Traffic delays continue in Dublin city centre this evening, Thursday, September 19, following an anti-immigration protest.
Anti-immigration protesters are staging a sit down protest on O’Connell Bridge in central Dublin having marched back from the area around the Dáil.
There has been major traffic disruption as a result of the protest. The Green Line of the Luas is not running past St. Stephen’s Green to the north of the city due to the disruption.
Service disruption on the Green Line please see https://t.co/GkL4FmFo1J for more information. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
— Luas (@Luas) September 19, 2024
Hundreds of people gathered outside the GPO on Dublin’s O’Connell Street for an anti-immigration demonstration on Thursday afternoon.
September 19, 2024: Anti-immigrant protestors march past Trinity College and the Bank of Ireland. (RollingNews.ie)
Dozens of Gardaí are in the area between the demonstrations to ensure rival protesters are kept apart, and Garda Public Order Units have been deployed to the scene.
The anti-immigration protestors carried Irish tricolour flags, "Erin Go Bragh" banners and "You’ll Never Beat the Irish."
"We should be like Germany, close the borders," one protestor said, while the group chanted "whose streets? Our streets" and "get them out, get them out."
Anti-immigration demonstrators are staging a protest in Central Dublin amid tight security. An anti-racism protest is also taking place in the capital and Garda public order units are on duty in the city centre. #DublinProtests #AntiImmigration #AntiRacism #PublicOrder pic.twitter.com/oDzJ3B4T72
— Virgin Media News (@VirginMediaNews) September 19, 2024
They have assembled halfway down Molesworth Street facing Leinster House, with Garda barriers preventing them getting close to the gates of the parliament building.
September 19, 2024: Members of the Gardai and the Public Order Unit keep the peace as anti-racist and anti-immigrant protestors gather at the junction of Grafton Street and Nassau Street. (RollingNews.ie)
More than a hundred anti-racism counter-demonstrators gathered close by, at the junction of Dawson Street and Molesworth Street. Participants were loudly chanting "far right loyalists, get off our streets."
September 19, 2024: Anti-racist speakers and protestors at the junction of Grafton Street and Nassau Street. (RollingNews.ie)
Both groups dispersed from the Dáil and set off in the direction of O’Connell Street, where the anti-racism protestors arrived before the anti-immigration protestors who gathered and commenced a sit down demonstration.
*This article was originally published on Extra.ie.
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