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

In 103 pages I have yet to see anyone explain the positives of this.

It looks to me like you asked a poster a question who didn't respond.

I know what I would class more as tumbleweed.

Wrote to my green TD Catherine Martin about this stating my dissatisfaction with the Green Party on this issue, in particular her colleague Roderic O’Gorman who I feel has completely exceeded his remit.

Was a fairly extensive email outlining all my concerns re our levels of capacity and the strain they are currently under.

Got an email back three days later from her “Parliamentary assistant” “thanks for your email to Catherine etc etc” fob off response. Fúcking pathetic. Write to my representative in government on a serious issue and I get this TY student writing back to me. Disgrace, can’t believe how out of touch they are.

I do agree that there's some elements in the mix at these protests that might not exactly help PR

You mean organising, not just at these protests, correct?

A convicted terrorist who is one of the main players in organising anti-refugee protests has been arrested for threatening to burn down a hotel housing over 40 refugees.

The chilling threat was allegedly made by the 43-year-old to a staff member of a hotel in Athy, Co Kildare which is currently hosing just over 40 asylum seekers.

Most of these people are originally from Africa and they include 17 children, 21 women and three adult males

No. You'd love that though, but in reality there's far more likely to be genuine issues popping up at these protests from the feral types there, more so than the NP types. One idiot doesn't change that likelihood.

Carefully selected and played yesterday as well - to demonstrate stupidity of public and undermine. How many other interviews/ vox pops were taken that were not played?

RTE very notably involved in group think and in step with official government direction on these matters.

Who are the "feral types"?

Regarding the need for immigrants, there is a Visa System, you know.... where one can apply, and be sponsored by a company/entity that needs your skills.

It would appear to me that visas are only for skilled workers where there is a shortage of same, but all others can come in anyway at no cost via the IP system.

Those who arrive under IP with necessary skills could be processed quickly and a visa granted once they have an offer of employment. They may not be in a position to apply for a visa through the normal channels due to war or whatever.

I don't know about the rest, but it seems if you have no marketable skills, in you come and claim asylum and live off the State for as long as you can, then bring the clan over also.

What is the point of the visa system or border/immigration control at all I often wonder? I must show my passport at the airport on arrival as an Irish citizen, but others it seems can waltz in with no documents. Bizarre or what!

Having no documents is no indicator of whether a person will be granted asylum though. A person is granted asylum based solely on whether they are believed to be a genuine refugee or not. Whether they have or don't have documentation on arrival is almost largely irrelevant to their later claim.

It surely doesn't help their credibility that they arrive off a plane with no documents, passport etc that had to have had before getting on the plane. If you can't even verify something as basic as a persons name how can you believe anything they tell you.

Yes, but if a person can't verify who they are and what country they have come from, they have no chance of having their asylum claim granted. The authorities can still check and cross check everything they are saying i.e. what flights they took across Europe, what countries they passed through, what other immigration authorities did they come in contact with (all of this is recorded on international databases).

Yeah but it's a regular refrain in this thread and others like it, one day soon an Irish Trump/Farage is going to step forward and sweep the scum off the streets. But nobody ever seems to have any indication that this is actually happening, even at the planning stage, or can even name any potential leader of such a movement. The thing is the political establishment have been hearing this sort of talk for pushing 30 years, since Ireland first started experiencing significant immigration. So unless and until such a populist-right force actually emerges and starts winning significant votes in meaningful elections, such talk will continue to be dismissed as hot air...

This is the thing.

No matter what the issue if you put it up on boards there will always be some people for and some people against no matter how batsh1t crazy there will always be some who have an opposite view.

This is a fairly active thread but not one poster,not one crank,not one bot or shill has come on here and said they agree with what's happening and the way it is happening.Its that truly,jaw dropping stupid that not even a username on an anonymous site could stand over it.

Incredible,and probably a first for boards.

Because most of the time they are bogus.

The likes of Pamela Izevbekhai arrived into Britain on a tourist visa and then traveled to Ireland if I recollect correctly.

She had a passport.

She claimed asylum and managed to con a huge chunk of the country, what looks like the entirety of the media and political class into believing her sob story which was all bunkum.

And it only costs us taxpayers a couple of million to get to the truth even though some would never have given her leave to remain from the start.

BTW verifying facts I just spotted none other than one Phillip Boucher-Hayes sworn an affidavit supporting Izevbekhai's claims for her legal case.

Ah the gullible classes.

What was the Nigerian embassy said again?

No wonder we have no room for Ukrainians as we have those with bogus sob stories being entertained and supported.

Beware though how they are trying to provoke posters to say things to get them banned.

It is as clear as crystal the tactics at play.

Aodhran O Riordain tweeted an anti xenophobia video from 1942 America which he said was “relevant”.

He didn’t think it relevant to point out that also in 1942 the Americans were rounding up tens of thousands of Japanese-Americans, including 80,000 American citizens and putting them in concentration camps.

Was there not a recent amnesty for those resident in Ireland for 3/4 years?

So many of those who arrived after destroying their passports have ultimately succeeded in their aim of living here.