Thugs who torched Dublin are NOT Irish – they are the dead ends of a racist ideology, steeped it hate
THE feral animals who torched Dublin are not Irish.
They are the dead ends of a racist ideology steeped in illiteracy, ignorance and hate.
Losers, without a brain.
May they rot inside the bowels of their own sickness.
We should strip them of their citizenship and all financial entitlements to social protection.
They hate this country and all it stands for. Why honour them with anything other than our collective loathing until the end of time?
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Real Ireland, it’s time to stand tall and defeat this Far Right cancer, this menace that has been allowed grow unchecked over several years.
Since last Thursday night’s disgraceful rioting in Dublin, which came hours after a deranged man took a knife to primary school children near Parnell Square in the north inner city, the good people or Ireland have been in a deep shock.
The scenes of burning buses, trams and garda cars; the chaotic smashing and looting of shops; the attacks on unarmed, lone gardai and street battles between balaclava-clad thugs and public order police are those we expect to see in Paris, Berlin or Athens. They aren’t supposed to happen here.
The values that make us Irish — tolerance; respect for difference; a visceral understanding in our DNA of what it means to be a migrant in a strange land; our welcoming, accommodating nature (something each one of us is born with) forbid cultural and social conflict of any sort.
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We complain at the ballot box, in the pages of our newspapers, down the pub among friends, and indeed strangers. Yes, when we feel strongly enough, we take to the streets. It is our right. But always in a peaceful way. That’s just how we do things in Ireland.
We agree, or we agree to disagree. We may vent and be furious, but we never raise a fist in anger, we never lash out at the forces of order, we are never violent. Those approaches are foreign to what makes us tick.
Which is why we are all still deeply troubled by what transpired last week.
The rioting mob of low lifes usurped Irishness, they draped themselves in our Irish tricolour and destroyed public and private property in the rotten belief they were defending a notion of “Ireland for the Irish”.
Ireland for the Irish, a dangerous political falsehood that the Far Right uses to burrow its way into fertile minds. It’s the same slogan throughout Europe.
French Far Right zealot Marine Le Pen, believes in a France for the French; Viktor Orban, the lickspittle of Russia’s Vladimir Putin, rules with an iron fist to return Hungary to the Hungarians.
FAR RIGHT MENACE
In Italy, Giorgia Meloni rose to power in Rome on the promise of an Italy for the Italians.
The Netherlands, home of liberalism, just gave the Far Right the largest number of seats in a general election on a Geert Wilders promise to give back Holland to the Dutch.
The Far Right menace is also on the rise in Germany, Austria, Sweden and Slovakia.
Simple slogans attract simple minds. It’s easier to blame the foreigner.
The Far Right mantra of a pure nation has gained traction throughout the world.
The sewer of social media has allowed it spread like a virus, especially in poorer sections of society. Aren’t we better than to allow it gain a foothold here? Ours, the land of nuance, of complexity. Ours, where politics is proportional and fair-minded.
DIVERSITY OF OPINION MATTERS
Ours, where diversity of opinion matters, where comfort is a policy.
We, a people who have repeatedly throughout our history overwhelmingly rejected any politics rooted in division, any leader who spouted hate.
They are among us now, yes, but play whack-a-mole with them. Every time they rear their ugly heads, wallop them back underground where they belong.
Yes, we need to give the cops EVERYTHING they require to stop the Far Right menace on the streets and in our communities.
Our rank-and-file gardai must be given the green light, without fear of retribution from the Garda Ombudsman, to hit the Far Right like a ton of bricks. Worm them out and finish them off.
That’s a given. Justice Minister Helen McEntee knows this. Whatever resources Commissioner Drew Harris needs, give them to him.
But more importantly, we mustn’t let ourselves be diseased by the Far Right politics of hate that seeks to divide us. That’s their only goal.
WE MUST COME TOGETHER
Everywhere, we must come together to shun, at every step, anybody or any political force that tries to whip up a hatred of others, that tries to heap blame for our social problems on immigrants.
Because it is a LIE.
All our political leaders, without exception, have denounced the Far Right thuggery that spawned last week’s destruction.
