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

Now that we can post "anecdotes" again, I can now post something that got me banned for 3 months for daring to allude to some time ago, and that is the fact that there are posters on here who are paid to be.

I see the usual "Russian shill" claims when anyone mentions Ukrainians in anything other than fawning terms, and it may or may not be that Russia, for reasons best known to themselves, pay people to tell anecdotes about Ukrainians on a dying Irish forum. What I do know, is that a well-known Irish marketing company has a small team of people (mostly marketing and political science students and recent grads) who spend their days posting on social media, and on forums such as this one. They are paid by a group of pro-immigration NGO's, who were recently joined by two "accommodation providers" who also chip in. They have a contract to "shape public opinion, combat anti-immigration and far right rhetoric, and derail any anti-immigrant discussion". As well as posting on social media, they "dox" people who post anti-immigration content on Facebook/Twitter etc. and they also attend protests - both pro- and anti-immigration, in the former to cause trouble and in the latter to provide numbers.

This was told to me by one of the people who work there. They are provided with a list of online personas that they use on various platforms, each with a little background resume, so they stick to the same talking points with each one. The work suits students especially, as they can pop on and off on their phone any time of the day or night (though he said there is a strict "no drunk posting" rule!)

For me it finally solved the mystery of the 50+-posts-a-day (usually all on a single subject) posters that proliferate a lot of these discussions, all on one side.

Like I said, certain posters won't believe me (if ones that know its true!) so no loss.

National interest? This is well known in media and political circles, you think I'm the only one that knows this?!

Where do you think the NGO money comes from? Do you think it is some weird coincidence that there is never a story in the media here that is critical of immigration policy? (unless it criticises it for not being welcoming enough!). Where do you think the regurgitated government press releases that pass for news come from?

Ireland's political, media, and marketing/lobbying industries are in lock step.

National interest indeed.

Loads of private company's work for NGO's in this country, what rock do you live under?

Most large Irish marketing companies would get a sizeable percentage of their work from NGO's. Print companies, solicitors, accountants, builders, all do work for NGO's - my own company has doe work for several NGO's, you really are the weirdest conspiracy theorist I've come across on here! What makes an NGO "shadowy"? I'd need a definition before I could separate the "shadowy" ones from the, presumably, bright and sunny ones.

The rest of your post is just lies and obfuscation, so no point responding.

You think the "Turkish" barbers here, run, in the main in Ireland by Albanians or Syrians, are fronts for Irish criminals?!

I suppose all the Chinese restaurants are really fronts for the Longford mob.

I don't "need" to do anything, I choose to.

Like I said, up to you to believe or not, I don't care (certainly not as much as you appear to).

So you find it amazing that someone tells you that a certain group doxes people, and you are now all but begging me to name them. Curious that. Say I named them, what happens then? Does somebody on here, perhaps a prolific poster, run off and tell their employer that they've been named on boards? And this company then gets their legal team to write a strongly-worded letter to Boards, aghast at such a scurrilous accusation? Do they then get an injunction forcing boards (if they have to at all) to give my name? Could they then dox me? Run down my business online? Harass my family, customers and employees? What would I gain from this?

Keep going lad, but you're not dealing with some wide-eyed naïf here.

What lie? Well for one you're pretending that you are not pro-immigration, when your posting history shows how untrue that is.