A Sinn Féin TD disputed claims made about Varadkar by Musk.
Elon Musk has taken to his social media platform X, previously Twitter, to criticise Taoiseach Leo Varadkar.
The tweets come following the knife attack exterior the Gaelscoil Coláiste Mhuire in Parnell Square East on Thursday that left three youngsters and their grownup carer injured and the next riots which broke out in Dublin metropolis centre.
In the ensuing chaos, three buses, three Garda patrol vehicles and one Luas tram had been set alight, whereas 13 properties had been attacked and considerably broken.
A comparability between final night time in the course of the height of the riot (7.45pm) & the aftermath this morning (8am) – from the identical vantage factors
Dublin City Council staff, @DubFireBrigade, Luas engineers & the Gardai labored tirelessly in a single day & this morning to wash up. #dublinriots pic.twitter.com/qn5nGJjYbM
— JOE.ie (@JOEdotie) November 24, 2023
Speaking in a media briefing on Friday morning, Varadkar condemned these concerned in the riots, stating that they “brought shame on Ireland”.
“These criminals did not do what they did because they love Ireland. They did not do what they did because they wanted to protect Irish people,” he added.
“They didn’t do it out of any sense of patriotism, nevertheless warped. They did so as a result of they’re crammed with hate, they love violence, they love chaos and so they love inflicting ache to others.
“Looting a shop was more important to them than protecting the lives of our children.”
The Taoiseach additionally spoke about methods the Government plans to forestall a repeat of such occasions, explaining:
“We will cross new legal guidelines in the approaching weeks to allow the Gardaí to make higher use of the CCTV proof they collected yesterday. Also we’ll modernise our legal guidelines in opposition to incitement to hatred and hatred in basic – and that’s extra required than ever was the case earlier than. We’ll try this in weeks as properly.
“I feel it’s now very apparent to anybody who may need doubted it that our incitement to hatred laws is simply not updated. It’s not updated for the social media age. And we want that laws by way of, we want it by way of inside a matter of weeks.”
Elon Musk takes aim at Leo Varadkar in series of tweets about Ireland
Responding to a tweet accusing of the Irish Government of making an attempt to make use of hate speech legal guidelines to remove folks’s “freedoms”, Musk wrote: “Ironically, the Irish PM hates the Irish people.”
Replying to different tweets on the identical matter, the X proprietor additionally stated that this is able to be the present Irish Government’s “last term in office” and that it “clearly cares more about praise from woke media than their own people”.
Musk additionally responded to a Tweet stating that Conor McGregor “should run for office” and “kick these losers out”, writing: “Not a bad idea”.
Sinn Féin’s well being spokesperson David Cullinane hit again at the X proprietor’s declare that Varadkar “hates the Irish people”, retweeting it with the caption: “No he doesn’t.”
No he doesn’t. https://t.co/OopA5k0iHL
— David Cullinane T.D. (@davidcullinane) November 24, 2023
Main picture through Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie
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