Rebel News Podcast - November 23, 2024


EZRA LEVANT ｜ Ireland is no stranger to rebelling against foreign invaders


Episode Stats

Length

48 minutes

Words per Minute

160.94109

Word Count

7,869

Sentence Count

413

Misogynist Sentences

6

Hate Speech Sentences

31


Summary

I love going to Ireland. It s a very small country, only about 5 million people, but they have taken about a million people into their country over the last few years. And an extraordinary number of them are being moved there in the name of being refugees, even though they are coming from safe third countries.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. I've been to Ireland three times in the last year.
00:00:03.300 The reason I'm interested in it is because they have an extreme immigration approach,
00:00:07.160 not just as a percentage of their population, but the way they house these migrants is so strange.
00:00:13.660 They just dump them in small villages and towns, immediately swamping the local community.
00:00:19.440 It is so irritating to the locals. It destroys the culture and the cohesion. It's so weird.
00:00:25.680 Anyhow, I find it fascinating and I find it a terrifying warning of what Canada could become.
00:00:30.000 So I want you to get the video version because I'm going to show you the best of our Irish coverage today.
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00:02:01.220 Tonight, the best of our coverage from Ireland, the immigration experiment of the West.
00:02:16.660 It is November 22nd, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
00:02:19.340 You're ready for freedom!
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00:02:31.220 I love going to Ireland.
00:02:36.000 It's such an interesting place.
00:02:37.340 I only first went there a few months ago.
00:02:39.600 The reason I find it interesting is it's a very small country, only about 5 million people.
00:02:43.860 But they've taken about a million people into their country over the last few years.
00:02:48.320 And an extraordinary number of people are being moved there in the name of being refugees,
00:02:54.540 even though they're coming from safe third countries, even the UK.
00:02:58.620 The United Kingdom, of course, shares a border with Ireland.
00:03:02.220 Northern Ireland is part of the UK.
00:03:03.940 Ireland proper is the republic.
00:03:05.980 And people just walk right across.
00:03:08.520 They burn or destroy their records, and they say, I'm a refugee.
00:03:12.340 There's no such thing as a refugee from the UK or any other country that goes directly to Ireland.
00:03:17.580 But the government, for some reason, is insistent on taking them.
00:03:20.820 And Ireland has a history of rejecting what they call plantations, including from the Brits, who wanted to colonize Ireland.
00:03:29.380 And that's one perspective.
00:03:30.820 That's the Irish perspective.
00:03:32.280 Ireland rebelled against foreign domination.
00:03:35.160 It's really weird to me to see mass immigration.
00:03:38.000 And the way that they're doing it, putting hundreds of migrants in tiny little villages,
00:03:43.660 immediately turning the indigenous Irish into minorities in their own towns.
00:03:48.280 Never seen anything like it.
00:03:49.380 Most astonishing.
00:03:50.960 And it's interesting to see the grassroots rebellion against that.
00:03:55.060 Sometimes it even gets a little bit violent.
00:03:57.140 We've seen some arson and some scuffles with police.
00:04:01.960 What's heartbreaking is that none of the political parties there represent the stop immigration side of the story,
00:04:09.400 even though the vast majority of Irish have had enough.
00:04:11.840 I find it interesting, and I find it a premonition of what could happen in Canada if we keep going down the path we're on.
00:04:23.220 I was in Ireland a few weeks ago, and I heard about this beautiful boardwalk area right in the heart of Dublin,
00:04:30.860 and someone said it's so full of foreigners there's not a single Irish citizen there.
00:04:37.320 It was just an interesting tweet.
00:04:38.720 I thought, I said, is that true?
00:04:40.440 Are there parts of Dublin where there's not a single native Irish?
00:04:45.040 And I went there and found out, and indeed it was true.
00:04:48.760 So I want to show you that video, which we haven't aired before,
00:04:52.740 and a collection of what we call the best of our Irish reporting.
00:04:55.840 I think we're going to go one more time, because they have their election coming up very soon,
00:04:59.980 and I want to see how they handle mass protest against immigration in a democracy and an election
00:05:07.620 where there is no anti-immigration party.
00:05:09.740 I like the Irish, and I like the fact that they've got a certain fighting spirit.
00:05:13.980 It'll be interesting to see how they fight against this globalist project, which it absolutely is.
00:05:19.700 All right, without further ado, here's the best of our Irish coverage,
00:05:22.960 including that chat I had with people on the boardwalk in central Dublin.
00:05:29.980 You know, the center of the city of Dublin is absolutely beautiful.
00:05:38.680 Who wouldn't want to go to these pubs and restaurants along the river?
00:05:43.840 And they built this boardwalk along the river for people to sit and just enjoy and watch things go by.
00:05:50.560 I saw a tweet, though, that got my interest, that the boardwalk, there are some Irish who like to come and sit,
00:05:58.060 but really it's a meeting place for foreigners who are here as temporary workers or asylum seekers or the unemployed.
00:06:06.480 And I thought, is that true?
00:06:07.640 So I spent some time just going down the boardwalk, talking to literally every single person I met.
00:06:14.380 And my first question was always the same.
00:06:16.620 Where are you from?
00:06:18.420 Let me show you the answers.
00:06:19.700 We're asking folks where they're from.
00:06:21.520 Are you from Ireland yourself?
00:06:22.860 Yeah, I'm from Ireland.
00:06:23.560 And you too?
00:06:24.520 Yeah.
00:06:25.080 Moldova.
00:06:25.560 Moldova, and how about you?
00:06:26.820 Yeah, I'm from...
00:06:27.220 Moldova?
00:06:27.840 India.
00:06:28.380 India?
00:06:28.880 I'm from the Philippines.
00:06:29.980 You too?
00:06:30.840 Yeah, same.
00:06:31.280 Where are you from?
00:06:33.200 I'm from Pakistan.
00:06:34.740 Romania.
00:06:35.880 Romania.
00:06:37.020 Hi, guys.
00:06:37.520 Where are you guys from?
00:06:38.960 I'm from China.
00:06:40.280 You're from China.
00:06:40.940 Are you from China also?
00:06:41.920 Yeah.
00:06:42.720 Are you from China also?
00:06:43.780 No.
00:06:43.920 I'm from Nepal.
00:06:44.700 You're from Nepal.
00:06:45.520 I'm Irish.
00:06:46.800 Angola.
00:06:47.420 No, Romania.
00:06:48.320 Romania.
00:06:49.460 No, no, no, no, no, no, no English.
00:06:50.680 No English.
00:06:51.440 Okay.
00:06:51.640 Are you guys all from Romania?
00:06:53.020 Yeah.
00:06:53.540 From Prague.
00:06:54.300 Oh, Prague.
00:06:55.160 Czechoslovakia.
00:06:55.900 Okay, yeah.
00:06:56.500 Where are you from?
00:06:57.500 Holland.
00:06:58.340 I'm from Argentina.
00:06:59.280 Yeah, I like Irish people. One is the loveliest people in the world. Friendly, nice, can make jokes. Very nice people, like Latin people.
00:07:13.000 And where are you from originally?
00:07:14.380 Romanian.
00:07:15.060 We're asking folks about immigration because we're from Canada and it's a big issue over in Canada. Do you think immigration is a political issue in Ireland?
00:07:22.540 Well, I don't think that the views of people right now should be against immigration like ours. Ireland's have always been people that immigrate, so I don't think it's an issue. I think it's more of a housing issue that people are worried about.
00:07:36.120 Are you here as a student? Are you working?
00:07:37.880 I'm working.
00:07:38.900 What are you doing for work?
00:07:41.140 I work as a data analyst.
00:07:43.540 And how long have you been in Ireland?
00:07:45.220 Eight years.
00:07:46.540 How's it treating you? Do you like Ireland?
00:07:48.540 Yeah, yeah, it's good.
00:07:49.600 And how long have you been here in Ireland?
00:07:52.540 No, I'm in infusion cases.
