Despite ample examples from the European continent and its next-door neighbor, Ireland has pursued a policy of quick demographic transformation via immigration and asylum. The Irish case is peculiar in the way they handle and house migrants. International Accommodation Protection Services (IPAS) Centers are set up to house scores or hundreds of migrants, who are given a stipend and fed by the state. Sometimes the state contracts with a local hotel owner, whose property was used by a small community for all its weddings, funerals, and first communion celebrations. The hotel is given over completely to migrants, who sometimes outnumber the residents, if it is a small town.
Earlier this week, a migrant raped a ten-year-old Irish girl who was in the care of the state for behavioral issues. Courts had already ordered that man deported last year, but, as is common practice in Ireland, he had not been deported, and was instead living in an IPAS center, the Citywest Hotel in Saggart. Just as predictable as this incident was the public reaction — near riots outside the IPAS center. The presidential election is this Friday, and the political class successfully maintained a cordon sanitaire, even for this mostly ceremonial office, ensuring that the only candidates would be broadly supportive of the government’s negligently liberal attitude on mass migration.
John McGuirk, editor of Gript.ie, one of the few independent outlets in the country, editorialized on the event:
Irish policy has been particularly insidious because of how it accommodates these men: It piles large numbers of them together in accommodation facilities, away from normal society. Then it mocks the instinctive and entirely sensible concern of locals and sensible people who worry that large groups of young men from such cultures, deprived of normal opportunities to socialise and meet with potential mates, might weaponise their sexual frustration against the nearest available female. As a general rule, I always believe that a concern which is instinctive is a concern based on something valid, and evolutionary. Perhaps it is an instinctive understanding of the darkest parts of the male soul.
The alleged crime in Citywest is horrific because it combines two enormous catastrophes of Irish public policy: Immigration, and children’s rights. Can there ever have been a more insidious statement made by an Irish public body than the one made by Tusla on Monday evening, which essentially blamed the victim – a ten year old child – for “absconding” from their care? “Don’t blame us” was the message – blame the feckless kid for running away and getting herself in trouble.
I don’t expect Irish filmmakers to make a sorrowful film about what the secularists and progressives running the Irish state subjected this poor girl to anytime soon.