None of them have been tempted to hitch their fortunes to the Far Right wagon. And we should be thankful for that.
Out of the ashes of last week’s mayhem must come a determination in each one of us who is good to NEVER let it happen again.
VAR HAS HURT OUR TRUST
VAR, as it is currently constituted, is destroying football.
Now they want to expand its role by examining corners, free kicks and yellow cards.
Which would be an exercise in how to turn people OFF the game for good.
The joy of the moment when a goal is scored is already a thing of the past.
Fans can’t celebrate until the geeks in the computer room draw their lines and give the goal the thumbs up.
On Tuesday night, the world’s “best referee”, Szymon Marciniak awarded Paris Saint Germain a last-minute penalty against Newcastle for a handball that came off Tino Livramento’s CHEST. And that was AFTER watching the incident on a TV screen.
THUNDERING DISGRACE
A thundering disgrace.
I started out in favour of VAR when it was introduced at the 2018 World Cup. No more horrendous decisions, like Thierry Henry’s double handball against us in Paris in 2009 denied Ireland a spot at the 2010 World Cup.
How wrong we were. There isn’t a week that goes by when a Premier League game isn’t spoiled by ludicrous VAR decisions. Bring back the spontaneity that makes football a sport we all love. Computers and fallible humans aren’t the best combination.
All VAR has done is to damage any trust between officials and fans. If they don’t do something soon, BAN IT. Fans will vote with their feet and remote controls. Football is walking a tightrope.
SESAME STREET SONG
SESAME Street had a famous singing segment that went: “One of these things is not like the other, One of these things just doesn’t belong.”
It taught kids to differentiate between stuff and was such a hit that it featured in every show.
The fascists who govern in the woke world would of course be up in arms over the simple song.
For them, everything is the same, everything has the same value. Which is a nonsense. If everything has value, nothing has value.
PLANNING DISGRACE
BACK to the Victorian corridors at An Bord Pleanala – I’ll not stop giving them a shellacking until they get the finger out – where NOTHING much continues to happen.
The cats sleep undisturbed in its corridors, much as they do in forgotten medieval villages in southern France.
This week it was revealed planning permission for more than 22,000 homes in Strategic Housing Developments remain stuck in the system because of eh, backlogs.
The government brought in a law in 2017 where each planning application had to be approved or rejected within 16 weeks. For reasons unknown, the government scrapped the requirement last year. But any application made before then is still required to be given the nod or not within the 16 weeks.
Some 22,135 applications that should have been approved in four months still haven’t been. The average wait for each is now 79 WEEKS.
A disgrace in a housing crisis.
HEAL THE HELL FOR CAPTIVES
EMILY HAND was freed from her hostage hell late last Saturday night after 50 days and nights being ferried between bombed-out houses by her Hamas captors.
Her dad Tom told The Sun she refuses to speak, except to whisper, as presumably her kidnappers terrified her into staying quiet.
It will take a long time for Emily to be “fixed”. She will need an abundance of love and understanding from her family and friends. But she will also need professional help.
On Wednesday, Israeli officials told how some captive children were forced to watch footage of Hamas atrocities in southern Israel on October 7. Others were threatened at gunpoint with execution.
Others told how they had to ask for permission to use the bathroom, only to be forced to wait for an hour before being allowed to go.
Elderly hostages lost up to 15 kilos in weight.
In essence, Hamas tortured and abused those they took.
Everything Emily needs to become the vibrant, happy and care-free child she was before October 9 must be available to her. And all those who endured a seven-week hell in the ruins of Gaza.
ECHO OF TWITTER
I STILL dip my toe into Twitter. I used to surf it for hours every day.
But that was when it was a hive of information and reasoned debate.
Since Elon Musk has taken over, it has become an echo chamber for hate and lies.
The Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, announced she was leaving Twitter and wrote an opinion piece in newspaper Le Monde to say why.
Anyone with an ounce of sense would agree wholeheartedly with her.
Among the many things she pointed out was this gem: “This medium has become a gigantic global sewer. Why should we continue to wade into it?”
She convinced me. Twitter is in my rear-view mirror.