Why are convicted murderers granted entry to Ireland

He can travel freely around the EU, sure Brian Rattigan is off in Spain now, Larry Murphy is travelling all over Europe, plenty more the same

Appropriate sentencing is another story though

He wasn't granted entry. He did not need any visa or permission to enter the country. As a EU citizen he can travel freely between member states. He no more needed to be granted entry than an Irish person needs to be granted entry to travel to another county.

Plenty of sinn fein / IRA murderers who originally came from northern Ireland which is part of Great Britain living amongst us too

So if you allow murderers from Britain to live here, you have to accept some from other countries

And we export many of our own too.

No ,but I'm a firm believer in states being able to refuse violent criminals from entering in the first place,the same applies to our criminals moving from state to state ...

We had a couple from Nigeria living here in Ireland who were huge in drugs trade ,they went on trial in Italy where they had asylum ,but before the trial ended they disappeared but still convicted , turned up in tallaght something like 10 years , after being granted asylum here under different names ,

We had another Chap who was a convicted of murders in terror attacks in Algeria ended up here and managed to claim asylum ,only to caught in another country plotting terror attacks .

Europe definitely needs to do more ,we could do with a violent criminals database which is shared among all the states ,and be allowed to deny entry completely

The first couple were granted Italian citizenship ,fled Italy during their trial ended up here applied to asylum under different names , granted asylum and onto citizenship here .

There has been loads of stories ,we had a rapist convicted of rape here ,on release he was deported , arrived back two weeks later to run front business for his criminal gang ..

When they say open doors I don't think they wanted stuff like this to happen

Handy link for loads of scenarios including the one which Ireland doesn't bother to implement, the 3 month rule. As a poster said above, no-one is monitored/checked-in here!

This bit pertains to previously convicted people (IMO, this violent murderer does pose a public threat in Ireland but this only mentions 'public security/order/health')

We rarely deport anyone , from foreign criminals to bogus asylum seekers ,

There has been celebration with the likes of the minister for justice and Lynn runane due to the fact nobody got deported during covid and they are looking forward to preventing deportations in the future.,

Yes, a conviction for a violent crime should prevent you from getting asylum, murder, rape, serious assault,...seriously violent crime involving weapons or drugs offenses should give any EU state the ‘option’ to safeguard its citizens by refusing entry, regardless of origin...Freedom of movement should be a right but a state should have the right to protect its citizens, first and foremost ..that should supersede any other rights.

get convicted of a serious crime as in dealing, transportation of or similar in relation to drugs, violence, weapons etc you forgo the right to enter another EU state, you’d need apply... drugs likewise...

it would be difficult to implement but I’d say it will need to be discussed in the coming years.

Same restrictions would apply ,

Why would you be actually against it bubblypop ??

I wonder if we are nett exporters or importers of serious criminals.

I believe that EU should have the right to refuse entry to foreign criminals ,and vice versa ,

We have a right to be protected and other states should have the same rights to protect their own citizens from from criminals .

I don't buy into this bleeding heart nonsense let's not deport foreign criminals ,

Both EU and non EU ,

Why ? would want to let one in because they are from within the EU and say no to the one from outside the EU .

Because it goes hand in hand with Irish not having to apply for a visa to go on their sun or ski holiday and spend ages going through passport control for a mini break or apply for work or residency permits to work and live in another EU country.

We (the EU) have been eliminating barriers to freedom of movement within the EU since the first Schengen agreement in the mid '80s.

This is nonsense. EU citizens have freedom of movement, the first about 5 replies to this thread all point this out.

I have never come into Dublin Airport or any non UK airport without having my passport checked on arrival. Except the US where you do the pre-clearance in Dublin.

That said my passport wouldn't show anyone my criminal background anyway. It says European Union on the front, that's all it needs to say.