Locals protested outside the gates of Aughrim St Sports Centre in Stoneybatter this evening.

Protesters sought assurances from gardaí who attended the scene that no male asylum seekers would be accommodated at the sports hall, making known their specific concern about any attempt to house Somali men there as rumours have been circulating online that it had been singled out for their use.

Almost all Somalis have had their asylum claims accepted in Ireland in recent years and they are one of the groups who are expedited thought the asylum process along with applicants from Libya, Sudan, Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan & Eritrea.

Once asylum seekers have been granted refugee status or given subsidiary protection, they can use the family reunification programme to bring in parents, spouses and children under 18.

All parties in the Dáil except Fine Gael want to extend this programme's scope to include grandparents, children over 18, siblings, cousins, nephews & nieces, as was the case before 2015.

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Quick Fact-Check on this tweet claiming the @orlaredchan account was banned from twitter for the "vilest racism and homophobia imaginable":

The twitter account was banned after a state-funded NGO lifer dishonestly reported a video of an African man brandishing his cock at women on Dublin's O'Connell St as 'non-consensual nudity'.

Debunked as disinformation.

Nothing appalling about this telegram channel either, except the crimes against Irish people which it documents.

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This is a very interesting clip. Watch the contrast between Costello and the FF Boomer in the first few minutes,

Costello doesn't react normally or calmly to what he is being said here. He acts like a petulant child that is about to burst into tears.

I think we're entering a strange period wherby Boomers who were competent from a functioning, administrative point of view are now leaving the system and are being replaced by people who don't know how to react, think or behave appropriately under pressure.

Look at student politics and compare how mentally ok they were compared to politicians a few decades ago. Honest question here.

As Ciaran Brennan mentions above: "Old parish economic axis of GAA-muinteor-civil servants has collapsed post-Crash as Irish capitalism shifted gears to American Big Tech

Scandals like Quinn, DJ Carey underline that.

Lot of old post-1922 patronage systems that stopped emigration gone as consequence."

And replacing a lot of that are these increasingly dysfunctional people.

Over 200 concerned members of the public out in Listowel today to protest the government's immigration policies.

"Listowel Says No. Enough is Enough. Safety First."

"Protect Our Communities"

"Mná Na hÉireann"

Derek Blighe livestreamed it here.

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