The government has been accused of making a “shanty town” of asylum applicants living in tents on Mount Street, and causing a “permanent blight” on Dublin city, after portaloos were installed in the area.
Dr Kevin Byrne, who is the chair of South Georgian Core Residents Association, said that “despite the objection of residents, Government has now installed portaloos for the #ShantyTown risking making it a permanent blight on our city.”
He described the situation as “madness”, and said that “while Mount Street is ground zero, asylum seeker tents are now popping up across the city centre.”
“No one [is] in charge,” he added.
Dr Byrne, who sits on the Dublin City Council committee as a representative of the Dublin City Public Partipation Network, previously told a Council meeting that “this is a situation created by the action and inaction of Government and needs to be dealt with at that level.”
Week 59: Despite the objection of residents Government has now installed portaloos for the #ShantyTown risking making it a permanent blight on our city. Madness. And while Mount Street is ground zero asylum seeker tents are now popping up across the city centre. No one in charge. pic.twitter.com/EC4Bji500K
— Kevin Byrne (@drkevinbyrne) April 23, 2024
At that meeting he said that he understood the instinct to look at bringing emergency-type sanitation interventions to Lower Mount Street, but asserted that the area was not the appropriate place for a “tent encampment”.
“If we need emergency measures we should be looking at land the state owns where emergency tents can be camped and basic sanitation provided if we need an emergency response – which we obviously do now,” he said.
Several weeks ago a local resident spoke to RTÉ’s Drivetime on the situation where she said that people living on the ground floor near the encampment had experienced tents being tied to their bedroom window. She said it was becoming increasingly tense in the area, and that the situation was “appalling” with the area “rapidly becoming a shanty town”.
However, on the same programme, Nick Henderson of the Irish Refugee Council said that he had written to the the Chief Executive of Dublin City Council asking for portaloos to be put in place in Mount Street.
Some 20 local residents had also written a letter to the Irish Times saying that “amid all the coverage of the plight of asylum seekers living in tents around Mount Street in Dublin, there has been an almost complete lack of discussion about the effects of this encampment on the residents of the area.”
“While we are obviously sympathetic to the plight of asylum seekers, and support the provision of a more stable situation, the current policy of turning a blind eye to the residents most affected by the crisis is not a solution,” they said.
“As residents of Madison Court, Grattan Hall and Grattan Court East, we have experienced our neighbourhood, and our living conditions, deteriorate drastically over the last couple of months. Our buildings are encircled by tents to the extent that people on the ground floor cannot put their hand outside their window without touching a tent,” they said.
“Litter, food waste, piles of rubbish, sleeping bags and discarded tents are constantly blown around our street and into our doorways. People urinate at our gate as we enter our building and the noise means that we cannot open our windows and, even then, many residents cannot sleep at night because of the noise.”
“We have been met with silence when we have contacted the authorities for assistance. Gardaí in the area say they have been told to do nothing about it. Minister for Integration Roderic O’Gorman’s office is uncontactable: emails are unanswered and his office “does not take calls”.
“Dublin City Council say it is nothing to do with it, as does the International Protection Office.”
“It is shocking that we appear to have no rights or recourse in this situation and that the law is not being enforced. The brief respite we experienced when Crooksling in Co Wicklow opened is over, and the tents have returned. It appears that the authorities are going to allow the same squalor to develop again. Can anyone set up tents wherever they wish? What happens to the residents and businesses of this neighbourhood?” they asked.
In a previous article for Independent.ie, Dr Byrne wrote that “as a proud resident of Dublin city centre I am appalled to see how the Government’s failed migration policy is disfiguring our nation’s capital.”
This policy failure has created a large tent encampment of International Protection Applicants (IPAs) around the International Protection Office (IPO) on Lower Mount Street for the third time in 12 months, leading to a humanitarian crisis for the 170 men there and an intolerable situation for local residents and businesses.
People are now avoiding the area and businesses are at risk of closure because it is such a struggle for them to stay trading with what is around them. Local residents are sympathetic with the men in the tent encampments and have tried to live with this situation, but this has gone on for over a year now and people’s patience can only go so far.
