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Tipp FM: Reaction in Roscrea.

I suppose the most striking thing about yesterday's morning show on Tipp FM was that everyone interviewed was asked right off the bat whether they disavow the so-called far-right with host Fran Curry admitting at one point (28:06) that the question pops up on his screen like he's under pressure to ask it. This makes sense because the regime is absolutely petrified somebody who actually wants to solve the immigration problem gains political capital out of the mess they've created with the big election year ahead.

Then once each of the callers said that they deny the far-right three times before the rooster crows each morning, Fran Curry was happy to proceed with the conversations. One caller at 6:20, who seemed especially keen to impress Curry, said he liaised with gardaí on the ground to identify and ostracise any far-right who showed up at the protest, and the last caller who lives in New York (29:18) said he's been developing a conspiracy theory about the far-right and the far-left (which you're allowed to do).

At 00:48 Curry read out an email from Fianna Fáil TD Jackie Cahill about the Geneva Convention and how his government goes way beyond our so-called international obligations in dealing with so-called refugees. Everyone should commit this info to memory and quote Deputy Cahill when you're repeating it.

At 10:28, a Sinn Féin supporter says she never thought about immigration until it directly affected her ability to host her annual commemoration event at the Racket Hall Hotel but she now stands with the people of Roscrea and believes the government's handling of asylum is going to start a civil war.

At 13:44, the 'merry-go-round clique' of so-called NGOs get a drubbing for directing government policy around immigration — "They're on the hind tit of public money. That is the only reason they exist. It's a halfway house for people who couldn't keep a job in the real world or be able to keep it, and those are the people who are making the decisions and leading policy...Political leaders need to recognise who put them there and it's not NGOs."

At 18:12 the same caller brings up the murder of Ashling Murphy. Referring to Josef Puska, he remarks: "Now they came from an EU country but ten, fifteen years here and not one of them scratched their arse to contribute anything —a job, a tax, nothing— but on the hind tit of social welfare and nobody wants to say anything about it because they all want to traipse off to their EU meetings and meet their EU buddies and be the best boys in the room and get a clap on the back from everyone for being so liberal and so woke."

At 20:12, caller Gillian explains how she believes the incident where a couple of mothers and children were taken off the bus and forced through the protesters was a staged stunt in a narrative control attempt as she witnessed a man with a camera waiting with the Garda public order unit to get the footage. These scenes were subsequently widely and comically compared by regime acolytes to the Holy Cross dispute in Ardoyne in 2001 when some members of the British community tried to blockade Irish children from going to school in "their area" through the use of bricks, stones, fireworks, blast bombs and urine-filled balloons.

Gillian said the rest of the passengers on the bus were taken around the back to disembark and the locals weren't allowed to see them. She also said gardaí did not take the protesters' safety into consideration when they pushed through them and local mothers who were there with their children were in fear. She said the way Roscrea is being portrayed in the media is absolutely disgusting and also mentioned that the community were lied to before about asylum seeking families being moved to the town who turned out to be single men.

At 29:18, the last caller mentioned Gay Byrne's opposition to the EU which is "covered up" because "there's never any criticism of the EU allowed". Fran Curry admitted that it was the first time he'd ever heard it.

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