#Parnell Square

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The Garden of Remembrance

This beautiful, peaceful large sunken garden in the heart of Dublin city was designed by Dáithí Hanly and dedicated to the memory of all who gave their lives in the cause of Irish Freedom. It features a pool in the shape of a non-denominational cross designed to be inclusive of all religions, creeds or colours.  The large sculpture by Oisín Kelly is based on the theme of the ‘Children of Lir’,…

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WORKERS' MEMORIAL DAY EVENT

A national commemorative event has been held in Dublin by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) and the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) to mark Workers' Memorial Day, an international day of remembrance for those who have been killed

AT THE GARDEN OF REMEMBRANCE 28 APRIL 2023 A national commemorative event has been held in Dublin by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) and the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) to mark Workers’ Memorial Day, an international day of remembrance for those who have been killed or seriously injured in work-related incidents. In Ireland, 481 people were killed in such incidents over a…

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French president Emmanual Macron hails teen’s ‘act of bravery’ after he wrestled knife from Parnell Square attacker | In Trend Today

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The most riot police in Irish history were deployed to deal with Thursday's street violence in Dublin, the country's justice minister has said.

Helen McEntee praised the police response to a riot which began following a knife attack in the city.

Three children and a school care assistant were stabbed outside a primary school several hours earlier.

Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar said about 500 people were involved in the riot.

He said they "brought shame" on Ireland and promised new laws within weeks to bring those involved to justice.

Officers arrested 34 people after vehicles were set on fire and shops looted.

Ireland's police chief Drew Harris blamed the rioting on a "lunatic, hooligan faction driven by a far-right ideology".

Two of the five people injured in the stabbings outside a primary school, Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuir, on Parnell Square are critically ill.

They include a five-year-old girl and a school care assistant who "used her body as a shield" in an attempt to protect children from the attacker

A man in his late 40s who was also seriously injured is a person of interest, according to police.

They said they were not looking for anyone else in relation to the stabbings and were following a definite line of inquiry.

In a statement, the school said it is "deeply shocked and saddened" by the incident and that its thoughts are with the pupils and creche worker who were injured.

"Offers of support have been pouring in and are greatly appreciated," it added.

Why did the Dublin riot happen?

Just hours after the knife attack, rioters destroyed 11 police vehicles, while 13 shops were badly damaged and more were looted during clashes with riot police.

Three buses and a tram were also destroyed and several police officers were injured during over three hours of sustained violence.

Two Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) water cannon vehicles are being sent across the border, following a request from Irish police.

The PSNI said they would be solely operated by An Garda Siochána (Irish police) officers

The "extraordinary outbreak of violence" had come after "hateful assumptions" were made based on material circulating online in the wake of the stabbings, Garda Commissioner Drew Harris said.

It is understood that included false claims that the attacker was a foreign national.

Sources have indicated to the BBC that the man suspected of carrying out the attack is an Irish citizen who has lived in the country for 20 years.

"These are scenes that we have not seen in decades," said the Garda commissioner.

"What is clear is that people have been radicalised through social media."

Thirty-two people have since appeared in court in Dublin in connection with the riot.

The accused - 28 men and four women - face charges including weapons offences, public order offences and theft of items such as clothing and cigarettes.

After the stabbings, rumours spread on the WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal messaging apps and far-right agitators decided they would protest at the crime scene.

But that escalated into violence and the rioters, including children and young adults, soon took over a large area of Dublin city centre.

For months there has been real concern that something like this could happen.

The far right in the Republic of Ireland has grown and become incredibly emboldened, recently holding a protest outside the Irish parliament.

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The Dublin Fire Brigade said a fire engine that attended the stabbing scene was later attacked by rioters.

Geoff McEvoy from the fire service said: "One of the first calls that truck responded to [after the stabbings] was a petrol bombing of a refugee centre."

He said "the truck was pelted with projectiles" and "beaten with iron implements" while its crew dealt with that incident.

'Nation unsettled and afraid'

Under questioning from reporters, Commissioner Harris denied that his police force had failed to protect Dubliners and their city from the violence.

"We could not have anticipated that in response to a terrible crime - the stabbing of school children and their teacher - this would be the response," he said.

The Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors said police in Dublin needed more support and should be supplemented by officers from outside of the city.

Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald - the Irish opposition leader - said she has no confidence in Commissioner Harris or Justice Minister Helen McEntee.

She said the "cold, hard truth" was that police "lost control of the centre of our capital city".

"The idea that this violence was unforeseeable is frankly nonsense," she added.

Ms McEntee said she would not be resigning and criticised those calling for Commissioner Harris to resign.

"Anyone who wishes to sow division at a moment in time, when we need to be unified in our response to a group of thugs - they should really think about what their priorities are here," she said.

The taoiseach said the violence had left the nation "unsettled and afraid".

"Yesterday we experienced two terrible attacks - the first was an attack on innocent children; the second was an attack on our society and the rule of law," said Mr Varadkar.

