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

No way !!

Kaiser's narrative will not suit Brendan o connor's script. O connor would shut Kaiser down before he even gets to introducing himself.

brendan O connor is on the RTE payroll .. same as you-can't say-that-Duffy .. claire byrne et al. Theyre getting paid obscene amounts to carry the government narrative .. Ie. The Plantations are running according to plan. We've nowhere to put the incoming tsunami of migrants but shure we're grand. Not a bother

Wow .. well Billy, thats an awkward one to answer but I'll do my best. Buckle in coz it may take some time. You may be sorry you asked !

First, 'They' are whomever handed over the keys to Croke Park (CP) ..ie the Park's guardians - this was done on leo varadkers watch (ie. before he did the runner) so i guess leo varadker is they.

CP came into existence in 1880. It was bought by the GAA in 1913 for £3 500. HILL 16 commemorates the brave men who gave their lives for Ireland in 1916. Later on the Cusack, Hogan stands were added and carry their own stories.

During the Dublin-Tipperary football match on November 21, 1920, the Royal Irish Constabulary drove onto the park, pointed their guns at the crowd and killed 14 civilians.

CP is where our annual iconic All Ireland hurling and football finals take place.

When i was growing up in rural Ireland, these matches were talked about weeks before and after the event. It was all people spoke about.

Getting a ticket to a final was like winning the lottery. Some 80 000 Irish men and women filled CP stadium on all-Ireland Sundays to cheer on their favourite team. The Park is rinsed with our blood, sweat and tears

CP saw us thru the milestones of our Irish history - Liberation from British rule, civil wars, world wars, a place where our forefathers, my own father, mother and their father and mother turned their wholehearted attentionst to that little patch of ground for All Ireland Sunday on radio or, if lucky, tv.

.. so, just like Uluru is sacred to the Pitjanjatjara Aboriginal people in Australia, CP is sacred to me. I dearly love and feel protective of the place

CP is also, by extension, a metaphor for my country of birth, Ireland. I was not "tweeted in" here. I was born and bred in Ireland. An Irish passport can give the bearer rights as an Irish citizen but it does not grant them "irishness" ie. Pride of place - a bit like money can't buy you class).

" .. nil aon thintean na do thinteain fein = theres no place like home ..

The ability to take pride in Irish things, place, customs, people that will mean nothing to someone newly arrived here, whose only concern is bulldozing his / her way to the trough ( not necessarily always but most often is the case).

The ability to spot when your President "forgets" to greet his people with the traditional happy Easter greeting .. as happened to one Irish female poster on here ystrday ... she got roundly ridiculed by 2 posters for expressing disappointment that the Irish President omitted to wish his people a happy Easter. I felt the Irish woman's disappointment and hurt when ridiculed by these 2 posters .. she was obviously born and bred here, not "tweeted in". An Irish person born and bred here would have commisserated, not ridiculed the poster.

So by Holy, i guess i mean a Reverence for the land and people that gave you everything.

In the case of CP, the place is sacred to me - it is an Irish sports ground .. it should not be used to court political sway or grant political favours. It is a uniquely Irish place. End of.

It is sad to see that Reverence being trampled upon .. i hold my own goverment responsible on this account.

What i love and revere, i feel obliged to protect. I have posted on here before about my concern for the Ireland my kids and their kids will live in. It will be vastly different to the Ireland I know but we need to be fully aware of what is happening so that history does not repeat itself.

While i have every sympathy for people fleeing war zones seeking refuge here, i advise caution on admitting all and sundry to Ireland. Eg. We have a large contingent of Nigerian refugees. North Nigeria has to contend with ultra islamic radicals but South Nigeria is relatively safe so, i would have to question why Nigerians would have to travel all the way to Ireland. In fact, with enough will, the Nigerian army could wipe out any perceived threats.

Re Palestinian refugees, I have outlined previously why i am reluctant to admit them as refugees despite the widespread popular support for their cause. And that has to do with their behaviour as refugees in the past 70-80 years as per the following ..

1. King Hussein's Jordan was the only Arab country to fully integrate the Palestinians. They repaid his largesse by running a parallel state within Jordan and attempted to assassinate and overthrow the man.

2. Next the Palestinians were granted refuge in Lebanon. Until their arrival, Druze, sunni, Shia and Marmonite Christians lived happily side by side. The arrival of the Palestinians tilted the demographic in favour of the Arabs and thus began the bloody 15 yr civil war. 150,000 people were killed. Christians were routed and massacred. 1000, 000 fled for their lives.

3. When Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, the PLO under yasser arafat, gave their full backing to the invasion, much to the consternation of the other Arab states who had supported the Palestinians and felt roundly betrayed.

Will such behaviour translate into a total lack of respect for the host nation ?

I know little about migrants from other countries but i cannot hide what i do know and i feel compelled to share that information.

my country of birth is as holy / sacred to me as Makkah is the the Muslim, as Uluru rock is to the Aborigine and my government's Come all ye tweets have to be seriously revisited. Their current limp wristed response is laughable

Thank you for reading. Sorry for the length. I'll probly get reprimanded for rambling and ranting, (i do that a bit) but these are the feels of this born and bred Irishman

Oh probably something silly like:

“Should the United Kingdom Ireland remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?”

What could possibly go wrong and still not address the root issues and make them worse, as seen from UK