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The John Batchelor Show

#DUBLIN: Irish PM, the knife attacker, the Dublin Riots and "complexity." @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:00.0

This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Bachelor welcoming, that is McCotter, American Greatness Recovering Politician.

0:07.0

His new column about complexity, often used, usually used, regularly used, by members of center left to explain policy issues

0:19.1

that are not agreed with.

0:21.6

Complexity, and that needs an example.

0:24.0

So I've asked that is to comment on what we do know about a tragedy in Dublin.

0:31.0

What we do know, and the facts are limited here because after several

0:36.4

days the reporting is not transparent. A man said to be Algerian in origin in

0:42.3

his 40s or 50s a naturalized Irish citizen 10 years.

0:47.8

Someone who has been before the police court before for something related to knife, a knife, attacked a small group

0:58.8

of young women five and six years old outside a school that teaches Gaelic, a Gaelic school.

1:07.2

There was an adult with them who was also attacked.

1:10.7

The people on the street nearby intervened.

1:15.0

One particular deliveroo driver intervened.

1:19.0

Got off his bike when he saw what was happening.

1:22.0

And while the crowd or the people around the knife

1:24.9

wielder were backing him off or trying to keep him away from the children who were

1:30.4

screaming and on the ground, one five-year-old was badly stabbed, five-year-old.

1:36.7

The deliveroo driver came up behind him and clung him in the head as hard as he could with

1:40.5

his helmet. The man went down. What we do know is that emergency services

1:46.5

arrived. The man is now in hospital. We don't have a name. We don't have a name for any of the perpetrators. We do have the father of one young child who

1:57.4

thanked the crowd who gathered around the man on the ground. Since then, however, it's become complex, because immediately the

2:07.6

Prime Minister of Ireland Veratikar declared the mob that that night turned out on rumors and some of the mob

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