00:07:54.860 How long ago?
00:07:57.940 Four or five days ago.
00:07:59.840 And what do you do here in Ireland? Do you work?
00:08:02.640 No.
00:08:03.600 So are you an asylum seeker?
00:08:05.820 Yeah, I'm an asylum seeker.
00:08:07.400 And how long have you been here in Ireland?
00:08:10.040 2019.
00:08:11.380 2019. And are you working or are you...
00:08:14.520 Disability for the moment.
00:08:17.040 On disability? And how long have you been here in Ireland?
00:08:19.940 Long time.
00:08:20.960 Long time?
00:08:21.460 Yes.
00:08:22.320 Five years? Ten years?
00:08:23.640 20.
00:08:24.280 20 years. And why did you come to Ireland from Egypt?
00:08:28.380 To work.
00:08:29.400 And how's that going?
00:08:30.680 Very good.
00:08:31.680 Are you working now?
00:08:32.860 Not now, not at the moment.
00:08:34.460 It sounds like you have an accent though. Where did you come from?
00:08:36.780 Actually from Latvia.
00:08:38.320 Oh, from Latvia. How long have you been here in Ireland?
00:08:40.560 19 years.
00:08:41.240 Yes.
00:08:42.240 And how do you like it? Obviously you like it. Have you been here?
00:08:44.120 Of course I like there.
00:08:45.320 Is your family here?
00:08:46.580 No, I'm alone.
00:08:48.160 And do you work or are you...
00:08:50.460 At the moment I not work.
00:08:52.540 Are you an Irish citizen?
00:08:53.900 Yeah, of course.
00:08:54.500 And how long have you been here in Ireland?
00:08:57.720 26 years.
00:08:58.920 26 years? Well, you're an old timer then.
00:09:00.900 Yes, yes sir.
00:09:01.900 Are you an Irish citizen?
00:09:04.640 Yes.
00:09:05.360 You've applied for citizenship and you've received it?
00:09:07.660 Oh, yeah. Are you here as a tourist as well? Are you studying here?
00:09:14.680 I came to work.
00:09:16.340 You came to work? And how's that going?
00:09:17.880 Very nice. Yeah, I got to find a job right away. So I was very lucky.
00:09:21.980 What do you do for a living, if I may ask?
00:09:24.560 I am traffic controller.
00:09:27.120 My area is always under attack of Taliban and Pakistani Taliban and Afghani Taliban as well.
00:09:34.420 Do you think that's related though? If you bring in hundreds of thousands of folks,
00:09:38.400 you know, it's going to drive up the supply and demand?
00:09:41.040 No, it's already been an issue in Ireland before immigration.
00:09:43.360 So it's more of a landlord issue and current government issue, I'd say.
00:09:48.720 It's not to immigrants.
00:09:50.480 It's the lack of resources that doesn't come from immigration. It's for our government.
00:09:53.420 How are the Irish? Are they friendly towards immigrants?
00:09:57.660 Yeah, they are. They are, yeah.
00:10:00.040 Do you think some people come here and take advantage though?
00:10:02.360 Do you think there's some fake refugees, fake asylum seekers that take advantage of the Irish?
00:10:07.360 I don't know. I'm not sure about that.
00:10:09.260 How are Irish towards immigrants? Are they friendly and welcoming?
00:10:13.120 Yes.
00:10:13.960 How long has it been since you've been working?
00:10:16.320 A year.
00:10:17.380 What do you do with your days? Are you allowed to work here in Dublin?
00:10:21.220 Do you work or do you just sort of wait?
00:10:23.680 No, I'm basically a clinical psychologist.
00:10:26.500 I have done my MS in clinical psychology.
00:10:29.160 Are you allowed to practice as a psychologist?
00:10:33.020 No. I want to contribute to mental health here.
00:10:37.120 Do you have a family?
00:10:40.500 I have a family, but they are there.
00:10:44.340 They are where, sorry?
00:10:45.660 They are there in Parachinar.
00:10:47.600 So, why is your family there and you are here?
00:10:53.460 Because I'm not come here by flight.
00:10:59.420 So, I come here by sea and containers.
00:11:04.180 So, it's not, my family is not able to...
00:11:08.440 You came in a container ship, you say?
00:11:10.260 Yeah.
00:11:10.560 Are you applying to move here permanently?
00:11:13.840 Do you have permanent status here in Ireland?
00:11:16.080 I have an application from the council for the house.
00:11:21.000 I'm waiting for the house.
00:11:23.640 And for the moment, I stay in the hostel.
00:11:26.840 And who pays for that? Does the government pay for that?
00:11:29.420 The government is paying for that because it's normal.
00:11:32.520 I don't have just 230 euro by the week.
00:11:38.140 If you had your way, would you stay here in Ireland or would you go back to Argentina afterwards?
00:11:42.280 Oh, that's a tough question.
00:11:44.100 I don't even know myself.
00:11:45.340 What do you like best about the Irish people?
00:11:48.960 Because Irish people are very friendly people.
00:11:53.580 You know, there are German people, there are Slavic people, and there are Latin people.
00:11:58.620 Irish people is like Latin people.
00:12:01.000 Friendly, nice, easygoing.
00:12:02.980 I go to a pub.
00:12:04.380 They like to speak with me.
00:12:07.060 I like to speak with them.
00:12:08.440 We are very good friends.
00:12:10.000 Like, they can make jokes.
00:12:11.900 We can make jokes together.
00:12:13.880 Very easygoing people.
00:12:15.340 Well, let me ask you about that because sometimes you can be too friendly and people take advantage.
00:12:20.860 Do you think some people are coming to Ireland claiming to be asylum seekers, but really they're not?
00:12:28.780 They're just here to take advantage of Irish hospitality?
00:12:32.540 That's a long-term scam.
00:12:37.280 It's been going on a long time, you're saying?
00:12:39.280 That's a long-time scam.
00:12:42.340 Over the world, people coming from somewhere claiming asylum seeker.
00:12:48.260 Okay, give me free food, give me free accommodation, that's it.
00:12:54.080 I agree with that.
00:12:55.180 You're right.
00:12:56.440 Some of them, they make a scam from that.
00:12:59.560 A lot of people are worried about their resources getting taken away when it's like something that's again a government issue.
00:13:06.200 It's nothing to do with the people that are seeking it.
00:13:08.760 And what do you do for a living?
00:13:10.540 Me?
00:13:11.060 Yeah.
00:13:11.240 I used to be a web designer.
00:13:13.500 Oh, and what do you do now?
00:13:15.580 Currently, I'm unemployed.
00:13:17.240 And how long have you been unemployed?
00:13:19.300 A few years now.
00:13:21.120 Are you getting social assistance?
00:13:23.140 Are you getting some help?
00:13:23.860 Kind of, yeah.
00:13:24.780 Yeah.
00:13:25.120 Kind of, yeah.
00:13:26.540 So you came by ship, but your family's back home?
00:13:29.480 Yeah, my family is back to home, so I came here by ship.
00:13:36.300 Is it safe for your family at home?
00:13:38.940 No, it's not safe for my family as well.
00:13:41.900 With all respect.
00:13:42.980 If you search on that, so you will be fine according to the situation of Parachinat.
00:13:48.920 So why did you come here?
00:13:51.280 Omani.
00:13:52.980 And how's it working out?
00:13:55.760 Are you glad you came?
00:13:58.820 Uh, I'm glad, but, uh, 80%, uh,
00:14:04.500 I mean, Ireland's taken an enormous number of people in the last few years.
00:14:08.140 Is there a limit?
00:14:10.660 I don't know if there is a limit, but it's a normal reaction of Irish people
00:14:14.700 when they react, uh, that so many, so many foreigners are coming.
00:14:19.900 Any country will do the same.
00:14:21.340 Some folks would say, well, we're giving housing to migrants,
00:14:24.280 but what about the Irish homeless?
00:14:26.020 What do you think of that argument?
00:14:26.940 Again, the government have a surplus of money that they're not using to create housing,
00:14:33.180 so they're not exactly giving it.
00:14:35.040 Emergency accommodation isn't just giving to immigrants,
00:14:37.980 it's also giving to people, like Irish people.
00:14:39.940 So again, the surplus of money that the government had,
00:14:42.080 they should be building housing.
00:14:43.280 It's not immigration.
00:14:44.420 People are coming into the country's fault.
00:14:46.220 It's the government.
00:14:47.500 That's it.
00:14:47.940 Can I ask you a question?
00:14:49.620 If it's not safe, why are you here but your family there?
00:14:53.820 Shouldn't you be taking care of your wife and children?
