Dublin Stabbings

[honeyrider]

Five people stabbed including 3 young children near a school in Dublin today. I hope they'll be ok.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41275768.html

I live in a Dublin subarb. This is frightening. Those poor innocent children
It's frightening for us Dubliners as a random stabbing also took place in Dublin airport a few weeks back.

Thanks @Wakemeuuuup. We only live less than 3 miles from the GPO. Apparently our army have no training in riot control so they wouldn't be able to help or be safe. Saw one poor guard being attacked by a gang of these scrotes. They really laid into him. They are so outnumbered.

Dublin has got very bad recently in terms of social issues. I am not one to cry wolf but the degree of open drug dealing and anti-social behaviour is a shock.
Yes that happens in other major European cities but not usually in daylight in the city centre.
It has zero to do with immigration and all to do with a failure to invest in policing and social care.

My DS is trying to get to my niece to get her to his to safety. So bloody scary.

That’s terrible indeed.

Absolute scrotes doing the rioting. I hope the gardaí get all of them.

I keep hearing that she did not survive, but they are not making the news public because of the situation on the streets. I really hope those rumours are wrong and that she pulls through. It's horrific.

I really hope that's just a rumour @AInightingale@AInightingale

There is a lot of misinformation being spread on social media.

Army wasn't deployed. Rioters didn't attack the ambulance carrying the badly injured girl.

I've also heard the same rumour from my friends in Dublin that the girls did not survive,and that they are not announcing it as the tensions are so bad :(.

It's a rumour. No one knows the facts yet

Is there a war in Algeria?

I grew up 3 miles from O'Connell Bridge too. I rang my parents to check they hadn't gone unto town today, luckily they hadn't and DH's family are safe too.

I really hope those poor kids aren't too badly injured and make a full recovery. I know it will take much longer to recover mentally.

Me and DH left Dublin 20 years ago. Immigration was only just beginning at that stage and people didn't like it

The suspect has been here for 20 years and is an Irish citizen according to RTE news. WTF does a war in Algeria have to do with anything? You do know people are allowed to come here from any country in the world? The same way we can go to their countries? Not every 'foreigner' is an asylum seeker FFS.

I'm in Dublin and I have heard anecdotally but not conclusively that the poor little girl has died.
It is carnage on the streets. I've been here 20years and never seen anything like it.
The man who murdered Ashling Murphy was on trial last week. He was an unvetted foreign national convicted sex offender who was on the Irish taxpayer's pocket for a decade. Spirits are consequently understandably high, and then you throw in the local tracksuits and now the city is on fire. I'm sorry but they are making a fair point, albeit very very badly.

@Rainbowthyme - yes I think the Aisling Murphy murder trial has inflamed things. I saw people share her boyfriend’s victim impact statement where he said Ireland needs to wake up etc. I felt uncomfortable reading it. Although I completely sympathise with him obviously.

That poor girl & her family.

It's absolutely shocking. Been told to work from home tomorrow but I wouldn't go anywhere near Dublin at the moment.

Thoughts and prayers for those poor children and the woman injured.

@BethDuttonsTwin

The people who have spent the last few hours burning and smashing up Ireland’s capital city and assaulting the guards are all young thug locals with a smattering of stupid far right crap in their heads that they’ve got off Twitter etc. The vast majority of Irish people welcome immigration and have got no time whatsoever for their thuggish idiocy which is giving the capital a bad name and making the streets feel unsafe. It’s not hard working tax paying immigrants that are the problem, it’s youth crime coupled with online anti immigrant rightwing bullshit.

They really not making a fair point. You've got to be a real bigot to think that. Their point is to loot and get a thrill from violence. Joyfully video a burning luas and buses, and attack garda.

There is absolutely no knowledge of why this happened. Might be completely unrelated to his country of birth or religion. Might be whatever drives the plentiful choice of Irish who have stab children and murdered women.

I can't quite believe what I'm reading here.

The vast, vast majority of violent acts, rapes, sexual assaults, child abuse and murders that happen in this country are perpetrated by our own people, not 'foreigners'.

The suspect deserves everything the law can throw at him and then some.

But this vigilante crap is just yet more male violence. This is Irish people setting their own infrastructure on fire for shits and giggles and 'the laugh'. Arnotts and other shops being looted... But hey, lets blame the immigrants.

Just seen (on the news) some young men putting a burning box into a police car and close the door. The car went up in flames. The damage to shops and the amount of looting is shocking. I don't understand the point of the attacks on emergency vehicles, smashing windows and stealing. It looks absolutely terrifying.

@Rainbowthyme

I'm sorry but they are making a fair point, albeit very very badly

What point is the looting of sports shops making and the burning of the luas making? What point is 50 thugs setting on one guard making? You are seriously defending this shit? Should we all be burning a bus every time an Irish/British national commits a terrible crime or only when it’s a foreigner? The far right mentality which eggs on these lost undereducated youths is absolute poison.

Christ, now they've set a hotel on fire - a Holiday Inn which houses migrants.

X seems to have removed a lot of hashtags relating to the riots in the last 15 mins or so.