Immigration and Ireland - MEGATHREAD *Read OP for mod warnings before posting*

Helen how has this man not got Irish citizenship ship yet? I know in most countries this guy would be sent packing with a fake passport but this is Ireland so it's time for a forever home for this fella.

95k- will he do a year in clink?

I think people are also underestimating the rise in voter share of nationalist, independent and candidates who campaigned on an immigration platform.

People seem to forget, 30 years ago, SF didn't have any TD's, with their first only being voted in in '97. I'm sure there was similar scoffing at the lack of support for SF back them too.

Also, similar to the lead up to the European elections in June, the government parties, released some carefully choreographed media peices and sound bites about immigration, it was just enough to convince those on the fence to give FFG another chance rather than going with the unknown.

Once a well oiled party, with charismatic, slick candidate appears, thats when we'll see the real change in politics in Ireland. Till then, we must put up with FFG pretending they care about immigration and how it is overstretching services in the country.

There’s no hope, too many vested interests are making a fortune from getting state contracts for accommodation, it will never end unless we go broke again

You may not have voted for this personally.

Just under 50% of people reading this did vote for it though. There's obviously plenty of people here who will whinge about it, but then quite happily check the box of their local FF/FG candidate.

There is something in the Irish psychic, particularly at government level that wants us to be loved by everyone, they bend over backwards to get international kudos. It stems from a lack of confidence and naivety from our so called leaders.

This ultimately let's us to be taken for fools and taken advantage of. They squander opportunities and relinquish controls and laws too easily.

This can all be seen in how we are dealing with immigration, so wanted to be loved, we have invited the world here to take over. We encourage foreigners to come here and integrate into structures of power all under the guise of DEI. We are importing different cultures and ideologies so we are seen as progressive and amazing, yet doing untold damage to what makes us Irish and what made Ireland a great place to live.

And if anyone doesn't beleive me, just look at what is happening in parts of the UK and Europe, Irish and Irishness will be gone within one generation if we don't change path drastically.

If we put as much effort and money into encouraging Irish families to have more children and bringing back those that emigrated, as we are into DEI and Ipas we wouldn't be seeing the rapid cultural change we currently are.

We are a country of liberal left, it’s got into every aspect of government. Certain NGO’s influence policy heavily. The media are 100% liberal left. The obsession with certain world problems is baffling. This country has changed for ever and it’s never going back.

What's that got to do with Musk telling barefaced lies!!

This obsession with Palestine from RTE is concerning yes israel are in the wrong here what are we now the world police ?

AGS handled 310k immigration registrations in 2024, first timers 95k & 210k renewals. Minister McEntee said moving the registration system to DoJ will free up resources, 100 members who worked in that function.
Looking at residence visa and conditions, it appears that controls were loose if courts and other news reports are true, so maybe the new set-up will be more robust, but who knows.
Also interesting is the immigration info is available in 12 other languages apart from English and Gaeilge. Doesn’t seem to happen in other countries (except Sweden who also seem to have problems), eg the UK, Germany, France & Italy just have their own language and English. Is that a good/bad idea?

Is he lying though, just one example below from Irish Mirror

A violent offender who grabbed and raped a woman with a mild intellectual disability on a side-street and then falsely imprisoned her in his home, raping her twice more, was given an extraordinarily lenient sentence because he can't speak English, the State has argued at the Court of Appeal today.

Costel Pirvu (39) formerly of Kilreekill, Loughrea, Co Galway, was found guilty of three counts of rape and one of false imprisonment after a nine-day trial at the Central Criminal Court last year. He had pleaded not guilty on all counts and was jailed for six and a half years.

At the Court of Appeal today, Ms Brennan submitted that the sentence had been unduly lenient. Counsel said Pirvu unduly benefited in mitigation because the trial judge had factored in his status as a foreign national with no English, which would make prison life more difficult for him. Ms Brennan said the trial judge said every day in prison for Pirvu would be like a day and a half for an English-speaking person.

Ms Brennan said the trial judge "came up with a formula that it would be 50 per cent more severe for him than a local", which amounted to an "extremely high" discount.

Counsel said she was not taking issue with the headline sentence of 10 years but that the discount of three-and-a-half years was "extraordinary". She added that Pirvu's violent convictions were from his time in Romania and Germany.

It's ok to break the law if you're "from" here? Class

nah don’t buy that. Might reflect your opinion which i have always gathered is very much pro immigration, and i mean that with respect from reading your posts.

if there is a downturn in the economy well how public opinion stacks up.

i can you tell this, this lefty liberal love in won’t last.

Perhaps if it was a sudden incident, but we've plenty of evidence that the slowly boiled frog story is extremely pertinent.

Didn't you get the memo for the usual suspects? All these people will happily integrate and are after all more Irish than you or I.

The fact it has not worked anywhere else is to be ignored and to suggest otherwise is racism of the highest order.

No, anyone who breaks the law, deserves full punishment but having no English to little English should not lessen the sentence