Romanians

mikeybhoy

What's the srory with all the Romanians living in Ireland especially Dublin at the moment. I'm encountering a lot of them through work and out and about in general these days.

Seems they've replaced the Polish as the dominant Eastern European immigrant group in Ireland most of them seem to be younger too usually in their mid to late twenties or early thirties with young families whereas the Polish that are still here generally tend to be middle aged and more settled in.

They seem alright but they don't seem to be much craic or have much personality even compared to the Polish and other Eastern European nationalities.

degrassinoel

Dey Terk Err Jerrrrrbs

TooTired123

I find that what we generally refer to as Romanians” are actually a mix of Romanians Slovakians and Czechs. Very family oriented folk.

Quitelife

Excellent welfare rates in Ireland - Far better than the UK .

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John_Rambo

I've come across a good few in various small to medium companies throughout the last decade, mainly in the trades from automotive, construction & culinary. Seems they've a good work ethic, a very hands on approach, good skills and as TooTired states, family orientated, keen to get on and ambitious. A lot employers loosing them to Germany now it seems.... rent & house prices having an effect.

John_Rambo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119842734#Comment_119842734

Have you come across many in a welfare situation? Any I come across are in work situations (mind you, I'm not a welfare recipient and I don't work in that area).

smokingman

Seems like a veiled attempt to stirr up some good old hatred there gasún.

Might be a few foreign bots to join you in that but real Irish people are a bit more welcoming of foreigners because of all those countries that welcomed us when we had to leave our Emerald paradise.

This is the best country in the world and it's understandable why others want to come here. We have the craic with anyone.

Frank Grimes

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119842772#Comment_119842772

They probably haven't met a single Romanian full stop, and probably couldn't point to Romania on a map either, but are going to fight the good xenophobic fight anyway like that other poster.

dxhound2005

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119842734#Comment_119842734

That doesn't stop them going to the UK. Below is from newspaper of 30 November 2021.

"In 2014, the UK lifted labour restrictions imposed on Romanians, and, although in fewer numbers than predicted by the media, they did migrate to Britain. In 2017, Romanians overtook both the Irish and Indian population, reaching second place as the highest foreign population in the UK, just under the Poles. The latest official data shows that over 1.08 million Romanians have applied to settle in the UK after Brexit. That’s more than the population of Liverpool."

knucklehead6

they’re obviously here to increase our ratios

(nicked from interesting maps thread)

Star Bingo

There’s one really large one around here who wears the same floral bicycle shorts whilst pushing the pram; like really feckin fat with her 8 girls in tow I swear I could not distinguish. They look like the same octuplet

John_Rambo

There could be some confusion here between Romanians and Romani. They're very different.

Romania - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania

Romani - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people

The Romani information is absolutely fascinating, but it's important that people educate themselves and distinguish the differences before jumping online and making a fool of themselves.

dxhound2005

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119842844#Comment_119842844

They won't make much difference. We need more Hungarians.

Star Bingo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119842896#Comment_119842896

Aren’t they ultimately more Indians?

John_Rambo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119842912#Comment_119842912

It's all there on the link I provided. I had an encounter with a Romani person, he friended me on FB and I clicked on translate on one of his posts and FB couldn't translate it but interestingly enough it detected Hindi in the text.

billyhead

The Romanian gypsies are a scourge.

GIMP

The ones i know locally and are neighbours are all hard working and decent folk who are busy raising their families and contributing to society so I have no issues with them!

John_Rambo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119842931#Comment_119842931

There you go! 😄

Tonesjones

5th highest in Europe now for total of the population as a percentage who were born overseas.

3rd if you don't count Malta and Lithuania

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119842796#Comment_119842796

Craic capital of Europe. More the merrier i say. We've got the systems in place

Star Bingo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119842946#Comment_119842946

Hopeless romantics 🤪

saabsaab

Wasn't Dracula a Romanian? Or Bram Stoker.

dxhound2005

Us Celts came from Turkey.

corner of hells

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119842931#Comment_119842931

A c'mon, at least give us something to work off.

Like how they robbed your chickens or your collection of goal posts ?

John_Rambo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119842992#Comment_119842992

Bram Stoker - Dublin. Dracula (fictional) - Transylvania, in Romania (then Hungary I think) 👍️

saabsaab

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119842994#Comment_119842994

Not really they are saying now (most of us) we came from Iberia.

murpho999

New Polish colleague, who doesn’t claim any welfare, like 99% of immigrants, hates being called Eastern European and is adamant he’s Central European. Turns out he’s correct. Romanians are not from Eastern Europe either.

They don’t like being labelled Eastern European as it groups them in with Russia.

I respect and relate to that when I hear foreigners say Ireland is British or part of the British Isles.

Schwiiing

Everything east of Germany is eastern Europe

saabsaab

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119847217#Comment_119847217

No. By what criteria do you say such. Originally East meant East of Rome or so I was told.

dxhound2005

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119843648#Comment_119843648

He is correct if you go by the arbitary lines on that map. What is Central Europe is translated from Mitteleuropa in the original German.

"After peace in the East was assured by the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Germany and Austria-Hungary started a policy of creating a "Mitteleuropa" ("Central Europe") and on November 5, 1917, declared that a puppet state Kingdom of Poland might be created."

joe.smoe.low

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058270727/romanians

Have to disagree with this, Romanians are one of the most genuine people I've met, they get a lot of stick as people presume they're Roma's and get slagged etc as if they where.