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

Because it's from their Instagram page 😂 I'd rather not drive more traffic to that propaganda piece the anti Irish times but you're free to do so. I noticed they chose against a DEI image for this particular hit piece.

Just for the record I came across this while googling "Mairead McGuiness on immigration". Obviously the Irish times using some dodgy meta tags but whatever.

I see incells being mentioned. I'm a family man with children and in a healthy relationship so these words don't trigger me. Anyone throwing the incel line out there should clarify their own love Life situation.

Speaking of incel didn't that term become a topic of discussion recently for a show about a foreigner who was an incel but they decided to base the show on a white male boy instead. DEI eat your heart out.

so pbp Paul Murphy calls anybody who protests about an Ipas center in their area as a far right racist, but when one is proposed to be set 500 yards from his home he is out protesting against it., What a fucked up country we live in., How can you make sense of it all ? It is do as I say not do as I do..

Were you there? Did you witness the incident? Did you see what lead to the altercation?

I would love to know who actually votes for Paul Murphy ? How could anybody take any time out of their day to vote for this fool..

Just on your last point, are you talking about that nonsense claim that Badenoch and a few other racists on the right tried to push regarding Adolescence?

Our state is just beyond a joke, it's no wonder so many illegal migrates are coming here because of **** like this

Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan has admitted it is “not possible” to “accurately” say how many migrants leave the State once being given deportation orders, because authorities still don’t do exit checks to confirm people have left.

How the hell is this happening, it's beyond a joke at this stage. Surely from an effective security policy you want to track who enters and leaves your country. It's absolute madness and irresponsible.

An illegal migrates is denied asylum, our government sends them a letter asking to leave, the illegal migrate just shrugs his shoulders and just moves to a different location in Ireland and our government has no idea of this.

Come on is it that **** hard to track stuff like this, ffs

We're really a laughing stock of the western world that we cannot defend our borders

I was doing some digging on the Roma population in Ireland and it's estimated we've about 20k now. In comparison to an estimated 30k in Poland for example which would be much closer to where they came from after certain countries joined the EU.

Poland has a population of 37M while we have a population of 5M and we're much further away from where they'd have travelled from. Our social system is far too generous and needs major reform. We need mass deportations for anyone not contributing. Sitting on welfare or claiming disability doesn't cut it.

Always the "build back better" mantra with these ideologues. Trouble is, as any half rated builder will tell you is you cant build anything on foundations of shyte.

I think it is more just cheaper. They dont have to staff the exit at the airport. And maybe in previous times it was not required. But it is required now.

I came in recently and i dont even think they scan my irish passport for records. I think the officer just checks the passport but i could be wrong.

#crazy but nothing surprises me. And there probablt isnt even a plan to change any of this!

I'm a long term reader on this thread. All i can say now is I find this government baffling towards the safety and welfare of its own people. With regards to open borders, immigration and housing three major crisis situations among others its gone beyond a sick joke at this stage. My biggest fear is it'll only get worse but sure the horse has far from bolted at this stage.

Over in my missus's one horse tourist town on the wild Atlantic way this week for hollyers.

It's only hotel went for Ukrainians around 3 years ago but it's contract expired recently n is up for sale now. The main restaurant in the town closed last year, no tourists around not enough locals to sustain it.

My favorite pub is up for lease but no bites, was talking to the owner n he had an ipas centre owner inquiring but no one else. He used to get a good twist out of weddings, funerals etc from the hotel.

Thankfully a good few Airbnb tourists about but the government are trying to get rid of Airbnbs apparently.

You'd wonder who do our politicians work for, itscertainly not the people in these towns.

These businesses were by and large able to sustain themselves before the government got rid of their hotel which kept them going. At the same time they increased charges on these businesses.

What country do u live in Jack, does the government there hammer tourism by contracting hotels for refugees?

Government didn’t get rid of anyone’s hotel. The hotel’s owners made an agreement with Government to provide accommodation for Ukrainians in return for payment, and I suspect what happened is that the hotel owners didn’t have enough financial resources to sustain the business while waiting for payment from Government, and when the contract expired, the likelihood is that the owners are hoping for a quick sale while they’re still waiting to be paid -

Hotels providing accommodation to Ukrainian refugees are threatening not to renew their contracts because of late payments from the State, with some owed up to €400,000.

It is also understood the Government may consider putting time limits on the financial support and accommodation offered to Ukrainians, following a report that looked at how other EU countries were dealing with refugees.

Government and opposition TDs are being inundated with complaints by private accommodation providers, who are furious with the State over a backlog of payments.

Fewer than 20 staff in the Department of Integration are processing invoices to 700 providers, with a source confirming that, before Christmas, just four staff were dealing with payments to hotels, B&Bs, and nursing homes.

A spokesperson for the department would not specify the total sum of money owed to private providers and how many were due payments.

They said there is an “extraordinary volume” of payments to be made and the department “sincerely regrets” the backlog.

There are no outstanding payments to providers offering accommodation to international protection applicants.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41059715.html