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

Living in rural Ireland for the last 40 years of my life I have seen and lived through many negative changes in quality of life . Changes that we were always assured were for the greater good and couldn’t be helped for the sake of progress. The closure of many Pubs and small business. The slow gradual thinning out of the population density. The decimation of good sound agribusiness and meaningful work. Derelict houses and the pull towards the cities. And in recent years post pandemic the disappearance entirely of any kind of vibrant social scene that was on its last legs pre 2020. And now after sucking up all that and accepting the price of progress we are about to have 200 strange single men with weird beliefs dumped into our community with nothing to do and no where to go. Is this progress?

Take a group of 200 men anywhere in the world of any ethnicity and creed and at least one will be a psycho maybe two three or four. And now they are being dumped into decimated rural communities that had had to accept decline for progress for the last 40 years and now this is what we are getting????? This is what all the progress was for??????

Two headlines on the Irish Times website right now:

"More than 20 primary schools who reported to be in financial difficulty sought emergency funding from the Department of Education last year in the face of rising costs. However, latest records indicate that just one school was successful in securing additional funding."

"State to build new reception centres for asylum seekers in 2024"

It's a heck of a lot more than 20 primary schools that are basically insolvent and out of cash as only 20 applied for funding. We can't afford to fund schools properly - Ireland is ranked 36th out of 36 OECD countries in terms of spending on education as a % of GDP.

Yet it's amazing what we can afford.

it beggars belief… you really couldn’t make up.

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I would agree that living standards in rural Ireland have gotten worse the last 20 years, with the Green attack on agriculture (mainly because we don't have any heavy industry like chemicals, auto manufacturing and steel, so our poor farmers have to take the brunt of emissions cuts). The policy of dumping hundreds of illegal migrant men in rural Ireland is so messed up its almost beyond belief. There is literally almost no new housing being built in rural Ireland apart from one off private homes, and even if there was, why should it go to illegal third world migrants? And it's not even remotely "racist" to ask that question, it's just a natural common sense question. Statistically we're also adding the demographic with highest crime rate (young single men) to areas with barely a handful of unarmed police. Another indisputable fact.

There must be. Or the EU are throwing money at them under the table. There are buildings being done up that have been derelict for years and decades. In fairness that is great on the surface. But it’s for an absolutely terrifyingly terrible idea.

Currated feel-good stories, promoted to support the government policy.

Notice that particular piece isn't paywalled?

Propaganda Rag.

For the sake of the both sides argument, will the IT run a similar story, not paywalled, that shows the abuse of the AS/Refugee system?

How many towns in Ireland have emergency accommodation centres for refugees? We're literally talking a relatively small handful - anyone reading this thread would think there is a refugee centre in every town in Ireland. Apart from Ukrainians, there are less than 25,000 refugees or asylum seekers in the entire country, nearly 10,000 of whom are in Dublin.

She has been in DP 7 years turned down several times but appeals have allowed her to be allowed stay when she should have been deported years ago.

Frankly, that's not our decision to make. You don't know that she should have been deported years ago. Do you know more about her case than what was published? As far as we know she has leave to remain.

Sounds like she entered this country with help from her church in SA.

“We used to go to this church. They used to let us sleep there, and they raised money for us to travel [to Ireland].”

After landing, she apparently didn't claim asylum until sometime later. That suggests she may have entered under false pretenses.

has volunteered all over the town, helping schoolchildren with homework and helping young girls in the community. [Translation: she helps other non nationals]

Some day, when she finishes her education, she hopes to work with asylum seekers and contribute to policymaking. [Translation: she's here availing of free education so that she can assist other africans come here as refugees and also effect government policy to make it easier]

Yes, the tragic fire on Valentine's Day 1981, you never hear about that.......🙄

What are you talking about? Arson has always been treated as a serious crime. When some of these people.start being caught, which they will, they are going get fairly hefty sentences.

it's not a good news story.

It's someone that experienced trauma 40 years ago, then spent the next 30 years in SA.

Then came to ireland probably under false pretenses to later claim asylum. Today, milks the irish tax payer for free education with the goal : to pry open the door to further africans to arrive here.