Just to return briefly to topic of the hoax news story that 50,000 people attended the NGO rally 'Ireland For All' on Saturday as some drone footage of the crowd has been published giving the best view of the crowd so far.

Using a still from the video I marked off the extent of the crowd on mapchecking.com again and they estimated 9,056 people would fit into the space with the density setting set to 'crowded' (2.5 people per square metre — last image shows what that looks like).

However, as the drone flies over the crowd you can see there are many sparse areas and it thins out considerably at the back so the real count would be fewer still.

You would need over five to six times the number of people shown on this video for it to be anywhere close to the claimed 50,000 people as reported by many media outlets including the Irish Times and RTÉ.

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Locals gathered outside the Aughrim St Sports Centre in Stoneybatter this evening after word spread that an unconfirmed 150 male asylum seekers are to be accommodated in the sports hall at the instruction of Dublin City Council.

Smithfield Boxing Club, which is based at the sports centre, have tweeted that for the foreseeable future all members are to meet their coaches at the gates ten minutes before training and only enter and leave the centre in groups. Latecomers will not be allowed entry. Tonight's boxing class was also cancelled.

A protest is planned for tomorrow at 6PM.

15 Ukrainians were housed in the sports hall temporarily last October.

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🚨 Attempted child abduction in Dublin 1

A Dublin woman has posted that at around 9:45pm on Monday a foreign man dragged a young girl into a red van at the junction of Yarnhall Street & Henrietta place off Bolton St in the north inner city.

The girl managed to escape the van and ran into the flats screaming but the man chased after her and tried to drag her back out.

After two separate neighbours went to investigate the commotion, the man fled on foot. It is believed CCTV footage from a pub managed to record the incident.

Video taken at scene show the van parked on Yarnhall St subsequently being on fire.

Locals have expressed horror, especially as so many of their children play around that area.

"It's absolutely heartbreaking for the young girls growing up, that's who I'm afraid for. It's disgraceful. This government just does not give two shites about Irish people. May god forgive them for letting all these dirty filthy scumbags in. No one is safe any more. Sad times."

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The north inner city, East Wall and Sheriff St are protesting this evening at 6pm. Meeting at the Five Lamps, East Wall Rd and Sheriff St church.

🚨 Community Alert for Dublin 8

A Dublin mother says she's never felt so shaken up after an experience near the Circle K on Usher's Quay which left her child in tears.

The woman was buying milk from the garage's hatch at around 10:30pm on Monday when she got the feeling someone was standing disturbingly close behind her. She grabbed her child's hand and rang her partner and then noticed an associate of the man putting petrol in what looked like a taxi. She identified the men as foreign.

Nervous, she proceeded to make her way home, but looking back noticed the vehicle approaching her which then swerved into the direction she was going. When one of the men jumped out, she and her child ran back to the Circle K screaming.

The man continued after her until he realised she was on the phone and then returned to the vehicle which sped off in the opposite direction.

She described the vehicle as resembling a dark VW Caddy similar to a vehicle used in a failed abduction earlier on Monday night.

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