Immigration and Ireland - MEGATHREAD *Mod Note Added 02/09/25*

If they can get employment and contribute to society I’d have no problem with them staying.

It is worse Brian. At least in 1995 you could easily aspire to owning a home. And get on with raising a family, even at a young age. Now we have adults in there 30s living in boxrooms. With the possibility of living in something in their parents garden if they're lucky.

It's definitely worse now. Please don't gaslight.

It's probably the most important metric. The right to access a home and start living your life. This generation is being mugged off. I seriously don't know why there isn't ructions over this. And every available building being used to bring in asylum seekers/ipas and our kids getting absolutely no help in finding homes. How the state is getting away with this is beyond my comprehension.

True, though I think housing is one of those things I mean by "making Ireland more attractive" — the problem of course being (as you say) that nothing radical is being done about it (and as a current first time buyer who has spent the past 2 years trying to get on the ladder and have been sale agreed for 7 months with no keys in hand yet, I'm acutely aware of the issue). A focus on providing and building more well-connected and modern residential apartment areas akin to what has been achieved at Grand Canal Dock and the Northside docks etc to house young and migrant professionals is something that is achievable in order to free up demand for house-shares etc. But that's a discussion for another thread.

But anyway, we are both coming back to the same central conclusion however that there is a feature of inevitability to emigration in Ireland. It's a price we pay for, among other things, producing a pool of talent whose skills are transferable and in-demand across the world.

You obviously know nothing about Ipas centres if you think you can just rock up, walk in the gates/doors and start asking random questions.

Mount street which suffered a lot with tent city in recent years is on course for to receive 700 IPAs.

Resident association is not happy and has sent letters complaining to various politicians.

Here Pat Kenny or perhaps the reporter really can see it as the cash grab that it is.

https://youtu.be/DX_RCKjq2f4?si=hmwZL73uruHsuOoF

Well, I think it depends on the nature of the protest doesn't it?

I watch quite a lot of the videos posted by "concerned citizens" and "citizen journalists" on various social media sites who hang around near places where IPAs are being accommodated or where protests are happen. Often they're just getting up into IPA's faces, abusing them, harassing them, shouting at them — playing the man and not the ball as it were — not so much protesting the issue but just straight-up intimidating and abusing the IPAs themselves.

It's that kind of element where it's difficult not to suppose that there is some degree of racism, xenophobia and bigotry involved.

Not many would agree with you I certainly wouldn't

ok good so we’re in agreement that people attending the protests aren’t racist