There was some strong reaction to the appearance of the portaloos online, with some people arguing that the move facilitated an “illegal encampment” or should be dismantled – while others said that the government was failing to meet its international obligations towards asylum seekers.
One activist said that: “if anyone was interested, you could write to the Dublin City Manager – customerservices@dublincity.ie – to at the very least insist that @DubCityCouncil provide skips for rubbish and portaloos. Immediately.”
If anyone was interested, you could write to the Dublin City Manager – customerservices@dublincity.ie – to at the very least insist that @DubCityCouncil provide skips for rubbish and portaloos. Immediately.
That isn't too much to ask.#MountStreet @IrishRefugeeCo https://t.co/cCOvgIZFQ6
— Brian Sheehan (@BrianSheeh) March 12, 2024
The Dublin Region Homeless Executive (DRHE) has said that the organisation would collect waste in Mount Street and assist where possible but that accommodation for asylum seekers falls outside the remit of the DRHE, and is the responsibility of the Department of Integration.
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Move them out to the grounds of RTE or the Áras. Loads of space there.
Yes lots of room in Montrose. They could also use the RTE canteen for meals. Let the people in RTE who are all on board with this live with it.
Lots of room in tge Aras and Stewards Lodge
this government of finna gael finna fail greens has opened up the pandora box of civi war that never ended on the right footing, happening now is at dinner table in the pub , out shopping , friends and families are arguing now the older generation Vs younger ones over housing and immigration , it’s a ticking time bomb, 👍
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I am sure if you told these residents a few years ago that this would be a reality that would have laughed at you. The time for sleepwalking is over. This is coming to everyones doorstep soon. You cannot elect the equivalent of a student’s union leader to run a country and expect a good outcome.
They’d have called you a racist. It’s the doctor’s and lawyer types that want these people making them coffees and doing their cleaning for them.
They should not be moved. A building can be knocked down and a big block of apartments put in it’s place to house them right there where they are until we get a Nationalist Government in power who’ll give them plane tickets and packed lunch and send them on their merry way. They shouldn’t be moved anywhere else.
I’m delighted the good doctor is being enriched by diversity. What he should do, is take one of them and put a roof over his head in the meantime. In a few months he can do a write up in the Irish Times to let us all know how it’s going for him.
They are also local authority flats directly across the road. I have the inmost sympathy for the people living there. Vote the utter scumbags who deliberately done this out of power otherwise this is what awaits us all.
Right, I didn’t realise that. They have my sympathy too. There’s a video of some girl in the expensive apartments overlooking the tents. She’s giving out about it as harshly as she can in her posh accent.
She wants them moved from there. I’ve no doubt she wants them to remain in Ireland though and any suggestion to deport them would be racist.
Irish people aint seen nothin’ yet. Britain announced today the the Rwanda Policy is ON. Doesn’t matter if it’s only hot air. That’s a signal to those recently arrived in Britain, and for those making there way over on dinghies this summer, to make there way to Ireland.
It’ll be – ” To Rwanda or Ireland”.
He could not even make it in 3rd level education. He dropped out haha.
Don’t worry about the residents of Mount Street having a permanent shanty town outside their windows.
The big scandalous story of the week , judging by the horror-stricken reaction of some politicians and some in the media , is that Roderic O’Gorman had to endure the presence of some people on the road outside his house for a couple of hours.The sooner something is done to prevent a reoccurrence of that outrage the better. Thank God it is being looked at with a great sense of urgency .
And for heavens sake don’t believe the mad conspiracy theories that suggest that the Globalist Vision anticipates that there will be an elite who will insulate themselves from the effects of their globalist policies while the rest of us live with the consequences and will be prevented , via restrictions on free speech , from even saying anything about it.
The Horror..The Horror….Some nasty people stood outside his house with some signs!
It’s a pity they did not bring tar and feathers
Plants?
Had you told people five years ago that any of this would be happening they would have thought you utterly delusional. Just look at the great strides our politicians have made in a few short years to utterly destroy Irish society.