00:14:56.500 Yeah, uh, uh, I will try my best.
00:14:59.640 If I got, uh, documents from here I land,
00:15:02.860 so I will be definitely bring my family here.
00:15:06.300 But have you been back to visit them since you came here?
00:15:10.100 No, they come from Iran because my wife is in Iran,
00:15:14.660 so they come from here, from there to here.
00:15:19.320 They put too much tax.
00:15:22.620 Too much tax?
00:15:23.360 Yeah, my thoughts.
00:15:31.880 Behind me, the counter-protesters.
00:15:35.240 A line of guard eye.
00:15:36.920 That's what they call their police.
00:15:39.260 You can see that they're quite worried about the two sides
00:15:42.260 coming into contact.
00:15:44.600 There's one guard eye officer filming things,
00:15:47.540 I think, for souvenir purposes.
00:15:49.940 I think the numbers on the other side,
00:15:55.020 if I had to estimate,
00:15:57.260 I'd say there's about 110 people.
00:16:00.880 Nah, more like, I'd say, shy of 100.
00:16:04.080 I'd say there's about 90 people.
00:16:08.680 There's more police than counter-protesters.
00:16:14.820 Most of the signs on the other side
00:16:17.080 are prefabricated signs.
00:16:19.940 As opposed to many of the homemade signs on this side.
00:16:25.020 And I'll tell you one other thing I just noticed.
00:16:28.760 On this side, hundreds of Irish flags.
00:16:33.300 On that side,
00:16:35.180 I don't see a single Irish flag.
00:16:38.760 I see three Palestinian flags.
00:16:43.020 And I see a mysterious flag that I cannot identify.
00:16:49.600 But there's not a single Irish flag on the other side.
00:16:52.840 And doesn't that tell you something?
00:16:57.060 I'm going to step about a foot away from these big cops
00:17:01.200 because I don't need to get caught in the crossfire.
00:17:03.840 NGO scum!
00:17:04.680 NGO scum!
00:17:06.760 NGO scum!
00:17:08.620 NGO scum!
00:17:10.700 NGO scum!
00:17:12.380 NGO scum!
00:17:12.660 They're chanting NGO scum.
00:17:16.700 That's a very interesting thing to say.
00:17:18.940 The people in this anti-migration march
00:17:22.860 think that their opponents
00:17:25.480 are the United Nations,
00:17:27.880 the World Economic Forum,
00:17:29.960 NGOs,
00:17:31.400 as much as any domestic political party.
00:17:34.440 And I think they're right.
00:17:36.800 Thank you very much.
00:17:38.800 Very friendly here.
00:17:40.480 Lots of Rebel News fans,
00:17:42.540 even here in Ireland.
00:17:44.140 I correct myself.
00:17:45.160 I see a single Irish flag on the other side
00:17:47.620 on which it's written,
00:17:49.260 Black Lives Matter.
00:17:51.620 As I mentioned before,
00:17:53.100 this side has co-opted the phrase
00:17:54.880 and says,
00:17:56.100 Irish Lives Matter.
00:17:58.000 I think both lives matter.
00:17:59.920 Ezra Levant here in a neighborhood in Dublin
00:18:02.980 called Kulak.
00:18:04.300 Standing outside of Burger King,
00:18:05.980 there's lots of kids in there.
00:18:07.120 Behind me, the Leisure Plex.
00:18:09.740 As you can see,
00:18:10.380 it's all about family fun.
00:18:11.900 Different ages.
00:18:12.800 They even have a ballroom.
00:18:13.920 You know what I mean?
00:18:14.800 A room of all those little balls
00:18:16.560 where kids go in.
00:18:18.000 There's the Odeon Theater.
00:18:19.560 This is a place for kids and for families.
00:18:22.640 But right across the street there
00:18:24.460 is an abandoned or empty warehouse factory.
00:18:29.260 It used to be a paint company.
00:18:31.560 But the government has decided
00:18:33.020 to put hundreds of migrant men in there.
00:18:36.620 Just men.
00:18:37.880 Hundreds of them.
00:18:38.900 I've heard 250.
00:18:40.100 I've heard 500.
00:18:41.000 I've even heard 1,000.
00:18:43.340 And they're just plunking them down
00:18:45.340 in this residential area.
00:18:47.040 An area that's actually low income
00:18:49.240 where they don't have services enough already.
00:18:52.420 That has led to opposition amongst the locals.
00:18:56.400 And there's no process.
00:18:58.260 There's no process of objection or consultation.
00:19:01.180 If they were going to build
00:19:02.260 a big apartment block there,
00:19:03.960 there would be all sorts of hearings
00:19:06.080 and is there enough parking?
00:19:08.040 What does it do for traffic?
00:19:09.660 None of that applies here.
00:19:11.040 The government has announced
00:19:12.580 they are putting hundreds of migrant men here
00:19:15.740 and the local community can like it or lump it.
00:19:19.560 Well, yesterday things came to a head.
00:19:22.200 There was a protest there
00:19:23.740 and hundreds of people marched.
00:19:27.100 Some of them got violent.
00:19:29.440 They wore black balaclabas.
00:19:31.220 They hurled bricks.
00:19:32.700 They hurled Molotov cocktails.
00:19:35.060 They torched a police car,
00:19:36.300 torched some machinery.
00:19:38.540 Police responded in kind.
00:19:40.480 80 riot cops wearing exoskeletons.
00:19:43.360 It was a melee.
00:19:44.100 Well, that is the news
00:19:45.660 that absolutely dominated today.
00:19:49.360 When we landed at the airport in Dublin,
00:19:51.300 we saw nine newspapers.
00:19:53.620 The front page of each one
00:19:55.300 was about the arrests.
00:19:58.600 It wasn't about the underlying politics
00:20:00.720 or the underlying grievance.
00:20:02.100 It was about the 15 people
00:20:03.480 who were arrested.
00:20:05.540 And in a way,
00:20:06.080 that's a double shame.
00:20:07.060 Of course, violence is not a solution
00:20:08.880 to public policy problems,
00:20:10.580 but it also took all the oxygen
00:20:12.580 and all the attention away
00:20:13.940 from the underlying grievance
00:20:15.720 in the community.
00:20:16.680 Well, this is new.
00:20:17.900 I think this was put up last night
00:20:20.200 after the fiery, riotous protests.
00:20:24.480 Enormous concrete blocks
00:20:26.080 making it very impassable.
00:20:29.740 You really would have difficulty
00:20:31.920 climbing over those.
00:20:33.060 You wouldn't want to...
00:20:34.580 I mean, that certainly wouldn't be
00:20:36.160 for anyone other than
00:20:37.420 a young athletic person.
00:20:38.760 You wouldn't have the kind of mass protests
00:20:41.600 that 90% of the protesters
00:20:43.460 were yesterday.
00:20:45.160 Obviously, there are people undeterred.
00:20:48.000 I see 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 15 people here
00:20:52.360 with Irish flags.
00:20:53.760 You can see they have some signs.
00:20:56.440 Concerned parents for Kulak.
00:20:58.280 Protect our children.
00:21:00.000 Bellina says no supports Kulak.
00:21:04.540 People honking as they go by.
00:21:06.720 Imagine putting 500 single
00:21:09.440 military-aged migrant men there
00:21:12.040 and saying, suck it up.
00:21:14.780 We're the government.
00:21:15.580 We're telling you how it is.
00:21:17.220 Shut up, they explained.
00:21:19.440 Let's go across the street
00:21:20.380 and see if anyone will talk to us.
00:21:22.000 My guess is they hate the media.
00:21:23.460 So, yesterday was a big conflagration.
00:21:30.800 We can see some of the charges.
00:21:32.580 So, so major.
00:21:33.740 It was a big, big thing for Kulak
00:21:35.260 and it's what we've been trying to prevent.
00:21:37.380 We didn't want this.
00:21:38.280 We wanted it peaceful.
00:21:39.540 Kept peaceful.
00:21:40.720 We've been here for 116 days,
00:21:42.740 day and night.
00:21:43.700 We've given up so much
00:21:44.900 and sacrificed so much to be here.
00:21:46.780 We tried to find a better way.
00:21:48.920 But unfortunately, they didn't listen.
00:21:50.560 The government is letting us down once again.
00:21:52.540 They will not listen to the people.
00:21:53.960 The people do not want this.
00:21:55.280 They don't know where they're from
00:21:56.300 or who they are,
00:21:57.320 what record,
00:21:58.120 what, you know,
00:21:59.560 like if they're running from Crimea or not.
00:22:01.660 So, most of them are coming from the UK,
00:22:03.540 is that right?
00:22:04.100 Well, there's a lot coming from the UK.
00:22:05.800 Do any come by boat?
00:22:08.000 To here?
00:22:09.080 Not that I know of.
00:22:09.980 They come across from France to the UK
00:22:13.540 and make their way through England.
00:22:15.520 Everybody is ignoring us.
