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

Could the media be more obtuse in their reporting and less interested in the details of what goes on in the mosque in Clonskeagh?
The, what, where, how and when of reporting has gone the way of all of journalism's standards, utterly subverted by the fear that the truth is incompatible with the narrative shibboleth of their secular religion of multikulturalism, 'diversity is our strength'.
The just don't want to report on the fact that multiculturalism is importing the internecine medieval conflicts of the middle east into our society. Worse still, they don't want you know what goes on behind the closed doors of the mosque and school up there, they wouldn't want to spook the Irish Times readers. These are the same kind of people that a generation ago thought it was best not to report the uncomfortable truths about what was going on in the Catholic schools of the country. Their mindset is no different, you are a pleb and are entitled to know only that which suits the powerful.
I'm dying to hear how 'diversity is our strength' from the usual suspects when a Sunni\Shia conflict breaks out in the streets and suburbs of Dublin.

Why is the information about birth-country such a big secret? The housing agency have no problem classifying the Traveller community as a separate category in their reports. That cohort are less than 1000 of the total number, and the HA doesn’t shy away from providing their information. HA also give data for UK citizens (683) but no information on birth-country for the 16,752 non-citizens. Very odd.

Of course, concealment and evasiveness are particularly well honed skills for many public representatives when asked about anything connected to immigration. Kildare councillor Tom McDonnell (who I’d never heard of before), was told by the Cathaoirleach Peggy O’Dwyer that he was “inappropriate” and “bringing in a tone” when he asked a question about social housing allocation. Afaik, it’s a councillors job to know what’s happening in their area so it’s crazy that an elected councillor can’t get transparent data about social housing. And then to be reprimanded for asking the question... Disgraceful.

You implied the burning of Luas and buses was associated with previous marches, saying 'this time' implies it happened a previous time. It was completely seperate incident. Every march that I've been to has been peaceful and attended by equally peaceful people, stop trying to conflate the Dublin riots with this march on Saturday or previous ones.

Well if you were a conspiracy theorist you might imply that they had financial reasons for not digging down deeper into events like these. Such as maybe Comisiún na Mean allocating €5.7 million to news outlets ostensibly “to support both the media sector and the creation of high-quality accessible public journalism across Ireland”. 

But I couldn't possibly comment.

Anyway, it's probably better in another thread in order to stop going down rabbit holes. But it's interesting to note in the context of the immigration debate.

When did you become the spokesperson for "ordinary people"?

None of the ordinary people I know have any intention of attending.

I don't think you have any right to speak on behalf of ordinary people anymore than I do, and normally I wouldn't.

And even if you did, what you are claiming is that I a poster on on a site visited by small amount people am going to cause the protests to grow. I mean thanks for the confidence boost but I don't think so.

I know the economy is supposedly doing well, but do we really need this many new foreign tech workers.

The tech sector has been shrinking. The take away business is booming however.

Im ordinary person. So I guess there’s plenty of folk on here like me. Im happy for him to be my spokesperson. Dont worry though I won’t be burning buses or Luas trams.

Relates to one month only. Let's compare the entirety of 2025 to 2024. Would you bet on this being a less lucrative year than 2024, or the upward increase in revenue increasing? €6.2 billion eared last year, up 13% and a projected increase of 5%-7% for this year.

Pakistan, Lebanon, Kenya, Poland and Turkey are examples of less wealthy countries with far greater numbers of refugees and asylum seekers moving there. That's of course due to their proximity to war/conflict zones.

My gripe was with the lack of planning by the current and prior governments. It's a pretty reasonable expectation for a nation to have a plan in place in the event of a war occurring in Europe and the fallout from that. Accommodation for refugees being the first order, rather than panic procedures.

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What majority? The 'majority' that couldn't even manage a single seat in the November election? Not even 1 out of 174 seats. I doubt very much that the EU will be listening to any party (or its supporters) that couldn't even claim 0.57% of the parliament.

The true majority, they don't want hatred or victimisation of people fleeing war. The true majority, they're compassionate and want to help. Please join them.

Hasn't happened so far and won't in the future. The people of this land simply don't bear hatred towards others and are not sold on those who offer it to them.