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

10 years or so ago, equal questions as to an immigration crisis would have been similar.

"Who are these people? Where will they come from and how will they afford to get here, to the western point of the Atlantic ocean on a small island? Who will fund it, who would back it? Political suicide, surely. How many people do you think will fit into the country? How would the health system cope? Transportation, housing? Will they put them in school rooms temporarily, lol? Will they fill hotels across the country, lol? How would they get off planes and still be considered refugees, wouldn't it be easy for immigration to stop them and turn them around? People just wouldn't stand for it. That sounds like madness, lol"

What was crazy to imagine then is now reality. What is crazy to imagine now will be reality later.

Nobody can predict the nuts and bolts and details, but it's easy enough to see there there will be no continuation of this scam into the future. Reactions are, logically, coming.

There are votes there to be had.

Hard to see them toning down the religious rhetoric tbh...

Yeah, you get the impression that it's nearly over for the Far Right Observer crowd and they're reverting to long forgotten routines and muscle memory.

Bit like HAL singing "Daisy, Daisy"

This is Ireland. We don't have a "right" anymore, let alone a "far right!" Twitter posts do not reflect reality most of the time.

Besides, you don't need a "right" to be able to recognise that biology and historical facts trump feelings and ideology every time.

That's not to say tolerance isn't important, but so is acceptance of the above reality.

I'd say the odds of all incoming generations of Irish people left without the proverbial pot to wee in regards housing, health, education and general mobility are going to be precisely the opposite of the select few of current generation that sold and squandered all those essentials.

Add in maturity to recognise reality, its going to make some heads spin.

Although you may be right, maybe voting on transrights will be paramount to those left living in hedges. You never know.

Looking at the thread title, "Ireland running out of accommodation", and directly stated political statements of the last few days, it is clear that we have run out of accommodation. It is a statement of fact now. Not a maybe.

The current shower are going to stand by and just let people swanny on in, hand them a few food vouchers and let them go wherever they please. What could you call that except an unadulterated hands in the air approach.

There needs to be a rapid response to this negligence now. There is no more room, fact of the matter.

Migration in just about every form needs to be frozen as of today. Policy of turn around on flights carrying unidentified people needs to be enacted today. Ukrainian refugees need to be diverted elsewhere. Its time to pass the buck back to airlines, airports, other countries, whoever. Our responsibility as a nation ends at the airports, borders and docks.

As our politicians have stated clearly, there is no more room.

Now they have to act upon that fact, today.

No idea what the Hell you are on about buck, but glad you're entertained, for the time being.

Ya many of us are old enough to remember when the Bishops are clergy were losing power....there wasn't a sniff of it in the media or the political arena at the time. You remind me of those fanatic Catholics that used to sit at the front of the church...they were the last one's to cop on that the church was getting emptier and emptier...no one was listening to them anymore!!

You think you are modern and progressive no doubt...just like the Catholics sitting at the front of the church did too!

Unfortunately its becoming increasingly likely that untill there's a similar display of "disagreement" in Dublin City Centre as was seen in Citywest, it'll continue to be downplayed and deflected by the Open Doors brigade and the mainstream media outlets.

I just hope that innocents aren't caught in the middle but that's probably what it'll take before real questions start to be asked, and even then very timidly of the politicians (after all, too many "journalists" are related to, married into, or auditioning for future jobs with those same politicians).

I wonder what the next policy move will be. Getting it out there that there is no accommodation to be had will slow arrivals but it won't stop it. What then?

We could easily see more than a doubling of rough sleepers in the next few weeks and a resulting humanitarian and security crisis if there is no policy response. Dublin doesn't even have public toilets.

I heard that earlier and it made me angry..........angry because the stupid interviewer never thought of asking why this man left the UK (which is hardly a 3rd world country) to travel to Ireland via Belfast.................. because Ireland has a better economy?? He spoke excellent English and must have heard we have an accommodation crisis before now? Yes he was almost going to fake a few tears at one stage, saying he could die if temperatures dropped to -5. Luckily we are in an extremely mild phase right now.

But WHY do main stream interviewers NEVER ask why these young single jobless men with no papers are coming to Ireland? I hope they are left to sleep in the streets, then maybe they will take a train back to Belfast and back to the UK. They fully expect accommodation when they arrive here, they are chancers, economic migrants who will never do a day's work!!

What is the plan here? If the same number of people arrive every single day from now on, and there is no accommodation, are they just going to wander around the country, robbing, fighting , and feeling we all owe them? What is going to happen in the next week or month?

Meanwhile the headlines on RTE 6 O clock news was nominations for the Oscars, it went on for a good 10 minutes! Then Paschal and his posters................