Around the use of Ballybrit as an accommodation centre? That news was announced on the 23rd May, and on the very same day regular organizer of agitation Dara O'Flaherty was using Telegram to communicate various plans for how to get it blocked:
https://twitter.com/EamonnVIDF/status/1660935966985531392

Again, probably there are locals turning up because they feel concerned, but very recognizable heads from protests all round the country definitely seem to be contributing to spreading the word and setting the tone from the very outset.

There's almost no mention of it on Telegram or Twitter. Dont think that lad had much to do with it and there is nothing like what he describes happening. Don't actually follow him myself. Can't see him in this photo either.

Twitter

Ballybrit. Have the refugees/asylum seekers not been through enough.

Quote from: hellfire on May 31, 2023, 03:58:37 PMThere's almost no mention of it on Telegram or Twitter. Dont think that lad had much to do with it and there is nothing like what he describes happening. Don't actually follow him myself. Can't see him in this photo either.

Twitter

In the replies to that, someone asking about the organisers and how to make contact with them:
https://twitter.com/SeanieCosti/status/1663888640802430977

Quote- Follow Dara o flaherty on telegram
- I know Dara, is he involved?
- Yea
- Thanks I'll contact him now

That exchange involves a 'Toby' who describes himself like this:
QuoteToby
@ThoughtsToby
The seeds of fire at the heart of all true Gaels has been disturbed. 🇮🇪🔥🔥🇮🇪 All my tweets are opinions. pro Irish, anti communist. based af 🇮🇪🇮🇪

Brief visit of his profile shows RTs of 'Gavin Pep', who was very present at Sandwith Street, and our old friends at Gript.

As we have to repeat to ourselves in my line of business all the time; absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

I know Toby well, lovely chap. Toby is better connected than anyone else on Twitter. He had no idea it was happening. Turns out that Dara O' Flaherty lad is involved and also local. These are local pop ups without outside influence.

O'Flaherty is incidentally from Galway, so "local pop up not organized centrally" can be conceded on a technicality. More importantly though, he's a rampant source of misinformation and fear mongering, saying about Ballybrit that it represents "10,000 criminals" coming to Galway over the next few years.

Whose to say he's wrong? Current policy left unchecked virtually guarantees that. Arguing with you and others like you is kind of irrelevant these days. Nobody wants them in their area. Everyone knows that the promised women and children rarely arrive and you're left dealing with a poorly behaved sausage fest.

Quote300 criminals will get houses every four months from just the installation in Ballybritt. That's 10,000 criminals and their "family's" installed in Galway in a decade.
This innovative money making scheme will generate huge revenue for criminal la[w]yers, hospitals, insurance companies, corporate prisons and super cops with machine guns on every corner and 15 cameras on you every where you go.
https://t.me/DaraOFlahertyGalway/1155

If your response to all that is still "Who's to say he's wrong?" and not "Perhaps nothing this loon says is reliable," then yes it is irrelevant arguing with people like me who value reality.


#5379 May 31, 2023, 06:18:01 PM Last Edit: May 31, 2023, 06:21:25 PM by Ollkiller
Quote from: hellfire on May 31, 2023, 05:23:16 PMWhose to say he's wrong? Current policy left unchecked virtually guarantees that. Arguing with you and others like you is kind of irrelevant these days. Nobody wants them in their area. Everyone knows that the promised women and children rarely arrive and you're left dealing with a poorly behaved sausage fest.

My eyes must be deceiving me as every "foreign person" I see has bundles of kids hanging off them.

Edit. Also I do know plenty of people that dont want them. But I equally know plenty of people who have no problem with them. They'd be more in my way of thinking its failed government housing policy over the last 20 years aligned with the 250000 vacant houses in the country that makes up most of the issue. And Putin.

All I read was what you posted.

"That's 10,000 criminals and their "family's" installed in Galway in a decade." 

This part I agree with, maybe just the 10,000 imported criminals bit. Not only possible but likely. Lol yeah, your connection with reality is questionable at best. You can talk all the nonsense you want and it changes nothing. 75% of people think we've taken in too many and 76% (I think) agreed that they found protests understandable. Your stupid opinions are becoming less relevant by the day.

This one lad who I don't follow or interact with being sane or not doesn't concern me. Most leftist marches in this country over the last ten years look like a poster encouraging people to take their psych meds. My original point still stands. These aren't centrally organised by any one group or party.

#5381 May 31, 2023, 06:46:10 PM Last Edit: May 31, 2023, 06:51:28 PM by hellfire
 
Quote from: Ollkiller on May 31, 2023, 06:18:01 PM
Quote from: hellfire on May 31, 2023, 05:23:16 PMWhose to say he's wrong? Current policy left unchecked virtually guarantees that. Arguing with you and others like you is kind of irrelevant these days. Nobody wants them in their area. Everyone knows that the promised women and children rarely arrive and you're left dealing with a poorly behaved sausage fest.

My eyes must be deceiving me as every "foreign person" I see has bundles of kids hanging off them.

Edit. Also I do know plenty of people that dont want them. But I equally know plenty of people who have no problem with them. They'd be more in my way of thinking its failed government housing policy over the last 20 years aligned with the 250000 vacant houses in the country that makes up most of the issue. And Putin.

Foreign person does not mean asylum seeker. Could be on any number of visas. More than twice as likely to be an adult make than an adult female.
There's a report at the end of the page You'd have to be very lucky to have the woman and child only bus pull up.

#5382 May 31, 2023, 06:47:46 PM Last Edit: May 31, 2023, 06:49:48 PM by hellfire
Double post. Not sure why

Quote from: hellfire on May 31, 2023, 06:46:10 PM
Quote from: Ollkiller on May 31, 2023, 06:18:01 PM
Quote from: hellfire on May 31, 2023, 05:23:16 PMWhose to say he's wrong? Current policy left unchecked virtually guarantees that. Arguing with you and others like you is kind of irrelevant these days. Nobody wants them in their area. Everyone knows that the promised women and children rarely arrive and you're left dealing with a poorly behaved sausage fest.

My eyes must be deceiving me as every "foreign person" I see has bundles of kids hanging off them.

Edit. Also I do know plenty of people that dont want them. But I equally know plenty of people who have no problem with them. They'd be more in my way of thinking its failed government housing policy over the last 20 years aligned with the 250000 vacant houses in the country that makes up most of the issue. And Putin.

Foreign person does not mean asylum seeker. Could be on any number of visas. More than twice as likely to be an adult make than an adult female.
There's a report at the end of the page You'd have to be very lucky to have the woman and child only bus pull up.


So its very close to 2 to 1 in male to female. Tbh with all the bleating on about it I presumed it would be a lot higher percentage of male to female.

Percentage sounds about right.

Optics are all wrong though. Ukrainian women and children does not equal Jordanian men basically, yet somehow now it does. I've met a few Jordanian lads, not many tbf, but imagine your average glenroe watcher trying to take all this in.. most of you are missing the reality altogether and how it might impact differently on different demographics

How many live in cities Vs rural areas? The effect of that difference can't be underestimated, for right or wrong.