‘They broke in using brute force’: Irish activists protest attempted eviction from vacant building

Private security guards and police descended on a building in Dublin, Ireland on October 27 to evict a group of activists who had been squatting there and using the site as a community space. After a 10-hour face-off, the activists reclaimed the building and have begun to repair the damage. Residents of the building and advocates say that the eviction was disproportionately violent, and destroyed liveable space in a country that is facing a housing and homelessness crisis.