The editor of one of the country’s largest news photo agencies says that protests against the government’s immigration policies are being ignored by national newspapers because “they seem to think, if we ignore it, it will go away”.
At least 500 protests against centres for migrants have taken place across the country according to Gardaí, with 24/7 rolling protests now organised in many towns such as Roscea and Fermoy, while thousands have also marched in Dublin city centre opposing government’s handling of the issue.
Rolling News editor, Eamonn Farrell, was speaking to Newstalk’s Lunchtime Live programme in a discussion around the protection of news photographers and their work after the Gardaí using a warrant to ensure images they wanted for their investigations were handed over.
He said that he was concerned about “the number of protests taking place in Dublin covered by photographers and I’m sure reporters as well that never make it into the national newspapers.”
“Some of the national newspaper seem to think, if we ignore it, it will go away” he said. “But it’s not going away, its growing.”
He highlighted a recent protest in Naas in which around 300 people marched from town to a proposed new Ukrainian centre, and said that while his agency covered it, “there wasn’t a single word in the in the newspapers about it.”
Mr Farrell said that building which are supposed to be allocated to refugees “are being burnt down … we have a serious problem, and staying quiet about it is certainly not going to help.”
Sarah O’Donnell who took part in the Naas protest, told Gript that she was “not surprised” at Mr Farrell’s comments and said that she believed there was a “deliberate policy to ignore the hundreds of protests around the country.”
“He’s absolutely right: it feels like the media want to play down the public’s oppositon all the time,” she said. “They don’t come down and ask people why we’re upset, why we’re protesting, what our concerns are – even though a huge majority in the country feel the same.”
“It’s why people don’t trust the media either,” she said. “They are trying to ignore the problem, he’s absolutely right there.”
Speaking on the issue of being forced to hand over images to Gardaí, Mr Farrell said he had no choice but to hand the photos of the Dublin Riot over after he was served with a warrant.
“They arrived…at an appointed time to our office in the Digital Hub and under protest we had to hand over the images we took on that night,” he said.
“I was very reluctant to do it but to be honest this was the fifth time I’ve had to do it under protest.
“I do feel that the role of visual journalists as objective and independent recorders of events without fear or favour is being undermined by the Garda’s insistence of doing this.”
Mr Farrell said he believed the situation could make photographers targets in the future.
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The West of Ireland and Donegal is being planted out of it. Not a word about it in any newspapers. Only to ‘name and shame’ any opposition. Have a look at the great work being done by Niall McConnell in Donegal. But for him, Mattie Mcgrath and Gript, democracy would be smothered entirely.
Very depressing situation. Services bursting at the seams. Media Ethics out the window.
Don’t be afraid to speak out
There is a BIG push within the Media lately to dismiss people who disagree with government policy as ‘far-right’. If you disagree with government you are ‘far-right’ and a piece of dirt to be scraped from someones shoe. Thats the Message being sent out by the Media. Its propaganda aimed at convincing people to change their views by bullying them.
Swedish media, RIKS Europa
Compare this to the recent Gript article regarding legislation to prevent protest near abortion services. Except that on Gript making enquiries to said service locations nobody can recall there ever being any protests! So the existence of real protest is suppressed and that of imaginary protest is amplified.
The Irish media actually media in any country is controlled by a handful of organisations St most.
Local media in Ireland is practically extinct.
These groups do not have Local information or issues as their core reason for existing.
Thanks to Eamon Farrell. You’d have as much chance of independent journalism, without fear or favour, under Pol Pot or Chairman Mao, as in the Ireland of 2024. We do not have a free press. They are suppressing the reporting of mass opposition to immigration. Another big anti-immigration protest in Naas and they don’t want us to know. We have a state controlled media. Protests all over, all Ireland is out. Support for the government is crumbling fast. The same for SF, a globalist, open borders, mass immigration party, nobody with sense wants that. We want our country back. They are working against the interests of the Irish people. 19 Ukrainians per 1,000 of population in Ireland, 1 per 1,000 in France, 3.5 per 1,000 in UK. Even Dumont, head of the OECD International Migration Division, found the high numbers of Ukrainians in Ireland, surprising. He said the reason was our vocal welcome and our generosity when compared internationally. Let me add, another reason is a corrupt government. And that’s before we even mention the other ‘refugees’ from everywhere else. Something sinister is going on. They are sinking us fast and trying it by stealth. We must not vote for any of these parties in the coming election or we will be finished.
