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

@Leg End Reject

Is this not link dumping?

Why have you not banned this person yet?

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Why, it seems to be govt policy to encourage this.

Can't help but think there is a game being played here, and its being facilitated by the ngo's. By all accounts, numbers are down so we should have more accommodation available for them this year, are the guys claiming they homeless, knowing they'll be given tents and then hoping to game the system and be bumped up the list to better accommodation.

Within 4 months of arrival it was planned, no wonder we have so many. No doubt we'll soon see some NGO taking a case to the high court on behalf of the newly arrived canal dwellers claiming we're in breach of European law by not giving them immediate accommodation .

Flying from Ireland to the UK, it's normal to go through the domestic arrivals channel which doesn't involve a passport/ ID check. They will ask one of the first people off the plane / bus from the apron for their boarding pass to confirm it's a 'domestic' flight.

There is no segregation of domestic / international arrivals in any Irish airport so everyone gets checked for passport or ID upon arrival in Ireland.

@Headshot

Why can't we follow Denmark? No.. This government just rather destroy communities by taking away their only hotels in their locality.

If the Denmark model is so good and sensible, it shouldn't be too difficult for a new party to set up under those principles and clean up electorally. It would certainly be easier than waiting for the current government to change tack.

Ashling Murphy’s partner Ryan Casey settles action against BBC

https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2025/07/03/ashling-murphys-partner-ryan-casey-settles-action-against-bbc/

How does it feel to be a liar?

And before you say anything they had a push notification out before RTÉ did.

Doesn’t fit your narrative of the media covering up though, does it?

Genuinely amazes me that people can spread filthy lies like this and just shrug their shoulders when they’re caught in their lies.

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I'd like to see her sued by him personally, for her remarks. That would soften her cough.

Where are they coming from? I saw some Somalian on Twitter / X saying that they came from Sweden! Surely that should be grounds for immediate deportation as they have already claimed asylum elsewhere?

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Le Pen is a crook giving a very reductive view of the world in that case. Both nationalism and globalism can have bad outcomes if taken to extremes. We in Europe should know better than anyone what happens when nationalism goes out of control, and we'd all be wise not to allow fear of globalism whip us all right back into that situation.

A middle way would be preferable where you can have the good trade aspects of globalism while still being able to prevent huge demographic changes in short spaces of time.

Some stuff around elegibility for social housing

Looks like I was mistaken, I did google “Ryan Casey Irish Times” in both search and the news tab and nothing came up 🤷‍♂️

Why would I bother “lie” about something that is so easily verifiable? Anyway you appear to be rather distressed about this so I do apologise for upsetting you

I will note however that they do fail to mention in their report that the comments were made by their own journalist Kitty Holland - I wouldn’t regard that as giving the full picture, take from that what you will

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/social-affairs/2025/07/04/im-so-scared-families-left-in-limbo-after-being-told-they-need-to-leave-ipas-centres/

Do these people just expect to live at the taxpayers expense for their entire lives?

It’s not like they weren’t notified of this well in advance.
Rent a room in a damp shithole with other randomers at eye watering rates like the rest of us - welcome to Ireland

Leave it to IT to give them the appeal to emotion headline and platform for the sob story, rather than some critical analysis of how they got this far without ever considering they may want to support themselves and contribute at some point?

Micheál Martin admits that the huge (migration fuelled) population growth is what is underpinning our housing crisis and the enormous strain on our services

““I acknowledge that our population has gone up by one-third in two decades. That’s what’s creating the pressure on services, creating huge demand on housing, but also on health services, education services. But there’s something to reflect on that we’re now, for the first time since the famine, over seven million people. To me, that’s an extraordinary achievement by modern Ireland. It should be seen as an achievement.”

https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/07/04/ireland-is-not-anti-semitic-taoiseach-rejects-criticism-from-veteran-us-senator/

He sees this as an achievement though? Only a homeowner, and a millionaire multiple property owner at that could make such an extraordinarily out of touch statement. Honestly sickening.

“Yeah the country’s gone to crap and is getting worse, but I’m alright Jack and look! The people number is going up! So it’s all great really.”