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Ireland agrees to plan on migrant resettlement

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    #1112
    Stop moaning ffs
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Stop moaning ffs


    recedite wrote: »
    Party on, dude. You just ignore the naysayers.

    Imagine what ireland looked like when there was over 8 million of us. Then the famine happened.
    We somehow all had homes and food up to that point.

    We’re thcojky country in the world that’s poouktjon hasn’t recovered after famine. It’s half what it was in 1847 when the country was desitiute. And there was 8 million of us



    But aaaasrgh the immigrants are coming to take over and replace us!



    Ehhh hardly


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    #1113
    Stop moaning ffs
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    Blueshoe wrote: »
    Street party is cancelled due to lack of funds. Welfare needs to be paid

    You should read this. It’s happening in your country right now

    https://twitter.com/soundmigration/status/1166282332615127040?s=21


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    #1114
    Blueshoe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    Stop moaning ffs wrote: »
    Imagine what ireland looked like when there was over 8 million of us. Then the famine happened.
    We somehow all had homes and food up to that point.

    We’re thcojky country in the world that’s poouktjon hasn’t recovered after famine. It’s half what it was in 1847 when the country was desitiute. And there was 8 million of us



    But aaaasrgh the immigrants are coming to take over and replace us!



    Ehhh hardly

    What percentage of the population is foreign born?


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    #1115
    recedite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    Stop moaning ffs wrote: »
    Imagine what ireland looked like when there was over 8 million of us. Then the famine happened.
    We somehow all had homes and food up to that point.
    You paint a pretty picture. The reality is most people lived in tiny mud cabins and were lucky if they had a single pair of shoes. The unlucky ones slept in ditches.
    Sure, we could cram in a few more, but whats the point.
    Nigeria expands at a rate of 5 million extra people every year, but has no jobs or homes for them. And that's just one African country.
    What we really need is border controls, and what they need is contraceptives.


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    #1116
    Stop moaning ffs
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    Blueshoe wrote: »
    What percentage of the population is foreign born?

    What do you mean foreign born? If you’re born in Ireland you’re Irish last I heard


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    #1117
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 82,823 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    recedite wrote: »
    You paint a pretty picture. The reality is most people lived in tiny mud cabins and were lucky if they had a single pair of shoes. The unlucky ones slept in ditches.
    Sure, we could cram in a few more, but whats the point.
    Nigeria expands at a rate of 5 million extra people every year, but has no jobs or homes for them. And that's just one African country.
    What we really need is border controls, and what they need is contraceptives.
    For a minute I thought you were going to propose teaching the homeless to build mud huts - the lost art.


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    #1118
    emo72
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    Back when the country had 8 million. There was no social services. If you had no money you had no shelter and starved.


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    #1119
    Stop moaning ffs
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    emo72 wrote: »
    Back when the country had 8 million. There was no social services. If you had no money you had no shelter and starved.

    Can’t be true. There was 8 million people. Functioning agricultural society. Then the famine hit.

    Bloody brits


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    SporadicMan
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    Imagine actually comparing modern Ireland with pre-famine population numbers.

    It's such a disingenuous comparison, completely different countries, completely different world context, completely different expectations of life.

    Stop pretending that pre-famine Ireland was some utopia of 8 million people who all had access to a nice home and food. Any normal person of those days would probably kill to be in our Direct Provision right now.


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    #1121
    Tasfasdf
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    SporadicMan wrote: »
    Imagine actually comparing modern Ireland with pre-famine population numbers.

    It's such a disingenuous comparison, completely different countries, completely different world context, completely different expectations of life.

    Stop pretending that pre-famine Ireland was some utopia of 8 million people who all had access to a nice home and food. Any normal person of those days would probably kill to be in our Direct Provision right now.

    Your killing their Lib***d agenda.


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    #1122
    Mr E
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    Tasfasdf wrote: »
    Your killing their Lib***d agenda.

    Mod: You're on thin ice. Please raise your standard of posting.


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    #1123
    Stop moaning ffs
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    SporadicMan wrote: »
    Imagine actually comparing modern Ireland with pre-famine population numbers.

    It's such a disingenuous comparison, completely different countries, completely different world context, completely different expectations of life.

    Stop pretending that pre-famine Ireland was some utopia of 8 million people who all had access to a nice home and food. Any normal person of those days would probably kill to be in our Direct Provision right now.

    I wasn’t. Just pointing out there were twice as many of us on this island before. And shouting that immigration will be the end of us is frankly stupid


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    #1124
    JohnMc1
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    Stop moaning ffs wrote: »
    I wasn’t. Just pointing out there were twice as many of us on this island before. And shouting that immigration will be the end of us is frankly stupid

    It will be the end of us economically if the majority of them are going to be on welfare until the day they die.


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    #1125
    enricoh
    Registered Users Posts: 4,919 ✭✭✭enricoh


    Stop moaning ffs wrote: »
    Imagine what ireland looked like when there was over 8 million of us. Then the famine happened.
    We somehow all had homes and food up to that point.

    We’re thcojky country in the world that’s poouktjon hasn’t recovered after famine. It’s half what it was in 1847 when the country was desitiute. And there was 8 million of us



    But aaaasrgh the immigrants are coming to take over and replace us!



    Ehhh hardly

    Iirc from another thread you are going back to college n recieving hap?
    Do it pronto before any recession hits the aul government funding. That'll be cut before taking boatloads of economic migrants is!


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    #1126
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    Stop moaning ffs wrote: »
    What do you mean foreign born? If you’re born in Ireland you’re Irish last I heard

    You must have missed the referendum in 2004.


