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Dublin: TV correspondents attacked by police

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Brussels 22.10.2025 The GB TV correspondent in Dublin reported the police attack on him, and his crew, while he was attepting to fulfill his professional mission. The incident took place amid the civil unrest in the Irish capital.

The GB News Northern Ireland Correspondent Dougie Beattie reports that their media crew has been ‘pepper-sprayed, smashed and knocked to the ground’ by the police at a Dublin protest. Apparently the authoritties were reluctant to inform the world about the dramatic event, taking place in the Irish Republic gripped by anti-migrant protests.

The GB correspondent wasn’t the only one, who suffered from the police attack.

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During the protesters a police vehicle was burnt, and officers were attacked near a building housing asylum seekers in Dublin, the justice minister said, a day after a man was arrested for an rape on a young girl nearby.

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The incident comes two years after anti-immigrant protesters triggered a major riot in the center of Dublin after the stabbing of three young children.

The Irish Times, which published a video of a burning police van, reported that over 500 people were involved in the protest outside the building in West Dublin on Tuesday evening.

Videos posted on X by Irish media outlets and anti-immigrant activists showed people holding Irish flags and placards with anti-immigrant slogans. Protesters threw glass bottles and fireworks at police.

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The riots are consistent with the rejection of communities to accept without adaptation the Geneva Conventions 1951 which were conceived after the WWII for two million European refugees in Europe. The rigid imposition of these obligations which were taken in the era before the de-colonisation causes further questions of the true intentions of the European Union, which is actively imposing mass-migration policy under the pretext of the Europe’s international obligations. The mass migration policies have been conducted against the will of local communities, damaging the very tissue of democracy. The refusal of sacrificing their safety in name of Human rights of the aliens is met by repressive measures of the authorities. The late Dublin unrest was no exception.

Six people have been arrested after Irish police were attacked with bricks, fireworks and glass bottles at a protest outside a hotel used to house asylum seekers in Dublin.

A police vehicle was also set on fire at the Citywest Hotel, in Saggart, on Tuesday evening. A line of riot police prevented the protesters getting to the hotel.

Gardaí (Irish police) said protesters attempted to breach the police cordon by charging the line with horse-drawn sulkies (carts). Some carried garden forks and tools, while others damaged walls to get missiles.

The police helicopter was targeted with lasers, and one officer received medical attention for a foot injury.

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