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

Agree with this, word for word!

'A complete hash'...at least they learnt before it's too late. Ireland, Paddy last!

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c25l0vxpnd8o

My apologies Sir

Biden's team proposing a daily cap

Wait, isn't this the same stuff they were calling the Don racist for? I guess it's okay when they do it though.

All things aside, Our Gov needs to wake the **** up and fast!

It's interesting that the pro mass immigration argument has shifted from "it's good for us and morally right" to "there's nothing we can do about it, we must accept it".

This with a side helping of "Ireland was always sh!te anyway", "there's no such thing as Irish culture", "there's no such thing as being Irish".

It's quite a miserable base for an argument.

Listening to Morning Ireland and not a single mention of tents, migrants etc so the answer to your question is YES.

Theres a few out in Booterstown aswell across from the Maldron or at least there was when I drove by yesterday.

 "the both of you accept you have issues with legal immigration"

I don't have a problem with it in moderation. I have a problem with the possibility that we're heading towards an imbalance where we'll have a minority of ethnically Irish people. I've known hundreds of foreigners and for the most part I liked them. I take people as I find them and I don't care what race or nationality they are.

But - I'm Irish! I like spending time and interacting with other Irish people. I l like the craic, the banter, the shared sense of who we are.

I also love the remnants of our ancient culture, our quiet and mystical places, our heritage, I can feel our ancestors in those places. It touches my soul as an Irish person, as does our language and music.

A few years ago a group of Punjabi guys in Ireland did a video for St Patrick's Day of themselves doing a traditional Punjabi dance to some Irish traditional music. That's fine up to a point but what about 150 years from now? What will it mean to be 'Irish'? Will we just be a weird mish-mash of bits and pieces of everybody's traditions and culture??

Even just take the English syllabus for Leaving Cert - what will it need to look like in order to be inclusive of all these different cultures? Will our incredible, world-renowned tradition of Anglo-Irish literature be sidelined or reduced to a minimum, merely one small part of a 'global' curriculum, because it doesn't have relevance for our growing non-Irish population and we need to engage them?

I don't know. I just find the whole thing very unsettling.

I’m confused. You just told us in your previous post that Ming is against the EU support for Ukraine and always votes in alignment with the interests of Kremlin to swamp the EU with refugees. And now you are urging us to vote for him?

What was causing the housing crisis prior to the scary demographic changes over the last three years?

Indeed, so bad policy right?

what is making it worse?.. we can go around and around all day long.