Dublin, Ireland was lit ablaze by nativist rioters on Thursday night following reports of a migrant stabbing three children outside an elementary school.

Riots Erupt in Dublin, Ireland After Migrant Stabs Three Children

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Dublin, Ireland was set ablaze by nativist rioters on Thursday night following reports of a migrant stabbing three children outside an elementary school.

The victims included three young children: a five-year-old boy, a six-year-old girl, and a five-year-old girl who had to receive emergency treatment. Two adults were also stabbed, including a female schoolteacher in her 30s. The suspected attacker, a man “in his late 40s,” was arrested by police, and authorities believe that he acted alone. The attacker is said to be an immigrant from Algeria.

The stabbing occurred around 1:30 PM GMT and the rioting began at 6:00 PM GMT when 50 protestors toppled a police barrier, according to one report.

Police vehicles were burned, as was a double-decker bus in front of a statue of former Dublin Mayor Daniel O’Connell. Many other buses were reportedly burned throughout the night, as was a tram car. The windows of a Holiday Inn Hotel and a McDonald’s location were smashed and a Footlocker was looted. Protestors draped themselves in Irish flags and marched through a predominantly migrant neighborhood with signs that read “Irish Lives Matter.”

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UFC Champion Conor McGregor was livid about the stabbings. “Torture and death,” he replied to one user on X who asked what the attacker’s punishment should be.

“Ireland, we are at war,” he wrote in another post.

McGregor rained hellfire on a left-wing Irish Times journalist who had been criticizing anti-migrant protestors. He quote replied to a video on X that showed the journalist being confronted about his writings by a heckler. “Isn’t that something. The absolute picture of weak and feeble,” McGregor wrote. “The most divisive of all is the weak man. One of the most horrific crimes this nation ever seen has occurred, we do not care anymore what you sad cases have got to say.”

Meanwhile, Dublin Police Commissioner Drew Harris condemned the riots as “disgraceful scenes” carried out by “a complete lunatic hooligan faction driven by far-right ideology.” Harris dispatched 400 officers to quell the riots and “serious violence.” McGregor came swinging at the Commissioner on X. “Drew, not good enough,” he wrote. “Make change or make way. Ireland for victory.”

Mary Lou McDonald, leader of the Irish political party Sinn Féin, framed the stabbing as a “shocking, unexpected, random incident.” Sinn Féin has been instrumental in resettling Middle Eastern and African migrants in Dublin.

Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar claimed the protests were motivated by “hate” and brought “shame on Ireland.” “Those involved brought shame on Dublin, brought shame on Ireland, and brought shame on their families and themselves,” Varadkar said to the press.

According to two Irish reporters writing for Reuters, there are no far-right parties or politicians in the Irish parliament and such rioting in Dublin is without recent precedent. However, there has been an uptick in anti-immigrant protests over the last year, with one demonstration leaving Irish lawmakers physically trapped inside parliament.

Net migration to Ireland rose to its second-highest level on record from April 2022 to April 2023. Middle Eastern and African migrants are routinely settled in Dublin and other cities on the island of only 5.3 million people.

The Irish government also permitted some 100,000 Ukrainian refugees to enter the country, one of the highest amounts (in proportion) that any European country took in since the start of the Russian invasion. Ireland is also facing a housing crisis, with a deficit of hundreds of thousands of dwellings. A social media trend in response was launched by anti-migrant accounts who declared that “Ireland is full.”

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