00:22:16.900 We've tried to reach out to everybody.
00:22:18.460 We're falling on death first.
00:22:19.580 We're being called uneducated,
00:22:21.420 jobless,
00:22:22.960 you name it.
00:22:23.640 We've been called a far-right,
00:22:25.040 racist, bigots.
00:22:26.500 No one is listening to us.
00:22:27.700 It's a small country.
00:22:28.600 We can't take all these people coming in.
00:22:31.580 We can understand there is people
00:22:32.880 that's coming from war-torn countries.
00:22:35.140 But the majority...
00:22:35.640 But France and the UK
00:22:36.540 are not war-torn countries.
00:22:37.540 I know that,
00:22:38.180 but they're coming to France,
00:22:40.800 you know,
00:22:41.380 some of them are coming to France
00:22:42.740 from war-torn,
00:22:43.700 but others are from Africa
00:22:44.840 and not,
00:22:45.120 they're just jumping on the bandwagon.
00:22:46.700 They're going to France,
00:22:47.540 getting lollies over to England,
00:22:49.100 or boating over to England,
00:22:50.380 and then coming through here.
00:22:51.560 Not one local councillor
00:22:52.820 from around here wants to know.
00:22:54.480 They've ignored us
00:22:55.220 and reoccurled us from day one.
00:22:56.640 They do want to know.
00:22:57.540 When I think of refugees,
00:22:58.760 I think of women and children.
00:23:00.420 I think of maybe old people or babies.
00:23:02.680 I don't think of military-edged single men.
00:23:04.960 Annie Park, you see,
00:23:05.800 young people's with the best of runners
00:23:07.640 on the jeans with cans.
00:23:09.560 All young people's,
00:23:10.800 you know,
00:23:11.220 in the early teens,
00:23:13.000 1920s,
00:23:14.660 you know,
00:23:15.100 yeah,
00:23:16.000 with the label-designed trousers
00:23:19.740 and all that.
00:23:20.380 After the riot last night,
00:23:22.920 riot protests,
00:23:23.940 it was both,
00:23:24.720 these enormous blocks
00:23:26.020 were placed here.
00:23:26.960 I don't know how heavy they are.
00:23:28.540 It wouldn't surprise me
00:23:29.580 if they were a ton or more each.
00:23:31.660 You'd have to be pretty slender
00:23:33.180 to slip through here.
00:23:34.280 I don't know if any person could.
00:23:36.540 You'd have to be pretty ambitious
00:23:37.760 to climb over it.
00:23:45.940 How are you, mate?
00:23:46.860 Ezra Levant from Rebel News in Canada.
00:23:48.680 What's your name?
00:23:49.440 Brian Garrigan,
00:23:50.660 representing the Irish people
00:23:52.160 and all good people of the world.
00:23:54.100 This is a peaceful protest.
00:23:55.780 We're concerned citizens,
00:23:57.320 concerned fathers and mothers
00:23:58.560 about undocumented men
00:24:00.500 coming into our country.
00:24:02.080 Yes,
00:24:02.560 Ireland has to help
00:24:03.400 genuine refugees
00:24:04.480 and we do,
00:24:05.940 but we need to vet them.
00:24:07.600 We don't have us
00:24:08.000 coming into our country
00:24:08.800 and we need to look after our own.
00:24:10.840 Now, remember,
00:24:11.280 the Irish went all over the world,
00:24:12.780 everywhere and built it,
00:24:14.060 but the thing is,
00:24:14.600 we went and we slept on couches.
00:24:16.500 We got digs,
00:24:17.540 we got jobs,
00:24:18.280 we paid our way,
00:24:19.080 we paid our own healthcare,
00:24:20.160 we got nothing for free,
00:24:21.500 but we are
00:24:22.180 four genuine,
00:24:23.880 genuine refugees.
00:24:25.060 This is not an anti-refugee protest.
00:24:27.200 And,
00:24:27.500 are you from Newtown Mount Kennedy?
00:24:30.880 Where are you from?
00:24:31.460 Dublin.
00:24:32.900 And what's going on
00:24:34.040 in some of the smaller places
00:24:35.300 like Newtown Mount Kennedy?
00:24:36.580 They're getting planted
00:24:37.500 with people who are undocumented
00:24:38.800 in such a small town.
00:24:41.020 Kulak, we believe,
00:24:41.900 is going to get
00:24:42.400 between 1,000 to 1,500
00:24:44.440 undocumented men.
00:24:46.600 There's enough problems
00:24:47.360 in Kulak
00:24:47.980 with drugs
00:24:48.960 and with unemployment.
00:24:50.380 We don't need
00:24:50.900 the house,
00:24:51.600 we don't need the house
00:24:52.420 to order all people
00:24:53.000 who don't belong here.
00:24:53.980 There's no direct flight
00:24:55.000 from here to Nigeria.
00:24:56.120 or from here
00:24:57.200 to Pakistan.
00:24:58.640 Let me ask you
00:24:59.440 two more questions.
00:25:02.140 The mainstream media
00:25:03.820 denounces
00:25:04.520 people here
00:25:05.940 as far-right
00:25:07.240 or racist.
00:25:08.400 What's your response
00:25:09.220 to the mainstream media?
00:25:11.040 Just because you stand up
00:25:12.280 with a flag
00:25:12.860 or you say
00:25:13.380 you're a concerned citizen,
00:25:14.520 straight away
00:25:15.040 you're far-right.
00:25:16.080 So, I have nothing
00:25:16.920 to say to the main media
00:25:17.780 because they're never here.
00:25:18.800 They won't listen to us.
00:25:19.660 But we're here
00:25:21.120 as a peaceful protest
00:25:23.260 as concerned parents.
00:25:25.460 Remember,
00:25:26.180 we have people
00:25:27.500 like Paul McGrath,
00:25:28.940 Phil Lynn
00:25:29.300 who claim Irishhood,
00:25:30.660 Mohammed Ali
00:25:31.380 who claim Irishhood.
00:25:33.320 We're not anti-anyone.
00:25:34.600 We just want to look
00:25:35.280 at our own people
00:25:36.180 and house our own force.
00:25:37.140 That's all.
00:25:38.560 Let me ask you,
00:25:39.220 do you think anything
00:25:39.940 will change
00:25:40.620 because I'm an outsider
00:25:41.820 but it seems to me
00:25:42.940 that all the parties
00:25:44.040 in Ireland
00:25:45.000 are for open borders
00:25:46.500 immigration.
00:25:47.540 Do you think
00:25:47.880 that will change?
00:25:48.700 In June of next month
00:25:51.160 there's new local elections
00:25:52.580 all over Ireland, okay?
00:25:54.300 So, I'm running
00:25:54.960 in Dublin Inner Sea,
00:25:56.600 vote number one
00:25:57.420 Brian Garrigan
00:25:58.000 and we're going
00:25:58.920 to make a change.
00:25:59.860 We're slowly
00:26:00.380 waking the people up.
00:26:01.640 85% of people's concerns
00:26:03.640 are about illegal immigration.
00:26:06.280 And remember,
00:26:06.880 we have to help
00:26:07.520 genuine immigrants.
00:26:08.500 Genuine.
00:26:09.220 You know,
00:26:09.500 it's still early
00:26:10.020 in the morning.
00:26:10.580 We got here
00:26:11.180 on the overnight flight
00:26:13.320 from Canada.
00:26:14.340 We just threw our stuff
00:26:15.400 down at the hotel
00:26:16.160 and then we came
00:26:17.340 straight here.
00:26:18.000 It was sort of interesting
00:26:18.820 that this was
00:26:19.720 on the front page
00:26:20.840 of the Irish Independent.
00:26:23.360 I just bumped
00:26:24.240 into a cameraman
00:26:25.120 from the state broadcaster
00:26:26.680 here called RTE
00:26:28.400 as you can imagine.
00:26:29.960 Being the state broadcaster
00:26:31.340 and a left-wing government
00:26:32.160 they are like Canada's CBC
00:26:33.680 but they know
00:26:34.720 this is a news story.
00:26:36.200 It's still early
00:26:37.020 and everyone here
00:26:38.080 seems to be sleeping in
00:26:39.140 but I see someone
00:26:40.080 looks like he's
00:26:41.320 just getting up now.
00:26:42.860 I don't want to
00:26:43.680 interrupt people.
00:26:44.960 I don't want to
00:26:45.680 wake people up
00:26:46.980 but if people are
00:26:48.500 up and at them
00:26:51.060 and getting started
00:26:51.840 with their day
00:26:52.420 and want to talk to us
00:26:53.760 I'm happy to talk to them.
00:26:55.640 Would you like to
00:26:56.180 talk on camera?
00:26:57.360 You're still
00:26:57.800 you don't speak English?
00:27:00.220 Where are you from?
00:27:03.440 You're from Palestine?
00:27:05.380 When did you
00:27:06.120 when did you get here?
00:27:08.700 No, no,
00:27:09.380 speak English.
00:27:10.060 He says he's from
00:27:11.300 Palestine
00:27:12.020 or Palestine
00:27:13.320 and he says
00:27:15.460 he doesn't speak English.
00:27:18.280 Let's continue walking.
00:27:23.740 By the way
00:27:24.540 I should say
00:27:25.180 I don't think
00:27:28.800 there's any direct flights
00:27:30.020 from the West Bank
00:27:31.940 or Gaza
00:27:32.440 to Ireland
00:27:33.340 so obviously
00:27:34.420 the folks here
