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

That’s the one I saw yes. If it’s a video from today and no mainstream media are reporting it, we as a country are going down a very shady and malevolent path.

Like killers from Zimbabwe

He was arrested here and Deported from here .....

So much for boardies detective work far right conspiracy 🤣🤣🤣🤣

No all the main stream media outlets...

After he got arrested.....

Face it several posters crying far right conspiracy were well and truly left with egg all over their faces

More excuses .......

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If you think its a made up story then why not complain to the press ombudsman and get it exposed as such? Plenty of the outlets that reported it are subject to the scrutiny of the press ombudsman

The only stuff made up was by you and several others ,,,,,

Why would the press in Zimbabwe make this up? Whats their angle?

If there was no one of that alias who was deported from Ireland wouldn't the Dept of Justice have said that rather than stating they don't comment on individual cases?

Their national broadcaster reported it not just some blogs, it was in every newspaper over there too. If hes never extradited from Mozambique there will be major questions by people about this story in Zimbabwe. Do you think the national broadcaster is lying and that no one in Mozambique has contradicted the story? Again what is the angle that you think the Zimbabwean media is playing? What angle are the Zimbabwean police playing? The assistant commissioner is quoted in the story by their national broadcaster

Proceedings involving the deportation of asylum seekers do not allow for their names to be published in the media, unless there are exceptional circumstances. In this case it doesn't seem like they knew he was a triple murderer when he was deported or he wouldn't have been sent to the wrong country.

Maybe the whole truth of whatever occurred, should be included though… that way citizens can be informed.

what happened, who was arrested and on suspicion of xyx…mainstream news outlets ignoring an incident in the city where verifiably dozens of Gardai and the ERU were deployed to an individual by the looks of things who has to be arrested using some degree of force :).

im presuming people became aware of the toy or imitation firearm because it was made visible to them…

From the irish statute book …..9A. — (1)  Where a person, without lawful authority or reasonable excuse (the onus of proving which shall lie on him or her), has a realistic imitation firearm with him or her in any public place, that person shall be guilty of an offence.

They did though, they came out early on and said there was no proof that he was here, either in the red cow or the country.

So, being aware that he was alleged to be here, in a massive coincidence they arrested him under his other alias and carried out one of the few enforced deportation orders (less than 100 a year) and sent him to the wrong country? Does that not seem even a little off to you?

What aspect of it are they discussing? Ballinrobe and Roscrea seemed way too localised an issue to be engendering national debate. Is it just the emergency accommodation situation in general?

Well of course, all those hotel contracts don’t come cheap

https://archive.ph/3ukkY

It appears form the article that the €800 ARP scheme paid to homeowners to rent a room to Ukrainian refugees (way above the going rate in most parts of the country) isn’t even included in these figures

McEntee and her colleagues are exactly WHY we're in the position we're in. It's only because the party bosses are concerned about the impact of all this on their chances in the upcoming elections that the tune is very belatedly changing. I said that here days ago.

I have very little in common with FG in general. Originally voted in back in 2011 with a mandate to reform politics in the aftermath of the crash (anyone remember Enda and his promised "report cards"), instead we got more of the same, with the added twist of them selling off half the country through NAMA (thank you Noonan) and a leader who went into hiding anytime the political heat became too much - only to then reappear a few days/week later declaring "nothing to see here"... or that infamous tale of the man with 2 pints...

Oh and let's not forget the arrogance in general - like Hogan and his "down to a trickle" threats to those who would refuse to pay for their latest scheme, the thing that actually got large parts of the country out on the streets.. Irish Water (recently renamed to its Irish version I note. Probably an attempt to distance it from that scandal - like rebranding the Traffic Corps to Roads Policing in the aftermath of the penalty points cancelling scandal. Pepperidge Farm remembers though!)

Then there's the current incarnation of FG.. Led by a man who came to the top job by exploiting his sexuality on national radio during the SSM referendum to boost his opinion polls (conveniently ignoring his position on the subject in the Dail only a few years earlier) and who has no apparent political principles or ideology but instead treats the office as an ego trip as we've seen every time he embarrasses himself in the media.

As for McEntee herself. A woman who only was elected on a sympathy vote and who like the rest of "New FG" seems to make policy decisions based on what's trending on Twitter while the country falls apart around them - headlines about how wealthy we supposedly are (noting that according to coverage over the weekend we're officially in a recession now again) badly covering the reality of multiple domestic crises - most of their own making! - and who has presided over turmoil and mass retirements in the Gardai membership and an increasingly dangerous country in general due to her incompetence. (Edited to add: Oh and there's her crusade to criminalise contrary views through her imminent "Hate Speech"/hurt feelings legislation which has been roundly objected to, domestically and internationally!)

I won't even get into FF whose leader's only goal was to not be the only one who wasn't Taoiseach and who abdicated the running of the country to NPHET and Tony Holohan, or the Greens who again have supported all this and introduced various new taxes and charges under the guise of "de environment" and led by a man so divorced from reality it's astounding!

So no, I think you'll find I've actually very little in common with the current Government - not that I think SF are the answer either (they still think that people here consider the North and unification as a priority issue and their immigration stance is no different to the rest - arguably even worse). Like many people out there there is no mainstream party that represents me.

But to bring this back to the topic at hand, giving the Government credit for making noises about addressing the elephant in the room that everyone else was screaming about for the last 2 years - a situation which they themselves are directly responsible for causing! - is an interesting suggestion, especially when you remember their track record in general as outlined in brief (because there's a lot more that's gone wrong under their watch remember) above.

Too little, too late and the consequences of their decisions will be with us for decades.. Thanks for that guys and girls! I'm sure my son will love the Ireland you've created for him in the next decade or so!

But shouldn't Gript be welcoming changes to asylum policy? It's a bit odd to be demanding the Govt tighten up the asylum rules and then ask 'why did you do it?' when it happens.