Time for a zero refugee policy? - *Read OP for mod warnings and threadbans - updated 11/5/24*

All parties are aligned with the vision of long term large scale immigration so the poll is irrelevant and will be ignored. We will be told we have obligations, the EU are making us and if you question it you are far right. The politicians know they can bankrupt the country, not bother fixing the trolley and housing crises and the people will still vote for them.

There's nothing wrong with large scale immigration as long as the infrastructure and plans are in place to facilitate. Many countries develop infrastructure ahead of time based on data modelling. Singapore being an example of a country that does it well.

The infrastructure is clearly not in place and will never be with the absolute lack of vision and stupidity that exists.

We have always been reactive to infrastructure instead of proactive. Under the current Government we are not even reactive. It's pure rabbits caught in headlights stuff.

FG/FF/GP - I'm out. Where the hell to go from here, I really don't know.

I won't

Always gave no 1 to the independant candidate and 2 to whoever I felt was doing most for the area and they would mostly have been the FG guy.

I'll ask him when he comes calling are his views in line with the party and make my decision based on what he says.

Do you put the people in Clare in the far right category?

They didn't burn anything or shout at anyone.

Is this not part of the problem, the FFG status quo clinging to power with a list of preference votes, people who vote for independent/others over establishment parties, including SF PBP etc. would do well to remember this come election time. Just vote your no.1 and leave it at that.

I'm not talking about how the rest of Galway will vote, just myself.

Ciaran Cannon is the FG guy and he did a lot for the local area but he seems to be backing the Gov on this so thats why I'll be asking him when he calls to my door.

That’s the problem,we’re a small country but people believe we should be able to house the worlds poor

Goldengirl,

Yesterday you said that you remain to be convinced.

Does this poll result of 75% saying we are taking in too many refugees help to convince you?

The vast majority do not want mass immigration.

Here's the thing the party TD will tell you want you want to hear or feign interest or concern at what you are saying just to get your vote. Then when elected the TD will just fall in line with what ever the party policy is. And then this cycle will be repeated every 5 years or so.

From what I can gather, there has been a fair bit of tightening up of immigration procedures this year. Gardai being sent to different airports around Europe to act as a de facto immigration control for Ireland. Airlines now getting fined for allowing people to board flights to Ireland without being in possession of passports etc.

I would actually completely agree on the consultation issue. Communities should be informed many weeks in advance that there are plans to open up a temporary asylum centre in their area (especially small rural communities). It's only common courtesy and it increases the chances of the process going smoothly if the community have already been fully informed about what is planned and are on board with the idea.

Who beat up the man in Corofin?

It does yes. But not for just expressing an opinion.

And yes the far right could do a lot worse than our present lot in many other ways as I have already listed.

Anti Gay, anti equality, anti abortion and contraception. Let me list the ways

Back to the dark ages.

And just so we are clear what I think of your posts..

You registered to post here yesterday and you have been extremely.. active... promoting far right opinions.

You are entitled to your opinion but thankfully many people feel as I do about far right extreme politics.

Maybe not here but we are not all so gullible in Ireland.

(Maybe you think because there are people here discussing civilly and open to others opinions that you can creep in unnoticed? )

You didn't answer me yesterday when you made that strange comnent about Pakistanis / Afghanis / Algerians coming here when in fact that would be other countries not Ireland!

So maybe you will answer me now?

Where are you posting from??

And another point... I made all those points in a post yesterday which you read because you replied to it, so don't come back to me twisting it as if I don't know how badly people are feeling the crunch. And that those issues need to be addressed.

I don't need you to tell me anything about my country.

And no need to put far right in quotation marks

It is trying to infer that those attitudes are not extreme.

They are, they are harmful, hateful and dangerous.

Yes. The far right are extreme in their hatred of people who don't fit into their view of Irishness.

We have seen a lot of their extremeness hatred in communities across Ireland; setting fire to a hotel in Moville, settting fire to a hotel in Rooskey, saying they want Doctors who carry out abortions to be executed, threatening to burn down a hotel in Wicklow, threats to damage a hotel in Athy, throwing a fireworks at a hotel in Buncrana, burning a building in Buncrana, setting fire to Martin Kenny TDs car, beating Izzy Kamikaze with a plank, beating up a 70 year old in Corofin, setting a fire at Kill Equestrian centre, throwing a fireworks towards Gardai in Dublin, harassing Leo Varadkar at his home, calling for the extermination of Jews, calling for asylum seekers to be burned out at Finglas, calling for Finglas Garda Station to be taken over, calling for Irish citizens born to be deported, harassing librarians in Cork, Dublin and Meath, Ripping up books in Cork, calling for President Michael D Higgins Head to be stamped on, setting fire to tents in Sandwith Street