Explained: Can Northern Ireland Break Away from the UK and Form a United Ireland?

Feb 15, 2024 | In 1921, England partitioned Ireland into two countries: the Republic of Ireland in the south and Northern Ireland under the dominion of the United Kingdom. Now, with a nationalist leader advocating for Irish unity sworn in to lead Northern Ireland, will the two regions reunite?

'Extraordinary Demonisation' of the Public in Dublin Following Riots over Stabbings

Nov 24, 2023 | Author Douglas Murray slams the “extraordinary demonisation” of the public by politicians and others following riots in Dublin over the stabbing of five people, allegedly by an illegal immigrant.

“It’s appalling watching people riot like this and burning down cars and buses, particularly in Dublin where everyone has a memory of that sort of thing happening in not too distant memory,” Mr Murray told Sky News host Rita Panahi.

“Ireland, by the way, doesn’t seem to be a country which needed a fresh ethno-religious conflict to be inserted into it. “But there we go, the brilliance of the politicians in this generation have managed just that.

“The demonisation of the public reminds me of just so many times this has happened before.”

Dublin Stabbings: Mass Immigration 'Without the Consent of the Irish People' | Kevin Meagher

Nov 24, 2023 | Kevin Meagher: A million migrants, there or thereabouts, have come and settled in Ireland over that last decade. It's been a massive social change, very, very quickly... Done without the electoral consent of the Irish people and it's created a very big backlash.

Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind!

Two very important changes in society spring immediately to mind here: one, the quality of our politicians; and two, women preferring to work and have careers instead of marrying and having babies.

Feminism has so much to answer for! So it must shoulder a lot of blame for the mess we see in society today. Fact number one is you can’t have both babies and careers; you either make babies or you make careers. It’s as simple as that. Fact number two is if you decide not to give birth, then the nation has to ‘import’ the workforce necessary to feed the economy with labour. We can see the rising tensions this causes. However nice foreigners are, these people have different values. If people’s values differ too much, tensions and sometimes violence ensue.

Fact number two is that the calibre of our politicians these days leaves much to be desired. So many politicians are elected to parliament in spite of a total lack of work experience. Many enter parliament straight from university. Moreover, the reason they go into politics is so often to make money for themselves and also to make a name for themselves, instead of making a contribution to the well-being of the nation. The other thing that is so glaringly wrong is the taking of second jobs whilst still an MP. How can a politician do his/her job as an MP properly when so much of their time is taken up by their commitments to their secondary employment? – © Mark Alexander

Riots in Dublin Bring ‘Shame’ on Ireland, Prime Minister Says

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Officials have condemned violence that broke out in the capital after a knife attack. The police said 34 people were arrested and a police officer was seriously injured.

Riot police in Dublin on Thursday. | Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters
A violent clash between rioters and police in central Dublin on Thursday injured several police officers, one seriously, and prompted the arrests of 34 people, according to the Garda Síochána, the Irish police force.

Rioters set fire to police vehicles, destroyed public buses and looted or damaged more than a dozen shops, the Garda said. A mob had gathered in the city center following a knife attack that had seriously injured a female schoolteacher and three young children.

The escalating unrest appalled the authorities, who blamed a far-right faction for fueling tensions by spreading misinformation about the knife attack.

Unconfirmed speculation about the nationality of the knife-wielding attacker spread online in the hours after the stabbings, with one protester telling the Agence France-Presse news service that “Irish people are being attacked by these scum.” » | Isabella Kwai | Reporting from London | Friday, November 24, 2023

Dublin Riots: Police Say More than 30 Arrested - BBC News

Nov 24, 2023 | Ireland's police chief says over 30 people were arrested during riots in Dublin on Thursday, following an earlier knife attack in the city centre which left four people injured.

More than a dozen shops were damaged or looted, Garda Commissioner Drew Harris said, and several police vehicles and three buses were destroyed. One police officer was seriously injured in the rioting and many more were hurt, Harris added.

The Commissioner described "huge destruction from a riotous mob", which police have blamed on a "lunatic, hooligan faction driven by far-right ideology".

Earlier on Thursday, police said a five-year-old girl was in emergency care following the knife attack. A woman in her 30s and two other children aged five and six were also injured.

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