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

Don't ever remember stating otherwise but I do think the outrage is greatly over speculated on this thread.

I am sure you can comprehend the actions of the far right are also to blame for sabotaging tourism with their actions?

Do you have a figure of how many refugees are currently residing in hotels?

The numbers needing to be accommodated after the post Russian invasion of Ukraine and Covid has flatlined.

https://assets.gov.ie/static/documents/IPAS_Stats_Weekly_Report_short_version_week_ending__22_06_2025_final.pdf

That might explain why less far right types are burning disused buildings which can be welcomed.

"No need to take the law into their own hands."

What type of law do you think means beating up and stripping

someone semi-naked just because…

You tell me " You seem to be insinuating that the burning of buildings that were going to be used for AS/IPAs (which is completely out of order in my opinion) is happening at the same rate that the provos were burning country houses here in the 1920s"

I have no idea about the 1920's and what it has to do with the recent scum.

There would be plenty if the far right stopped burning it down and protesting against alternative facilities.

Using the the year 1920 is moronic off topic whataboutery.

Are you asking me to calculate the number of proposed number of destroyed\disrupted potential refugee beds by the far right?

Don't have an exact figure but 600+.

That would have solved the sabotaging of tourism claimed here earlier.

What case are you talking about?

Is inclusion the goal?

If you decide to move to another country permanently the goal should be integration.

The fears people have around immigration stem from the unwillingness of certain people to integrate into their host societies.

We hear a lot about how Irish people went everywhere, and we did, but we also integrated when we got there. There's an acknowledgement of Irish heritage but there's also an acceptance of needing to be part of the society you live in.

Some groups have no interest in integration, they wish to remain separated from general society but still demand the benefits afforded to them for living in developed western societies whilst seeking to undermine the social cohesion but trying to enforce their religious beliefs and laws on the existing populace.

I'm all for good people coming to this country and contributing to our society and economy and embracing our way of life. I know many people like that as I'm sure we all do.

What I'm not for is the other cohort arriving here making demand after demand and trying to reverse the course of the social progress we've made here over decades that have been hard won.

If you come here and you can't chime with our values, you don't respect women or gay people and feel you have the right to impose your beliefs forcefully on others you shouldn't be here.

We've always had people coming to live here, the issue isn't diversity it's managing the numbers correctly and making sure we take in those who are willing to integrate and who won't be a negative addition.

Other nations to that all the time but for some reason the EU has chosen to have no discretion at all over who arrives here, and that's the problem. Not the tired accusations of racism or xenophobia. It's such a lazy argument.