Dublin riots

Jane43

There is more than one hero in this, one of the children’s carers tried to stop the attacker, he shielded the child he was responsible for and tried to protect the other children. More than one other person also tried to intervene, at least one of them a woman.

Yes, I know, there was a woman who intervened too, she was interviewed on TV as I mentioned above, plus other bystanders.

Well done for running towards the scene to try to save others, rather than running away.

Galaxy

Social media played that role because reporting from the media was so appallingly poor.

No - the right wings thugs used social media to call up their “troops” to rage warfare.

I am sure they did and they will do it again because trust in institutions is lost. I am not a right wing thug strangely enough, I just despaired and gave up reading the reporting as events unfolded.

I am always amazed that thugs are described as right wing

Do they interview them all and ask who they vote for?

In my opinion right wing has become a lazy insult and description of anyone who is dissatisfied with the status quo and feels that there is no other options left to them than rioting to get themselves heard.

The Garda has in their statement said that there were opportunists who turned up looting and causing havoc.

I would be surprised if any of them had ever been on inside a voting booth.

Despite the above, the events of Thursday evening were awful to watch, and not what I imagine the victims families wanted.

The GoFundMe 'Buy Caio Benicio a pint' has raised over €330,000
The power of social media

Am not keen on rewarding with money, seems to be a sign of everything has to have a cash value.
Reward enough to have done the decent thing and been praised for it.

I am not keen on the knee jerk reaction against social media, I think it obviously has its issues and probably divides us more into 'tribes' but it also provides people with a voice who have never had that before.

Yes I am too am horrified by the focus on the rioters rather than the cause,
There will always be thugs who will use protests to cause mayhem, here and in other countries, it's worse when we don't get the true details, and just have media versions, here in Ireland it's no different to the uk,

Telegraph calls them "far right hooligans
From The Sun "The sinister note was sent to a far-right group chat at 5.22pm on Thursday, after a knifeman attacked three schoolchildren in the Irish capital.

Pause for thought here.

As the political commentator John McGuirk, editor of the Gript website, tweeted: “When thousands of people protested peacefully in East Wall, and in other communities across Dublin, their reward was not to be recognised or engaged with for their peaceful political participation. Their reward was rather to be called far-Right, deplorable, and the dregs of Irish society. Every single effort has been made to silence people. Today, they made themselves heard. I wish they had chosen another way. And then I remember. They did. And you all refused to listen.”

That's a very dangerous position to take though. Some might think he is saying if you protest peacefully and are ignored then there is justification to move onto criminal behaviour. It's not. Putting into a different context, that's the argument that a terrorist group like Hamas could use, ie we have had our requests ignored so we are justified in taking criminal action. And no, it's not! Having done a little bit of research McGuirk is an interesting character, does he really equate the thousands of peaceful protesters with the thugs who rioted and stole from shops in central Dublin? Lots there on the internet for people to make their own mind up about him. I know what I think.