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A stabbing yards off O'Connell Street, and a city centre he says was run down on purpose.

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  • He starts with the gap between what people are told and what happened. The political establishment love gaslighting the people of Ireland, he says, and he points back to a walkabout by a senior government figure to declare Dublin safe, a line he says has been repeated ad nauseam by another politician, at the same time as Dublin City Council refused even to debate the safety of the city. Against that he sets the stabbing of September the 5th. It happened in broad daylight at half 4, yards from a building he describes as very historic and important in Irish history, and an Irish man was violently attacked and stabbed. His understanding is that the perpetrator was a foreign national in his 40s, now arrested and charged under the Criminal Justice Act, and he says that was essentially the whole of the mainstream reporting, with next to no discussion of what is taking place in the city around it.
  • From there he widens out to the area itself. Anybody who knows that part of Dublin, he says, knows the intimidating atmosphere on O'Connell Street and the streets running off it, up towards Parnell Square and what happened there in 2023, and across to Henry Street. He calls it a cesspool that has been run into the ground, and a petri dish for the wider Irish society. He says he knows people in that area who refuse to venture outside their door because they feel completely unsafe, and that what has been taken from citizens is the ordinary business of going to work, going to the shops and meeting friends without being hassled or in fear of attack. The number he gives for the area is 440 crimes per thousand residents, which he puts at 10 times the national average.
  • His account of how it got there is years of neglect stacked on top of each other. The area was left behind and ignored, he says, with massive rates of poverty and people left behind, drug and substance abuse visible on the street, and then mass immigration on top of it, with gangs he says are hanging around various locations nearby. He contrasts that with what those streets are in Irish history, the 1913 Lockout and its place in working class history, the Rising and the War of Independence. The political establishment claim to have task forces looking after these areas, he says, but have destroyed the area to benefit their rich friends. His example is a museum promised for years on one of those streets to commemorate the Rising, which he understands is finally getting the go ahead, by which point many of the family members who campaigned for it are deceased.
  • He ends on what he thinks the disorder is for. The carnage in the city came from deliberate political decisions, on his reading, and with chaos a solution will come, in the form of extra resources and draconian restrictions placed on ordinary citizens in the name of protecting them. Ireland did not need that many years ago, he says, and seems to need it now. The pattern he names is a political establishment that creates the problem and then arrives with its own solution.
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00:00

Hello everyone

Hello everyone. The political establishment just love gaslighting the people of Ireland. Remember when Helen McInty went on a walkabout on top of streets to say Dublin was safe? Jim Callahan also has reiterated the same phrase adnauseium. This comes at the same time where Dublin City Council even refused to debate the safety of our city. So much for being elected officials supposed to represent the people of Dublin city. Now, the latest event was an horrific stabbing that took.

Place in Dublin City yesterday on September the 5th. This happened in broad daylight at half 4, just yards from the GO, a very historic and important building in Irish history. Now, it occurred, as I said, around 4 where an Irish man was violently attacked and stabbed. And I understand the perpetrator was a foreign national in his 40s. Now he has been arrested and charged under the criminal justice act and that was essentially all of the reporting that took place on this.

Through mainstream media. So no next to no discussion around what's taking place in around Dublin city. so much for the safety as always proclaimed by the political establishments because anybody who knows that part of Dublin such as Okonnell Street, areas like Talbert Street, Gardener Street and many more streets on the other side such as Morris Street and Henry Street and if you go further up Okonnell Street, we know about Parnell Square, what happened there back in 2023.

There is an intimidating atmosphere. It's become a cesspool in around that part of Dublin city. It's been ran into the ground and I would argue all by political design because they made a mess of Dublin city deliberately ran it into the ground as I said and as I said it is a sespool and really a petri dish really for the wider Irish society and shows how far Ireland has fallen in terms of the lack of support for people.

Who want to go about their daily lives in terms of going to work. They want to go to shops and they want to meet their friends. And this has been taken away from the citizens of Dublin. I know a lot of people in around that area that refuse to venture outside the door because they feel completely unsafe. Over the last few years, it's been ran into the ground in particular. For years, it was left behind. It's been.

02:34

Ignored

Ignored. It's been neglected. Massive rates of poverty, massive rates of people who are left behind. We see the drug abuse and substance abuse. And then this is being topped off on top of what's taking place in relation to the amount of uh people coming in through mass immigration where many people and gangs are hanging around in various locations. We can see what's happening on areas like Mur Street that I covered on videos before. other areas around.