I’ve kept my mouth shut for the most part even on here with what’s coming down the road. I did it in person with family and friends in the past, but they just think you’ve lost the plot.
No need in saying much anyway now. The summer is almost here. People will see it with their own eyes.
Very reminiscent of the mood before the banking crash. People who warned of it were excoriated by the majority who accused them of talking down the economy. Some people don’t like reality. The same people were the loudest in their complaints when it was too late and it all went belly up.
free everything A GREAT COUNTRY IS IRELAND , this government will go down in history as putting an end to local Irish people’s dream of Ireland and give it to non Irish.😠
Public health problem now… when do we decide we’re out of our depth?
O’Gormless and his department, along with the rest of this government would be out of their depth in a puddle. We hear constantly about “our international obligations” without ever hearing what exactly those “obligations” are. Have they no national obligations, like to us , the electorate of this country.
We are not out of our depth. This whole mess could be solved in one week if we had a government with the will to do so. This gang of sociopaths have to be removed from Leinster house. Vote the scum out
Vote no confidence in mc entee et al
Fine gael coward alan dillon runs away from the burke family. Vote them all out. https://www.bitchute.com/video/DsP31vN61D5Q/
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No panic bud, important to look at all stories that are not getting attention, well done to the family as well, great job.
the burke family member in prison needs to run for county councilor or MEP or TD in the part of Dublin he isà in and his family should be canvassing up their for him, winner 👍💚💚💚😀
That’s not a bad idea 👍 – this subject would be a winner
Put him in to get him out. Was that not Devs slogan in 1919 ?.
He would get voted in no bother, any member of the family would at this stage. Why the hell not, great idea.
Apparently, according to the Greens the problem is that Varadkar didn’t allocate enough beds to Asylum seekers. Meanwhile FG have doubled down saying they want to fast track immigrants into asylum. The have lost control over the country, the Gardai are in uproar and leaving in droves, the government has lost the trust of the people. PBP appear to be the militant wing of the Greens with PBP invited on a politicised RTE at every opportunity to explain that it’s all because the Gardai won’t stand up to the “Far Right” as if anyone is listening except O’Gorman.
Let’s “park for a moment” the matter of the intrinsic correctness of Aodhan O’Riordan’s remarks (the situation off Mount St being a “national scandal”, etc.) – the fact is that – globally – during the entirety of my lifetime – millions upon millions have endured conditions like this – when will the likes of Aodhan O’Riordan acknowledge that substantial parts of the world suffer, and are likely to continue to suffer, dire poverty/appalling housing conditions and there is no easy solution to the matter. The act of “re-locating” this global problem (as represented by some of the poverty stricken deciding to immigrate westwards or northwards) to our shores is not a “fix”. Even a dog with a hammer up its backside would realise that resources can’t suddenly be magicked out of thin air just because – rather than “state of impoverishment” being located in some African country or other – the individual suffering it has now relocated to this country. The United Nations “open borders agenda” is a three card trick – you may be prepared to be entertained and, maybe, “fleeced” by a three card trick at the next Galway Races – but when it comes to the national level and the severe consequences of this prevalent “internationalist” ideology, it cannot be countenanced !
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I THINK WE HAVE TO STOP, CLOSE THE BORDERS TO AN EXSTENT THAT ALL RULES AND LAW IS VIGERUSLY INFORCED TO STEM THE FLOW AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. THE ARMY SHOULD BE ABLE TO SUPPLY TENTED ACCOMADATION WITH FOOD WATER ,TOILETS ,SHOWERS ETC .WHICH WOULD BE MUCH MORE HUMAIN. THAN A TENT ON THE STREET.. PROCESS THESE PEOPLE ON SITE . MAKE SURE THE SYSTEM WORKS FAST AND DEPORT ANYONE THAT DOES NOT MEET THE CRITERIA . EVERY THINK IS THERE TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM SOME ONE WITH BALLS NEEDS TO INFORCE THIS. AND ANYONE STAYING LIVES BY THE RULE WHEN IN ROOM DO AS THE ROMANS DO. THE SITE MUST BE POLICED AND SECURE PEOPLE DONT LEAVE ONTILL THEY HAVE BEEN PROCCESSED .THIS ALONE WILL PUT THE GUYS IN DESIGNER GEAR OFF IF WE DID THIS I BET WE WOULD SEE ALOT LESS SUFFERING PEOPLE IN DESIGNER GEAR SEEKING OUR HELP.
