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

Legitimate asylum seekers should never be deported, be they adults or children. I think everybody agrees with that!

Somebody who brings their child to our country without a legitimate asylum claim (aka chancing their arm) is what I would define as a bad parenting.

Not a chance he leaves the class room and gives up a 90k salary, he wont be struggling to access meagre services or acquire housing like others less forunate.

Now the thread is attempting character assassination of a school principal for showing compassion to immigrant children.

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The middle ground?

What utter nonsense!

Just because you're in agreement with his sentiment you should still be able to understand the conflict of interest on display here

Please clearly explain what conflict of interest exists?

His primary function is the management of the school as a place of learning and he has a responsibility for the provision of care to all the schools students.

In what way does talking on the radio about former students and the impact them leaving has on his current students have on his role within the school!

Completely jumped the shark now!

The principal acted perfectly legally by expressing his opinion and posters in this thread just need to accept that fact.Move on

Have you left your job and become a full time activist or do you hold others to a standard you do not hold yourself to?

Wtf are you on about,I'm a citizen who supports the decision of the immigration authorities to deport failed AS and to uphold our immigration laws.I also support the right of genuine AS to seek refuge in this country,but if they fail to reach the criteria for asylum,they should be removed.

Is it not standard practice for Companies or departments be they private or public would notify all employees in situations like this and similar to refer all press enquiries to the relevant department or contact to handle such enquiries. I know in a couple of companies I worked for that news leaked out and you would get reporters ringing looking for a reaction or something they could use and usually there was an email sent out to everyone that if they are contacted by the media that the media are to be referred to a department dealing with it and they give a contact number. Now the only thing is that the Principal and the Department of Education were caught on the hop by this and they media just caught the principal before the department could, I wouldn't expect the DOJ or whoever is looking after deportations to be letting it out who is being deported until after the fact so it is possible that all were caught unawares.

I think some people in their righteousness seem to forget that whether you are in the private or public sector you are an employee and therefore should be following the guidelines the company or department issue on matters whether you agree with them or not. I don't see this as silencing people but more of incident management.

Now if the principal in his own time as a private person wants to convey what he thinks then he is free to do that and would need to make it clear that these are his opinion and his alone and nothing to do with who or where he is employed.

There is a big misunderstanding at play here.

Schools do not have a relevant department that handles media. That would fall on the board of management for the school and the principal as the day to day head of the school.

The department of education pays teachers but it is not considered their employer that would be the schools board of management.

I have yet to see anyone explain exactly what it is the principal has done wrong. or how any of his actions have impacted his role in any meaningful way.

Such an over reaction to a person freely expressing their opinion. Clearly free speech is not something that anti immigrant posters support.

That's what I would think as well, that this would be standard practice no matter where someone worked be they private or public. Of course people are free not to follow the company advice and make their own statement but they will need to live with that statement and it may not cost them their job but they won't be on the tops of any lists for jobs in the company