Henry Street, Capable Street, and this is absolutely just off the charts to what's taking place in Irish society in terms of people should be allowed to go around about their daily lives without being hassled, without being in fear, and without being feeling like they could be attacked at any stage, which is absolutely just barbaric. These were very prominent streets in Irish history in terms of the design of our capital city but also in terms of the history.

Through so many revolutions. We can look back to the famous time of the 1913 lockout which is an iconic part of Irish workingclass history also with the 1960 rising and subsequently with the war of independence as well. So the very iconic historic parts of Dublin which have been neglected for years by the political establishment. They claim they have task force that look after these areas but they've actually destroyed the area all to benefit their rich full friends. You.

Can see what happened for instance with the so-cal museum that was supposed to be built for years and years which is finally I understand getting the go-ahad on Mur Street to commemorate those in 1960 rising but many of those family members who have campaigned for that for years are now deceased. So this is what happens in Ireland. absolutely want you to forget about our proud and rich history in particularly around Dublin. But this area also suffers from the ma.

Massive amounts of crime. There's 440 crimes per thousand residents. This is 10 times the national average just off the charts really to what's taking place. They need to really wake up to to support what's happening in the northern hill city of going to because they have no interest. This is all about polit political decisions, deliberate political decisions that created absolute carnage in our city where it becomes completely unsafe. But with with chaos, a solution will come. And we know.

“This is 10 times the national average just off the charts really to what's taking place”

What this is with all the extra resources and draconian [clears throat] restrictions that are going to be put on ordinary citizens in terms of protecting us. Well, this is what it's all about, isn't it? We didn't need this many years ago, but now we seem to need it now with political establishment create the problem and come up with their solution. So, thanks for my videos. Thanks for sharing my videos as well. So, from Dublin this evening, it's long. Take.

05:14

Care

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6 Sep 2026 · Government · 5:15

A stabbing yards off O'Connell Street, and a city centre he says was run down on purpose.

Dooley opens on what he calls the gaslighting of the Irish public, pointing to politicians who walked the street to tell people Dublin was safe and to Dublin City Council refusing to debate the safety of the city. He then turns to the stabbing of September the 5th, in broad daylight at half 4, yards from one of the most historic buildings on the street, where he says an Irish man was violently attacked, and where he understands the perpetrator was a foreign national in his 40s who has been arrested and charged under the Criminal Justice Act. His argument is that mainstream reporting stopped there, and that the condition of the streets around O'Connell Street is not accidental neglect but political design. He puts a figure on the area, 440 crimes per thousand residents, which he says is 10 times the national average. He ends on the sequence he expects next, where the chaos becomes the argument for draconian restrictions on ordinary citizens.

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TL;DR
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He starts with the gap between what people are told and what happened. The political establishment love gaslighting the people of Ireland, he says, and he points back to a walkabout by a senior government figure to declare Dublin safe, a line he says has been repeated ad nauseam by another politician, at the same time as Dublin City Council refused even to debate the safety of the city. Against that he sets the stabbing of September the 5th. It happened in broad daylight at half 4, yards from a building he describes as very historic and important in Irish history, and an Irish man was violently attacked and stabbed. His understanding is that the perpetrator was a foreign national in his 40s, now arrested and charged under the Criminal Justice Act, and he says that was essentially the whole of the mainstream reporting, with next to no discussion of what is taking place in the city around it.
02
From there he widens out to the area itself. Anybody who knows that part of Dublin, he says, knows the intimidating atmosphere on O'Connell Street and the streets running off it, up towards Parnell Square and what happened there in 2023, and across to Henry Street. He calls it a cesspool that has been run into the ground, and a petri dish for the wider Irish society. He says he knows people in that area who refuse to venture outside their door because they feel completely unsafe, and that what has been taken from citizens is the ordinary business of going to work, going to the shops and meeting friends without being hassled or in fear of attack. The number he gives for the area is 440 crimes per thousand residents, which he puts at 10 times the national average.
03
His account of how it got there is years of neglect stacked on top of each other. The area was left behind and ignored, he says, with massive rates of poverty and people left behind, drug and substance abuse visible on the street, and then mass immigration on top of it, with gangs he says are hanging around various locations nearby. He contrasts that with what those streets are in Irish history, the 1913 Lockout and its place in working class history, the Rising and the War of Independence. The political establishment claim to have task forces looking after these areas, he says, but have destroyed the area to benefit their rich friends. His example is a museum promised for years on one of those streets to commemorate the Rising, which he understands is finally getting the go ahead, by which point many of the family members who campaigned for it are deceased.
04
He ends on what he thinks the disorder is for. The carnage in the city came from deliberate political decisions, on his reading, and with chaos a solution will come, in the form of extra resources and draconian restrictions placed on ordinary citizens in the name of protecting them. Ireland did not need that many years ago, he says, and seems to need it now. The pattern he names is a political establishment that creates the problem and then arrives with its own solution.
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Hello everyone

