A county councillor has said that there are “gang wars” going on in Galway, describing the situation as “worrying”.
Speaking to Gript, Cllr. Noel Thomas said, “I’m very concerned by what I’m hearing from around Galway at the moment.”
Thomas said that the ongoing unrest in the area was related to “gang wars” between “migrants and travellers” and that the situation was “being kept very quiet”.
“There doesn’t seem to be any alarm being raised by the authorities in relation to it at all,” he said.
The former Fianna Fáil councillor, who joined Independent Ireland earlier this year, said “we’re hearing it everyday about these wars going on inside in Galway, yet there’s nobody highlighting it,”
Thomas said that the situation was “pretty bad” and that it was his belief that many of the incidents where there were injuries were not being reported as those involved are part of the gangs.
He described the situation as “worrying to see”.
Cllr. Thomas dismissed as “absolute and utter rubbish” claims made by Minister for Justice Helen McEntee that there is “no correlation between immigration and crime” saying that what he is seeing in Galway shows “there is a direct correlation”.
He said he’d been hearing stories of the “gang wars” for “at least the last year”. The Minister for Justice has previously claimed that there were “no facts” behind claims that an increase in migration has had a negative impact on crime rates in Ireland.
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