Immigration and Ireland - MEGATHREAD *Mod Note Added 14/08/25*

It's about 39% by age 32 going by the 2022 census. The Irish Times is paywalled, so not sure what reference they're using. Personal anecdotes aside, I seriously doubt (m)any on this thread bought a gaff at 25.

At 25, you're about 3 years out of college. By 32 you're about 10 years out. It's pretty obvious that the numbers were juked to make a good headline.

It was your specific claim about Irish being in the minority . There has been no such link nor proof to that among other statements from you today .

If that is your opinion fair enough but it is not backed up by anything except bias and iIl founded theories.

The present discussion was based on a pretty poor news clip of a group of people who were " non nationals " in a queue to buy houses in another oversubscribed housing estate.

Its entirely possible that these people have been renting and working here for years ..

or that they are Irish citizens first and second generation even ..

or that they did not in fact succeed in buying any property ...

or that most of the estate was already sold out before the viewing , which is let's face it , the usual story .

But it's very easy to get upset over these videos clips apparently as evidenced by the continuing discussion about it .

I am upset by the governments poor performance over the last decade in building enough houses to keep up with demand and allowing rents to increase to exorbitant levels .

Not sure why people always want to blame non nationals when the government are allowed off scot-free afaics .

It's about 39% by age 32 going by the 2022 census. The Irish Times is paywalled, so not sure what reference they're using. Personal anecdotes aside, I seriously doubt (m)any on this thread bought a gaff at 25.

At 25, you're about 3 years out of college. By 32 you're about 10 years out. It's pretty obvious that the numbers were juked to make a good headline.

The 7% is not a thing.

We need to discourage the type of rhetoric being pushed by Chinese investment firms as outlined in this article from last week also... https://extra.ie/2025/05/19/property/chinese-investors-housing-crisis

The jist being that a firm based in China is encouraging investors there to buy properties here because of their ever increasing value due to the lack of stock caused by the housing crisis.

Chinese buyers have garnered a reputation in recent years particularly in South Dublin for snapping up properties after escalating bidding wars that people can't keep pace with.

We need to be pragmatic about this crisis and penalise greedy people looking to capitalise on it, regardless of where they're from.

It requires a level of dedication to solving the problem that the government nor any of the supposed opposition parties have any stomach to engage in.