Piano per ospitare 1.000 richiedenti asilo di sesso maschile nel sito di Athlone oggetto di ricorso all’Alta Corte

I’m not looking for trouble but seriously, where are the women and children if they’re seeking asylum? Why just men??

Waiting for the “Stats? Source?” brigade of idiots defending this shitshow…..

With the existing DP centre, that would mean about 10% of Athlone (22,869 population in 2022)
are Asylum seekers of some calibre. That’s a far more impactful headline.

Boxer will have his price for propping up this government. He’s one of the ring leaders of this high court challenge and tbf I get why the people of Athlone support him.

Should no other party make an effort to go into government, this is just one of many shopping list demands the new FFG government will have to answer from rural communities. I imagine those independents will demand future asylum centres will be in dense urban areas. I’m sure the likes of the nitrate derogation, turf cutting, fishing quotas and local roads will also be high in the agenda of a programme for government.

Its pretty clear FF would prefer Labour or the SDs to independents or Independent Ireland. Labour seem to be in two minds about entering government. Bacik, Shatter and Nash want to influence government policy. It came to everyones surprise last night on RTE1 that Marie Sherlock seems to be leading a renegade faction that would rather remain in opposition and be more focused on stopping the SDs from growing at labours expense.

For me labours choice is party over country vs country over party. I voted green this election but gave Labour a high preference. I seriously hope labour do the right thing for the country. I imagine FF would meet a decent few of their red lines like not cutting income tax and increasing public investment in housing and climate action. Of course labour won’t get most of their manifesto implemented but the reality is that’s never been and option and likely won’t be in 5 years time either.