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

The Press Group was always a FF mouthpiece for certain, but there was perhaps some divergence of opinion with, say, the Indo as the FG paper. There are related issues like atrophying of politics outside a limited political class. Also related is how RTÉ news makes no attempt to hide their dislike of certain groups like the US Republican Party. There is perhaps more of an echo chamber as less and less papers are sold and their websites get fewer actual non botted clicks. And newspapers have long been propaganda outlets for certain newspaper magnates. One Irish oligarch used his media ownership as a weapon alongside solicitors' letter. Anyhow, none of them should be state subsidised more than happens already with PS ads and press releases providing the content for most news articles. Many, many, even most don't use them at all, and there's already enough tax, along with the licence fee for the reliably terrible RTÉ.

Well that's to be expected from Gannon. Just look at his and his parties behaviour in the Ellie Kisyombe affair. A brief reminder of her in again out again approach to claiming asylum both here and in the UK from the Sunday Times.

"The Sunday Times established that Kisyombe arrived in Ireland in 2011 and obtained a student visa. She then travelled to the UK and claimed asylum there, but was sent back to Ireland, where she claimed asylum in November 2011. The Malawian left Ireland for the UK again in late 2012 or early 2013. She was arrested in 2014 in the UK, and returned to Ireland in May 2014."

She later joins the Soc Dems and is encouraged to run as a candidate in the 2019 local elections by Gannon but once the "inconsistencies" in her story came about she had to "correct the record" in order to allow herself to continue as a candidate for the Soc Dems. Unsurprisingly she didn't get elected. I don't know how many votes Gannon can expect from East Wall the next time he goes for election.

Well I won't say anything else about him or the Soc Dems as it could derail the thread. I just mentioned it in relation to his comments on the situation in East Wall.

O Gorman finally admitted that none of these economic migrants are vetted, well over 100 Ukrainians arrived in our small rural town without any consultation but they are women and children so there isn't a safety concern for the locals but if it was all young men like in East Wall it would be a different story.

Yeah he said because they aren't going to be working there is no need for vetting, I had to play it back a second time to make sure I heard it correctly.

I was listening to it on Drivetime.

This is a bit of an awkward one for SF as well, East Wall would have a lot of people who voted for them and now from videos I have seen they seem to have copped on that the shinners aren't backing them on this protest.

No I had radio 1 on, maybe it was the 6 o clock news part of the programme and they were using a Newstalk interview but I definitely heard him say it.

The whole 'vetting' thing is a bit misleading. Every refugee who enters the country must first register with Immigration and other services before they claim asylum - to establish their full identity, their country of origin, their reasons for claiming asylum etc.

There doesn't appear to be much evidence of convicted criminals trying to use this route (and anyone convicted of an offence in Europe could be extradited back to the country where the offence happened, if it's the case they had gone on the run).

A genuine “Asylum seeker” would have no need to destroy any identification or travel documents as their case would speak for itself. Clearly another scam to play the system. We are being played for absolute fools by these fraudsters fully aided and abated by FF FG Greens SF Soc Dems and every other lefty sponger cheerleading this con job