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

I think people sometimes get a bit confused between 'far right' and 'extreme right' : extreme right would be your neo-Nazi skinhead types, openly proposing violence and mayhem.

It would be safe enough to say though that 'far right' or 'right wing populist' ideas have become much more mainstream in the West in the last five to ten years, especially with the huge surge in social media activity and the rise of Trump / MAGA etc.

Do you have the name of the legislation that states that we don't have any repsonsibilty to EU citizens after 3/6 months?

I know some of the people that go to the everybody welcome protests, harmless nerds that mean well would be a good description. The most thrilling thing they've done is shout at people from behind a Gardai protection line. I've never been to a not welcome march but have seen a couple of Philip Dwyer videos and it seems the all welcome nerds love to argue with him and his gang because they feel big and he's not going to actually hit them or anything.

I was threatened by a major drug dealer where my family and I lived. It was serious. There's very few serious people involved in the protests and not very many serious people in Ireland. If that were to change, I'd be very worried.

Philip Dwyer is a harmless nerd that nobody serious listens to except the 'everybody welcome' people.

If you want to discover more, I suggest living and meeting real people in Ireland. Unless you've lived it or have empathy, it's hard to expect you to understand so I'll put a full stop here.

Fwiw, I think immigration has generally been good but the current continuing level is putting huge strain on resources. Also, it can present new challenges when there are multiple expat communities in the same school/ class. I'd like to know the goal, I.e. 10 million/ 20 million people. The lack of transparency is troubling to me, I'd be sad if all the nature was turned into housing estates as is now happening around us. Why not just say, the goal is 20 million by x. The new housing will be in x,y,z and the reason for increasingly the population is a,b,c so people understand what's happening? Couldn't that be part of the FFG, SF, PBB, etc party manifesto? Then people could vote in full knowledge of the party intentions.

Hope that helps clarify my sentiments around the protesters on both sides.

Now back to what I was staying here, it would be good to define what is meant by far right because the old 'the far right ' definition around Nazism no longer seems relevant so why not define the new version in the thread so at least there's something to which to refer.

Carol nolan posted a question i submitted https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2025-06-24/600/#pq_600

I think you were saying you live in England so maybe your distance colors your ideas.

I'm in no way defending Dwyer. You seem to think that a postman kicking a dog in 2011 qualifies as something in the real world.

For context, a mixed race girl had her eye knocked out beside us. I was absolutely furious about that.

https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2025/0624/1520088-jack-cummins-court/

During COVID-19, drunks from all over gathered in clearys, which was inexplicably allowed remain open, beside the local creche. Nobody really gave much of a **** and they occasionally would shout out stuff.

This poor child was shot around the corner from us

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/sean-wont-sleep-on-his-own-anymore-mum-of-boy-9-left-paralysed-after-shooting-says-son-is-living-in-fear/35156529.html

And you're expecting me to be worried about some middle aged sap. I wish you'd stop posting on this topic as you seem very uninformed and unable to understand the challenges of most people living in Ireland.

My god would you look at the latest hit piece from the Irish times.

Yep it pretty much mirrors people who became passionate conspiracy theorists during COVID. Basically online radicalization that doesn't really align with reality. All you have to do is look at the people who push the great replacement conspiracy and such, just hugely overlaps.