Give them nothing except a ticket out of Ireland and a black Mariah to the airport. No food. No money and they will be on their way home in jig time.
They should move them into the ipas offices altogether, plenty of room in there. The mad whore screaming around dublin too. She clearly is nuts but still allowed out in civil society. https://www.bitchute.com/video/qEI7Rs1VtXX1/
Send them back to where they came from.
500,000 adults living with their parents. 13,000 homeless. In the last year alone 10,000 undocumented arrived from safe countries claiming bogus asylum. McEntee, Woderwick O’Gormless, Varanker, Tik knock Taois and Mmmartin have destroyed our country with their half arsed, half baked, NGO inspired woke bollox and they wonder why there’s legitimate protest. Close the @&€ing borders you idiots. Ireland is broken!!! Aaaaahhhhh!
I think historically our own homeless weren’t even allowed to sleep in tents. Do you remember the homeless man in the tent on the canal, do I remember he was nearly killed when the machine came to remove the tents.
I feel for the genuine refugees but they should be all vetted and the criminal element sent back and keep just the famine and war victims.
What famine victims are we getting showing up in Ireland in the past decade, how may are there and how did they get to Ireland?
What war victims are we getting showing up in Ireland in the past decade, how may are there and how did they get to Ireland?
How can it be determined if Somalian, an Algerian, and Afghan or a Pakistani has a criminal record or not prior to arriving in Europe?
Why should victims of famine be uprooted from their countries and moved to Ireland, a tiny wind and rain swept island on the North West corner of Europe, rather than supplying them with food aid in their own country until the famine has ceased?
You’ll find answers to question one and two on the Dept of Integration Site.
You’ll find answers to question 3 on the Interpol site.
Your last point, that would be my preferred solution also or better still as well as food aid in their own country help them build systems that would protect against a repeat occurrence.
It’s not possible to verify accurately if people from these countries have had a criminal record or not in their own countries and in many ex-EU countries they may have travelled through prior to entering Europe.
It’s also the case that many will not have any convictions, may only be suspected of crimes, or may not even be on the radar at all in relation to any investigations as they pass through various countries, particularly in Europe, before arriving in Ireland.
Anyone being smuggled in to Europe is already part of the criminal element. They are actively involved in the people trafficking industry paying criminals to help them get into Europe and who, once arrived, will often engage in facilitating the smuggling of others via the same means that they themselves used to begin with. They operate by deception and dishonesty often being being involved in breaking many laws including, but not limited to, fraud, entering countries illegally, theft, violent crimes, rapes, arms and drug smuggling, intimidation, threats.
Irish Aid sends millions every year. How many missionaries and volunteers have gone abroad. Do you know what happened to tge Live Aid millions?
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Copy and paste for every town around ireland. Government has lost the dressing room…So to speak.
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In the last week I have had tours with 40 tourists from North America. They had all started in Dublin and all said the city was a terrible disappointment. Dublin has become the shame of Ireland and all of our visitors can see it. One group said they were told by everyone they met to get out of Dublin asap so they left the city 2 days early.
I will personally be going to the vote count in central Dublin to see the end of this virtue signalling attention seeking anti irish clown Aidan O’Riordan be given his P45
Don’t be sympathetic to these dirty pricks one bit.
We saw video testimony from them that many had flown in to London, had a holiday in hotels they themselves paid for for a week and then came to Dublin via Belfast .
When asked, one admitted he had a wife and house in Jordan (so from a completely safe place) but was willing to put up with the inconvenience of a tent for three or four months as there was a promise of an apartment and welfare in Ireland at the end of it. At which time he was going to invite the clan over.
