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

Will miss this thread if boards is shut down. Great to read the opinions of like minded and far more articulate people than me who can see the damage the reckless open borders policies are doing and even more so the future effects of those policies on our society as a whole.

From talking to people it seems to me like there is widespread objections to the uncontrolled immigration policies particularly around asylum, the general pace at which the demographics are changing and the knock on effects around housing and access to services this has. This is not being anti-immigrant but anti unsustainable immigration. There is a big difference.

Yet this is not reflected yet by our politicians or main stream media. It feels like there is a huge disconnect there and we just need someone to channel this public sentiment and speak up for common sense.

Malachi Steenson and Gavin Pepper aren't it and will never be it. Maybe some of the more articulate posters on this thread might consider going into politics?!

We can't keep up and frankly speaking I don't think we want to keep up. At every opportunity the Irish have made it clear immigration is too high and we continue to get ignored.

With us rocking an insanely high debt I don't want us building a crazy amount of houses to keep up with a crazy level of immigration. If a major crash arrives, immigrants leave in their droves and the Irish are left bailing out the banks again. More houses for Irish born, less immigration please.

We could also do what the Swiss do. Foreigners generally cannot buy property for pure investment or rental purposes. Swiss property law limits these purchases to safeguard housing availability for residents.

II've absolutely no idea what you're on about.

First you said I like stories. What's that supposed to mean?

Then something about who I assume to be Philip Dwyer with the dog kicking reference. I absolutely despise that man. What in the world has that got to do with what i posted?

Are you smoking something?

Problem is they won't leave. The country will be paying a fortune to keep them.

Sadly no surprise. Similar to Labour over in the UK, whose supposed harder line on immigration is just a ploy to buy them more time to advance the open borders agenda there. With Reform breathing down their necks, they've got to be seen to do something but can relax knowing much of what they've suggested will be blocked or significantly delayed by the courts.

Other European countries are facing similar challenges. Some are trying to push back or undo the damage already done. But the weak men running Ireland have just lay down and let us be steamrollered. I'd go so far as to say they've kissed and caressed that steamroller as its made it's away around the country. Such is their contempt for ordinary people and indifference to the damage done.

Every other day there are examples of certain groups being emboldened, as Irishness is signed away - as if it never really mattered anyway. Well, it matters for most of us. It is getting late in the day but we are still a majority for now.

Time is clearly of the essence. For those of us on the same page, what is the way forward here?

And like a poster above said, this thread has been helpful for me to, as depressing as the subject matter is. If Boards does go bottom up anytime soon and we are whooshed off Microsoft Teams style to threads elsewhere, it's been good to chat.

Just listened to David McWilliams podcast on immigration and housing. https://open.spotify.com/episode/3rfD0jxKeXzQLwKIwGepHF?si=72mJJci0RCC0txToppcDQA

Some interesting figures broken down around the factors affecting the demand for housing including the types of immigration and emmigration, obsolescence of housing stock.

He says, based on real data, that there needs to be in the region of 100,000 houses built per year to start tackling the housing crisis at the current levels of immigration.

To the delusional people who keep saying we just need to build more and immigration is not a big factor in the housing crisis, do you think that is achievable? I think we're currently at around 30,000

Disappointing to hear that but cant say im surprised the real figure is significantly lower. It wouldn't be the first time a mistake was made on this.

Maybe just maybe the rapidly increasing deficit of housing is somehow related to the rapidly increasing house prices.

Probably someone will be along in a moment to tell me the two are completely unrelated!