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

Or Irish people for that matter.

It must be the Loyalists he's alluding to, failing that - the Scientology Crowd, they're daft folk.

Polish people (and others from eastern europe) when they arrived here 20 years ago didn't bitch and whine , they didn't try to get the media and politicians to cover their supposed issues, they didn't have special interest groups advocating for them all the time. They just got on with life and that was it.

Fact is Europeans generally integrate better into another European country than people from Africa and the middle east because the cultures are more similar.

Absolutely, one of those candles to the wind examples of how other nationalities can actually come here blend in without much issue - apart from a few small embarrassing moments for our own authorities it must be said!:

BBC News - The mystery of Ireland's worst driver

Fair play to the vast majority of East/Northeast Europeans who have by and large came here, worked hard and kept themselves well away from the identity politics limelight.

Any ideas why Sweden is paying refugees to leave and never come back? Do you reckon Muslims will integrate as well as polish have?

Plenty of bigotry and hate towards the Poles when they arrived too.

Usually the terminally unemployable díckhead in the pub with the rolled up Daily Mail in his arsé pocket spouting there won't be a swan left in the country.

Where's he emigrating to? The likes of Canada Australia etc all have massive housing problems and your kid would only be worsening the problem. The Australian enricoh won't be happy with him moving there.

right but the housing crisis is as bad there as it is in ireland, so he wont be able to buy or rent a place to himself there too. i've seen you voice concerns about the amount of indians coming here, they all do so legally, so surely you don't want your son adding to australia's problems too?

It may seem strange to quote my own post, but some people have been a bit triggered by it and I would rather avoid pointless arguments, people wanting to label me, etc.

I think very few people want Irish heritage/culture to be something that a minority of people in Ireland have a family link to. I doubt 10% of people would want the Irish to be a minority here.

Some people will pretend that there is no Irish heritage/culture or way of life, but I don’t think most people would agree. Tbh I think everyone knows that there is and an argument about it is a distraction tactic.

I think we can all agree a certain amount of immigration is definitely a very good thing for a society. Also, I would think very few people will want people of Irish heritage to be a minority or even a small majority here. And I think it’s very hard to argue that continuing with the current level of immigration will not be very bad for Irish people as it will see property prices rise even further, while pressure on services will only get worse.

It is time for some truth telling from the political establishment. Realistically all parties must now realise they went too far left around immigration and some other issues like social welfare and crime.

Certain people who are perhaps not that grounded won’t want to hear this, but my sense is that working people in Ireland are hugely frustrated. They feel that the country is not being run in their Interests at all, that they are being stretched to pay for their own families and being taxed heavily to subsidise a large underclass who get everything for nothing.

The centre has held, but it may not continue to do so. If the traditional centrists parties don’t pivot to properly centrist positions on immigration it could be a lightning rod of an issue that changes Irish politics drastically and suddenly.

What is wrong with ethno-nationalism? I notice many of the pro mass-immigration commentators on here allude to it as something that needs to be discouraged, wiped out, and portrayed as some racist stance to hold. But I see no consistency in it, it seems to only apply to nations and cities where White people are for the moment in the majority. I have yet to see these commentators make the case for non-Western nations and cities to open up and allow mass-migration into their lands and change their demographics.

It's a bonkers stance to hold - and if one were truly honest about it, when you scratch the surface a bit there's a closet racist just underneath who hates White people and think they need to be in a minority. This most likely stems from some sort of guilt because by and large White people have influenced global wealth and trade down through history and remain in many such positions of influence today.

I have yet to see any of them point out or question why Nigeria is full of Black people (over 99.5%) or why Japan is full of Asian people… no never a peep about that. But how dare Ireland be full of White Irish people. That's outright racism according to some. Ethno-nationalism is fine as long as it's espoused in a respectful and cordial manner, and like it or not - there is a movement across many EU nations to return to those values. Why? It's down to the policies of the last decade rammed through by globalist leaning governments.

Yes, an anti-irish newspaper in the UK somehow broadly reflects the views of Irish people in Ireland.

if we need more nurses, why were Irish nurses given a hiring freeze while foreign nurses were being hired?? Something doesn’t add up