8 of the 14 migrants who came as stowaways to Rosslare port in Jan. went missing. Despite using our refrigerated food container for their toilet, the guards said they committed ‘no criminal offence’. Compare that with Sean Meehan in his beautiful log cabin on his own land, under threat of eviction and jail, with a homeless man picking up the bill for the state’s destruction of his home. His cabin is neither a nuisance, nor a disturbance and no cause of pollution. It is in rustic harmony with its setting. There are log cabins for rental all over Ireland. Tipperary Council allows log cabins. There is even a lovely one for rental over Lough Derg, so why didn’t Sean’s pass muster? A savage deed from a savage council towards a vulnerable Irish pensioner, living in his own house, paid for by himself, on his own land. The blood of the bailiff is in their veins.
Suppression of the truth and selective reporting of the news is state propaganda by an alternative means. We all know that Mainstream Media have been suppressing inconvenient news and facts for a long time but the normalisation of news suppression within the media industry does not make it any the less insidious .
News Items in Ireland today are aimed at Convincing People to a particular way of thinking rather than simply reporting on an event. It is propaganda plain and simple aimed at convincing the masses using similar methods to those detailed in Mein Kampf
So called journalists employ triggering adjectives instead of hard facts, verifiable sources and clinical analysis and ligic
They couldn’t ignore the shanty town in the centre of our capital city and yet they only shifted them because they were afraid some tourists would see it. To hell with the people who lived and worked nearby. This is the reality of their reckless behaviour.
They relocated the shanties near the Dublin Corporation Fruit and Vegetable Market at Mary’s Abbey prior to the bank holiday weekend. Now that they’re back, the tents are new, but the people are the same.
This a disgrace, i could not buy a field put up a tent and live in it .but the government are happy to fill our streets with people seeking help . but not all these people are legal and I’m sure a lot should be deported to make room at the least . the bus is full
Government members would look down their noses at other countries where citizens protesting was covered up.
only protests that support a certain narrative are widely covered by the media , so for example a climate change protest.would be widely covered by the media, a refugees welcome protest would be widely covered…. an Lgbt or transgender protest, anything basically that supports the creation of a new Pan-Global identity will get full attention.
I agree.. We’ll constructed point – love Ireland. I’m for all folks living according to their true selves. I voted for gay marriage. I did NOT vote for biological males to compete against biological females. I do not support trans ideology being put on the education curriculum. Where do my rights as a biological female and as a parent come in to the equation?
I am disgusted that the people who have been democratically voted in, are pulling together – citizens assembly – to decide on decisions that affect me and my family.
No media coverage of any of these issues.
I am utterly shocked to learn that the Irish Times and RTE are not telling the truth !.
It is truly wonderful to see the media destroying itself in defence of a corrupt political class and their implementation of policies that no one voted for and very few of the electorate support.
The lying and corruption have gone so far now that their only option is to double down on the lies and go for real suppression of the most vocal of their critics. That the reason for the free speech suppression, the media truth commission and the electoral commission.
The recent referendums have changed everything. Nobody is buying the government crap any more. Real suppression such as raiding homes of their critics have already started as happened with FF councillors in Galway Recently who criticised that c–t Martin .As this suppression really gets going so will the opposition to it. A lot of guards won’t get involved in suppression of their own people so very soon they will start recruiting lots of voilent foreigners in to the Guards. None of this will work beyond the very short term. An already febrile atmosphere in the country will only get worse. Unfortunately an explosion is coming. We are lucky that we still have paper ballots. Had the political class got away with introducing voting machines then outright revolution would have been our only course to remove them. Resist them every chance you can. They will not win.
He/she/ze who.pays the piper calls the tune. Look at the threats Roderic O’Gorman issues to the NGOs and let’s not dwell on how actor John Connors was made an offer he couldn’t refuse for daring to oppose castrating children. As advertising and circulation have both plummeted, the media depends on government hand outs or, like RTE, unfair Penal style levies on Catholics. Ditto the one independent GAA, who are likewise owned.
From information found on line INM owns most of the printed Media in ireland and is part owned by Dennis’s O’Brien and Dermot Desmond “allegedly” who own just under 50% of that. Communicorp owns Ireland’s largest commercial news radio stations, Newstalk and Today FM, which are the only real, national rivals to RTÉ for news radio coverage.
The company also owns a string of light entertainment and music radio stations, including Spin 1038 and 98 FM.
