Oh Tommy Tommy - Ireland Shit Stirrer

There was a stabbing incident yesterday in the City of Dublin. Five people, including a 5-year-old child, were injured, some of them critically. So far, so sad to hear, but what came afterwards appears to have taken the authorities in the capital of the Republic by surprise, as last night brought a wave of violent rioting. The Guards have so far made 34 arrests.

The BBC reported “Taoiseach … Leo Varadkar said about 500 people were involved in the riot … hours after the stabbing, rioters destroyed 11 police vehicles, while 13 shops were badly damaged and more were looted during the clashes with police. Three buses and a tram were destroyed and several police officers were injured during over three hours of sustained violence”.

There was more. “The Dublin Fire Brigade (DFB) said a fire truck that attended the stabbing scene was later attacked … divisional organiser Geoff McEvoy said: ‘That truck was actually among the DFB trucks and ambulances that were first on the scene giving paramedic assistance to the victims of that stabbing that afternoon … Then at about 18:00 … one of the first calls that truck responded to was a petrol bombing of a refugee centre.’”

Refugee centre? The BBC again: “Ireland's police chief, Garda Commissioner Drew Harris, said there had been an ‘element of radicalisation’ to the riot. The ‘extraordinary outbreak of violence' had come after ‘hateful assumptions’ were made based on material circulating online in the wake of the stabbings”.

"You've been telling lies about me"

Material such as? “It is understood that included false claims that the attacker was a foreign national. Sources have indicated to the BBC that the man suspected of carrying out the attack is an Irish citizen in his late 40s who has lived in the country for 20 years”. And so we come to Stephen Yaxley Lennon, who styles himself Tommy Robinson, and his current pinned Tweet.

“On the back of the news of a horrendous knife attack in Dublin leaving three school children hospitalised and two adults injured trying to protect them, we have now heard through various sources the attacker was not an Irish national, he is Algerian … this is why we went to Ireland to document the dangers of uncontrolled undocumented mass immigration”. Well, well.

And once again we encounter the asymmetric world of Stephen Lennon. He’s the one who responds to someone expressing their opinion by rocking up on their doorstep in the dead of night and claiming “You’ve been telling lies about me”, but his own opinion can be readily converted into something that he calls THE TROOF. Also, it appears he is the one who has been telling lies here.

Leo Varadkar - trolled by Lennon

Lennon has also been trolling the Taoiseach (although, yes, in his world, only others do trolling): “While [Leo Varadkar] virtue signals calling out the men of Ireland (who are justifiably outraged) 'far right' and 'racist' and 'hooligans', he doesn't listen to his people. He never has [opinion converted into fact again] … He caused this problem [more opinion converted into fact], now he's going to have to deal with it because the Irish won’t take this lying down”.

And a threat to the elected leader of another country just to round it off. Added to that were “Ireland you need a revolution against these traitors, the longer your borders remain open the less freedom & safety you will have” and the unsubtle “Mass deportations are needed for the survival of Europe”.

Lennon lying for profit - AGAIN

Any more ranting? Here it comes. “Like the Algerian who just stabbed 3 little girls. Weak cowardly men like this are the reason our families are no longer safe in our homelands”. Lennon also talks of “the planned invasion of Ireland”, another slice of opinion which he has converted into fact, and which is therefore THE TROOF. Except it’s just more paranoid Muslim bashing.

Should Lennon rock up, as threatened, at next Sunday’s march against Anti-Semitism, and should it all kick off (it would, naturally, be someone else’s fault), the authorities in Ireland would have good cause to make Lennon Persona Non Grata. He is using the stabbing, and his return to Twitter, as a means of rekindling his previously dormant career. And one thing is certain.

Whoever suffers as a result of his actions - it won’t be him. No change there.

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