SOCIAL media was alive on Tuesday night with reports of protests outside the CityWest migrant hotel on the outskirts of Dublin. Among other media organisations, the BBC covered the incident, with the headline: ‘Arrests after violent protest outside Dublin migrant hotel’.
Not from the headline nor anywhere in the BBC’s report could you glean any reason why more than a thousand people should have assembled outside a Dublin hotel on a cold, wet October night.
Last night, the BBC told one of the grossest lies of omission I have ever seen in the mainstream media. It published a report about the disturbances outside a migrant hotel in County Dublin and nowhere did it mention what triggered the riotous behaviour. Three hundred and eighty-seven words pumped into the gadgets of the masses, every one of them devoted to damning the ‘thuggery’ of those who assembled at the hotel. Not one of the words – not one – addressed the thing that angered them.
A volatile politics is taking to the streets
Fearing a riot, the Irish authorities yesterday evening shut down the Luas tram line from central Dublin to the suburban village of Saggart, southwest of the city centre. It didn’t work. Many hundreds — perhaps a thousand — angry protestors had gathered outside the gates of the Citywest IPAS (asylum) centre, hurling missiles and abuse at the Gardai public order unit blocking them from forcing their way up the long and wooded drive to the hotel.
The day before, an African asylum seeker had been charged with the sexual assault of a 10-year old Irish girl on the grounds of the Citywest centre, a 2,500-bed hotel recently acquired at vast expense by the Irish government, against fierce local opposition in the 4,500-strong community. The suspect, who needed an Arabic translator, was issued with a deportation order this spring and hadn’t yet been removed; the victim, in the care of Ireland’s scandal-hit Tusla child protection agency, found her chaotic personal circumstances publicised by the state in a manner many on social media saw as tantamount to victim-blaming. Outside the IPAS centre, the toxic combination had fired up both locals and protestors from across the country, who now had very little time for Ireland’s main political parties, or the police forces standing between them and the hotel they wished to storm.
Our new friends from the #CitywestHotel drinking on the grounds of our primary school yesterday, An Garda Síochána had to move them. @OCallaghanJim this is not acceptable in our small village, what is the long term plan here? because we will not stop highlighting the issues. pic.twitter.com/Ec0bYAsfsi
— Stop Citywest Hotel (@stopcitywest) October 17, 2025
A young girl was assaulted near the Citywest asylum hotel in Dublin.
Just 3 days ago, locals posted footage of migrants drinking outside a nearby primary school.
Now a child’s been attacked.
This was entirely preventable, our politicians created this. pic.twitter.com/o2jSLwm8LH
— Michael McCarthy (@punishablepress) October 20, 2025
The Irish government, committed to diversity, spent €148.2 million purchasing the Citywest Hotel to host 'refugees', and its noble policemen beat up the nasty racist locals who opposed the plans. On Sunday, a 10-year-old Irish girl was raped by an African at that hotel. pic.twitter.com/VQBVz21pEq
— Lambrusco (@lambruscov) October 20, 2025
Thousands out at the scummy ipas hotel not a centre a hotel at city west. Garda pepper spraying folks for fuck all reason. Protectors of rapists. The Irish people should now never forget #citywest #protest pic.twitter.com/pSn7Q38HwB
— Yeti (@snappyyeti) October 21, 2025
News is skint – Police attacked at protest outside asylum seeker hotel
There is a beast slouching towards central Dublin, and the authorities aren’t quite sure how to deal with it. In recent weeks, hundreds of Irish tricolours have been affixed to lampposts across the Irish capital, mirroring the vigilante patriotism of England’s “Operation Raise the Colours”.
What began in the tattered suburbs of Ballyfermot, Coolock and Finglas is now pressing into the more bohemian quarters of the inner city. “We object to the unauthorised erection of these decorations,” read one letter from residents. “They dishonour the Flag by flouting official protocol [and] are in breach of Dublin City Council’s rules on the decoration of lighting poles.”
A nation’s true character is sometimes found in the hospital wards treating unwell children. If they are not a priority, then what is?
That question now hangs over Ireland’s foreign minister, Simon Harris, whose resignation has been demanded by some parliamentary colleagues, thousands of petitioners, and the parents of a dead child.
In 2017, as health minister, Harris pledged that no child would wait longer than four months for spinal surgery. It quickly became clear this was an overpromise, giving false hope to families of sufferers.
On July 29th 2025, a member of the Irish police (Garda Siochana) was attacked by Abdullah Khan, a second-generation Pakistani Muslim immigrant in Dublin city centre. Ireland’s state broadcaster, RTE, in the immediate aftermath of the knife attack was quick to assert that the attacker had Irish citizenry: “The man, who is an Irish citizen and born in Ireland, can be questioned for up to 24 hours.”
An Irish lawyers’ group knows what the true root cause of the housing crisis in Ireland is: mass illegal migration.
While activists are riling up anger against Airbnb, Lawyers for Justice Ireland (LFJI) insists that there is a more sinister reason underlying the ongoing Irish housing crisis, one that the leftist government deliberately fueled: mass migration. In recent years, major demonstrations against illegal immigration and its deleterious effect on Ireland have highlighted the growing anger over the government’s insistence on moving in hordes of foreigners, many of them Muslims, who have no interest in assimilating.
