Immigration and Ireland - MEGATHREAD *Mod Note Added 02/09/25*

Conspiracy drivel? So, Nick Henderson is a figment of our imagination? His 'charity' doesn't receive any public funding, whatsoever?

C'mon man, you can't seriously believe that. If you do, I highly suspect you're a victim of far-left conspiracy theories.

She may have lost but she was right on that count. 100% right as events since then have shown.

Once bitten, twice shy. But yet Trump got back in. Do yea ever wonder why that happens? I suppose the enlightened ones who voted Biden in 2020 flip-flopped back to being stupid racist bigots in 2024. Yeah, that's probably it.

Point out where exactly in my post I said that, please.

The system for managing applications for asylum came close to collapse last year as senior officials warned backlogs were quickly reaching "unmanageable levels".

The Department of Justice had refused to release the documents on extra money and staff to deal with International Protection applications. However, following an appeal under FOI laws, they have now released some records which detail how the system had seen a 385% increase in expected applications between 2022 and 2023.

This bullshit of ‘surprised RTÉ were allowed to report this’ like we’re in some sort of utopian Orwellian state is hilarious.

Thats where any credibility of ‘we’re not far right’ falls on its arse. Suggesting that the media only peddles government lines is right out of the Nazi playbook, before they went and actually did it themselves.

yeah RTE always good at sensing the mood music. RTE always know when it’s the right time. Anyone thinks that RTE decision making is entirely of their own and not in anyway influenced need to take their head out of the sand.

Any of the posters that don’t think there are any issues with the migration we’re seeing at the moment care to comment on this?

Or the other IT article above stating our population is growing at 7x the EU average?

None of you are actually engaging in discussion of the issue and how it is impacting Ireland. It’s pretty much just throwing out labels and accusations, but never any interface with the actual content of this issue.

If you don’t think any of the above is actually having an impact on housing prices/availability please explain to me why that is the case.

We'll just get the normal replies of Cormac Lucey is simply 'Dog Whisteling'. The number favourite quote on this thread.

Not anymore, the pro-Palestine groups are predominantly left wing. Zionist was a dog whistle word two years ago but today the same people that scream racism at everything won’t bat an eye while they say it themselves. It’s not the right wing blocking Jewish students going to their college classes.

So India Day did go ahead after all and by the looks of it, it all went without any incidents as expected. It was also positive to see some Indian festival goers having positive things to say about the Irish, after the media tried to push their agenda and scare them with biased headlines.

"To me personally, the incidents that have happened are with the teenagers and I wouldn’t call that type of activity specifically against Indians as such. It was mostly teenagers causing nuisance around the estate or the places where we were living".

The media were milking it, they have been stirring up tensions for a couple of weeks now. If it wasn't for the media giving blanket coverage to a handful of random assaults against Indians, then their community wouldn't have needed to be constantly reassured in regards to their safely.

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/crime/government-gardai-no-control-aontu-35747213 Hard to disagree with the man, obviously Varadkar's everyone is checked line was absolute BS. I suppose this scum will be out again soon & certainly not deported.

we wont ever reach our potential until we have 500k uber eats drivers.

To be honest the reaction to Indian community in general has been pretty negative here. They have been accused of

-being scam callers ( poster banned for glorifying attacks on indians)

- taking nursing jobs

-taking low paid retail jobs

-committing heinous crimes

-attacking westerners in India

-having a caste system

It just seems to have rubbed people the wrong way the reporting of attacks on immigrants, so people have attacked the victims.

i think you will find most of those statements I referenced were from the more prolific posters here that are right wing, and these were only from the last few pages. A lot of victim blaming.

Except for "committing heinous crimes" pretty much everything else is true. There's a lot of Indian nurses and shop assistants, a whole lot than would be normal for a Northwestern European country. Their caste system (and misogyny) is something that I saw it in full display there (in a large MNC, not some random village) and I also saw it here, it is something so ingrained they can't just leave it behind.

Of course the usual disclaimer also applies: they are not all the same and so on.