Immigration to Ireland - policies, challenges, and solutions *Read OP before posting*

You need to start understanding the real lived experiences and views of your fellow Irish citizens on this thread. People are not just making stuff up, perhaps consider that just maybe you are fortunate to live a life that is sheltered from the effects of current government policy.

I think FFG are happy with this strategy… there is a good chance both parties won’t get the numbers in next election. Martini will resign as FF leader and possibly go to Europe along with Varadker. They will be happy to leave Sinn Fein to sort it out who more or less have the same policies as Greens/FF/FG

I believe that the Dublin Convention states that an asylum seeker must make their case for asylum in the first EU country that they arrive in. If it can be proven that they were previously in an EU country prior to landing in Ireland, then they can be sent back to that EU country. Is this a correct interpretation of the Dublin convention?

Anyone who would vote in a general election based on a single issue would need their head examined. There are a whole raft of issues that need to addressed - the housing crisis, cost of living, the health service, climate change, law and order, Irish neutrality etc. Trying to spin it that immigration is the main thing affecting the country is misguided (the Tories and the Tory press in Britain have been attempting this in order to distract from their numerous failures in government).

My own pov would be that there will be a heave against Martin probably after the locals but it may well be before, I could see Callaghan being installed there to lead them into the next election, from what I've heard from him he seems to have a tougher stance on immigration from his mutterings on the airwaves, but it's all hot air imv

Huh? Why would anyone “condone” that stabbing? And I heard many condemn it.

What are you on about? Condone the stabbing of a child?? I hope you mean condemn.

Do all politicians have to condemn a child being stabbed? Many politicians did but it's so abhorrent an act that condemning it goes without saying. Everyone condemns it, everyone was shocked. What were you expecting? Everyone in the Dail to condemn it in an hour long special?

Their was an old nunnery idle for years that was done up recently.

The say no crowd were holding protests and telling locals their were 90 men going in, which turned out to be false and it was Ukrainian families just before Christmas.

Now this all seems great that 30 or 40 Ukrainian families got nice done up houses but it has caused a lot of anger locally.

I have a relation who is a single working mother who is renting and on the housing list for years, her mother had to give her a bag of coal last week as she didn't have the money to heat the house.

Others have kids and grandkids that are living at home or emigrated due to a lack of housing.

Then they are looking at non nationals walking in and jumping the queue ahead of irish people who work and pay taxes to fund Ukrainians lifestyles.

Then we read online that they are heading back to their war zone for a holiday with a double weeks social welfare.

Local people in the area are all giving out about it and I am sure that's playing out all over the country.

The government need to act now before things get very ugly in this country.

Calling these people who are fed up as far right is really passing off people and the term has lost its meaning.

Is there a housing list in Galway being jumped?

In England they paved over a lot of the countryside and green space in suburbs.

Yet even still house prices are madly high in the UK because of immigration.

The way in which the UK has been stuffed with people from everywhere in the world does not look like a success story to me. Hindu-Muslim tensions in Leicester. Ugly Pakistani-run vape shops everywhere. Black ghettos in the East End of London, with white flight out to Essex.

If you really want to see density go to Jakarta or the suburbs of Istanbul. But that kind of life with everyone piled on top of each other is a lower quality of life.

I don't want my country to be turned into a third world ant-hill. The UK is already going that way with its increasing density.

Just the fact that the UK has higher density than Ireland says nothing about whether that is good or desirable.

The UK has a lot of problems. And like Ireland there are let loose a lot of nihilistic destructive political liberals who will wreck anything and just lie and say 'But how can you prove that what I'm doing is bad?'

Nothing whatsoever to do with my point.

We cannot, as a civilised society allow people to decide to take the law into their own hands. Arson is a serious offence last time I checked, and sorry , but using your logic here to try excuse this is ridiculous

Whoever thought it was a good idea to plop one of these centres in Ringsend needs their head examined.

There is now almost a lemming like quality being displayed by politicians, NGOs and the media in their mad rush to just keep taking in massive numbers.

Sad thing is they are taking us all over the cliff with them.

Ah yes the old doctors, nurses and engineers trope.

That wore out in 2016 when we had the same shyte spewed about the Syrian lads.

BTW you do know how misogynistic and backwards Afghanistan was even pre latest incarnation of Taliban regime?

The Western media made big song and dance about training a couple of women as pilots for the new air force.

Only thing was they never really allowed fly, after all they were women, and thus ended up working in the likes of US.

Ah but shure according to you anyone from Afghanistan that is not taliban is an enlightened professional. 🙄