dmccarty
Super Star Member
That was last year.....
A lot has change in Ireland in the last year. It started with the Ukrainian refuge's but then the Irish government invited, and allowed, other nationalities into the country. Ireland has taken in more "migrants" per capita than any other European country. There are people making million of Euro's housing the migrants. I have watched meetings with local officials where people have done the math on how much a hotel can make housing migrants vs tourists. Migrants makes the owner millions. The owner does not give a toss about the locals. There is one residence that is housing Ukrainians but the government and the owner wants to force the refugees to leave so they can house newly arriving migrants. The local Irish AND the Ukrainians want to stay since they have settled into the community and don't want to have the stress of having to move again. The residence owner will simply make more money of the newly arrived "migrants." They are kicking elderly out of nursing homes to make more money. The property owners really don't give a s...t about the locals.
Fires have been set in some of the housing to prevent the migrants from being housed in communities. Fires have also burned out construction equipment because locals think they developer is going to build housing for the gimmigrants.
There is a video of migrants rioting in a VERY nice hotel because they did not like the spiciness of the food. From the look of the hotel, it would have cost me $300-500 a night to stay there during the season. The building owners are making money simply because they can fill up the rooms all year around. This land lords don't care about the local Irish and this mimics the historical plantation of Ireland with Protestants.
There are videos with the Garda shoving elected officials with riot shields AFTER the person was pepper sprayed for no reason. Not to mention people being beaten with batons for not reason. You won't see this on RTE though. They are government controlled. This is why people are calling the Garda Black and Tans.
You can't make this stuff up but a few years ago, the Irish government hired a man, Harris, who led the Northern Ireland police to be the head of the Garda. I could not believe the government dd this because of the historical treatment of the Northern Irish police against Catholics. This would be like if the US had only one law enforcement agency, call it the FBI, and after the cold war, the US government hired the ex leader of the KGB to take over the FBI. What were they thinking? Actually, that is a clue. The rank and file Garda had an overwhelming no confidence vote against Harris a year or two ago. Almost 100% no confidence vote, yet he stayed in the office....
There was a YouTube video a day or two ago of water cannon trucks being transported into Ireland....
I have seen videos of places we have walked in Dublin that I would not feel safe walking today. There was a man knifed to death this week on one of those streets. Given that no names have been announced the guy that died was likely a migrant. A US tourist was attacked last year on that street and was in a comma for months. There had been a bunch of attacks in that part of Dublin in the last couple of years that were targeting locals and tourists. A French teenager on school tour and her teacher were just attacked in another part of Ireland. A couple thought the French girl was laughing at them, so the woman walked up to the teenager and took the teenager's phone. Because that is what you do if someone is laughing at you, steal their phone. A teacher got involved and the man stabbed the teacher a dozen or so times with a screw driver. Because that is what you do when someone laughs at you. Names of the couple have not be released.
Soooo, much of this is being covered up the main stream media.
For Ultrarunners situation, the point of all of this, is that a place can quickly change for the worse. Fast.
The Moro kidnappings and killings from a decade ago took time to plan and execute. It is certainly safer in that part of the PIs now but is that because not many westerners are going there anymore? Certainly, the war that was going on has settled down. If Ultra trusts the people he will be staying with, does not setup any pattern's of behavior, gets in and out quickly, he should be ok. And as Hagrid said before going into the Forbidden Forrest, you got to have your wits about you.
