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

Doesn't seem to be working out great in Finland, does it?

What would you prefer? A tent city in the Phoenix Park perhaps? The govt. is just fulfilling it's obligations.

Is anyone surprised considering the difference in respect for women in those countries.

I mean in their own countries they have women to actually partner with.

While here we throw them into villages with little chance of getting a partner.

Anyone with a wife or daughter should be very worried by looking at statistics like that.

Thanks....... the worry I feel is certainly on me, my kids getting on with their lives and don't think as deeply on the changing situation in Ireland as I do. I grew up in different times, people knew each other. Yes there were a spate of murders and disappearing girls in the 1990's and the consensus from the Gardai is that there was just 1 perpetrator, Larry Murphy.

To introduce thousands of men from Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia into small rural towns overnight all of the same age is a huge long-term problem. This is an artificial change to the normal ratio and demographic of these towns. Where are these men going to find women of their own age? They arrive here single............we don't have lots of Syrian, Afghan, Pakistan, Somalian women here for them. Irish women are hardly going to swipe right on them on Tinder or hook up outside the local chipper . So what is the long term plan here for these males and how can that not pose a risk or at least a deterrent for Irish women going out and about? Aisling Murphy did everything right and expected to be safe, she wasn't.

My sister lives outside Letterkenny and she finds going into town to shop very intimidating, there are gangs of men literally hanging around street corners, begging outside shops, sitting in coffee shops. None of her female friends meet up for a coffee or a day out shopping in the town anymore. Its torn the heart out of the place. She goes in to Lidl about 9am , along with most of most of the locals, particularly older people, then leaves the town and goes home or meets for walks on beaches.

Killarney is at breaking point with 40% of our tourist accommodation given to migrants and growing. Cahirciveen where my daughter lives has huge numbers of Ukrainians yet no doctors, Portmagee, Waterville, Ballybunion, all bursting. Donegal is a close 2nd to us in Kerry, the poorest and least populated towns in the West seems to be getting a disproportionate number of migrants, the less indigenous Irish in a place, the less chance of a meaningful protest. Any town that has bravely taken a stand and protested is to be admired. These are ordinary people, like me, not Far Right. We need a voice.

There are no migrant centres in Malahide where Darragh O Brien lives, no IP or DP centres, yet it has amazing facilities like beaches, tennis, golf, cricket, Malahide castle and park, Avoca , trains, buses, airport, coffee shops, it would be the perfect place for newcomers. If they can be shoved into Killarney they can be shoved into Malahide surely! This is why people in rural areas are getting angry. There is a huge unfairness and imbalance in how this migrant issue is playing out and finally people are seeing this and getting a voice.

One in four cases the offender is a stranger, which means that 75% of all assaults are committed by someone known to the victim. Dunno what you think you're proving

No one is surprised, a blind man could see it coming n our do gooder clowns in government have repeated exactly what Finland Sweden etc did a few years earlier.

Not really, we've agreed to take in a certain number of Ukrainians (future EU citizens with a bit of luck). Other refugees coming here we have to look after and that's not going to stop. We sure as hell don't want to go down the Loony Right Wing Nutters route in the UK.

As I keep saying, the fact that our infrastructure is creaking has nothing to do with migrants and everything to do with govt. policy. The govt. needs to spend on stuff. Railways, schools, hospitals etc. There are parts of the country like Clare, where the infrastructure is crap. Again, it isn't the fault of the poor devil whose house has just been blown to bits.

The truth hurts - you must have missed the bit where Afghanis n Iraqis are 40 times more likely to commit sex crimes than the locals. You missed that bit, didn't u?!!

How can our obligations be stopped?

Rather than house people properly, you would ghettoise them? Frankly that's horrific.

Citywest is by far the largest DP centre in Ireland by a distance. It's a processing centre. I am surprised there aren't more fights there. There will be more fights in Tullamore chippers this week.

Direct provision began 20 years ago as a temporary measure.

Fine Gael promised to end Direct Provision many times and made it part of the programme for government in 2020 with FF and Greens. Of course there was no plan or timeline. It was just talk as per usual.

I blame FFGG for every problem with the immigration system. No plan, no effective operations, no communications, no capacity. FF & FG both destroyed the housing market. There is nowhere for immigrants to rent or buy so they are stuck looking for accommodation

Direct Provision system to be ended within life of next government – The Irish Times

Email your TDs. Don't burn things.

It may be pathetic in your view but it's a very real and valid concern. Doesn't necessarily mean rape/ sexual assault - just leering and comments when women pass by.

Letterkenny as a town has become a horrible, intimidating pit.

In the last 3 years, the demographics of the place has utterly changed. It's utterly scandalous and contempt to the locals. Traitors, whoever allowed this to happen!

You're right about the gangs hanging about idle with nothing else to do. It is horrible and intimidating.

Then there is the way rent in the town has gone extortionate and house prices in any of the towns outside Letterkenny have gone bonkers.

I live in another town in Donegal and I will love to live closer to home via Letterkenny but this will not happen now with Letterkenny becoming such a pit. I wouldn't bring my children up anywhere near the town.

I simply cannot see how this benefits anyone- well maybe just the landlords and DP accommodation owners!

Also, I was reading that Letterkenny GH now is either the most or 2nd most overcrowded hospital in the country. Staff have been warned not to put patients on the floor. WTF!

Cultural enrichment, not!

Hilarious- maybe the Finnish police don't understand how statistics work either n the graph is all wrong eh?!!