00:27:35.060 came through
00:27:35.660 a second country
00:27:36.960 and one of the rules
00:27:37.600 about refugee status
00:27:39.420 that the United Nations
00:27:40.540 has resolved
00:27:42.160 is that
00:27:42.980 if you're a refugee
00:27:44.320 you have to present
00:27:45.180 in the first
00:27:45.880 safe country
00:27:47.180 you arrive at.
00:27:48.300 You can't sort of go
00:27:49.220 shopping around
00:27:50.520 and island hopping
00:27:51.540 so to speak.
00:27:52.480 Hi, how are you guys?
00:27:53.520 Do you guys
00:27:54.360 live around here?
00:27:55.600 Are you in these tents?
00:27:56.280 I want to ask you
00:27:56.700 please
00:27:56.900 don't film me
00:27:57.520 please
00:27:57.740 don't film me
00:27:59.260 excuse me
00:28:00.260 please
00:28:00.440 are you going to
00:28:00.900 help these guys
00:28:01.620 or no?
00:28:02.520 Well, I want
00:28:03.260 what's the point
00:28:03.840 of filming them
00:28:04.440 please?
00:28:05.260 I want to know
00:28:06.140 who they are
00:28:06.900 and what they're doing
00:28:08.380 it's not your business
00:28:09.940 bro
00:28:10.140 if you're going to
00:28:10.700 give them some help
00:28:11.480 give them some help
00:28:12.180 don't film me
00:28:12.880 man
00:28:13.020 I already told you
00:28:13.880 that
00:28:14.080 don't film me
00:28:15.340 bro
00:28:15.520 don't film me
00:28:16.860 public place
00:28:17.620 but don't film me
00:28:18.520 man
00:28:18.680 I'm telling you
00:28:19.340 I'm telling you
00:28:21.040 I'm telling you
00:28:22.500 don't fucking
00:28:23.780 film me
00:28:24.220 what's your name?
00:28:31.320 I'm talking to this guy
00:28:32.380 yeah
00:28:32.600 what's your name?
00:28:33.500 where are you from?
00:28:34.420 it's all your fucking business
00:28:35.560 man
00:28:35.840 well why did
00:28:36.520 why did you come up
00:28:37.320 and talk to us?
00:28:37.940 so why are you filming people
00:28:38.720 are you going to give them help?
00:28:39.780 are you going to help them
00:28:40.620 yeah?
00:28:40.940 maybe
00:28:41.220 no maybe
00:28:41.980 yeah not maybe
00:28:42.660 you're just making like
00:28:43.580 what is it
00:28:43.900 you just want to get your wages
00:28:44.940 man you know
00:28:45.540 are you filming yeah?
00:28:47.740 we want to know
00:28:48.340 what's going on
00:28:49.080 go get a burger
00:28:50.300 yeah
00:28:50.600 hi there
00:28:53.240 can we talk to you
00:28:55.200 a little bit
00:28:55.620 about what's going on
00:28:56.560 around here?
00:28:57.580 no?
00:28:58.180 where are you from?
00:29:00.380 it's not a fucking business
00:29:01.620 well where are you from?
00:29:02.900 it's not a fucking business
00:29:03.860 why is it
00:29:05.480 well why is it not my business?
00:29:07.040 I'm from Dublin
00:29:07.700 you're from Dublin?
00:29:08.600 yeah
00:29:08.840 all right
00:29:09.940 does that go for you?
00:29:11.680 sure
00:29:12.100 okay
00:29:15.800 fuck off man
00:29:16.880 how you're close?
00:29:17.720 he said to filming people
00:29:18.840 go to jail man
00:29:19.820 you know
00:29:20.480 you filming people
00:29:21.920 go to jail
00:29:22.520 fuck off yeah
00:29:23.180 here's the guard
00:29:26.200 so they've rang the guards
00:29:27.540 to tell them
00:29:28.340 that we're here
00:29:29.060 and by guards
00:29:30.000 you mean the guard eye
00:29:31.040 the official police?
00:29:32.540 well maybe they'll have a word
00:29:33.620 I mean I'm a very curious person
00:29:35.220 I'd like to talk
00:29:35.900 tell me a little bit
00:29:36.800 about Newtown and Kennedy
00:29:37.800 it's basically a town
00:29:39.080 not far from Dublin
00:29:40.720 small population
00:29:42.720 about 2,800 people
00:29:45.100 and
00:29:45.920 you know
00:29:48.460 until this happened
00:29:49.380 of course
00:29:49.980 peaceful
00:29:50.880 there's only a few shops
00:29:53.500 in it
00:29:53.820 a few pubs
00:29:54.540 in it
00:29:54.760 there's not
00:29:55.800 enough facilities
00:29:57.080 even for the people
00:29:57.860 that are here
00:29:58.720 people that are moving
00:29:59.880 in here
00:30:00.340 of which there are all races
00:30:01.840 and all creeds
00:30:02.580 and colours
00:30:03.040 we have no problem
00:30:04.340 with that
00:30:04.740 what we do have a problem
00:30:05.700 with is this
00:30:07.100 as you can see
00:30:07.740 now I can't see
00:30:08.880 because there's a big
00:30:09.820 corrugated metal fence
00:30:11.040 all around
00:30:11.380 they've erected here
00:30:12.260 it's like something
00:30:13.000 you'd see in 1970s Belfast
00:30:14.880 when you've seen
00:30:15.700 the soldier forts
00:30:17.480 as we called them then
00:30:18.580 that's what they were
00:30:19.760 this is exactly
00:30:20.780 what they looked like
00:30:21.420 what's behind
00:30:22.400 this corrugated metal?
00:30:23.680 before this was all erected
00:30:25.080 it was a big convent house
00:30:27.100 and it used to be
00:30:28.260 nuns were in there
00:30:29.200 and school
00:30:29.860 yeah
00:30:30.120 and the walls
00:30:31.900 would have only been
00:30:32.600 about four feet high
00:30:34.680 and you could see
00:30:36.160 into the grounds
00:30:37.120 quite clearly
00:30:37.700 am I hearing voices
00:30:39.560 over there
00:30:39.940 or is there
00:30:40.420 activity behind there?
00:30:42.100 there are a hundred
00:30:42.620 and so men
00:30:43.320 we don't know
00:30:43.980 nobody has ever told us
00:30:45.300 it's indeterminate
00:30:46.520 so why is there
00:30:47.800 a wall around here?
00:30:49.220 they say it's to protect
00:30:50.480 them from us scary people
00:30:52.280 you're not very scary to me
00:30:53.740 no
00:30:54.160 the working class people
00:30:55.460 of Newtown
00:30:55.880 are very scary people
00:30:56.860 apparently
00:30:57.260 and
00:30:58.260 so
00:30:59.440 anyway
00:31:00.160 Newtown
00:31:00.680 this road here
00:31:01.460 as you see
00:31:02.040 there's no light
00:31:02.920 no footpath
00:31:03.860 no nothing else
00:31:04.640 but still
00:31:05.500 it was a great facility
00:31:06.660 for people who would be
00:31:07.640 out cycling
00:31:08.240 running
00:31:08.820 walking
00:31:09.380 that kind of thing
00:31:10.320 and now
00:31:10.760 nobody does that anymore
00:31:11.760 because
00:31:12.160 we feel unsafe
00:31:13.720 with unknown
00:31:15.280 men in there
00:31:16.520 no matter where they're from
00:31:17.600 so it's not just
00:31:18.420 being constructed now
00:31:19.500 it's done
00:31:20.080 and there's people there
00:31:20.840 it's dusted
00:31:21.240 behind there
00:31:21.980 there's large
00:31:22.880 marquee style tents
00:31:24.580 tents?
00:31:25.800 tents
00:31:26.100 apparently there's
00:31:27.500 eight in each tent
00:31:28.380 but we don't know
00:31:29.280 again
00:31:29.600 we're told nothing
00:31:30.220 it's Ezra LeVant
00:31:31.660 from Canada
00:31:32.420 I might
00:31:33.940 seek asylum also
00:31:35.580 hello
00:31:36.700 can I borrow
00:31:40.860 a cup of sugar
00:31:41.840 they're wearing
00:31:44.160 they're wearing
00:31:45.040 balaclavas
00:31:46.000 they're wearing
00:31:46.660 masks over their faces
00:31:48.700 this is Ireland
00:31:51.200 2024
00:31:52.080 wow
00:31:53.620 balaclavas
00:31:54.460 and they're not even out of it
00:31:55.800 now who would those
00:31:57.920 who would those people be
00:31:59.160 wearing the balaclavas
00:32:00.300 they're probably out of the Grand Hotel
00:32:01.660 they're probably
00:32:02.300 my friends
00:32:02.940 hello
00:32:04.240 are you throwing things at us
00:32:17.580 that's not very neighborly
00:32:18.880 that's not very nice of you
00:32:22.180 they threw a rock at our camera
00:32:26.820 that's not very friendly
00:32:31.280 it's time to recall who we are
00:32:33.860 to hear the call of our ancestors
00:32:37.380 the power that we
00:32:39.720 the powers that be
00:32:42.580 now we have a strong spiritual connection to them
00:32:45.620 and it frightens them
00:32:47.060 because our legends, poetry and song
00:32:49.680 tell time and again
00:32:51.080 how we rose up against oppressors
00:32:53.220 who tried to vanish us
00:32:59.520 we simply must win
00:33:01.320 and if we don't
00:33:02.880 our children will fall
00:33:04.320 just like the children
00:33:05.260 on that statue of the Garden of Remembrance
