The Battle of Coolock - Ireland on the Brink #1

Burning JCBs, police brutality, and mass protest

☘ 16/07/2024 - Coolock ☘

If you read the state media, the statements by politicians, and the howlings of the Far Left on Twitter, you could be forgiven for thinking that the just and noble members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (formerly An Gardaí Síochana) were dispatched to put down an unruly rebellion by the gutter trash of Dublin - however, the footage of multiple citizen journalists paints a very different picture. The Freestate only understands one thing when its captive population becomes unruly - disproportionate violence.

Coolock is yet another working class area, this one in North Dublin, which was earmarked for a sizeable Plantation Centre. Tensions have been rising here with the locals for the past few months since the centre’s announcement, and particular when it was discovered that a 400 year old tree on the land would be felled to makeway for the construction.

The planters this new centre is built for turned out to be the inhabitants of the Grand Canal in central Dublin, which were shipped to Coolock today. The encampment along the Grand Canal was the result of the planters being moved on from outside the IPAS (International Protection Applicant = planter) HQ in Dublin CC. Initially they were moved to the plantation centre in Newtown Mount Kennedy (or Newtownmountkennedy, depending who you ask), but the scene wasn’t to their liking (a rural site about 1km from the town centre), so they “migrated” back to Dublin City where some shadowy hand (NGO) decided they belonged in a tent city along Dublin’s scenic Grand Canal. The state of it has been an embarrassment for the locals who have to walk along there or who would otherwise expect to enjoy the area in the summer months, with some of the new inhabitants exhibiting aggressive behaviour against locals and journalists. Eventually, a network of portable railings were set up to separate the locals from the planters. It is this population who were moved to the new plantation centre today.

Several hundred locals were joined by several hundred more from various other parts of Dublin to stage a “fiery, but mostly peaceful protest” - that’s meme-speek for a JCB in the centre’s construction was set on fire, but the crowd themselves were peacefully letting their feelings be known. It was at this point the RIC arrived in their “public order” unit vans, and we got a replay of Newtown Mount Kennedy from earlier this year. In short - unprovoked violence against men, women, children, and the elderly. This time, not only batons were deployed, but also pepper spray. One could only assume the RIC wished to disperse the overwhelming crowd so that the visible signs of disquiet amoung the natives would be erased from existence.

Philip Dwyer, the “citizen journalist” - who could be better described as a “citizen nuisance”, but the exact kind of nuisance Ireland needs - was arrested unlawfully for the mere crime of his presence on the location, under Section #I-Just-Pulled-This-Out-of-My-Arse of the Public Order Act. Allegedly, according to himself, he was arrested by the same “Garda” who beat him up for covering the riots in November of last year, although the “Garda” was anonymised by his mask. Did I mention that the “public order” unit were dressed like ninjas - all back with only their eyes visible? That’s who approached Dwyer, demanding his personal information and then arresting him when he LAWFULLY refused to render such infromation.