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

Good one

Where are all these diverse opinions in broadcast media? The fact is, there are very few - Gript seem to be the only ones calling out the Govt on a regular basis and I think it's fairly obvious where you stand with them. In fact, it looks to me like the 'Gript thread' was started with the sole purpose of discrediting them - There are some people that say it like it is (like Niall B and below list) but they are dissed by the likes of yourself. I must give some credit to Newstalks PK and Barry Whyte too - They've done some great work

The bottom line here is that most reasonable people would agree with the points made by Niall in that interview. A bit like the majority of people in the last 5-6 polls think the Govt is making a complete balls of it - Even the Govt themselves know this and that's why they're desperately scrambling around looking for solutions and kite flying about getting tough (albeit 2 years too late) - Idiots!

You however, looked at Niall's interview through the prism of your obvious bias and see Niall as some sort of a mini Himmler

These people have all stated in one way or another, that what's happening here is a mess

Cormac Lucey (Sunday Times)

Michael McDowell

Marc McSharry

Karl Deiter

Lorraine Sweeney (hotelier)

Barry Whyte (NT)

The farmers alliance crew and their constituents

^they're hardly like something straight out of 1930's Germany generally to be found hanging around beer halls in Munich are they?

No that's not in their interest. They are replacing the tourism industry with the asylum seeker industry for two reasons, incompetence and corruption. Every generation of Irish politicians finds an angle to enrich their cronies.

A huge amount of the money being sunk into asylum seekers can be traced to people with strong political connections. It will all 100% come out eventually.

The reason there aren't a load of Niall Boylans on the radio or TV is because he is part of a small minority in his viewpoints. Ireland is not "full", nor is it swarming with unvetted males. It's not that these voices are somehow being kept off the air - it's that nobody really wants to listen to them. The people calling in to his show and saying 'Good on you, Niall' are out on the fringes of the political debate.

Ireland is not full yet we have had 10,000 homeless people every year for the last 10 years??

Yeah but Ireland isn’t full.

This is arrogance and Irish exceptionalism of the highest order.

As a country we are absolutely awful for self praise. Given that Irish people are burning down refugee centres, it’d be time for Harris to cool the jets a little bit.

Clearly Ireland has massive problems with integration that are getting worse rather than better.

So what's an alternative phrase? Look forward to your suggestions

And it would be wrong too. The Irish Times reported yesterday how there are more than 730 asylum seekers without accommodation

Theres ~500000 adult children living with their parents because there's nowhere for them to go

Theres people stuck in broken relationship living together because one of them can't move out.

Theres homeless Irish families living in hotels.

I could go on, there's many more examples.

Ireland is not full, it's beyond full.

Anybody who thinks otherwise, is deluded.

Is what the Irish Times reported on a racist narrative? Are the points made by waterwelly in the post above yours a racist narrative?

Maybe this is a good time to drop left centre and right labels.

Definitely. It's never been about left versus right. It's top versus bottom. People being imposed on by out of touch elites. DP centres, green agenda, LGB in schools.

It's only because government here and abroad has been so inhabited by the left and their ideas that those opposed to government diktats are being labelled as "right".

My politics are the same as Fianna Fail from about ten or fifteeen years ago. In the eyes of leftist activists that alone would prove I was on the right. For normal people it just shows my views are in the centre.

"People being imposed on by out of touch elites."

The government may or may not be 'inhabited by the left' but they sure are willing to try and impose their will by right wing methodology.

All very true but as long as we have hotels available they will say we’re not full

The anti-immigration lobby are way more authoritarian IMO ; they want "law and order" solutions to everything. Bans on immigration, arrests, detentions, vetting, deportations etc....this is all classic right wing authoritarian stuff.