The dirty bastards in some spots are deliberately throwing their chicken bones and other food waste on the ground and ignoring the bins close by because they think it will hasten the process.
And I suspect that the hobnobs of Georgian Dublin merely want these scammers shifted out to Tallaght, Wicklow, Mayo, etc.
Send the fuckers to Killiney for a few months. Then deport the bloody lot of them.
While I do feel for the genuine ones among them, I think they should all be vetted and the criminal element sent back. Just keep war victims and famine victims. If all the undeserving were sent back we would have plenty of space.
You are right about the bins. They have all day, could they not put the rubbish in bins and big black doubled up plastic bags. But no they want their plight exaggerated.
This whole scam is stage managed. They want to guilt trip us into doing more for the refugees. Now that they have nearly exhausted hotel and guest houses and fields with modular homes, they will be coming for unoccupied houses. They find out which ones are unoccupied via the electricity bills. They have plans for a change to the constitution which aims to delimit property rights for the common good. That, together with a change to the constitution stating that ‘all residents’ not ‘all citizens’ as it is now, are entitled to a home.
Did you notice the signs on the tents? The most worrying one said ‘no human without a home, no house without people’. There you have it. Stir up the people. Have some saying ‘oh it’s awful those people with empty houses should give them to these people’. Then those who are aware of what is happening will resist, especially people who dreamed of doing up these home with their retirement fund or dreamed of their children doing them up and remaining near to them. Perhaps people bought them years ago with loans from credit unions for future use.
Did the occupant of the tent make that sign or was it NGO inspired? It makes me angry that they would demand in that way.
Then the next human calamity, maybe there will be an accident in one of these tents. Then the cry will go up for those selfish people with their holiday homes to give it to the miserable people with nowhere to live. These holiday home owners work hard all year and their summer getaway keeps them going.
Then in a year or two the harsh winter will be making things very difficult and people with spare bedrooms will be shamed into giving them to freezing refugees.
Eventually all old Irish people living on their own will have to move to one bedroomed flats. There has been lots of talk already about this. They call it ‘right sizing’. See the implied morality with the choice of the word ‘right’. These old people scrimped and saved and paid their mortgages over 20 to 30 years. They might like to have their children and grandchildren stay over. Or they might like to have a pension by doing a rent-a-room. It is their home, where they feel comfortable and safe. Their home that they struggled to own over many years.
But of course we will own nothing and be happy!
You should put your money where your mouth is. Go down to the tents and pick our a genuine famine victim and take them home and put them up in your place and feed them.
Or do expect the rest of us to do this?
I genuinely doubt that even one asylum seeker among who have arrived these past two years is genuine.
From war ravaged countries ? Yes. Lives in danger ? No.
Many are young men from the losing sides in gang warfare and military conflicts in Libya, Somalia and so on. I.e. – part of the cause rather than the victims of violence.
Many others are just bums, ousted from their own societies. The drunks of Georgia and Albania.
And the perennial scammers of Africa, the Nigerians.
There is no famine sending people here.
You’re right to point out the messages on the tents – they were composed and painted by groups from PbP and the ngo’s dodgy activists.
Thankfully, as for the changes to the law you mentioned – the govt. would absolutely love to do these things but have no power to. The Constitution is unalterable without referendum, and changes to private property law would undermine the entire fabric of everything in law and life in the State.
Hopefully it would fail. Of course, if they held a referendum to make the changes, they would try to hood wink the people with their smooth talk and reassurances and vilifying anyone who speaks out against the change. There is also a danger that they’ll put it to a vote further down the line when more of the ‘new Irish’ can vote. And of course these new people would vote in their thousands for it.
As they say the ‘price of democracy is eternal vigilance’.
Excellent observation. There are empty CITIES in China.
The world is wide. Ireland is tiny
You can not put 2 litres in a 1 litre container
emboldening this sh%tshow providing amenities, they all need to be deported or not given access at the border, problem solved, the Irish Govt are in real time destroying the country
I’d rather these chancers living on the street than ruining my neighborhood
Can an Irish citizen who is ‘caught short’ as it were in the area use the portaloos?