Ireland running out of accommodation for Ukrainian refugees due to surge in non-Ukrainian refugees?

No idea what the Hell you are on about buck, but glad you're entertained, for the time being.

Ya many of us are old enough to remember when the Bishops are clergy were losing power....there wasn't a sniff of it in the media or the political arena at the time. You remind me of those fanatic Catholics that used to sit at the front of the church...they were the last one's to cop on that the church was getting emptier and emptier...no one was listening to them anymore!!

You think you are modern and progressive no doubt...just like the Catholics sitting at the front of the church did too!

Unfortunately its becoming increasingly likely that untill there's a similar display of "disagreement" in Dublin City Centre as was seen in Citywest, it'll continue to be downplayed and deflected by the Open Doors brigade and the mainstream media outlets.

I just hope that innocents aren't caught in the middle but that's probably what it'll take before real questions start to be asked, and even then very timidly of the politicians (after all, too many "journalists" are related to, married into, or auditioning for future jobs with those same politicians).

I wonder what the next policy move will be. Getting it out there that there is no accommodation to be had will slow arrivals but it won't stop it. What then?

We could easily see more than a doubling of rough sleepers in the next few weeks and a resulting humanitarian and security crisis if there is no policy response. Dublin doesn't even have public toilets.

when the native “unwell” of the city centre realise these newcomers are competing for scarce homeless resources - well, it won’t be all sweetness and light

I heard that earlier and it made me angry..........angry because the stupid interviewer never thought of asking why this man left the UK (which is hardly a 3rd world country) to travel to Ireland via Belfast.................. because Ireland has a better economy?? He spoke excellent English and must have heard we have an accommodation crisis before now? Yes he was almost going to fake a few tears at one stage, saying he could die if temperatures dropped to -5. Luckily we are in an extremely mild phase right now.

But WHY do main stream interviewers NEVER ask why these young single jobless men with no papers are coming to Ireland? I hope they are left to sleep in the streets, then maybe they will take a train back to Belfast and back to the UK. They fully expect accommodation when they arrive here, they are chancers, economic migrants who will never do a day's work!!

What is the plan here? If the same number of people arrive every single day from now on, and there is no accommodation, are they just going to wander around the country, robbing, fighting , and feeling we all owe them? What is going to happen in the next week or month?

Meanwhile the headlines on RTE 6 O clock news was nominations for the Oscars, it went on for a good 10 minutes! Then Paschal and his posters................

It's an absolute joke when you actually think about it, if current numbers continue there'll be 600+ asylum seekers sleeping rough on the streets of Dublin within 4 weeks. In the middle of Winter.

Then we'll have many hotels reverting to tourism in March. Thousands of beds gone.

I think I read that they've got plans to build a total of 800 modular homes in 2023 but that won't even accommodate a fraction of the 70k plus that came in 2022, let alone the same number we are told that will arrive in 2023.

Newstalk was actually unbelievable earlier with Kieran Cuddihy . They roll out GAA star Philly McMahon who says he’s speaking for the majority of Ballymun people when he says the people out there are now seeing through the “far right “ people who are not from the area and the same people against refugees are the very same people that are against abortion and LGBTQ so are not worried about the women of Ireland . He also says he likes to call the men getting off the buses unaccompanied instead of single as they more than likely have families at home . Some amount of horse shite spoken . Not a mention of city west .

And unfortunately what made me laugh at how outrageously blatant the whole thing was , the next segment was on how people should show better manners and he cut to people on the street giving their opinion . Shockingly the very first person asked said “ we should be more welcoming to refugees “

Absolute embarrassment

In 2007 the likes of Fine Gael's party members such as Leo Varadkar laid out in their General Election priorities and promises the implementation of "Proper Immigration and Integration Policies". They used the very same concern to gain votes, nobody called that "the rise of the right" or disgraceful? They gained an extra 19 seats. What changed since then? Why is that priority and promise that was basically an establishment and citizen priority back then, so vilified now? That's what is sad here, genuine citizens concerns being turned into SS officer's concerns. What for?

EU subservience,money, and populist grandstanding on Twitter with the end game being to move up into the real gravy train in Brussels or the speaking circuit/lobbyist set like some others before them.

I heard some of philly Mahon earlier.

Absolute tosh, he was parroting phrases he clearly didn’t understand.

He may be able to kick a ball but he should stay away from discussing current affairs as he was very much out of his depth and showing his ignorance live on a national radio show.

nail on head. It was cringeworthy stuff listening to him trying to remember the buzz words to parrot off.

Meanwhile, back on earth, seeing as it has been directly stated several times now by politicians that we are full and have no accommodation for anyone else, they should act on that fact immediately and halt all inward migration.

Don't you agree?

Or what do you propose should happen immediately given its a crisis?