"Each attack brought shame to our society and disgrace to those involved and incredible pain to those who were caught up in the violence."

Mr Varadkar said the rioters' motivation had nothing to do with Irish patriotism.

"Their first reaction to a five-year-old child being stabbed was to burn our city, attack its businesses and assault our gardaí (police officers)," he said.

The taoiseach vowed to use the "full resources of the law to punish those involved" but added that Ireland's hate crime legislation was "not up to date for the social media age".

Eyewitness Patricia MacBride, who is originally from Londonderry, said many of the rioters were "young people - late-teens, early-20s".

"But what was disturbing was there was an older generation of people egging them on," she told the BBC.

Stabbings motive 'entirely unclear'

The knife attack took place outside Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire, a primary school in the city centre, after 13:40 local time on Thursday.

It is understood that a group of young children were lining up when a man carried out the stabbings.

A fast-food courier helped to stop the attack by taking off his helmet and using it as a weapon against the suspect.

"[I] just hit him in the head with all power I have and he fell down," said Caio Benicio, who is originally from Brazil.

Irish President Michael D Higgins condemned the attack and the subsequent disorder, which he said "deserves condemnation by all those who believe in the rule of law and democracy".

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The young rioter surveyed the scene. A bus and a car blazed on O’Connell Bridge while masked groups marauded across the city centre looting shops, attacking police and shooting fireworks, turning the air acrid.

A police helicopter hovered and officers with shields and batons were assembling at the far end of O’Connell Street but the heart of Dublin, for now, belonged to the young man in a black hoodie who started to dance in the glow of the flames.

Comrades cheered as he punched the air and jigged to a soundtrack of breaking glass, shouts and sirens. He held his arms aloft like Rocky and paused, mesmerised by the mayhem. “Beautiful,” he said. “Fuck-ing beautiful.”

For other people in Ireland and elsewhere who saw images of Thursday’s anarchy it was the night Dublin went mad. For participants it was the night the city came to its senses – that here was an overdue venting of rage, a reckoning.

Ireland, according to this narrative, has opened the floodgates to foreigners with no controls or checks, leaving rapists and murderers to prowl the streets, and no one – not the government, not opposition parties, not the media, not the police – is taking it seriously.

So when social media rumours attributed a horrific stabbing attack on three children and a creche worker to a foreigner – Algerian, Moroccan, Romanian, versions varied – groups descended on Parnell Square, the scene of the crime, and decided to unleash chaos.

“People need to fight for this country,” said Samantha, a 27-year-old mother, as masked youths clashed with police attempting to retake Eden Quay along the River Liffey. “I’m not racist; I don’t mind people coming in if they respect Irish people. But the likes of the toerags coming into this country – they’re not vetted and are causing havoc.”

The unfolding scenes, in contrast, were legitimate havoc, a corrective to a political establishment impervious to previous protests over rising numbers of asylum seekers, said Samantha. “When we do things peacefully we get ignored.” She had left her five-year-old at home without dinner in order to join the revolt, she said. “I’m out here fighting for my country. We shouldn’t have to do this.”

Others echoed the refrain: to make Ireland safe, wreck the capital.

“It’s not right but it had to be done. The government is not listening,” said one man in his 20s, a bystander rather than a looter. “This isn’t against foreigners. We were the first emigrants. Immigrants are driving our buses, cleaning our hospitals – we need them. But they need to be vetted.”

Ireland’s demography has been transformed in recent decades as a booming economy reversed the historical flow of emigration. A fifth of the 5 million people now living in Ireland were born elsewhere. A recent increase in refugees from Ukraine and other countries fuelled a backlash amid concern over a housing shortage and straining public services. The number housed by the state jumped from 7,500 in 2021 to 73,000 in 2022.

Amid the destruction on Thursday night there was some linguistic nuance, with “non-national” usually preferred to “foreigner”, and “unvetted” or “unregulated” preferred to “illegal”, and an aversion to the label “far right”.

There was nothing subtle about the targeting of police. Bottles, bricks, fireworks and other missiles rained down on officers, many of whom lacked helmets and shields. The crowd cornered and attacked isolated officers, leaving several injured. Eleven police vehicles were damaged.

Journalists too were unwelcome and photographers had to conceal cameras. “He’s with the Guardian,” a man in his 60s, holding a tricolour, shouted. Younger, hooded men formed an intimidating cluster. The worst sin was to be with RTÉ, the national broadcaster, or the liberal Irish Times, which were accused of cheering the “replacement” of Irish people by new arrivals.

Many onlookers were appalled. “It’s heartbreaking for Dublin, for Ireland, for Europe,” said Matthew Butler, 28. A 53-year-old postman who gave his name only as John expressed fury. “Just a bunch of scumbags out to wreck Dublin city. The gardaí [police] should have free rein to beat the shit out of them.”

On Friday, Leo Varadkar, the taoiseach, said the rioters had shamed themselves and Ireland. “I want to say to a nation that is unsettled and afraid: this is not who we are – this is not who we want to be – and this is not who we will ever be.” The Garda commissioner, Drew Harris, blamed the disturbances on a “lunatic, hooligan faction driven by far-right ideology”.

