{"id":83738,"date":"2023-11-26T05:54:20","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T05:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.estaql.com\/dublin-riots-roles-reversing-in-one-of-worlds-most-welcoming-cities-world-news\/"},"modified":"2023-11-26T05:54:20","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T05:54:20","slug":"dublin-riots-roles-reversing-in-one-of-worlds-most-welcoming-cities-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/dublin-riots-roles-reversing-in-one-of-worlds-most-welcoming-cities-world-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Dublin riots: Roles reversing in one of world’s most welcoming cities | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nestled in the oldest part of Dublin is a market that sells just about everything: Ireland flags, stone statues of Buddha, lace knickers. But freedom seems to be in short supply at Liberty Market.<\/p>\n

This year, the market is celebrating its 50th year. Larry Mooney has been a vendor here for that entire time and says the city centre no longer feels safe.<\/p>\n

“Personally myself I wouldn’t go into town. I lived on the north side, now I live on the south side because there’s no way I would go down because it’s like a no-go area,” he told Sky News.<\/p>\n

“I haven’t been into the city for about 35 years for the simple reason there are so many nationalities in the town that people are afraid to walk down the town.”<\/p>\n

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He’s not the only one staying away from Dublin City centre. Parts of the city are still reeling after as many as 500 people rioted through the streets following a knife attack on schoolchildren and a teacher on Thursday<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The rampage is reported to have been fuelled by unsubstantiated rumours that the attacker was a foreign national. Crowds burnt vehicles, attacked Gardai and smashed and looted shops.<\/p>\n

The unrest followed growing anti-immigration sentiment in small parts of the country, exacerbated by crimes attributed to migrants. Ireland has also struggled to deal with an influx of Ukrainian refugees that has led to a record number of asylum seekers.<\/p>\n

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Mr Mooney said: “We’re bringing people into the country and the minute they get here they’re getting everything – free medical card, housing – while Irish people are living in the streets.<\/p>\n

“There’s no fairness.”<\/p>\n

“Some of them are going back to get their kids’ teeth done in Ukraine,” he added.<\/p>\n

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Frustrations about immigration are worsened by a long-running housing crisis. In Dublin, house prices and rents have become unaffordable, leading to overcrowding in socially deprived inner city areas. Homelessness is at record levels.<\/p>\n

“People are p**sed off, that’s the main reason,” one Dublin resident told Sky News.<\/p>\n

“I’m surprised it didn’t happen sooner, to be honest.”<\/p>\n

“If you’re helping other people,” said another, “help the ones who have been here for longer. Otherwise it’s going to create conflict.”<\/p>\n

Someone else chimes in: “Ireland is a welcome place for immigrants.”<\/p>\n

Read more:
Girl, 5, among three children stabbed in Dublin
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Six miles south of the epicentre of Thursday’s violence, Sabina Syed and Aisha Ali stack shelves with non-perishable food items. A dozen cartons of flavoured milk, a box full of M&Ms and welcoming teabags that are arranged neatly in a cold warehouse.<\/p>\n

Their weekly soup kitchen was cancelled after Thursday’s violence for the first time in eight years.<\/p>\n

Immigration ‘has become the scapegoat’<\/strong><\/p>\n

“It is shameful that we had to cancel the soup run because of what happened in town,” said Ms Syed. “We have service users who are vulnerable.”<\/p>\n

Ms Ali adds that it was difficult to not be able to help those in need during a particularly cold week.<\/p>\n

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Both women are themselves immigrants. They say immigration has become the scapegoat.<\/p>\n

“Even though you call this country a home, you do what you can to give back to the society, when something like this happens you do feel unsafe and you do feel unwanted,” Ms Ali said.<\/p>\n

The Muslim Sisters of Eire soup kitchen serves about 500 mostly Irish people every week, an example of immigrants giving Dublin’s indigenous communities a helping hand.<\/p>\n

The city appears to be changing and not everyone likes it.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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