Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien ‘very disturbed’ by anti-immigration protests
Videos circulating on social media showed several dozen protesters gathered outside an accommodation centre on Saturday evening shouting “get them out” and holding banners criticising the Government over its immigration and housing policies.
The scenes in Ballymun at the weekend had been upsetting, Cllr Conroy said. “That is not what this community is about. A lot of the people there are not from Ballymun.” Ballymun was made up of people “from all over the place”, she added. “We’re going to look at the best response from the community to show the real side of Ballymun – that we are inclusive. We will not let a minority – who are the loudest – ruin the area.
“People have a right to protest but in the appropriate place,” he said. “They don’t have the right to intimidate people.”“We know from our own history what it’s like to be people who have had to leave our own shores due to oppression, due to war, due to famine. “The vast majority of people living in Ireland are people who support the effort to look after our friends from Ukraine and indeed from other countries where people are fleeing persecution.”
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