Three years ago Aisling Golden was attending a conference in Sweden on the grooming of young people into violence and criminality.
As the youth justice director of the Solas Project, which works with teenagers from inner city Dublin who have broken the law, she was particularly interested in the first half of the conference which dealt with youths being trafficked into drug dealing.
However, she paid little attention in the second half, which addressed teenagers being groomed into far-right and anti-immigrant violence.
“I left and I said to our CEO: ‘The first half was great, but the second half just isn’t a problem for us.’”
The young people who were involved with the Solas Project had a lot of problems, but anti-immigrant violence wasn’t one of them, she decided.
“Four weeks later, the first wave of it hit us,” said Golden.
A group of refugees were briefly housed in a school in Drimnagh, south of Dublin cit
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