Social Affairs Correspondent Kitty Holland speaks to In The News about witnessing the aftermath of an attack by men with dogs and a baseball bat on a makeshift tent camp in Dublin on Saturday. *
The Irish Times had visited the camp to speak to the migrant, homeless men when four individuals arrived with dogs, including a German shepherd and an American pit-bull terrier.
One man wore a black balaclava, while another carried a baseball bat and allegedly used it to assault a young Polish man who has been camping at the site since last year.
The men - all white, Irish males - shouted “Get out. Get out,” and “pack up and get out now. Now.”
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In recent days, video footage of the tents has circulated on social media, with one video posted on Twitter saying: “It’s like a little village. They say they’re Irish? They’re not f**king Irish.”
‘I like Ireland but when they go racist, I can’t stand it,’ one Hungarian man living in the encampment on the banks of the River Tolka said.
* This article was amended on January 31st, 2023.
