THE scenes of targeted violence in Glasgow in the aftermath of an attempted murder in Belfast shocked people across Scotland, and have prompted comment from a variety of Irish community organisations.

DUBLIN—a city once described by novelist Brendan Behan as holding ‘familiarity without friendship’—now finds its residents asking the haunting question: ‘Why me?’ This comes in the wake of a series of violent attacks targeting members of Ireland’s immigrant communities throughout the summer of 2025.