Ireland running out of accommodation for Ukrainian refugees due to surge in non-Ukrainian refugees?

Heard of a place down the country that was being used as a nursing home close down due to the costs to keep it running supposedly and the old people moved to another nursing home as a result. However, the closed down nursing home was then re-opened again 2 weeks later and busloads of Ukrainian refugees/fake refugees were brought in with the owners given a juicy contract from our government. The owners dumped the old Irish to replace them with Ukrainians refugees/fake refugees. The sneakiness going on in this country is incredible but what does one expect with the government that we have here.

Just seen two videos of two double decker buses all men of various ethnic backgrounds being dropped off at what looks like a massive apartment block, could be a hotel, hard to tell.

All men, nice clothes, runners, phones, earphones etc.

Anyone seen these videos?

The woman recording it keeps asking a man who is organising the drop off if these men are vetted etc and he says ask the government as he doesn’t know.

This is an un-mitigatable disaster and we need to have a good look at ourselves as to why we have done this.

Our government has done this to us to be the best boys in the class wanting to show their European colleagues how generous we are lest they have their hopes of lucrative advancement to political roles like Commissioners in Europe dented.

That's what this boils down to. Self interest by ministers.

We are taking the damage as a society for them.

It's not the fault of the refugees fleeing a war.

It's our disastrous inability to say no and put our own interests first that is leading us to social disaster.

The consequences of what is going on right now (and it's not only the Ukrainian intake, far from it) will be seen up and down this country for generations to come.

It's up to voters to wake up at the end of the day but it looks to me like it's too late.

We can see the chaos unfolding and yet, from all the polls I have seen, it doesn't seem to be sinking in.

Maybe people are distracted by the housing crisis or whatever but this all contributes to all the other problems.

I don't get how the public sees all this, appear concerned when you talk to people, and yet collectively there seems to be no pushback.

I don't get it. What else has to happen more than what's unfolding in their own communities in front of their eyes? Tented cities instead of villages?

People will say one thing in public, but in private have other views. An example was the unexpected vote surge for SF in 2020 election, that even the party did not expect. People can see the traffic increases, the less English being spoken on streets, visible homelessness caused by the housing crisis, fuller EDs, less school places, and that they are paying for it.

In general Irish people are broken and demoralised. Remember the controversy when a Ukrainian refugee described the ‘sadness’ she noticed as a trait of Irish people.

It’s plain to see in Lisdoonvarna for example where the locals have just accepted their lot. If the government turned up at their houses, kicked them out and took the properties I wouldn’t be surprised if they accepted that and just stood outside in a daze. Obviously this is an exaggeration but getting closer to peoples mentality every year.

Around 3 million Ukrainian refugees have entered western Europe (i.e. the countries 'not' bordering Ukraine). That would represent a huge refugee crisis at any point in the last 80 years (it's a much bigger event for Europe than the Syrian refugee crisis of 2015).

Seen the video.

All lads with nice clothes and runners, certainly not fleeing a war.

Live in East Wall...

I was at the parents house a few days ago,one of the more controversial direct provision centres (been mentioned in national news a few times) is 100m away.

Mother said that almost every day some of them knock at the door looking for work.The mother doesn't mind and feels sorry for them.A lot of the other elderly people in the village are more unsettled by this.This is a village of 1000 people now hosting 750 refugees. She was chatting to a lady from Botswana who called recently, mother enquired as to the nature of the war going on there.The lady explains there's no war but her husband was violent with her so naturally she flew the 9000km on 3 different flights to Ireland to seek asylum.

How long will this madness continue?

We need a proper right of center party in this country like the Tories

Ah, you're grand thanks.

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Even coming from yourself, that's a colossal joke. How are they in charge of their borders when thousands arrive weekly on boats? Even the BBC is reporting that up to 60,000 may have arrived this year alone. No reasonable person would consider that as being controlled, so they aren't in charge in any serious sense. You're the type of lad though that would try and convince us that Irish immigration is well controlled too, so I'm not sure why I bother asking. The only thing you were right about was appeasement, which is all they do, they talk about tackling immigration, yet never do anything in real terms, which is why Kermit's suggestion is as ridiculous as what you've said.

You'll have to take that up with King Bojo. 🤷‍♂️