A shocking event of rampant violence and anarchy engulfed Dublin on November 23rd, 2023, leaving the city in a state of stunned disbelief. The night witnessed a descent into chaos, with looting, arson, and widespread destruction becoming commonplace.
It unfolded as a sudden, startling surrender to the dark side, a night when anarchy and depravity, like twin seas rising around a low-lying island, threatened to engulf Dublin and swallow her whole. A chilling evening when civility was torn apart by seismic waves of nihilism, sinkholes of chaos unzipping the city centre and ingesting entire streets.
Forlorn trams and buses lay scorched and charred by the Liffey walls, Garda vehicles sizzled, a carpet of shattered glass guided looters to a bounty of high street treasures. Before a global, stunned TV audience, decency perished. Like a mortally wounded, frightened animal, Dublin lay vulnerable and semi-paralysed, uncertain of her fate. The body heat of the old city ran cold. The beaten streets cowered. Colin Farrell and his director might have modelled The Penguin’s dystopian Gotham on that night in Dublin, the one where the Visigoths overwhelmed Rome. A perfume of fear was tangible across this ordinarily boisterous metropolis of a thousand watering holes and in excess of a million souls. An unanticipated blizzard of badness, like a snow shower that somehow sneaked under the Met Office radar, had transformed the weather of daily life. In Louis MacNeice’s poem “Dublin”, he writes evocatively that “the lights jig in the river/with a concertina movement.” But on November 23rd, 2023, the winter darkness was illuminated only by a bonfire of flaming vehicles and the savage shine in barbarity’s eye. Inexplicably, within hours, the nation’s political, economic and cultural epicentre, Anna Livia’s house, had been ransacked and brought to its knees by a rampaging mob, their destructive dance synchronised by malign social media choreographers. As midnight loomed, something diabolical haunted the nigh
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