The mob had diverse motives. Some belonged to fringe political groups and were veterans of protests against refugee centres. Some were opportunistic gangs that seized the chance to loot sportswear and alcohol. Others came for the spectacle and the chance to post dramatic footage on social media.

All, however, scorned the idea that Ireland is a safe, stable society. The economy is at full employment and the state is flush with tax revenue but their social media feeds depict a country overrun with “non-native” predators such as Jozef Puska, a Slovak man convicted earlier this month of murdering a teacher, Ashling Murphy, in 2022. As the night wore on, an unfounded rumour spread that one of the children in the Parnell Square attack had died.

It did not seem to matter that one of the people who stopped that attack was a Brazilian Deliveroo rider, Caio Benicio, and that Dublin gangs have assaulted numerous South American couriers in recent years.

Chilling threats of assaults against immigrants were made on a WhatsApp group titled “enough is enough”. “Everyone bally [balaclava] up, tool up,” said one man. “Let’s show the fucking media that we’re not a fucking pushover, that no more fucking foreigners are allowed into this poxy country.”

However, the mob targeted property and police rather than foreign and non-white bystanders, who watched in bewilderment.

As police gradually regained control James, a 33-year-old labourer, confronted a phalanx of shields on Burgh Quay, drawing cheers from others who hurled missiles. After being sprayed in the face, James staggered back to Butt Bridge where a Brazilian man, who had experience of being teargassed in his home country, offered recovery tips.

James thanked him but in an interview said “unregulated” arrivals were ruining Ireland. “We’re rammed to the gills with foreigners doing mad shit. You can’t do this to Irish people. I’m getting out of this country, I’m burning rubber. It’s not safe to walk around here.”

Mohammed Gaber, 27, an accountant who moved to Ireland from Sudan and is now an Irish citizen, came into the city centre to check on his sister, Ebba. He lauded his adopted home but worried about what the riot might augur. “Irish people are so welcoming. I’ve never experienced any discrimination. But this is crazy. This is the first time that I feel that there is something big.”

With roads sealed off and smoke pluming over Dublin, Ebba, 33, was blunter. “This is terrifying.” She was not sure of reaching her job as an emergency doctor at a police station.

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The Garden of Remembrance

  This beautiful, peaceful large sunken garden in the heart of Dublin city was designed by Dáithí Hanly and dedicated to the memory of all who gave their lives in the cause of Irish Freedom. It features a pool in the shape of a non-denominational cross designed to be inclusive of all religions, creeds or colours.  The large sculpture by Oisín Kelly is based on the theme of the ‘Children of Lir’,…

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Pro-life rally attracts thousands in Dublin city centre

Pro-life rally attracts thousands in Dublin city centre

Several thousand people gathered in Dublin city centre on Saturday for a pro-life rally. The crowds assembled at Parnell Square at lunchtime, before marching down O’Connell Street and onto Custom House Quay. The Rally For Life was the first in-person march to be held since 2019 because of Covid restrictions. Organisers said the chief aim of the rally was to urge the public and the Government to…

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Cost of living protest. 24/09 2pm Parnell Square, Dublin

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Jonathan Hunter at Hillsboro

Tonight, I attended the opening of Jonathan Hunter's exhibition at Hillsboro Fine Art, 49 Parnell Square West, Dublin 1 D01 A971. It was well attended. The atmosphere was quite relaxed. Jonathan's paintings were full of life and colour particularly the paintings that featured plants like 'Aleums', 'Vase' and 'Song of Colour'. His exhibition called 'The Listening Field' will run until 13th April 2024.

Classy.

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Eleven protesters arrested at anti-immigrant march in Dublin

Irish police arrested 11 people after anti-immigration and counter-protest demonstrations took place in Dublin city centre on Monday.

More than 300 police officers were on duty in the city centre during the demonstrations, police said.

Protesters gathered in the Garden of Remembrance for the anti-immigration protest at 2pm, some carrying Irish flags as well as signs and banners with slogans such as “Ireland First” and “Mass Immigration”.

The protest started at Parnell Square East and then moved down O’Connell Street and towards the seafronts. Speeches were then made outside Custom House.

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Dublino coloniale e Georgiana

Sorsero in breve tempo Sackville Street (oggi O'Connell Street), Dame Street, Westmoreland Street, Henrietta Street e D'Olier Street, tutte costruite dopo avere demolito i vecchi quartieri medievali e gli agglomerati seguenti. Vennero alla luce inoltre cinque delle principali piazze georgiane; Rutland Square (oggi chiamata Parnell Square) e Mountjoy Square nel North Side, Merrion Square, Fitzwilliam Square e Saint Stephen's Green. Soltanto l'area di Temple Bar e di Grattan Square non furono stravolte.

Nel 1700 Dublino, con 70.000 abitanti, era la seconda città dell'impero britannico.

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