Communicorp is almost wholly owned by billionaire Denis O’Brien, who, as mentioned above, is also the largest shareholder in publisher INM.
Sooooo is it any surprise some news articles don’t make it to print. FF/FG and the greens agenda and news of them pontificating on international issues is far more important than whats going on in Ireland – a little distraction for the little people.
Is it no wonder we are reading everything about the regime swanning around the world feeling important and throwing our tax money around like confetti rather than telling us ordinary stupid people what is going on in our country and housing and feeding our homeless.The money they are throwing around would build a few hospitals for the Trish people who need them.
And the cherry on top … the people i.e the regime own and control RTE . So in reality 5 or 6 of the elite practically control what 5 million ordinary people get to hear or read about. “FREE PRESS” … I don’t think so…
Great article Mairin… thank to you and gript the really free press for letting us see how dishonest and manipulative our government is.
United Nations Migration 116 Baggot Street is 5 minutes walk from Mount Street
They can solve the problem by facilitating free return to home country
IOM BAGGOT STREET PAY VOLUNTARY RETURN. THE MIGRANTS HAVE A CHOICE
Time and again, Ireland’s voters have tried the patience of their betters. Voting NO when they have been told to vote YES. Embarrassing our rulers who are then compelled to re-run these votes to get the correct result.
And now this most recent NO NO vote.
It is more than any self-regarding autocrat can tolerate. Ireland’s rulers have had it with the Irish electorate. An electorate they have decided to replace as soon as possible.
Corporate media is just a branch of government now,paid for and at the beck and call of the establishment. If you run into one of them at a protest treat them with the scorn they so richly deserve!
You better face the truth the Irish media are bouhht and paid for. They are a corrupt entity. People should not be surprised at this as in the 1920s the German people of that time had a corrupt press. if one looks across at the United States the main media is in the hands of six companies mainly Jewish. If the people are badly informed how can they make proper decisions. Today the Jew Zalensky used closter bombs on the civilian population in Belgrod. This is a war crime no if’s and no but’s. Not a word from ” The Media”. I haven’t turned on RTE for the past six years I don’t feel I miss anything.
Ease off the Jew hatred please.
People are well aware of it. Even my mother uses social media. It’s all up there in real time.
There is only one way to fix this – vote them out – defund the advocacy NGO sector – don’t trust our government or the media – vote them out – I walked through Dublin city yesterday. It’s a city of strangers. No one recognises themselves in the faces of the other. So no one smiles. Culturally it’s what we do. We nod and smile. ‘When Irish eyes are smiling’ is not some throw away remark. That’s where our social cohesion comes from. It’s vanished from our capital city. Defund these NGOs defund them as a matter of urgency. Vote these people out. They have only contempt for us and our culture.
In a new era, we must get deportations going and denaturalise all those citizenships thrown out recklessly.
The media see it as their responsibility to form a public consensus, one that corresponds to their view of what is right and moral — since Ireland is a European country, and the vast majority of migrants are not European, they see the protests as motivated by xenophobia and racism, and this most definitely determines the nature of their coverage, or in this case non-coverage — in no other job will you find more people who are committed racial egalitarians, because this is practically a prerequisite for being a journalist today — they are absolutely certain they occupy the moral high ground, and it is not just their job, but their right, also their responsibility, to create content in-line with their worldview — they see this as a moral imperative.
There is no easy fix for this problem.
Eliminating taxpayer funding is an achievable first step.
Hi, I just gotta tell you I dropped Gript after it held perfectly legitimate comments I made, that had no bad language nor were nasty to anyone to be moderated, for actually over a week waiting.
Now they’ve been passed, I’ll be happy to support Gript again. But you guys are going to have to get your shit together over this. You’re making, I’m sure enough money now to have a proper moderating system set up.
Thanks. And thanks again. You do a great job.
It’s a McEntee world
500 protests across the country! And these are the Garda’s own figures. These are astonishing numbers, which I was not aware of. It’s clear the Irish Times, The Indo, RTE, and other outlets, are actually censoring and suppressing the news and have effectively become an arm of this coalition government. And let’s face it, much of the opposition too. Sinn Fein, PBP, Labour and Social Democrats, are as much an arm of government now as many of the NGO’s already are, as the recent referendums have shown us. The political parties [and so-called main stream media] have failed us, time to start looking at the alternatives.
When the national newspapers ignore the people, following globalist’s orders. It’s time to stop reading these newspapers or their websites!