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In Coolock another working class Dublin suburb protests/riots and arson attacks forced the government to abandon plans to house hundreds of migrant men in an abandoned paint factory. Subsequently government planning documents revealed that they were actively avoiding housing migrants in areas that were deemed likely to resist. Now they’re running so short on accommodation for migrants that they’re offering 10k euro to each asylum seeker to leave the country.

So while peaceful protests by themselves don’t necessarily accomplish anything, community based protests backed up by an implicit or explicit threat of direct action are making a difference.