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

Oh yeah both sides at it. No wait!

I read your footer as a remark on my contribution,mea Culpa.

I don't have a wording for a referendum,you got me there,but the election most certainly was not a referendum on this issue and offered no overview on the general opinion of the electorate given all the main parties are in lock step with the current policy.

Immigration did not cause those prices to go up in the 90s.

Mortgage rates were exorbitant and stamp duty caused a squeeze on middle level houses so prices went up.

They had to fiddle with that bbut made mistakes when they loosened loan ceilings which when rates came down ultimately led to increased developer led gambling and people were able to buy their home and a spare with cheap credit !

It's not ideological . I never heard immigration mentioned as any issue until the last 2 or 3 years . Post Brecit and Covid when many in UK and here who relied on those issues to stir up pro right sentiment found something else to concentrate their ire on

Agree that we need some controls but that migrants are not to blame for the housing crisis , just another factor .

I don't understand what you mean about the " long term factor " ..are you talking about time limits for even working migrants who settle here ?

Look we will agree to disagree otherwise .

I find it hard to understand how those expressing concern at the massive increase in Asylum seekers are branded far right etc when the minister in charge of this issue admits the system is being abused.

Is he Far right.?

It follows comments made by Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan yesterday, in which he said "too many people" are coming here seeking international protection who are not entitled to it.

You won't get a referendum on it because it's not a constitutional issue .

The last time conservatives tried to fiddle with the constitution and made a pigs ear of it we ended up with the 8th amendment.

There would be a strong majority who would come out to prevent something like that happening ever again !

Immigration and asylum should be dealt with by government and through legislation .

Good luck with that with the non functioning Dáil we have at the moment .

The only TD working afaics is Jim o Callaghan fair dues. And I would not have been a fan before .

Apologies it was the monk who missed by a whisker, too many pina coladas after beating the dubs yesterday. As an added bonus, I'll get to experience the wonderful diversity on Dorset st heading to the final !

Dorset St was always wonderfull and that was back when it was100% Irish 😂

An Indian student who pleaded guilty to the attempted abduction of a five-year-old child in Dublin last year has avoided jail and been given two weeks to leave the country and not return for 10 years.

We are an extremely soft touch, the guy pleaded guilty and his excuse was that he was intoxicated. Also why only banned for 10 years and not forever?

Strange that the wonderful diversity and exotic restaurants wasn't enough of a positive to outweigh weirdos harassing staff and fellas slicing each other with machetes outside.

Pity for the shills that she had video footage as otherwise she'd just be called a big bad waysist. No doubt Joe Duffy n some of the newspapers will be all over this- won't ye folks?!

A go getter local business woman after pumping 10s of thousands into doing up a unit n having to walk away. Course they will🤣

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I forgot Steenson had come up with utter lunatic Conspiracy Take

Good Christ, he is a completely unelectable loon.

Thankfully, most of the Far Right in this country are too.

Is Malachy the type of person you would be proud to be led by?

I've been pointing out for years that there is a far right, but it's a tiny rabble. Which is where it seems the left wing consensus has landed as well all of a sudden.

Virtually no criticism of the perps in the video from the pro-immigration commentators - not surprising one bit. But had that been White Irish lads filming in the door of a migrant owned shop or White Irish lads savagely beating each other on the streets during broad daylight the gnashing of teeth and condemnations from the ivory towers of D4 would have been deafening.

Naw, it's a White northside Woman trying to run a business though, happy to take her taxes and hand it over to these creeps and their enabling NGOs that would itch for an opportunity to call her a privileged far-right racist had she not video evidence. Anyone defending or even ignoring the actions of those perps in her video should be utterly ashamed of themselves.

Anyone ignoring what this Woman has had to endure should be embarrassed and sick at what they are promoting. If it was your sister, your wife, your aunt, your niece - would you look them in the eye and tell them it's 'all part and parcel of living in a modern multicultural city'?