Ongoing anti-Mass Migration protest at Flood's Cross, Newhall, Naas, Co. Kildare

[scolairebocht]

Starting approximately in late February this year, anti-Mass Migration protesters have tried to highlight and stop the construction of a huge 1,000 person migrant centre near Newhall House, Flood's Cross, Naas Co. Kildare (53.217245, -6.722889).

And I am proud to say, they are still there. For the last 82 days a 24 hour vigil has been maintained at the site, with the heavy lifting done by a few men but also with good support in the local community. This follows the pattern of similar at least partly successful protests around Ireland, beginning with Oughterard, Mullingar, Coolock, Newtown Mount Kennedy and this one at Naas.

Unfortunately the pattern is then that the Garda Riot Squad smashes the encampment and pushes through the migrants. In this case there was an injunction taken out against the protestors as well, who aren't always in sufficient numbers to completely block the entrance anyway, but nonetheless the company involved say they cannot complete the work in time because of these protests.

I leave you with an image of Ronan, one of the key protestors, and also an interview with some other members (Lilyanne, Maria, and Linda respectively) of this pretty heroic stand.

by Brian Nugent

 

[scolairebocht]

You know on the map above, a large part of the green space you can see at approximately the centre right, is now a construction site for this huge new migrant centre. Here is a little clip of one part of it:

 

[Declan]

About how far are you from this spot.

is it possibly be that this is one of a new mega camp military style operation. Successfully kept under the radar by staged fake protests are held elsewhere with heavy garda tactics just for the camera .

We could have been distracted by a clever feint, with the usual cast of characters. This is an intriguing possibility.

 

[Myles O'Reilly]

Hi Gemma

 

[Declan]

I have not watched her yet but must now

 

[scolairebocht]

I am about 1 and a half to 2 hours from there and yes absolutely it could be some kind of military encampment. Its going to be very big, and its reported some are already moving in, and is just off the motorway in the county where the Irish army is head quartered.

 

[PlunkettsGhost]

I am about 1 and a half to 2 hours from there and yes absolutely it could be some kind of military encampment. Its going to be very big, and its reported some are already moving in, and is just off the motorway in the county where the Irish army is head quartered.

There is undoubtedly some kind of military connection here.

 

[scolairebocht]

I got this off drone footage on twitter of what I believe is the same site. The 24 hour encampment would be off the page at the centre/bottom, and you can see that the above footage is of the topmost large white tent, filmed from the road to the left of the tent.

Its not as easy to map this as you might think because when you are actually there all of it is surrounded by high fences which completely cut off all visual access. I only happened to notice a gap in the fence at the edge, which is how I got that short video.

In short the government are basically building small towns in Ireland overnight, entirely without any planning permission or even a vote in the Dail, and by bulldozing to one side the objections of the local people.

 

[Declan]

Well if that does not terrify the locals, they are seriously comatose to reality.