“Laws being subverted”
Questions unanswered
“That awkward moment when you’re so opposed to the government, that you march with them to support their policies, while using their election slogans.” @Ben_Scallan on the #IrelandForAll march in Dublin on Saturday.
Video shows what happened
“Media whipping up hate against immigration protests”
“Secure borders and controlled migration.”
There is, you sense, a dawning realisation in Leinster House on this issue: We’re in trouble.
Backtrack?
BEN SCALLAN: “Ireland’s political and media establishment are now having to answer questions that have never come up before about border security, and justify policies which went unchallenged for years. And it turns out they’re not very good at it.”
Residents of the Two Gateway asylum centre in East Wall Dublin have told Gript that they are experiencing ‘intimidation’ at the hands of what they said are “mafia” like elements living in the IPAS facility.
“It seems like if you casually “express an opinion” within two football fields of an asylum centre, that could be construed as a violation of this proposed law as it’s currently laid out”: BEN SCALLAN unpacks the government’s bill to ban peaceful protests outside asylum centres, like the ones at East Wall and Finglas:
Different areas of Dublin saw larger protests