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#EnoughIsEnough Trends on Twitter as Irish Citizens Angrily React to Stabbing of Children

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On Nov. 23, before most Americans had even begun celebrating Thanksgiving, trouble was brewing in Dublin Ireland. It all began with a stabbing that occurred in the afternoon in Dublin City Centre. A lone man in his 40s stabbed a woman in her 30s as well as three small children (all three 5 to 6 years old). Citizens restrained the man before police arrived to arrest him. 

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A terrible incident, to be sure -- Ireland Minister for Justice Helen McEntee called it 'an attack on innocence itself' -- but it only escalated as hundreds of protesters began to gather at the crime scene. The protest devolved into a full-on riot before too much time had passed.

Motives for the riot have been attributed to a number of things, but the early prevailing theory was that people were gathering at the crime scene to protest Ireland's immigration policy and a growing concern about violence committed by migrants. Some protesters were seen holding 'Irish Lives Matter' signs. 

The Gardaí (Irish police), on the other hand, claimed that the riots were due to 'a hooligan faction driven by far-right ideology.' Because of course, that's what they said.

As events unfolded, Twitter seemed to side with the first explanation, as #EnoughIsEnough was the top trend on Twitter for hours. 

Irish MMA star Conor McGregor, who hails from Dublin, also chimed in to express his dissatisfaction with the police's version of the events. 

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For full disclosure, the identity of the attacker has not been officially released yet, so it is not confirmed he was a migrant. Some people have said he is a recent Algerian immigrant. Others have claimed he is an immigrant, yes, but an Irish citizen. But the protesters definitely believed he was the former.

No matter what, the scenes out of Dublin were disturbing. 

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Twitchy recently detailed how dishonest Sky News is, so it is not a surprise that #ScumMedia was also trending on Twitter, though many of those tweets contained lots of NSFW language. 

People are ANGRY. 

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One thing is clear from the violence: when the government fails to act, people will only tolerate so much before they take matters into their own hands.

The scenes of violence are disturbing, and in this writer's opinion, probably counter-productive. But to paraphrase the famous words of comedian Chris Rock, 'What they did was wrong ... but we understand.'

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No matter what additional details come out -- both about the stabbing and about the protests turned riots -- the Irish government has a big problem on its hands. With its own people. And just simply shouting 'far-right extremists' isn't really going to solve anything. 

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