Yesterday Aodhán Ó Ríordáin and Barry Andrews completely ignored observable reality during an RTÉ debate with Andrews claiming that, “There’s no correlation whatsoever between crime and immigration,” when it’s pretty obvious to anyone who reads about criminal justice in this and other countries that there is.
Row breaks out between Niall Boylan and Aodhán Ó Ríordáin after Niall asks the question –
"Do we not have a duty to protect our citizens and protect our borders?" pic.twitter.com/WGEdzH1xZ3
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Because there are people like Ó Ríordáin and Andrews in the world it is incumbent upon me to point out the glaringly obvious fact that acknowledging the reality of some migrants committing crimes is not to say that all migrants commit crimes.
You would think that was obvious, I mean it is obvious, but many in Irish politics don’t ‘do’ obvious.
Niall Boylan also said some pretty obvious things during the RTÉ debate about the Irish government having a duty to protect the borders and people of this land. Shock horror.
To this Ó Ríordáin reacted in a typically hysterical manner demanding to know what Boylan was talking about in a way that is just an obvious attempt to dismiss an opponent’s arguments by branding them as some kind of an ‘ist’ or ‘phobe’.
We have seen this tactic time and time again over the past few years.
It’s old, it’s tired and, as recent polls show, most people are not swallowing it anymore.
Boylan was referring to the fact that there are some people coming to Ireland often through our asylum system that go on to commit crimes. There are also those who have criminal histories which are often not picked up on as they are not criminally vetted before entering the state.
Given that there is direct evidence from courts and law enforcement in this county that “nefarious” people are coming in from overseas, why is it that so many people in the highest positions of authority in this country don’t seem to want to acknowledge simple facts?
When I think of what a politician is supposed to behave like I imagine someone who is expected to be level headed, measured, and be able to acknowledge reality even if they personally find the information unwelcome or, in the infamous words of Irish Times journalist Kitty Holland, “unhelpful”.
Given the ridiculous show of Pollyanna-like zealotry displayed during yesterday’s debate, it seems like many in and adjacent to the Dáil are willing to ignore objective reality even long after it has started to affect the safety of the Irish people.
Here are some examples of why Niall Boylan was correct and why Ó Ríordáin et al are (perhaps willfully) out of touch with reality.
Syrian asylum seekers allegedly pushed women to the ground and bit her face.
Last Wednesday a man who gardaí ‘believe’ is a Syrian national – how can we operate border security when we don’t even know where someone is from? – allegedly attacked a woman near her home in Churchtown, South Dublin after she got off the Luas.
The Irish Independent reported that the woman was walking home around 11:20pm when Seif Waleed Al Hindawi – who gardaí ‘believe’ is an asylum seeker- allegedly came up behind her, pushed her to the ground, and bit her on the face.
Dublin Central Criminal Court heard that the woman’s husband heard her screaming during the alleged attack after she had called him when she felt she was being followed.
Gardaí said Al Hindawi did not have a passport and that they believe he came to Ireland in a shipping container with his brother in March and had been hanging around in Dundrum.
The woman was taken to hospital where she received treatment for injuries to her lip as well as tetanus and antibiotics.
IPAS resident convicted of indecent exposure and assault.
Last week, as Gript previously reported, a resident of an IPAS facility in Co. Kerry was found guilty of exposing his genitals to two little girls.
A jury at Cork Circuit Court heard that Dilbag Singhsehoran who has an address at IPAS facility Atlas House, McCowen’s Lane, Tralee also assaulted the father of the two girls by punching him in the face after he was confronted by him.
Judge Sinead Behan heard that Singhsehoran has a number of previous convictions including for a similar offence which took place in Portlaoise.
An article in the Kerry Eye, by journalist Aidan O’Connor says that the children’s mother told the court that she had heard the girls screaming from the back garden before they ran into the house visibly ‘terrified’ and ‘crying’.
Singhsehora was sentenced to 20 months in prison for the exposure offence, with the final two months suspended and two-and-a-half years for the assault with the final six months suspended for a period of three years.
Georgian asylum seeker causes road traffic accident and bites female garda.
