Public Meeting

Waterside Pub, Clondalkin

8pm, Mon 22nd February

All welcome!

Speakers:

Cllr Gino Kenny, South Dublin County Council

Cllr Brid Smith, Dublin City Council

THE “vindictive” and sustained attacks on a non-national family in Clondalkin, which included a petrol bomb attack on their house, have shocked a councillor who visited with them on December 3.Following up upon a query he raised with South Dublin County Council’s Joint Policing Committee, People Before Profit Cllr Gino Kenny spoke to the family who have been harassed for over six months.

He said: “When I was out canvassing before the elections in the Summer, I came across two cases and, with one case in particular, I was shocked by how bad it was. It was very vindictive and carried out just because of (the colour of their skin).

“They had windows smashed, someone tried to burn out their car and a petrol bomb was thrown through a window and left the carpet burned. It was lucky that no-one was seriously harmed.  Cllr Kenny added: “I dropped by on Thursday and the family were still shaken. By all accounts the attacks have not stopped.”

The attacks were reported to the gardaí and are one of seven reported instances of racially motivated criminal damage to homes of ‘minority groups’ in South West Dublin this year.  A similar incident occurred in June of this year when a Congolese family were relocated to another house in South Dublin by the council from the Lindisfarne area, where they had been subject to damage to their home and car.

Political Activists/ Community Activists are coming together on the 9th September in Waterside Pub, Ninth Lock Road, Clondalkin at 7.30pm to voice their opposition to the cutbacks that will  effect our community for years to come.

The public meeting is to gather support for the National Demonstration on the 19th September against the
cutbacks to vital services in our neighborhoods. We want the 19th to be an enormous demonstration, and show FF/Green Government that their is a price to pay for bailing out the banks and attacking the most vulnerable in
society. We are aiming to put a leaflet in every house in the Clondalkin  area about the 19th, this can be done, but we need your help in making this possible. The time is now. This time be heard and fightback.

NEWLY elected Clondalkin Councillor, Gino Kenny celebrated the huge gains his People Before Profit Alliance party made in the local elections by declaring that he 'can't wait to rock the boat'.

The party claimed five council seats in Dublin after the votes were tallied on Saturday, June 6, and three of the councillors have already set out plans to make an impact in the city council and in South Dublin.