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

I think it is a damning indictment of us as a country that we have not moved on and become less reliant on FDI and built our own indigenous companies. We have seemed to have settled for what we have or maybe I am being to harsh and we do have indigenous companies but are all too small or a one person show?

Are they big enough employers in the state to keep the economy going like FDI?

But..but....remember the Irish emigrated.....and we had 8 million before the famine.....and we need them to pay our pensions....

That stat wouldn't surprise me. Having worked in a couple of these multinational companies they are always looking to cut their workforce or get more bang for the buck from the worker especially when it comes to high wage economy's like ours.

What a corrupt Fcuking Basatrd.

Whilst my summer tourism job will be fine thanks to American millionaires/billionaires, many of my colleagues who drove or guided Europeans won't.

There's also literally thousands of small businesses who were barely hanging on the last summer or two, who won't be around this year at all.

Each one of those is another usually indigenous Irish family breadwinner who will now have to commute from rural Ireland into a city or town and compete with the whole third world for a minimum wage job.

I'm currently struggling to get health care for my daughter who is nearly 6 for a condition diagnosed at 20 week scan..

Off to Cork again tomorrow to fight to get treatment. "No budget" for this, "Not covered by" etc etc etc...

Millions (yes, i said millions) paid in taxes in my lifetime... (not getting into how/why)

But there's 6 billion for the rest of the world who never paid or contributed fcuk all....

May God help any candidate for any gov (or compliant "opposition") party who knocks on my door ever again.

I'll serve my sentence for them.

If you're a tourist, why would you go stay in a hotel that is also being used to house refugees? The price would want to be very cheap for that. Most likely you'll just not go to Drogheda.

LinkedIn wasn't too bad a few years ago. Could get interesting articles and links from it for topics I was interested in.

Now it seems to be just angry people, 'inspirational' slogans and marketing videos.

Edit: and everyone on it seems to have to be an activist of some description.

But remember Ireland is a rich country and rolling in the money.😖

In the past month or so I’m looking at my 2 young lads and thinking to myself I hope they are a lot smarter than I was and will get a good education and be more than qualified to go work abroad away from this hellhole that this place could end up being.

its criminal what’s being done to this country where the likes of a Muslim cleric is given so much airtime to call us all racist over a so called attack on him even though their isn’t a scratch on him.where the woke leftists are welcoming every scam artist here and we’re to give them bed and board in their own house and money as well.

if Michael Collins and the boys of 1916 could come back now and see what’s happening they would be saying what ta **** was it for.

For legal people coming here to work and contribute to society 1000%.against the sham of what is going on at the minute .that not being hysterical or falling for bs.

Have to agree with you, it is annoying to see us adopt this Americanised culture. One of the attractions to the American MNC's coming here was our culture and the relaxed atmosphere in the offices. I worked for a few of these big American corporations and what saddened me most was seeing Irish staff becoming more obsessed that their American counterparts and then the shock that the company could turn around and at the stroke of a pen make them redundant. Some folks just couldn't get over that company could do that to them after all they did.

What is really annoying is the hoops that companies are making people jump through during the interview process, some many rounds of interviews, an interviews with this person/department, another interview with another person in the same department and so on so on. I have even heard of people as part of the interview/hiring process going into the company for a day to see how they all get along. What a load of BS if that is true. Maybe I am just old now but surely an interview with the people in the department doing the hiring and an interview with HR should be enough to know whether someone is capable of doing the job.

It's perfectly possible like me to work in the American dream whilst simultaneously laughing at all that shite

One thing for sure education is a privilege in America 😀

This ongoing narrative that we're all either naive or easily led by the shadowy racist "far right" is not only ridiculous, it's insulting.

The fact that it's McEntee coming out on this speaks volumes - ideology and wishful thinking are more important to the female Minister for Justice than listening to other Irish women.

Take note people of Tipperary and indeed nationwide. This is what a decade of FG in government has brought us to.

Zero fg td in tipp, long may it continue. Reckon tipp will have 3 independents next election. Not ideal but at the least tipp people aren't just following party politics.

Lowry is a mid tipp td and gets all he can for them by voting with government but he is no longer a fg td so tipp has zero fg tds. I get your point though. People voting for lowry not for fg my point essentially .Too many people vote party not person.

I doubt anyone is delighted with this scenario. Clearly the government needs to really get the finger out. Purchase most hotel space if necessary. Leaving them out the streets is ridiculous.