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    #1127
    emo72
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    Stop moaning ffs wrote: »
    I wasn’t. Just pointing out there were twice as many of us on this island before. And shouting that immigration will be the end of us is frankly stupid

    8 million with full social services? Hap payments? State pension at 67?

    It's not even a different world. It's a different planet! It's no comparison at all!


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    Portsalon
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    Stop moaning ffs wrote: »
    Can’t be true. There was 8 million people. Functioning agricultural society. Then the famine hit.

    Bloody brits

    Yep. Fancy them digging up all those millions of lumper potatoes and injecting a bit of potato blight onto every one of them. Absolute swine.


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    #1129
    recedite
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    Portsalon wrote: »
    Yep. Fancy them digging up all those millions of lumper potatoes and injecting a bit of potato blight onto every one of them. Absolute swine.
    Great multiculturalists though.

    Having imported people of different religion and culture, and planted them in plantation towns up and down the country against the wishes of locals, they assured everyone that full and blissful integration was just around the corner.


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    #1130
    Portsalon
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    recedite wrote: »

    Great multiculturalists though.

    Having imported people of different religion and culture, and planted them in plantation towns up and down the country against the wishes of locals, they assured everyone that full and blissful integration was just around the corner.

    Good call. Amusing - from a distance - to see Leo and his Cabinet of Clueless Donkeys seeking to replicate the Ulster Plantations.

    As Santayana wrote, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." and I suspect that few, if any, members of Leo's indoor football club, even studied history to Junior Cert.


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    #1131
    Stop moaning ffs
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    recedite wrote: »
    Great multiculturalists though.

    Having imported people of different religion and culture, and planted them in plantation towns up and down the country against the wishes of locals, they assured everyone that full and blissful integration was just around the corner.

    They’re intergrating just fine.

    Every second young wan in my area has a beautiful happy coffee colored baby nowadays.

    You won’t complain when they’re playing for ireland in the soccer or at the olympics and doing us proud. Cos they’re Irish. Despite your weird claims they aren’t.


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    #1132
    Blueshoe
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    Stop moaning ffs wrote: »
    What do you mean foreign born? If you’re born in Ireland you’re Irish last I heard

    Born in a different country and moved here. Living here. It's not hard.


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    #1133
    jay0109
    Registered Users Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭jay0109


    Stop moaning ffs wrote: »
    They’re intergrating just fine.

    Every second young wan in my area has a beautiful happy coffee colored baby nowadays.
    I know the type of young wans your on about. Usually well aquainted with the local chipper and social welfare officer.

    Any sign of the 'new Irish' with those young wans? Or is their work done and they've moved on!


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    #1134
    sabat
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    Stop moaning ffs wrote: »
    They’re intergrating just fine.

    Every second young wan in my area has a beautiful happy coffee colored baby nowadays.

    You won’t complain when they’re playing for ireland in the soccer or at the olympics and doing us proud. Cos they’re Irish. Despite your weird claims they aren’t.

    Yeah I can't wait for all these brown sportspeople of the future; a lot of them should make great entertainers too. Cos those are the things they're good at, right?


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    #1135
    Blueshoe
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    sabat wrote: »
    Yeah I can't wait for all these brown sportspeople of the future; a lot of them should make great entertainers too. Cos those are the things they're good at, right?

    Lol. Nowadays you just can't win 😕


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    #1136
    Kivaro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,105 ✭✭✭Kivaro


    Wonder if the original Macron migrant resettlement plan from a few weeks ago has been superseded by another one, especially with news that Fine Gael are accepting more African economic migrants from an NGO migrant ferry last week, and then yesterday Fine Gael announced that they are spending €65 million tax payer money on new direct provision centres around the country.

    I'm sure that the voters of Co Kildare, Co Wicklow, Co Meath and Co Louth will show their appreciation for these new DP centres to Fine Gael at the next election. Wonder how much the ancillary services for all these new migrants in these new direct provision centres will cost? But I'm sure Fine Gael are putting the extra doctors, housing, social welfare staff in place in order to cater for these new Irish citizens.


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    #1137
    Stop moaning ffs
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    sabat wrote: »
    Yeah I can't wait for all these brown sportspeople of the future; a lot of them should make great entertainers too. Cos those are the things they're good at, right?

    No they do great in medicine and law too. Taoiseach would be a good example. Qualifications in both


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    _Kaiser_
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    Stop moaning ffs wrote: »
    No they do great in medicine and law too. Taoiseach would be a good example. Qualifications in both

    Holding Leo up as a good example of anything is a self-defeating argument to be honest.


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    Blueshoe
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    _Kaiser_ wrote: »
    Holding Leo up as a good example of anything is a self-defeating argument to be honest.

    A good example of all show but no go perhaps


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    #1140
    Stop moaning ffs
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    _Kaiser_ wrote: »
    Holding Leo up as a good example of anything is a self-defeating argument to be honest.

    I hate his policies and think he’s an awful Taoiseach but he has both degrees I mentioned and is well educated.
    Son of an immigrant. And succeeded within our society.

    If you’re going to say yeah but he’s just one. An outlier.
    Can we apply the same thinking when it comes to making all immigrants are rapists?
    Theyre not. You’ll always get one


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    #1141
    Stephen15
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    Stop moaning ffs wrote: »
    I hate his policies and think he’s an awful Taoiseach but he has both degrees I mentioned and is well educated.
    Son of an immigrant. And succeeded within our society.

    If you’re going to say yeah but he’s just one. An outlier.
    Can we apply the same thinking when it comes to making all immigrants are rapists?
    Theyre not. You’ll always get one

    Seriously who has said all migrants are rapists?


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