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

The Brits are considering banning asylum applications from migrants who enter the country illegally. The possibility of banning legal appeals is even being mentioned.

It will be very difficult for our political and media establishment to justify their unqualified welcome to all, if these changes come to pass next door.

I feel the same. Worried about what Ireland will become. We are a tiny island with a unique culture and we simply can't import at least a quarter of a million people into this tiny country and not see a profound change in the nature of our homeland. It does worry me terribly. Of course Ireland has always had its share of problems and imperfections but what's happening now is unnatural and downright sinister. We will lose the qualities that made Ireland, despite its imperfections and the wind and rain, one of the best places in the world to live.

Newstalk interviewed an Algerian yesterday, it was plain to hear for anyone with an ear that he had a bit of an English twang ie he'd probably been in Britain for a while, yet here he was complaining about lack of accommodation here, also most of those interviewed for drivetime had come the Belfast route, it's happening already and it sure as hell isn't the engineers and doctors were gettin

This is the crux of it.

We're a tiny nation with one tiny homeland. People make places and it was a comfortable, gentle and prosperous place to live. It won't take much to transform it. Once it's changed, it's changed forever. There is no other homeland for us to seek asylum in.

We get swamped by super nations of 200-400 million and have the audacity to call them "minorities". We're 4-5 million souls on a small island.

We're the global minority.

We need the protection and preservation.

You've summed it up perfectly. It will certainly mark the end of people wanting to visit 'Ireland'. There's a big danger of 'it's Ireland Jim but not as we know it' - (Star Trek reference)

I don't know if you remember a few years back when the Kilfenora Ceili Band did that world record thing in the town where they asked people to practise some trad tune and come to the town to form the world's biggest ceili band. Now it's the kind of thing that used to make me roll my eyes when I was a teenager banging my head to Led Zeppelin and Rory Gallagher, but where in the world would you find a people so connected to their culture that a few hundred strangers could roll into town, aged from about seven to 80+ and get together in the street playing their indigenous music in that casual way. We may have lost the language to a great extent but through nearly a thousand years of occupation we held on to the culture - and it could be washed away in a tide of uncontrolled immigration. If we carry on with the numbers that are currently arriving, what will Ireland look like twenty years from now?

Not to mention the fact that we have plenty of social and economic issues that we need to deal with as a nation and which will now be totally sidelined as our government ploughs more and more money and resources into aiding and abetting illegal immigration into our country.

You're right. I lived abroad for a few years when young but I chose to come back to Ireland because, despite our problems, it had a gentleness, warmth and hospitality which visitors remarked on and loved. I'm not starry-eyed about what was wrong with the place, but I recognised that unique culture and how precious it was. It's a quality that can't be measured in GDP or tax take or PPS numbers issued. I see that changing so rapidly now at a pace that can't be explained away by new money, suburbanisation, car culture, whatever. The enormous and rapid influx of strangers into a tiny place has placed such stress on people, and not just in the difficulties with housing and infrastructure. There's a kind of edginess and unfriendliness in public life that I never saw before, an erosion of a sense of society. There are whole swathes of Ireland which didn't feel much benefit of the boom years but which would have at least been peaceful safe places to live where everyone knew each other. Now even the poorer towns and rural backwaters are having to deal with acute shortages of school places, housing, and medical appointments, as well as the shock of having large numbers of people from multiple extremely different cultures just dumped in their midst overnight. It feels like it's too late and I fear for my kids' future in this place.