Have the Irish establishment boxed clever regarding immigration?

mazdamiatamx5

I would like to propose the thesis that they have, and that contrary to the views of many posters on this website, the mistakes made in other countries which experienced large scale immigration decades before us have been learned from.

After two decades or so of large scale immigration, Ireland has not to date experienced the negative aspects encountered by other countries, including the UK, France and Denmark - ghettoisation, disaffected immigrant populations in some extreme cases leading to terrorism, a resurgent far right of disaffected nativists etc.

If you disagree, that's fine, but bear in mind that the Irish establishment created a long term economic plan which from the early 1960s onwards gradually transformed this nation from a relatively impoverished backwater into a modern, relatively very prosperous globalised country . These people are not stupid.

beastfromtheEast

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058315410/have-the-irish-establishment-boxed-clever-regarding-immigration

Unaffordable homes and rubbish hospitals.

Not blaming anybody coming into the country but if you are going to increase the population they need a place to live and people do get sick.

Jizique

It is a bit early to be handing out the plaudits - give it a decade

Beasty

And we are not having yet another thread on immigration

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