What are your views on Multiculturalism in Ireland? - Threadbanned User List in OP

the background is irrelevant.

Their background isn’t irrelevant though, certainly not when Gardaí are dealing with communities of different cultures. Recruiting people from different cultures enables Gardaí to better understand those cultures values and different ways they interact. It’s also beneficial in the way that it encourages good relations with Gardaí when people from those communities see Gardaí from their own communities. The same applies to many different occupations whether it’s policing, healthcare, education or welfare.

There was a similar recruitment drive a couple of years back for more members of AGS recruitment from different cultural backgrounds -

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/seven-travellers-want-to-join-gardai-25956675.html

Similar initiatives have been developed in education to try and recruit more people who are from diverse backgrounds to reflect the diversity in the student population -

https://theirishsentinel.com/2019/12/29/lessons-in-diversity-the-changing-face-of-teaching-in-ireland/

Mainly in the hospitality sector but paper never refuses ink .No numbers given this link ? In the past older people stayed in jobs now they are treated as past it over 50 . This would go some way to solving a job shortage if they were employed not ignored .

https://tmda.ie/2021/09/03/campaign-under-way-to-tackle-hospitality-labour-shortage/

I’m genuinely struggling to understand your point to be honest. Who is arguing in the first place that the perpetrator of a crime is allowed see skin colour above the reason for their arrest, and I don’t get the second part of the question at all. Policing isn’t just about arresting perpetrators of crime, it’s also about, well, policing - crime prevention, community relations, y’know, that sort of thing.

I don’t get the analogy of picturing myself in deepest Africa and refusing to recognise the authority of the arresting officers unless they’re a stereotype image of Irish people either tbh, and that’s coming from me earlier imagining in response to Cordell’s point about officers in the AGS reflecting his characteristics if he were to be the victim of a crime. As @Cordell is Eastern European, there was only one stereotype I could imagine fitting the description of a Garda who is like them -

’Twould make you nostalgic for the time when the Bandits were actually funny 😒

Good post. A lot of people might not have even thought about joining the guards but now that there was this public move, some people will definitely apply and eventually become guards. Sounds like some people are going for the "it's racist towards irish white people!!", gemma o doherty route.

You have some curious projections going on there, but to start with - I didn’t come up with the idea, I just think it’s a good one, and I can understand the logic and reasoning behind it.

People migrating here didn’t come up with the idea either. This recruitment drive appears to be being promoted by management within AGS already. I don’t think anyone has suggested mandatory quotas or any of the rest of it, but as for how Irish immigrants in other countries have fared, they don’t appear to have fcuked off, nor were they deported. Instead they serve at the highest levels of policing in other countries -

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/abroad/from-a-new-york-irish-neighbourhood-to-chief-of-the-nypd-1.4192835

(worth noting too that the Commander-in-Chief of the US Armed Forces is the descendant of Irish immigrants)

As for moving here and accepting what’s here, sure you yourself are kicking off because you don’t accept what’s here, so that same invitation to leave if anyone doesn’t like it here, which you so generously extend to others, also applies to yourself. In the meantime, AGS are simply practicing that same openness and friendliness you refer to in extending an invitation to people from different backgrounds to become members of AGS. If some people can’t hack that, it’s an issue for them, not AGS, and certainly not immigrants who are welcome to come to Ireland to avail of every opportunity to make a better life for themselves and their families.

I already explained why I think it’s a good idea. You dismissed it already as bolloxology.

It IS coming from management within AGS already -

Garda Commissioner, Drew Harris said: "For 100 years, An Garda Síochána has been keeping the people of Ireland safe and as we begin marking our organisation’s centenary this week it is particularly fitting for us to be able open up recruitment.

"Ireland is changing, and is more diverse and multi-cultural than ever before. We want our police service to fully reflect this important progress and to represent all the communities that we proudly serve. That is why our recruitment drive is focused on encouraging those who may not have previously considered training to become a Garda.

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/gardai-seek-hire-1200-new-26193924.amp

You surely aren’t suggesting that there should be some sort of a tit-for-tat basis to police recruitment in other countries on the basis that AGS are keen to members of the force from different backgrounds and cultures? Wouldn’t that be the very thing you’re arguing against - quotas and tokenism and all the rest of it.

For what it’s worth, I am Irish, I’m not a lefty, but having a neck like a jockeys bollocks isn’t necessary to determine whether an idea is a good idea or a bad idea, whether it comes from the left, the right, AGS management, the media, politicians, or members of the general public. It stands to reason that in just the same way as you suggest if someone comes to this country and they don’t like it here, they’re free to leave, that option is also open to Irish people living here who don’t like it. I suggest they don’t let the door hit them on the way out.

Whatever happened to that Irish people known for our friendliness and openness you were talking about earlier? You’re making it sound like you want to personally vet anyone coming to live in this country for yourself to see if they’re suitable for the requirements of an economy and society according to your standards. I’d just as soon leave those determinations up to the people with the authority to make those decisions, y’know, like members of AGS.

I’d sooner trust their authority than the idea of Mick, the purveyor of cute hoorism, living in a lighthouse wearing an Aran sweater and trousers tied with baling twine uniform, his little book of Irish phrases in his poca, casting a suspicious eye over everyone passing through the arrivals gate 😂