In another serious incident related to “nefarious” individuals coming to Ireland via our asylum system an elderly woman suffered a broken bone in her wrist after being struck by a Garda vehicle last year in Blessington.
This happened after Georgian asylum seeker Ivan Matuashvil attempted to hit security staff at City West asylum hub with a vehicle after being refused entry into the facility.
While Matuashvil was being transported in a garda vehicle he bit a female garda on the arm and in the midst of what unfolded caused the driver of the car to lose control and collide with the elderly woman.
The woman related how she had been on the way to collect her grandchildren when she was struck by the garda vehicle and that her car was “turned around on the road” and was “very badly damaged”.
She said that while locals in the area came to her aid “roaring like an animal” could be heard coming from the Garda car which prompted one lady to see what was going on.
“One of the ladies went down to see why no guard came to help me and she came back and she said to me ‘there’s an animal in that car’.
The lady said the woman reported that she had seen a Garda with their “arm pouring blood” while the occupant of the car was “kicking the life out of the other Garda”.
Woman left with serious facial injuries after random Donnybrook ‘slash’ attack.
A woman who lives in Donnybrook, Dublin 4 (not exactly a hub of crime) was left with “serious facial injuries in the course of a serious unprovoked random attack” last September.
Sami Skhiri (34) who gardaí believe is French-Tunisian (because according to a report in the Irish times he claimed to have dual citizenship of both nations) was charged in relation to the attack.
The victim noticed a man standing in her front garden and approached him to ask if he was ok whereupon he “lunged” at her with a knife.
Skhiri claimed that gardaí had seized his passports although this was disputed in court with gardaí saying it had taken hours to get a name out of him although he did say “I am Jesus”.
Skihri, who also claimed to be a software engineer, is believed to have arrived in Ireland only a day before the alleged attack.
He was charged with robbery and assault causing harm, trespassing, possessing a blade as a weapon, and failing to provide identity documents in relation to the alleged incident.
Georgian asylum seeker jailed after repeatedly stabbing man
40-year-old Georgian asylum seeker Ramazi Nakhutsrishvili was jailed for 18 months after being found guilty of stabbing a man repeatedly.
Nakhutsrishvili, who is married with two children and was a resident of the former Bray Manor nursing home in Bray County Wicklow, was ordered to leave Ireland on completion of his sentence.
RTÉ reported that, “CCTV footage showed Nakhutsrishvili pursuing another man out onto Meath Road in an incident which lasted around ten minutes.
The court heard that the victim was stabbed a number of times by the accused including once to the left side of his neck.
Det Garda Lacey said the injured man was brought to St Vincent’s University Hospital in Dublin where he required stitches and staples to treat at least five clear puncture wounds to his body.”
The case of Mohamed Mohamud Mohamed (no, my keyboard isn’t broken).
My colleague Niamh Uí Bhriain previously covered the story of Mohamed Mohamud Mohamed who came to Ireland after a lengthy series of failed asylum claims in other parts of Europe and went on to sexually assault a woman in the toilet of a Dublin pub.
Uí Bhrian wrote that this, “predator waltzed around five EU countries, giving two fingers to the Dublin Regulations – which are meant to ensure that an asylum application will be processed by the first member country the asylum seeker comes to. This is the definition of asylum shopping. Clearly, the regulations are regarded by asylum seekers – and in this they are likely egged on by NGOs – as some kind of a joke.”
You can read the full article on the case of Mohamed Mohamud Mohamed here.
The masturbating menace from Congo who spent 10 years in the asylum system.
This writer previously covered the case of Congolese asylum seeker Kadima Mbyue who was recently jailed after he was caught masturbating (as the headline suggests) at the foot of the hospital bed of a woman who was recovering from surgery in University Hospital Limerick.
At the time of his imprisonment Mbuye had already been in the asylum system for approximately a decade and had amassed 9 convictions, 8 of which were for public indecency similar to his antics at UHL.
You can read the history of Mbyue’s criminality here.
For the purposes of this article I have chosen to focus on criminality from those claiming asylum in this country however there are countless other stories of “nefarious” individuals who have come to Ireland from overseas and committed serious crimes.
While many immigrants are a positive addition to our country, the claim that there is “no correlation whatsoever between crime and immigration,” is demonstrably false.