The reason for the housing crisis in Ireland is mass immigration. Scapegoating Airbnb is simply a strategy by the left to distract the Irish population away from the fact that the housing crisis has been manufactured by the State through implementing mass immigration into our… pic.twitter.com/SlmAXccCey
— Lawyers For Justice Ireland (@LFJIreland) August 4, 2025
Zafar thought he had done the hard bit. He had travelled from Afghanistan across mainland Europe to France, then survived a perilous Channel crossing on a small boat. But it was the final leg to Ireland that proved his undoing and ended with him in the back of a prison van.
Irish police officers believe that after applying for refugee status in the UK he was on his way to do so again in Dublin, a move that could enable him to claim a further set of more generous benefits.
Yet thanks to a police operation at the Irish border, Zafar did not reach the International Protection Office (IPO) in Dublin to lodge his application.
No burial records. No headstones. No memorials.
Nothing until 2014, when an amateur historian uncovered evidence of a mass grave, potentially in a former sewage tank, believed to contain hundreds of babies in Tuam, County Galway, in the west of Ireland.
Now, investigators have moved their diggers onto the nondescript patch of grass next to a children’s playground on a housing estate in the town. An excavation, expected to last two years, will begin on Monday.
Police have launched a hate incident investigation after a bonfire topped with an effigy depicting Channel migrants was set alight in Northern Ireland.
A boat carrying mannequins wearing lifejackets topped the towering bonfire in Moygashel, County Tyrone. Banners which read “stop the boats”, “veterans before refugees” and “stop illegal immigration” were fixed to the pallets. An Irish tricolour flag was also placed on the tower.
The Irish are done! Bonfire in Moygashel set to protest invasion of unwanted foreigners. What a beautiful sight! pic.twitter.com/AqARi45TtV
— Info Battle Maiden (@info_maiden) July 10, 2025
The anti-immigration protests in Ballymena are a violent backlash against an unprecedented demographic upheaval.
For the fourth night in a row, Ballymena, Northern Ireland, has been gripped by unrest.
Riots broke out on Monday, following reports of an alleged sexual assault against a young girl. Two 14-year-old boys then appeared in court, charged with attempted rape, and were assisted in the courtroom by a Romanian interpreter. The assumption that the teenagers were foreigners fuelled speculation and anger in a town where tensions between the native population and migrant communities were already running high. Consequently, what began as a peaceful protest to show support for the victim and her family soon morphed into the days-long anti-migrant rioting we are currently seeing play out.
Apparently, #Ballymena is NOT #Rotherham? pic.twitter.com/c9RJvgvfEX
— ꘉ (@museumsireland) June 12, 2025
Police in Portadown have used water cannon to tackle rioters who were attacking them.
Officers were targeted with petrol bombs, fireworks, masonry, bricks and bottles.
The disturbance in the West Street area marked the County Armagh town’s second night of unrest, but was at a lower level than seen earlier in the week.
Portadown protests, North of Ireland Tensions Escalate
Hundreds have taken to the streets in ongoing anti-mass immigration protests.⁰
Police have now deployed a water cannon to the scene, issuing warnings to the crowd.The standoff continues as frustration grows and calls… pic.twitter.com/kCm5uOdiUr
— THE IRISH REBEL (@elonmuskcrew) June 13, 2025
Another community in flames. Masonry and Molotov cocktails thrown at police. A leisure centre, believed to be housing migrants, set ablaze by a bigoted mob. Stop me if you think you’ve heard this one before.
This week, Ballymena in County Antrim, Northern Ireland became the latest town within these troubled isles to be ripped apart by fear, loathing and rioting – sparked by an alleged crime committed by migrants.
Anti-#immigrant #riots have been going on for the second day in a row in #Ballymena, #Northern #Ireland, after a teenage #girl was #raped.
Two #Romanians raped a girl. People came out to protest.
The state-run #BBC immediately called the protests "#racist thuggery." pic.twitter.com/WzOEewwD6G
— Moriarty (@777Moriarty777) June 11, 2025
An elderly disabled man has gone viral after footage emerged of him challenging the riot police in his mobility scooter while wearing a Roman helmet.
Witnesses say he has been charging the police during the anti-migration riots in Ballymena, Northern Ireland for the past 2 days pic.twitter.com/JJ3PNvKFDl
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) June 13, 2025
Families are fleeing their homes in Ballymena after masked rioters began to single out properties belonging to foreign nationals during a second night of race-related disorder in the Northern Irish town.
Witnesses described how gangs wearing black clothing and balaclavas shouted “where are the foreigners” as they marauded the streets, smashing windows and torching houses.
"Ireland is not the same little country it once was, that shift in the air, that fear that wasn't there before.
We will not sit quietly while safety becomes a luxury!" pic.twitter.com/2ZgABKDp2i
— MichaeloKeeffe (@Mick_O_Keeffe) June 11, 2025
Meanwhile in Northern Ireland
“Immigrants homes came under siege & people had to flee – a leisure centre was set on fire”
Riots & unrest spread out from Ballymena to other parts of Northern Ireland.
People are at breaking point – they don’t know what to do – but violence… pic.twitter.com/eVok55GX0J
— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) June 12, 2025
Ballymena Riots remind me of when Plymouth had enough…..
I actually had my head split open on this video. pic.twitter.com/7tMJEttk4Z
— DJE MEDIA (@DJEMEDIA_) June 9, 2025