00:33:07.200 who are trapped there in stone
00:33:10.380 making their downward descent
00:33:11.740 towards the ground
00:33:12.640 I wonder now
00:33:14.560 would that statue even be here
00:33:15.960 in a hundred years
00:33:16.840 and with that I ask you
00:33:19.000 to stand up
00:33:19.900 and ensure the survival
00:33:21.420 of not just your children
00:33:22.720 but also Irishness
00:33:24.460 and all that it means to be so
00:33:26.620 I'm an independent candidate
00:33:33.520 for the Tala community
00:33:35.240 they have protests
00:33:36.480 every Monday and Thursday
00:33:38.140 outside St John's house
00:33:39.500 between 6 and 8
00:33:40.440 and the protest is actually tomorrow
00:33:42.280 because of the protest today
00:33:43.500 between 6 and 8
00:33:44.620 outside St John's house
00:33:45.760 thanks very much for listening
00:33:47.200 I've been following politics
00:33:53.120 for 35 years
00:33:55.540 and I've listened to
00:33:56.460 maybe a thousand speeches
00:33:58.080 I have to say
00:33:58.900 your speech up there today
00:34:00.600 was the most authentic
00:34:01.780 passionate
00:34:02.840 powerful
00:34:03.660 and moving speech
00:34:04.680 I can remember
00:34:05.660 it was astonishing to me
00:34:08.240 who are you?
00:34:09.440 who am I?
00:34:11.180 it's odd to be asked that question
00:34:14.540 because I'm a very introverted
00:34:17.180 sort of a person
00:34:17.980 but because of what's happening
00:34:19.380 in our country
00:34:20.820 I've had to come out
00:34:21.800 and stand up
00:34:22.520 my name is Suzanne Delaney
00:34:24.600 and otherwise known as
00:34:27.440 Suzy D online
00:34:28.720 which makes me sound
00:34:29.700 like a bad rap artist
00:34:31.040 but the name
00:34:32.340 was picked
00:34:33.280 because
00:34:33.900 there's
00:34:35.440 you know
00:34:35.800 there's a lot of targeting
00:34:37.540 of you
00:34:38.740 if you have the views
00:34:39.860 I do in this country
00:34:40.780 and I was trying to protect
00:34:42.060 my child
00:34:42.620 but
00:34:43.560 I've decided to run
00:34:44.980 for election
00:34:45.440 so I've put my name out there
00:34:46.780 I
00:34:47.600 run the Irish Enquiry
00:34:49.380 with my partner
00:34:50.000 Stephen Kerr
00:34:50.980 and he's running
00:34:51.620 for Castle Bar and Mayo
00:34:52.720 we're running as
00:34:53.880 independent candidates
00:34:54.980 well let's talk about
00:34:55.900 what you said
00:34:56.600 you talked about
00:34:57.640 your daughter
00:34:58.120 who's obviously young
00:34:59.300 and I think the most
00:35:00.760 terrifying thing
00:35:01.600 you said was that
00:35:02.620 in a way you don't
00:35:03.580 want her to grow up
00:35:04.280 because you don't
00:35:04.800 want her to go out
00:35:05.440 because you're worried
00:35:06.100 about her
00:35:06.580 in the streets of Ireland
00:35:08.100 tell me that again
00:35:09.740 tell me more about that
00:35:10.740 yeah so
00:35:11.800 when I grew up
00:35:13.780 I would have been
00:35:15.340 when I was her age
00:35:17.500 that was the 80s
00:35:18.780 and life was different here
00:35:20.560 and I used to play
00:35:22.320 outside all day long
00:35:23.400 and if I grazed my knees
00:35:25.620 and came back in
00:35:26.280 my mother would wipe my knees
00:35:27.340 and she'd send me
00:35:27.960 back out the door
00:35:28.660 and my daughter
00:35:30.360 has never played
00:35:31.120 outside alone
00:35:31.940 never
00:35:32.880 and where I live
00:35:34.740 it's not
00:35:36.080 I'm not running
00:35:37.260 where I live
00:35:38.080 because where I live
00:35:39.100 is gone
00:35:40.880 there's no way
00:35:41.980 and why doesn't she play
00:35:43.280 explain to me
00:35:44.140 the missing piece
00:35:45.180 of this story
00:35:45.700 why
00:35:46.060 it's not safe
00:35:47.720 why is it not safe
00:35:49.100 so this year
00:35:50.500 sorry this
00:35:51.180 sorry this week
00:35:52.260 a man
00:35:54.260 a foreign national
00:35:55.780 who was led
00:35:56.280 into the country
00:35:56.900 without checks
00:35:58.060 tried to take
00:35:59.160 a two-year-old child
00:36:00.120 out of a buggy here
00:36:01.480 just up the road
00:36:02.580 and a 12-year-old boy
00:36:05.320 in County Cork
00:36:06.620 was in the toilets
00:36:08.300 and when he was
00:36:09.020 coming back out
00:36:09.600 he was pushed back
00:36:10.240 into a cubicle
00:36:10.900 and he was sexually
00:36:11.620 assaulted
00:36:12.100 so that is what
00:36:14.100 we're dealing with
00:36:14.860 and three children
00:36:15.780 were stabbed
00:36:16.980 up the road here
00:36:18.640 in Parnell Square
00:36:19.500 I don't feel
00:36:21.420 at all like
00:36:22.500 my daughter is safe
00:36:23.440 and when people
00:36:24.640 ask for her
00:36:25.600 to go and do things
00:36:26.740 with them
00:36:27.360 like I have a friend
00:36:28.420 who wanted to take her
00:36:29.340 to a show
00:36:29.880 I say no
00:36:31.100 because I'm so afraid
00:36:32.740 that there might be
00:36:33.520 a terror attack
00:36:34.780 or something else
00:36:37.240 so where I live
00:36:39.680 is not safe
00:36:40.220 and I've spoken before
00:36:41.940 publicly
00:36:42.740 about the fact that
00:36:43.780 my daughter
00:36:44.760 is the only Irish child
00:36:46.040 in her class
00:36:46.720 at school
00:36:47.640 and I have nothing
00:36:49.320 against these other children
00:36:50.500 but that's not normal
00:36:52.620 my daughter
00:36:53.380 is the foreign national
00:36:54.380 in her own country
00:36:55.820 and she doesn't understand
00:36:57.660 what her school friends say
00:37:00.260 I don't want to leave
00:37:01.260 it's so rustic
00:37:03.980 and hearing the sound
00:37:05.040 of the little waterfalls
00:37:06.120 on the locks
00:37:07.220 and it's so peaceful
00:37:09.060 this is one of the best places
00:37:10.900 in Dublin
00:37:11.560 and yet along the sides
00:37:14.680 there were hundreds of tents
00:37:16.760 with military age
00:37:18.300 migrant men
00:37:19.160 so you can see
00:37:20.300 they put these fences
00:37:21.480 to keep them out
00:37:22.480 they've come back
00:37:23.500 and then they shoot away
00:37:24.560 come back
00:37:25.100 shoot away about five times
00:37:26.460 and I talked to a couple
00:37:28.540 of people
00:37:28.880 because there's so many
00:37:29.580 people just going
00:37:30.560 for a walk
00:37:31.220 or a bike ride
00:37:32.080 it's the kind of place
00:37:33.200 where you might go
00:37:33.780 for a date
00:37:34.280 and then sit down
00:37:35.020 on a little park bench
00:37:36.340 and it's notable
00:37:37.540 how many young women
00:37:39.300 are along this path
00:37:40.360 and I mention that
00:37:41.180 because when you have
00:37:42.300 hundreds of military age
00:37:43.780 migrant men
00:37:44.860 camping out here
00:37:45.780 it changes the safety dynamic
00:37:47.940 here's Irish people
00:37:49.500 who stopped to talk to me
00:37:50.980 as they were walking their dogs
00:37:52.240 hi
00:37:52.800 it looks like you're
00:37:53.560 collecting some leaves
00:37:54.600 yeah because
00:37:55.420 my six year old friend
00:37:56.980 is coming for pizza later
00:37:58.460 so she's very artistic
00:38:00.140 so we just took play with her
00:38:02.040 yeah
00:38:02.400 but it also makes me notice
00:38:03.720 the beauty
00:38:04.280 yeah
00:38:05.060 it's absolutely beautiful here
00:38:07.180 the sound of the rushing water
00:38:09.000 you've got some doggies with you
00:38:11.160 yeah
00:38:11.400 can I ask you about
00:38:13.680 these fences
00:38:14.440 around here
00:38:15.740 we were here a few months ago
00:38:17.380 and there were lots of tents
00:38:18.560 with migrants
00:38:19.320 and I understand that
00:38:21.080 they come
00:38:21.540 and then they're kicked out
00:38:22.920 and then they come back
00:38:24.040 and they're kicked out
00:38:24.740 what do you make of that
00:38:25.740 whole thing
00:38:26.280 I guess
00:38:28.200 it's complicated
00:38:30.480 and
00:38:31.660 my understanding is
00:38:33.760 our government decided
00:38:35.140 to stop providing housing
00:38:37.100 for male
00:38:37.980 refugees
00:38:39.360 so the council gives them a tent
00:38:42.040 then the council blocks anywhere
00:38:44.460 that they could put the tent
