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100,000 March in Dublin After McGregor’s Online Post Ignites Support


The Irish are fighting back!

The “anti-immigrant” (labelled by the media) which is actually an anti-government protest, gathered massive support.

Housing problems.

Health service.

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Immigration problem.

There’s a whole load of issues that the Irish are fed up with.

But the media and government wants to paint them as racists, so they label the protest as “anti-immigrants”. Then the liberal voters come out to protest against them, since they believe the media.

Independent reports:

Thousands of people participated in an anti-immigration protest in Dublin city centre on Saturday, after Conor McGregor posted on social media in support of the march.

There was a heightened police presence in the Irish capital for the protest and counter demonstration which disrupted traffic on some of the main thoroughfares through the city.

Public order units and mounted gardai observed the protesters and corralled the counter demonstration into a cordon behind barriers outside the General Post Office (GPO) on O’Connell Street.

Waving hundreds of Irish tricolour flags, the main protest marched from the Garden of Remembrance down past the GPO and onwards to the Customs House.

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Made up of disparate groups, the protest was generally organised against the sitting Irish Government and its policies on immigration in particular.

The demonstration was also convened to mark the 1916 Easter Rising – 109 years after the armed rebellion against British rule in Ireland.

Participants held up signs with slogans including “Irish lives matter”, “Coolock Says No”, and “Ireland is Full”.

One banner featured pictures of McGregor, US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Shouts and chants heard during the protest included “get them out” and “Ireland for the Irish”.

Both the protest and counter demonstration also chanted: “Whose streets? Our streets.”

Irish Freedom Party leader Hermann Kelly was among participants of the rally.

The large march disrupted transit through the city centre after 2pm, with queues of buses parked up along the quays of the River Liffey and cars directed to turn around by gardai.

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MMA legend Conor McGregor gave his full support as he encourages his people to rise up.

Our kindred spirits, our family across the pond.

This lady understands the protest is not just anti-immigrants.



 

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