The moment the riot squad arrived in at River Lodge in Newtownmountkennedy this evening.

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Ireland has an unpaid debt to migrants who are hit hardest by climate change

We don’t owe anything to anyone.

https://m.independent.ie/opinion/martina-devlin-ireland-has-an-unpaid-debt-to-migrants-who-are-hit-hardest-by-climate-change/a577024892.html

2001 Throwback:

Guardian's Ireland correspondent, the late Henry McDonald reporting:

According to Interpol, criminal gangs with mafia links based in France, Germany and Italy are involved in smuggling immigrants to Ireland for sums up to IR£1,000. Immigrants from further afield, mainly China, pay even more exorbitant sums.

A Chinese Triad gang based in Belfast, with connections to loyalist paramilitaries, can charge up to IR£15,000.

There are three routes into Ireland from Europe: the Irish ports such as Rosslare, Dublin Airport and the Republic's land border with Northern Ireland. Recent investigations by gardai have discovered a new smuggling route from Belfast. The Garda has two Belfast-based taxi drivers under surveillance.

An estimated 70 per cent of those claiming asylum in Dublin's Mount Street have come via Northern Ireland.

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2001/dec/09/henrymcdonald.theobserver

Minister Helen McEntee: 80 per cent of asylum seekers are arriving from the UK.

Last week, I highlighted the case of a Palestinian man living in Jordan who said he arrived in Dublin to file an asylum application by first applying for a UK visa as a Jordanian citizen, flying into Luton and then over to Belfast. He said the visa prohibited him from filing an asylum application in the UK.

Footage captured in March showed a family of Africans arriving on O'Connell St in a taxi from the north who subsequently went to the IPO.

Also in March, the High Court ruled that Ireland's designation of the UK as a "safe third country" for returning asylum seekers is contrary to EU law. The new EU pact does not address this.

McEntee here mentions our common travel area with the UK but it doesn't apply to non-British citizens. Taxi drivers or anyone facilitating their transit from the north should face charges of migrant trafficking.

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*URGENT APPEAL*

In #Newtownmountkennedy right now Gardaí are assembling water cannon, roadblocks, helicopter, and horse-mounted units

Locals are making a heartfelt appeal for all support to mobilise in the town 𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘄 𝗦𝗮𝘁 𝟮𝟳𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝘁 𝟭𝗽𝗺

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