00:38:45.860 do you think they're real refugees
00:38:48.420 or do you think some of them
00:38:49.460 might be taking advantage
00:38:50.580 of Irish hospitality
00:38:52.080 I don't think anybody would do that
00:38:55.380 for a laugh
00:38:56.100 or to take advantage
00:38:57.120 I mean we know they're coming from
00:38:59.460 areas of the world
00:39:02.580 that are either
00:39:03.540 war-torn
00:39:05.540 or have civil conflict
00:39:07.100 or else they're
00:39:08.980 I guess
00:39:09.400 some of them now
00:39:10.200 even if they are economic migrants
00:39:12.300 it's because
00:39:13.020 the global north
00:39:13.860 has caused
00:39:14.600 climate chaos
00:39:15.960 and
00:39:16.420 people can't make a living
00:39:18.140 where they are
00:39:18.820 and
00:39:19.160 so you think climate change
00:39:21.320 is why they're here
00:39:22.200 no I think
00:39:22.920 but that's
00:39:23.620 I think we're playing out
00:39:25.120 because of the reality
00:39:27.460 that we've put up
00:39:28.440 the six
00:39:29.240 eight Hiroshima bombs
00:39:30.880 worth of energy
00:39:31.580 per second
00:39:32.140 into our atmosphere
00:39:32.980 it's
00:39:35.180 big changes coming
00:39:36.800 like that will lead
00:39:37.680 to civil unrest
00:39:38.580 and about a third
00:39:39.340 of humanity
00:39:39.940 outside livable
00:39:41.260 zones
00:39:42.520 and
00:39:43.500 and so I think
00:39:45.480 fortress Europe
00:39:46.720 is on
00:39:47.200 is preparing
00:39:48.540 itself
00:39:49.960 to make
00:39:50.560 sacrifice zones
00:39:52.600 so we're
00:39:53.900 like that
00:39:54.300 we're just closing our
00:39:55.340 closing our
00:39:57.360 our doors
00:39:58.780 I guess
00:39:59.420 but what's Ireland
00:40:01.000 got to do
00:40:01.660 with any of this
00:40:02.380 Ireland's never
00:40:03.100 had a colony
00:40:03.880 Ireland's never
00:40:05.200 oppressed anyone
00:40:05.980 so why is Ireland
00:40:07.220 a tiny country
00:40:08.880 the only place
00:40:09.980 for
00:40:10.180 there are no other
00:40:11.220 Ireland's for the Irish
00:40:12.380 if Ireland's not there
00:40:13.920 I don't know
00:40:14.420 like it's
00:40:15.320 it's the only place
00:40:16.400 where Ireland
00:40:17.480 for the Irish
00:40:18.800 and why is
00:40:20.200 Ireland's
00:40:21.860 the place
00:40:22.480 where
00:40:23.500 so many
00:40:25.480 migrants
00:40:26.480 can come
00:40:26.940 and someone
00:40:27.340 burn their
00:40:28.040 or throw out
00:40:29.140 their documents
00:40:29.740 when they arrive
00:40:30.380 that doesn't seem
00:40:31.200 like a good faith
00:40:32.320 move
00:40:32.480 I just wonder
00:40:33.180 if you're being
00:40:33.760 a little bit
00:40:34.780 I don't mean to
00:40:35.500 criticize
00:40:35.820 but you sound
00:40:36.700 credulous
00:40:39.100 what credulous
00:40:40.900 means believable
00:40:41.700 sounds like
00:40:42.940 perhaps you're
00:40:43.580 you're
00:40:44.040 you're the kind
00:40:45.440 of person
00:40:45.840 that
00:40:46.100 someone from
00:40:47.500 a low trust
00:40:48.160 society
00:40:48.720 might take
00:40:49.260 advantage
00:40:49.640 if you look
00:40:50.200 like a lovely
00:40:51.200 high trust
00:40:51.880 society
00:40:52.460 a wonderful
00:40:53.660 woman
00:40:54.080 who's collecting
00:40:55.320 beautiful things
00:40:56.200 I don't mean
00:40:57.540 to be mean
00:40:58.180 but I think
00:40:58.940 someone might
00:40:59.540 take advantage
00:41:00.160 of you
00:41:00.620 well I'm not
00:41:01.840 I guess I consider
00:41:02.860 myself to have
00:41:03.400 a lot of privilege
00:41:04.080 I'm not worried
00:41:04.700 about being
00:41:05.060 taken advantage
00:41:05.760 of
00:41:06.120 I'd happily
00:41:07.020 pay more tax
00:41:08.000 if the tax
00:41:08.600 went to not
00:41:09.200 funding
00:41:09.620 fossil fuels
00:41:10.320 and arms
00:41:10.820 but to
00:41:11.360 creating
00:41:12.480 a safe haven
00:41:13.620 for people
00:41:14.200 fleeing justice
00:41:15.180 injustice
00:41:15.940 but there's
00:41:16.580 8 billion people
00:41:17.600 in the world
00:41:18.000 and my guess
00:41:18.600 is that half
00:41:19.140 of them
00:41:19.440 would love
00:41:20.120 to come
00:41:20.460 to this
00:41:20.760 beautiful place
00:41:21.540 if they could
00:41:22.120 but you can't
00:41:23.680 fit 4 billion
00:41:24.580 people in Ireland
00:41:25.360 you can't
00:41:25.820 fit 4 million
00:41:26.940 more
00:41:27.420 you can
00:41:28.060 Ireland had
00:41:28.720 8 million
00:41:29.100 before the
00:41:29.560 great hunger
00:41:30.300 of famine
00:41:30.760 so do you
00:41:31.340 think maybe
00:41:31.840 we could
00:41:32.600 take
00:41:32.800 so maybe
00:41:33.920 a few million
00:41:34.540 more people
00:41:35.120 from Pakistan
00:41:35.780 and Somalia
00:41:37.280 and
00:41:37.720 I think
00:41:38.280 this
00:41:38.640 I think
00:41:40.400 the narrative
00:41:41.200 around migration
00:41:41.940 is incorrect
00:41:42.880 people aren't
00:41:44.480 made aware
00:41:45.440 that there's always
00:41:46.120 been movement
00:41:46.660 of migration
00:41:47.220 we migrated
00:41:47.840 out of Africa
00:41:48.520 to pull the
00:41:49.180 planet
00:41:49.480 I thought
00:41:49.900 Ireland
00:41:50.220 yes
00:41:50.920 and then
00:41:51.640 only since
00:41:52.360 the nation
00:41:52.740 state
00:41:53.240 has there been
00:41:53.800 some notion
00:41:54.360 of
00:41:54.680 which is only
00:41:56.040 like a 19th century
00:41:57.340 phenomenon
00:41:57.820 has there been
00:41:58.680 some notion
00:41:59.240 of like
00:41:59.640 us and them
00:42:00.380 well the Irish
00:42:01.880 have had us
00:42:02.660 and them
00:42:02.940 the Irish
00:42:03.300 have been
00:42:03.640 throwing off
00:42:04.680 occupiers
00:42:05.920 and oppressors
00:42:06.480 for centuries
00:42:07.120 exactly
00:42:07.420 so the Irish
00:42:08.080 have had to
00:42:08.600 take refuge
00:42:09.480 there are
00:42:11.440 about 14 million
00:42:12.380 people around
00:42:13.760 the globe
00:42:14.180 who claim
00:42:14.740 to have Irish
00:42:15.280 origin
00:42:15.740 and they were
00:42:17.040 people to leave
00:42:17.720 because of oppression
00:42:18.480 so I think
00:42:19.140 that's why
00:42:19.740 you find
00:42:20.640 many people
00:42:21.440 identify so well
00:42:23.200 with the Palestinians
00:42:23.980 and we're the only
00:42:25.940 white nation
00:42:26.720 in Europe
00:42:27.440 who haven't been
00:42:28.120 a colonial power
00:42:29.140 Dublin is a modern
00:42:30.760 metropolitan city
00:42:32.000 but in the small town
00:42:33.820 of Dundrum
00:42:34.820 which is in the county
00:42:36.640 called Tipperary
00:42:37.760 well there's about
00:42:39.020 175-200 people
00:42:41.160 who live there
00:42:41.860 and although
00:42:43.100 they're modern
00:42:44.120 progressive
00:42:45.020 fully high-tech
00:42:47.740 Irish like anyone else
00:42:49.220 it's a small community
00:42:51.420 where everyone
00:42:52.240 knows each other
00:42:53.320 and in some ways
00:42:55.440 it's how Ireland
00:42:56.400 I expect
00:42:57.320 has been for centuries
00:42:58.980 it's a small place
00:43:00.640 but there is a local
00:43:02.120 community center
00:43:03.040 namely the hotel
00:43:04.220 which now also
00:43:05.560 has a golf course
00:43:06.900 and a country club
00:43:08.040 it's a place
00:43:09.060 where locals
00:43:09.720 would go for meals
00:43:11.060 to play golf
00:43:12.100 it was a meeting place
00:43:13.720 for the community
00:43:14.500 many weddings
00:43:15.700 were held there
00:43:16.560 the hub of the community
00:43:18.600 and a source of
00:43:19.800 economic opportunity
00:43:21.020 for the community
00:43:22.220 making tourism
00:43:23.940 part of the local economy
00:43:25.700 but then
00:43:27.400 the hotel was sold
00:43:29.160 to an American investor
00:43:30.980 and then
00:43:32.260 the Irish government
00:43:33.700 came with a massive
00:43:35.380 contract
00:43:36.040 for this American investor
00:43:37.860 offering him
00:43:39.440 untold millions of dollars
00:43:41.020 if he were to
00:43:42.220 transform
00:43:43.400 this
00:43:44.260 hotel
00:43:45.960 which itself
00:43:46.620 is over 100 years old
00:43:47.960 into a refugee camp
00:43:51.140 I say again
00:43:52.440 this four star hotel
