"Ballina is dying a slow death. Every day you go through the town, there's people you never seen before. That's not a bad thing. It's great to have tourists in the town, but these people aren't contributing to the town one little bit. They're sitting on street corners. They're hanging around. They're doing very little. They're being bussed from post to pillar and they're getting in the way."

"The only way we're going to stop this is people power. There's no other way about it."

Next protest in Ballina is on Wednesday at 2pm outside the Mayo County Council offices in Ballina. Following that, a major protest is planned for Saturday at 3pm at the Twin Trees Hotel.

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Ballina man standing in the local elections recommends four or five people stand in every town to take the seats off the main parties.

"Our towns are being destroyed. They're being over-populated. The indigenous are being watered down. We're losing our rights. It's a spit in the face to our own people who are homeless.

"We need a new form of politics and new politicians....We're going to have to put a stop this. Our country is destroyed."

"Go as independents. Just stop them. Take the seats and mess the whole thing up for them."

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Independent local election candidate for Castleisland, Michelle Keane, has called for the deportation of illegal, undocumented scum-of-the-earth criminals who have raped women and tortured children throughout the world.

"We do not want these people and they should be deported back on the plane out of this country."

Keane also said the €800 a month which the Irish government provides to landlords who are willing to house Ukrainians has made it impossible for young people to afford anywhere to rent.

"We have to start here at the grassroots level in Ireland and look after our own Irish people. We've had enough."

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Two men have been charged with aiding an international crime gang in human trafficking in Donegal.

Poniza, a 35-year-old, and 28-year-old Armen Pogosyan, both with an address at Assaroe Falls, Ballyshannon, were brought before Judge Ciaran Liddy at Ballyshannon District Court on Tuesday afternoon.

A Russian interpreter was present in court to assist Pogosyan, who the court previously heard is an Armenian national with an Uzbekistan passport.

Poniza dared detectives in Ballyshannon, ‘how you going to prove that?’ when he was charged.

Europol officers were in Donegal during an international Law Enforcement Operation, which involved a Joint Investigation Team that was established in conjunction with Law Enforcement in Latvia.

“It is a very time consuming investigation with a large amount of data,” Detective Garda Kelly said, adding that the investigation, which has been running for 21 months, is still “ongoing”.

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Heartbreaking scene from Newtownmountkennedy on Monday when gardaí shoved local residents off their road.

"It's our road, we walk on it every day and now these guys are going to be walking on it because of you. Are you happy now? They're all going to be walking these roads because of you. You are helping them. I can't even move out of my house now once they come."

"You are supposed to protect us not put them in here."

"This is our village. We are trying to protect our families."

"My daughter can't walk this road anymore. None of us can."

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National protest against government policy beginning at the Garden of Remembrance at 2:30pm on the May bank holiday.

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Ballina Says No - Live broadcast. Now I'm broadcasting live from outside the Council Office in Ballina, where a local community protest is taking place. The broadcast is available at: https://rpphotojournalist.org/home/events/media/

A Palestinian who has been living in Jordan for 16 years explains the route he took to arrive in Dublin to file an asylum claim.

The man says he applied for an ETA visa to travel to the UK, then left his family in Jordan, spent three days in London and took an EasyJet flight to Belfast where he spent another three days before travelling down to Dublin. He said he had all his arrangements pre-booked in Jordan.

When asked why he did not stay in Britain, he replied that the visa he received to enter the UK prohibits him from working or applying for asylum there.

The man had been living in Irbid Camp in Jordan. Though it is called a camp, it is not a series of tents. It's a village of the type you see anywhere in the Middle East built specifically for Palestinians and with services provided by the UN's Relief and Works Agency.

There are over 2.2 million Palestinians living in Jordan. They could all do the same. This is what settler colonialism looks like.

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