Local lawmakers condemned the slogan as “racist poison” and an effort to “create fear” among immigrants.
Police in Northern Ireland have launched a hate crime probe after graffiti reading “Irish lives matter” was left on a wall in Belfast, a phrase thought to reflect anti-immigrant sentiment following several similar incidents in the area.
Local authorities confirmed the vandalism in west Belfast on Wednesday, with police inspector Andrew Matson saying the graffiti and other anti-immigrant signage would be treated as “hate” incidents.
“Our local Neighbourhood Policing Team have been undertaking enquiries in the area and anyone who has any information in regard to the erection of the notices is asked to contact police,” Matson said, also referring to a sign placed elsewhere in Belfast stating that “illegal immigrants” would no longer be accepted for housing.
A number of local lawmakers have come forward to denounce the graffiti and signs, with Sinn Fein MP Paul Maskey calling them “offensive” and “disgraceful.”
“It’s deeply concerning and disgraceful that these offensive and racist signs have been erected in an attempt to create fear and intimidate people,” he said, adding “There is no place for this type of behavior in our society.”
Social Democratic and Labour Party councilor Paul Doherty said he asked city officials to remove the graffiti, insisting Belfast is a “welcoming area that is home to a diverse array of people,” while People Before Profit MLA Gerry Carroll called the signs “racist poison.”
Similar anti-immigrant slogans were found on multiple signs erected in south Belfast earlier this month, which were also investigated as a “hate incident” by police. So far, authorities have not identified any suspects or organized groups behind the signage.
The investigation was launched against the backdrop of last week’s anti-migrant riot in Dublin in the Republic of Ireland. The unrest erupted after a man of Algerian origin stabbed three children and one adult outside a school. Irish police described the rioters as a mob driven by “far-right ideology.”
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar urged the public not to demonize migrants, arguing that it is “totally wrong” to link migration with crime.
Irish lives do not matter. That’s the government’s official position. To say they do is “disgraceful” and “offensive”, apparently more so than innocent children being stabbed to death by people who aren’t supposed to be in that country in the first place (strange how the media have all gone dead quiet on THAT part of the story).
Similarly, “white lives matter” is also a “hate” slogan. Because white lives apparently also do not matter. Every race and every ethnic group in the world is entitled to celebrate their own history, their own traditions, their own culture and to have their own homeland, except for one.
For that one group to cherish such things is simply “evil” and “abhorrent” and unacceptable, while it’s totally fine for all other groups. Don’t worry, there’s no hypocrisy there 😉
If any white person wants to celebrate their heritage or take pride in their traditions or even just live among other people who look like them, it somehow automatically means they hate all other races and want nothing short of genocide 🤦🏼
I’m so tired of this mind cancer.
They can spin whatever lies they wish, the simple fact is that the events happening in Europe and elsewhere are the direct result of governments ignoring the wishes and the LEGITIMATE safety concerns of their citizens for decades now.
“Shut up!”
“Don’t say that, you filthy racist!”
“Hate has no place here!”
The fake shame words are beginning to matter less and less to people who are tired of being ignored. And what are ALL those governments doing? They’re rolling out censorship and hate speech laws and cracking down on wrongthink, doing everything in their power to ignore their citizens even MORE. Where do they think this will go, what do they think the inevitable outcome will be with more of the same?
They are doing nothing but increasing the pressure and fanning the flames of ACTUAL hatred even harder. Ten times more dangerous for all those precious immigrants they apparently care so much about than anything the “right wing racists” could do. Especially in an historic powder keg like Ireland.
A government of woke fools and idiots, fook all of em…
politicians don t care about ” precious immigrants”. “. Precious immigrants” are used to divide society. That is the point. To divide and provoke such a chaos that tthose corrupt politicians will be able to restrict all liberties ” for our own good”. That is the plan.
It is happening in all countries where WEF, soros, gates and the likes have influence.
The EU, USA, AU and NZ
I think it is all about housing.Everywhere in europe the price of houses has gone to such height that youngsters cannot buy.
And immigrant gets often ” priority” to get cheap housing. So, it live young family living in dreadfull situations and indeed irish lives matters. It is the reality caused by corrupt politicians that is ” hatefull”
The J*** are actively promoting sub-Saharan immigration as they believe that once the ‘West’ has totally been absorbed by the same, then their ‘messiah’ will return.
Governments that have been bribed, blackmailed and politically influenced by the J***, Israelis and the Mossad is certainly insuring that such mass and illegal immigration continues. This is a Global Zionist Ops.
3 out of 4 Irish know that they are being falsely ‘guilted’ into accepting this mess; and it’s following the same modus as ‘anti-semitism’ if you call the Israelis and Netanyahu genocidal murderers.
I don’t buy into their crap!!!
Greg Reese (The Reese Report) outlines this and two other recent 6-minute videos that are addressing this and similar operative subjects.
Yes, Irish Lives Matter, and ALL LIVES MATTER but the latter will also be legislated as ‘hate speech’.
Technically, dictionarily, and lawfully, there isn’t anything on the books that are enforceable when addressing the subject or charge of ‘hate speech’.
Interesting to note is that when the Zio-J***** Bolshevik Communists in 1917 came to power, they invented and legislated ‘hate speech’ which carried 10 years in the Gulag.
This is Talmudic Zionism re-surfacing and rearing it’s totalitarian, fascist and communist head.
The first step (getting rid of the communistic Labour Government) is comkplete, but requires very, VERY close monitoring to insure that those now in office do their mandated work that we the people voted them in to do.
The second aspect of this is to NOT allow NGO’s, external governmental entities and wokism to enter the picture, especially those NGO’s like the WEF, WHO, NWO, and Talmudic entities.
So, here’s some ‘hate speech’…
Irish lives matter, white lives matter, ALL lives matter, and Israel did 9-ll…!
How’s THAT for ‘hate speech’…?