Hello everyone. The political establishment just love gaslighting the people of Ireland. Remember when Helen McInty went on a walkabout on top of streets to say Dublin was safe? Jim Callahan also has reiterated the same phrase adnauseium. This comes at the same time where Dublin City Council even refused to debate the safety of our city. So much for being elected officials supposed to represent the people of Dublin city. Now, the latest event was an horrific stabbing that took.

Place in Dublin City yesterday on September the 5th. This happened in broad daylight at half 4, just yards from the GO, a very historic and important building in Irish history. Now, it occurred, as I said, around 4 where an Irish man was violently attacked and stabbed. And I understand the perpetrator was a foreign national in his 40s. Now he has been arrested and charged under the criminal justice act and that was essentially all of the reporting that took place on this.

Through mainstream media. So no next to no discussion around what's taking place in around Dublin city. so much for the safety as always proclaimed by the political establishments because anybody who knows that part of Dublin such as Okonnell Street, areas like Talbert Street, Gardener Street and many more streets on the other side such as Morris Street and Henry Street and if you go further up Okonnell Street, we know about Parnell Square, what happened there back in 2023.

There is an intimidating atmosphere. It's become a cesspool in around that part of Dublin city. It's been ran into the ground and I would argue all by political design because they made a mess of Dublin city deliberately ran it into the ground as I said and as I said it is a sespool and really a petri dish really for the wider Irish society and shows how far Ireland has fallen in terms of the lack of support for people.

Who want to go about their daily lives in terms of going to work. They want to go to shops and they want to meet their friends. And this has been taken away from the citizens of Dublin. I know a lot of people in around that area that refuse to venture outside the door because they feel completely unsafe. Over the last few years, it's been ran into the ground in particular. For years, it was left behind. It's been.

Ignored

Ignored. It's been neglected. Massive rates of poverty, massive rates of people who are left behind. We see the drug abuse and substance abuse. And then this is being topped off on top of what's taking place in relation to the amount of uh people coming in through mass immigration where many people and gangs are hanging around in various locations. We can see what's happening on areas like Mur Street that I covered on videos before. other areas around.

Henry Street, Capable Street, and this is absolutely just off the charts to what's taking place in Irish society in terms of people should be allowed to go around about their daily lives without being hassled, without being in fear, and without being feeling like they could be attacked at any stage, which is absolutely just barbaric. These were very prominent streets in Irish history in terms of the design of our capital city but also in terms of the history.

Through so many revolutions. We can look back to the famous time of the 1913 lockout which is an iconic part of Irish workingclass history also with the 1960 rising and subsequently with the war of independence as well. So the very iconic historic parts of Dublin which have been neglected for years by the political establishment. They claim they have task force that look after these areas but they've actually destroyed the area all to benefit their rich full friends. You.

Can see what happened for instance with the so-cal museum that was supposed to be built for years and years which is finally I understand getting the go-ahad on Mur Street to commemorate those in 1960 rising but many of those family members who have campaigned for that for years are now deceased. So this is what happens in Ireland. absolutely want you to forget about our proud and rich history in particularly around Dublin. But this area also suffers from the ma.

Massive amounts of crime. There's 440 crimes per thousand residents. This is 10 times the national average just off the charts really to what's taking place. They need to really wake up to to support what's happening in the northern hill city of going to because they have no interest. This is all about polit political decisions, deliberate political decisions that created absolute carnage in our city where it becomes completely unsafe. But with with chaos, a solution will come. And we know.

“This is 10 times the national average just off the charts really to what's taking place”

What this is with all the extra resources and draconian [clears throat] restrictions that are going to be put on ordinary citizens in terms of protecting us. Well, this is what it's all about, isn't it? We didn't need this many years ago, but now we seem to need it now with political establishment create the problem and come up with their solution. So, thanks for my videos. Thanks for sharing my videos as well. So, from Dublin this evening, it's long. Take.

Care

Care.

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