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

This, exactly. There is no middle ground online. There never was.
Once he veered away from making light hearted content online, with his reach, he was always going to illicit a negative response, no matter what he said on the topic.
Unfortunately his comment to my ears were ‘I don’t like McGregor BUT….’

He’d lost at that point.

I don’t buy his ‘I’ve been inundated with demands to speak out on this’. I’m sure he gets 1000’s of messages asking him to promote charities for free, come speak at my school, save the whales etc, everyday. How he picked this topic out of the bucket to go off brand, we’ll never know.

As for him being silenced, he hasn’t been. In olden days if you didn’t want the phone to ring you took it off the hook. He’s done the modern day equivalent.
Actually, isn’t his mother an Italian immigrant too? Maybe I’m imagining that I read that somewhere last year

It's our money. Our taxes. That's where's it's coming from so keep paying up.

The real question to ask is this - where is the money going to come from when we don't have it?

Can you clarify if posts about garron in relation to immigration can go here?

Right beside Sweden and unlike some didn't ignore the reality of what was going on there. Denmark are a clear indication of what can be done and how the 'obligations' can be ignored. It would be great if we could learn something from them rather than just allowing the current free for all and hope for the best policies. I suspect it's too lucrative an industry now for anything much to be done until it becomes completely unamanageable.

When are they dropping vat back to 21%.

Seems to be something that was overlooked since the financial crash

They care do much about the cost of living of their constituents

https://www.businesspost.ie/politics/donohoe-no-cost-of-living-package-budget-will-focus-on-enterprise-economy-in-face-of-trade-war/

No cost of living measures incoming. No election until 2029. The government must be hoping that the immigrants we're paying for might have considered getting a job by then.

Newstalk ~11:20 today:

Did I hear that right, that 3% of total tax revenue is spent on refugee accommodation? A transfer of public wealth to private entities providing accommodation

And 200 men are sleeping on a hotel ballroom floor?

Maybe we’ll get the IMF /Troika in again to sort out the mess. We only exited the bailout in 2013 and looks like we went straight back to our old ways. Just spending on a different hooley / bubble this time around.

Years? We've had decades of this Gombeenomic policy. The few connected gorge at the trough paid for by the taxpayer. Always have, always will. We peons get a few hundred euros tax "credit" every now and then, a pat on the head and gaslit if we try and protest it.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

If or when that happens, it will be game over for Ireland as we know it. The vultures will circle and carve up the country and the gripe we have currently with immigration or anything else the government does badly, will be chicken feed compared to what would follow.