00:43:54.200 with a gorgeous
00:43:56.040 immaculate golf course
00:43:57.900 being transformed
00:43:59.140 in the heart
00:44:00.100 heart of Celtic Ireland
00:44:01.880 into a refugee camp
00:44:04.620 is astonishing
00:44:05.300 but this decision
00:44:06.300 to turn this local hotel
00:44:07.760 into a refugee camp
00:44:09.260 is not made locally
00:44:10.720 it's a national decision
00:44:12.660 and it is being imposed
00:44:14.440 on the local community
00:44:15.720 I asked repeatedly
00:44:17.500 the protesters
00:44:18.280 about town hall meetings
00:44:20.200 or information sessions
00:44:21.400 they say
00:44:22.340 there have been none
00:44:24.200 there is no
00:44:25.420 political process
00:44:26.580 and there is no
00:44:27.680 legal process
00:44:28.600 open to them
00:44:29.400 to ask questions
00:44:30.900 and get information
00:44:31.980 let alone
00:44:33.160 challenge
00:44:33.800 and feedback
00:44:34.580 there is no
00:44:36.100 back and forth
00:44:36.760 there is no debate
00:44:37.740 it is being opposed
00:44:39.100 in an authoritarian
00:44:40.120 manner
00:44:40.780 from the top down
00:44:42.280 my name is Fiona
00:44:43.200 Kennedy
00:44:43.800 I'm a very ordinary
00:44:45.500 mother
00:44:46.800 I live here locally
00:44:49.620 in Dundrum
00:44:50.260 and I'm here
00:44:52.660 with a group of people
00:44:53.760 we're the most ordinary
00:44:54.480 people that you could
00:44:55.140 possibly meet
00:44:55.820 we find ourselves
00:44:57.540 in an extraordinary
00:44:58.300 situation
00:44:59.020 and really
00:45:01.000 we're standing
00:45:01.900 to protect our hotel
00:45:03.620 our beautiful hotel
00:45:04.500 here
00:45:04.760 Dundrum House Hotel
00:45:05.940 our golf club
00:45:06.900 and our community
00:45:08.380 I had never heard
00:45:10.240 of Dundrum
00:45:10.840 until yesterday
00:45:11.820 I looked it up
00:45:13.160 and it only has
00:45:13.860 about 200 people
00:45:15.420 and I understand
00:45:16.880 that this facility
00:45:19.280 this gorgeous
00:45:20.240 beautiful hotel
00:45:21.640 and country club
00:45:22.480 could theoretically
00:45:24.000 sleep up to
00:45:24.980 500 people
00:45:26.420 what do you know
00:45:27.700 about the contract
00:45:29.100 that the owner
00:45:30.740 of this facility
00:45:31.500 has
00:45:31.980 to house
00:45:33.320 asylum seekers
00:45:34.900 and refugees
00:45:35.560 what information
00:45:36.420 do you have
00:45:37.120 well unfortunately
00:45:38.280 we have very little
00:45:39.320 information
00:45:40.540 now we have submitted
00:45:41.500 requests for information
00:45:42.800 under the Freedom
00:45:43.420 of Information Act
00:45:44.680 I'm not sure
00:45:46.000 if the time of that
00:45:46.680 is up
00:45:47.040 but we've had
00:45:47.600 no information
00:45:48.220 back yet
00:45:48.780 we would like
00:45:49.600 to get sight
00:45:50.100 of the contract
00:45:50.660 but nobody's
00:45:51.480 forthcoming on that
00:45:52.460 and have you had
00:45:54.020 has the owner
00:45:54.980 of the hotel
00:45:55.620 been communicative
00:45:56.740 at all
00:45:57.220 not in the slightest
00:45:58.900 no
00:45:59.360 he hasn't
00:45:59.980 engaged with us
00:46:01.320 at all
00:46:01.840 and what is
00:46:02.700 the government
00:46:03.180 entity that's involved
00:46:04.400 is it just
00:46:04.900 the national
00:46:05.780 government
00:46:06.100 or are there
00:46:06.520 any local
00:46:07.080 governments involved
00:46:07.900 well really
00:46:08.940 this has been
00:46:09.540 driven by
00:46:09.940 national government
00:46:10.820 the Department
00:46:11.400 of Integration
00:46:12.060 and there are
00:46:13.860 we do have
00:46:14.340 local government
00:46:14.900 here in Tipperary
00:46:15.600 in Ireland
00:46:16.020 as well
00:46:16.540 and we have
00:46:17.600 some local
00:46:18.160 councillors
00:46:19.080 who are working
00:46:19.920 on our behalf
00:46:20.520 working with us
00:46:21.360 we have
00:46:22.200 one local
00:46:23.860 Tipperary
00:46:24.800 TD member
00:46:25.740 of our parliament
00:46:27.040 just to translate
00:46:28.700 it to Canadian
00:46:29.560 and here
00:46:31.660 here is
00:46:32.580 actually the
00:46:33.120 owner is just
00:46:33.920 about to pass
00:46:34.660 the owner
00:46:35.620 is just
00:46:35.920 I'll have to
00:46:39.440 go and talk
00:46:39.980 to him
00:46:40.220 what's his name
00:46:40.900 his name is
00:46:42.460 Jeff
00:46:42.780 Jeff Leo
00:46:43.440 yeah
00:46:43.960 and I understand
00:46:44.900 he's from away
00:46:45.580 is that right
00:46:46.020 yeah I understand
00:46:47.040 he's American
00:46:47.400 I've actually
00:46:47.880 never met Jeff
00:46:48.640 so that's my
00:46:51.300 first time
00:46:51.700 seeing him
00:46:52.240 that hasn't
00:46:53.100 been a photograph
00:46:53.620 he's certainly
00:46:55.400 sped by
00:46:56.160 yeah that has
00:46:57.560 been
00:46:57.820 he hasn't
00:46:59.220 had any
00:46:59.800 community town halls
00:47:01.380 has he sat
00:47:03.080 down with the
00:47:03.500 media at all
00:47:04.540 not to my
00:47:05.300 knowledge
00:47:05.620 he hasn't
00:47:06.060 I'm guessing
00:47:06.700 you would know
00:47:07.240 we would know
00:47:07.960 and he hasn't
00:47:08.840 engaged with the
00:47:09.600 community at all
00:47:10.120 we've had two
00:47:10.680 public meetings
00:47:11.620 both very heavily
00:47:12.400 attended
00:47:12.800 and
00:47:13.620 did he send
00:47:14.360 anyone to those
00:47:14.940 no he didn't
00:47:15.540 I find that
00:47:16.080 astonishing
00:47:16.560 yeah he was
00:47:17.280 invited
00:47:17.580 how was he
00:47:18.420 invited
00:47:18.680 by email
00:47:19.620 by letter
00:47:20.180 I'm not sure
00:47:20.660 because I wasn't
00:47:21.260 involved
00:47:21.500 he must have
00:47:22.080 known about it
00:47:22.640 I mean he's
00:47:23.140 he's the centre
00:47:23.800 of this whole project
00:47:24.840 oh 100%
00:47:25.620 he knew about it
00:47:26.420 you know
00:47:26.760 but he didn't come
00:47:28.060 but yeah the only
00:47:29.000 time we see him
00:47:29.640 actually is when
00:47:30.180 he's speeding in
00:47:30.980 or out of the
00:47:31.440 gates
00:47:31.680 you told me
00:47:33.080 last week that
00:47:33.940 you thought this
00:47:34.440 would be a very
00:47:35.120 large event
00:47:35.960 and it did turn
00:47:37.220 out to be that
00:47:37.960 do you think
00:47:38.780 that do you
00:47:39.600 think this will
00:47:40.000 make a dent
00:47:40.760 do you think
00:47:41.400 this will move
00:47:42.020 the needle
00:47:42.460 or do you
00:47:43.100 think this will
00:47:43.460 just be demonized
00:47:44.480 by the media
00:47:45.260 like RTE
00:47:46.300 do you think
00:47:47.100 they'll demonize
00:47:47.800 it as far right
00:47:48.740 like will
00:47:50.200 anything change
00:47:51.180 I'm impressed
00:47:51.820 with what I saw
00:47:52.480 but will Ireland
00:47:53.720 be any different
00:47:54.460 after today
00:47:55.120 it's hard to say
00:47:56.940 I think that's up
00:47:57.580 to the people
00:47:58.180 I mean if the people
00:47:59.260 are expressing
00:48:00.360 that they want
00:48:01.000 change
00:48:01.580 and it seems
00:48:02.400 that huge numbers
00:48:03.340 are
00:48:03.700 it's up to them
00:48:04.560 really isn't it
00:48:05.180 like I can only
00:48:05.800 really speak about
00:48:06.540 what I've observed
00:48:07.320 reporting on this
00:48:08.640 over the last two years
00:48:09.760 but there is huge
00:48:11.760 anger out there
00:48:12.560 people are extremely
00:48:13.460 angry about being
00:48:14.420 called names like
00:48:15.340 far right and racist
00:48:16.400 when you know
00:48:17.560 they want
00:48:18.460 you know
00:48:19.060 as you said earlier
00:48:19.940 that you don't think
00:48:21.020 it's an anti-immigration
00:48:22.020 sentiment
00:48:22.460 it isn't really
00:48:23.060 an anti-immigration
00:48:23.860 sentiment
00:48:24.360 it's a
00:48:25.320 we are bursting
00:48:26.220 at the seams
00:48:27.020 sentiment
00:48:27.920 yeah
00:48:29.960 yeah
00:48:30.640 yeah
00:48:33.980 yeah
00:48:34.540 yeah
00:48:36.500 yeah
00:48:37.280 yeah
00:48:45.000 yeah
00:48:47.820 yeah
00:48:48.600 yeah
00:48:49.080 yeah
00:48:50.060 yeah
00:48:50.520 yeah
00:48:52.740 yeah
00:48:53.600 yeah