that be postponed
Ballina, Claremorris (Castlemacgarrett Estate and Eircom building), Dunlavin, Baltinglass, Dromahair, Ballyshannon, Rosslare, Drogheda, Ballinrobe, Fermoy.
It is beyond a joke that all these towns and villages are to be used as dumping grounds.
The government have said they plan to have 14,000 beds for these chancers by 2028.
Of course they don’t promise any such thing for the sick natives of Ireland who can sit in chairs of if lucky enough on a hospital trolley.
It’s way more than that – they are bringing twenty thousand in a year from now on, for every year.
The ‘ipo’ accomodation is just a stepping stone before they’re given permanent accomodation.
Oh I know that.
This meant to be step1.
Step 2 is that there are at head of housing lists.
Sickening, I heard Today that c—t roderick o gorman said their maybe 20 000 illegal migrants this year for fuck sake , all the while our educated sons and daughters , nephew’s nieces , grandchildren are emigrating in their thousands because they can’t afford a house , can’t marry start a family. I’m so heartbroken it’s like a bad dream , I’ll never ever forgive these shisters for what they have done to the youth of our beautiful country.
20,000 every year – they want this to be permanent. Multiply half of that figure by five every year additionally: “family reunification”.
Mcuntee even referred to people with “durable relationships” to asylum applicants being allowed over, despite this being rejected in the referendum.
None of which includes regular migration, which was over 200,000 last year according to the number of new pps numbers issued to adults.
Would the Asylum seeker/fake Refugees Be housed in Dalkey,Killiney foxrock or Blackrock I don’t Think So
Its clear the traitor class who own these properties are still prepared to betray their communities.
O’Gorman’s office is calling Hotels offering huge sums of our money to sell out, he is real problem.
Then one day the magic money trees are gone.
What then?
They are a shower of malicious incompetent gobshytes.
They are out of control and need to be stopped.
Do they want to keep pushing until there’s a reaction no one wants to see?
Looks like it to me!!!!
O’Gorman really is delinquent of the most dangerous variety. Anyone who voted for any of the Government parties needs to have a word with themselves. We have one chance to stop this at the next elections. NO VOTES and NO TRANSFERS.
Comment in today’s Daily Telegraph from Michael Murphy (not sure who he is…)
“The tents are a human tragedy but also a damning portrait of the Irish government’s immigration policy – which has for years welcomed far more people than Ireland can house, with ministers insisting they had a “moral and legal” obligation to do so. This has left asylum seekers sleeping rough as the government scrambles to strike deals with hotels and landlords across the country to house them, before more arrive.” Our “secret” is out! Well, when you release a flock of pigeons, sooner or later they’ll come home to roost!
Susanne and stephen delaney running for election in tallaght, protest on may 6th. Time to fly the tricolor outside our homes now as well. I will be doing this. https://www.bitchute.com/video/kuLWxcB0Cmnz/
Scenes like these coming again soon. But the treacherous unions won’t be a part of it.
The government collapsed after this peaceful protest of several hundred thousand in 2010.
They knew that if they tried to hang on, they would be physically pulled from the Dàil at the next one.
They mobilised half the force in Dublin that day – gardaí spread out so thinly along the sides of the protestors, hands held out shaking and with white faces, and outnumbered a couple of hundred to one
https://www.theguardian.com/business/gallery/2010/nov/27/financial-crisis-ireland
Christy Moore was hired by the unions to keep us plebs quiet that day, but I think we’ll invite this guy next time ’round –
https://twitter.com/IrishInquiry/status/1748786744567181680
I think we all know who is behind Leitrim for All, she is running in the local elections.
Riot squad getting ready to visit Dromahair
Since when, did the bogus who surged across our open borders, many without ID, become ‘protected people’? They are not protected in Denmark or in many self respecting EU countries. Nor in England, a non EU country. This deluge is coming through the floodgates of our open borders because Ireland offers the best welfare rates for illegals in the world. They are guaranteed new housing, specially built for them amidst a savage housing crisis for the Irish. It couldn’t happen without the radical NGO, Leitrim for all, putting their beak in. Heavily funded by the government to promote government policy, their mission is to subvert local opposition to new builds and the takeover of hotels for these grabbers. Where’s McEntee who is at the steering wheel? Gone off the road, is she? Oppose the migrant pact. It guarantees an annual increased influx of them on top of our already overpowered towns and villages. As far as I can see, when a hotel is taken over, it remains that way, with rolling numbers adding to this nightmare. Ireland is falling. We must vote to get emerging small parties and independents into power, who will get us out of the mass immigration racket. We must copy Denmark, a confident self respecting country who cleared them out and reversed their immigration woes. We can do that, too.
Praise be to Islam…
Total nonsense, this building has not been used as a hotel in about 15 years. It’s not a hotel, just a building that used to be one.