They're leaving :/

Ronan|Raven

Hopefully now our swans can live in peace..

teetotaller

Ronan|Raven wrote: »

Hopefully now our swans can live in peace..

You forgot about fish in lakes and rivers !

juuge

teetotaller wrote: »

You forgot about fish in lakes and rivers !

Sheep were goin' missin' in the wicklow hills..............

Kintarō Hattori

I can't believe this thread is still going. They usually only last a few days not a few weeks!

WoollyRedHat

Ross_Mahon wrote: »

Lets go back to Poland with them!

Yes, but let's get there first! We can make it into a film, rat race to warsaw!

jimmycrackcorm

teetotaller wrote: »

I'd say that it is ironic that Irish people who are educated and qualified had to get huge help from EU and USA and UK companies to became celtic tiger.

Strangely enough Poland, despite being of a magnitude larger than Ireland, haven't been able to follow likewise...

Mrmoe

anonymous_joe wrote: »

Don't forget bacon and cabbage! (*shudders*)

I think a lot of Irish people have a nasty habit of forgetting what a shíthole we made this country up until the 90s. Irish people had to leave because there was nothing for them here, and a lot of other countries accepted us.

Bit rich to turn around when we're successful and then complain about immigrants.

But those other countries stole our fish, bloody Spanish and French, lousy iimigants, when will they learn the laguage:rolleyes:

jan_kowalski

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

Strangely enough Poland, despite being of a magnitude larger than Ireland, haven't been able to follow likewise...

Dude take some history grinds before you say something like that...
Ireland joined EU and started to take EU money, when EU was not even called EU yet, it was back in 1973 when EU was called European Economic Community (ECC) yet which was later transformed into EU in 1993 (Maastricht Treaty), have you ever heard about it? I think not.

1973 - 2008 = 35 years

Let's talk about Poland following likewise in 2039, all right mate...?

jimmycrackcorm

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

Strangely enough Poland, despite being of a magnitude larger than Ireland, haven't been able to follow likewise...

Yet!
Don't forget, Ireland has a lot of friends (& relatives) in the US.

jan_kowalski

Tchaikovsky wrote: »

It's ironic that a Pole is commenting on our economy and our workforce when despite their qualifications and everything, they have to migrate here to find work.

It's ironic that you are commenting on immigration in such pejorative way when actually 35 millions of yous (yeah, that's the bleedin size of whole Poland ) emigrated into USA over decades...

Was it this easy to forget 'No Irish Need Apply' to preserve similar attitude to foreigners in this country now? Short memory mate...?


Irish Americans (Irish: Gael-Mheiriceánach) are citizens of the United States who can claim ancestry originating in Ireland. A total of 35,975,855 Americans (12% of total population) reported Irish ancestry in the 2006 American Community Survey.[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_American

iwo

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

Strangely enough Poland, despite being of a magnitude larger than Ireland, haven't been able to follow likewise...

No comment.... Man, grab some history books.

Chardee MacDennis

Anyone hear the story of the two Irish boys who went to work construction in Poland and the polish lads put their tools down and told the foreman they wouldn't work with Irish on site? my dad claims to have been told this by one of the lads but it sounds like an urban legend.

jan_kowalski

BastardPrince wrote: »

Anyone hear the story of the two Irish boys who went to work construction in Poland and the polish lads put their tools down and told the foreman they wouldn't work with Irish on site? my dad claims to have been told this by one of the lads but it sounds like an urban legend.

Ha ha, nice bull sh*t.
UNO: I doubt there is any Irish labourers going for work to Poland in first place. There is million better places to go if not to stay in Ireland. Construction wages went up in Poland but they are still nowhere close to average EU - so Irish or British wages.
Skilled builder in Poland can make approx. 1000 EUR a month, why would Irish lads go there, when they can make it here same in 1 good week?

SECUNDO: I don't believe that situation at all, guys who would do something like that would be sacked in no time in any reputable company... Just loads of cr*p this story.

iwo

BastardPrince wrote: »

Anyone hear the story of the two Irish boys who went to work construction in Poland and the polish lads put their tools down and told the foreman they wouldn't work with Irish on site? my dad claims to have been told this by one of the lads but it sounds like an urban legend.

Yes, this person who told him this story should start writing fantasy books...

Oswald Osbourne

greyed wrote: »

So, 1/3 of poles will apparently leave next year, possibly more after that.

Apparently the sales of plain white t-shirts have already fallen by 8,000% nationwide.

Húrin

I don't mind. If we have a shrinking population then we don't even need economic growth.

m@cc@

Looking like a Polished performance.........

Húrin

BastardPrince wrote: »

Anyone hear the story of the two Irish boys who went to work construction in Poland and the polish lads put their tools down and told the foreman they wouldn't work with Irish on site? my dad claims to have been told this by one of the lads but it sounds like an urban legend.

I was that labourer!

iwo

Húrin wrote: »

I was that labourer!

poor guy

DonJose

jan_kowalski wrote: »

Skilled builder in Poland can make approx. 1000 EUR a month

Yeah but €1000 would get you a lot more gee in poland than it would here

Neamhshuntasach

I've noticed a huge difference since i went away a few months ago. I'm seeing Irish people working in my local spar, Irish bouncers back on my local pub, all the staff were pretty much Irish in the pub too, I actually managed to hear Irish accents on the bus the other day as well. My mate works in the airport and he was telling me that a few vans a week are being towed away because the Polish that are leaving just dump them there.

If only they could be replaced by El Salvadoreñas. 10 times better looking than Polish moths

Firetrap

They can go but leave their nice beer. Tyskie ftw.

mikemac

It's the one off Amiens St with those cobblestones, real old-skool street.

Bus Eireann use it as an overflow for buses and also, there used to be a Polish coach every day.
So you'd have a coachload of people hanging around some days, all newly arrived. Maybe some were doing a return journey too but lots of new arrivals for sure
In fact, the coach company has an office with Polish signage on Amiens St.

I don't know if the office is still there but I've not seen this bus since the summer and I went down this street every morning and most lunchtimes.
Maybe they moved the bus stop, more likely it's stopped due to lack of demand.

Also on that street you see loads of Eastern Europeans hanging around and smoking and some cleaning company would pull in 2-3 vans at 8am every morning and take them away for the day, I suppose on contract cleaning jobs.
That's also gone since September.

For a street with nothing but three car park entrances and one office entry, it was pretty busy with people at one stage. No more.......

Nodin

teetotaller wrote: »

and now when situation is not too good, they would like to kick off all non nationals except blond east european beauties.

Nonsense. All good looking women should be allowed stay.

thoker

name one polish multi national one polish company that hires irish workers please u re silence is deafing other wise u r right on the money sw is too lazy

javaboy

thoker wrote: »

name one polish multi national one polish company that hires irish workers please u re silence is deafing other wise u r right on the money sw is too lazy

Please do not use text speak.