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

"I see the tent villages are back this time on Merrion Square" 

Nice and close to government buildings and pitched directly under the Taste of Dublin sign - how apt. That basically is pretty much a taste of Dublin these days and for the future. Only it will actually get a lot worse before they manage to herd them into what remains of our beautiful old country estates. Powerscourt House next perhaps?

So some 'citizen journalist' is going around the streets of Dublin secretly recording black people as they go about their business? Which includes helpfully and genuinely trying to give him directions.

I feel so proud to be Irish right now. Where's me tricolour!

I love it - maybe finally it's affecting them directly ???

Though we've already seen they care not about visitors to the country who want to spend money, only who want to take it.

Proud to be Irish ….. get out of it. Aren't all Irish horrible bad stupid people.

Those are not any old sources.

One is the UN and the other is this guy.

https://forskning.ruc.dk/en/persons/suneha

I actually spent some time finding sources which I felt were concise and objective.

You'll see my sources give accounts of atrocities committed on all sides in the Lebanese civil war, whereas you've selected only those committed by Palestinian groups.

As a general rule I think it's a good idea to check anything you read on an anonymous forum against reliable sources.

The most recent figure published as far as I can see was a year ago. 32% of all hotel beds outside Dublin were occupied by AS\IPAs. In some counties the figure is as high as 50%.

It's grand though, it's only 'costing some €1bn in lost revenue for non-accommodation tourism.'

I think we really need to consider the fact that the number of asylum seeking, homeless men has more than doubled since February. It was 900+ in Feb and now it's over 2,000. Where are we heading? How many thousand on the streets by the end of the year? 5,000? More??

Yes indeed , a good politician .

McNamara, once he decided to run , thought about where else he could attract votes , and he ran a very good campaign .

But I am not convinced that he is antiimmigration , just talking a good talk about consultation and implementing our laws around process and deportation .

We all agree with that . Should have been happening all along .

I would have given him a vote if I was not in Dublin .

Think about that , Furze ;)

The relevance is the post I was replying to . Which was discussing a clip on the news about the worlds refugees and where they end up .

You took my reply out of context for your response to me .

Happy to discuss it if you want to admit that .

Here ..

You took my comment which talked about the majority of refugees , mainly women and children not travelling too far from their home countries as per the report , and wrongly made the correlation between the men travelling to Ireland saying our "system is broken " .

My issue with that is that this is the same with all the countries further away from the conflict not just Ireland .

So as you seem to want to double down on this I will leave it here , no point getting into a circular argument .

You're not …!!!

So people aren’t allowed to draw relevant comparisons and distinctions about things that are germane to this thread?

What I said was an entirely valid point to note, will you ever give over

Who ever said anything about a majority?? What I've been reading here and responding to are a range of assertions from the usual suspects that anyone who stood for the elections on anything resembling a 'reservation about immigration' platform - was thrashed and consigned to the dustbin of history in so many words.

And that is clearly not the case, many such candidates like many others may not have been elected in the final count. But they garnered substantial support and the main parties will have taken note of this significant trend. The winds of change are a blowin.

Fair play to the groups who directed all the lads to camp beside taste of Dublin/Merrion square. Smart thinking. Accommodate them quick.

They don't ignore it. There's no charge for importing an EU car.