orlared: John Creedon samples the African stew in Balbriggan (Ireland)
In the third episode of his RTÉ series 'Creedon's Road Less Travelled', John Creedon travels to Balbriggan where he meets some Africans living there. First John i…
orlared: John Creedon samples the African stew in Balbriggan (Ireland)
In the third episode of his RTÉ series 'Creedon's Road Less Travelled', John Creedon travels to Balbriggan where he meets some Africans living there. First John is told to check out O'Dwyer's GAA club for a "soulful Sunday wake-up". Inside the club, he finds Nigerian Pastor Elizabeth from the redeemed Christian Church of God, a Pentecostal church which was founded in Lagos.
Next up he meets Cllr. Grainne Maguire, an Independent Councillor on Fingal County Council. She tells John that the reason Africans have come to Balbriggan in recent years is because it has developed. She says the Africans have been embraced and "it's working really well". Left unmentioned is that hundreds of people attended protest on a cold November evening outside the gardaí station in Balbriggan last year calling for wild 'youth gangs' to tackled by gardaí "or Balbriggan is doomed". Some locals told 98FM that you couldn't walk down the streets for fear of being assaulted.
https://dublingazette.com/news/tackle-wild-gangs-balbriggan-doomed/ http://archive.fo/DsUDb
https://www.independent.ie/regionals/fingalindependent/news/balbriggan-protest-over-youth-gangs-36377335.html http://archive.fo/ndxj4
Grainne has signed John up to an "integration forum" who are running a 'foodie feast', with the goal of different nations living in the town uniting through food. We are not told why Balbriggan needs an integration forum if we are to believe things are working so well.
John samples a stew and a doughnut and is told that with African stews, everything is just thrown in together which is very much a like the immigration policies of western European nations.
He also learns that as a result of the Mosney asylum centre being so close, many Africans moved to Balbriggan once they were granted residency.
John labels the day a "five star success which gave him a real flavour of the new Balbriggan".
Broadcast Sun 05 Aug 2018 RTÉ One
https://www.rte.ie/player/sg/show/creedons-road-less-travelled-30005355/10916653/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgzyycFR6PEv-B90rAiFsQg
