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

The vast majority are still “native” in Ireland and no doubt come from families where few attend third level etc etc. Generational unemployment etc etc And ironically don’t speak their native language to any level of proficiency. The mindset is a sad joke really. And if the mindset was not so dangerous I would feel sorry for them. Also ironically the foreigners are better at learning the Irish language, again putting the bottom feeder natives to shame.

Now look at the backgrounds of Irish citizens claiming welfare too. How many of them are originally from Ireland, or have been born abroad? One day they're foreign and then the next they're new Irish. It doesn't matter to the media or certain posters on here. They'll all be lumped in as the one and watch the finger wagging from those same posters on here saying "see, look at the amount of Irish on the dole" now shut up and take your communities and economic resources being over strained by endless new arrivals.

I've done a fair bit of travelling over the past few years.Small amounts of immigration/emigration are fine (that isn't what we are having coming into Ireland in the past 20 decade) and that is what we had up until 20 years ago and the people who did emigrate were happy to adapt to their new country and their was no pandering to them by politicians they were expected to be able to get by on their own.

The more I've traveled the more I've realized how wonderfully diverse the world is and how much should be done to maintain this uniqueness that individual country possess and not have a eroded by mass emigration where we end up with a boring world wide mono-culture rather than the diverse world we have.

There is no problem with small amounts of emigration that we had in the past where people with skills decided to move to another country to work and settled there, that is fine, that was what emigration was prior to the last 15 years or so.

There is a problem with emigration where the population of the country (any country) goes from about 1% foreign born to 20% foreign born within a couple of decades.

There is a problem with people emigrating who then get social welfare, social housing etc in their new country.

Most of the people I work with are foreigners, difference is they have valuable skills they are able to look after themselves and they get on with their lives without needing political groups and NGO's advocating on their behalf all the time.

So a few restaurants is justification for drastically increasing the countries population in such a short space of time.

Nice way to be flippant.

I'm happy to live in a multicultural Ireland. I think it's fantastic to see immigrants coming here and making a future for themselves. I work in an MNC with more non-Irish than Irish. Our jobs wouldn't exist if we couldn't bring in overseas talent.

I live in a housing estate with more non-Irish than Irish. Most are European, but there are a few Indian, African and East-Asian families. All of them paid for their houses, same as me. They're all lovely people and participate in the local community.

I have no problem with any of this.

Direct your anger to the government, rather than people with a different skin colour.

Just because we have our own wasters doesn't mean we need to import them.

The vast majority should be Irish because this is Ireland.

You could easily solve this issue by putting into law that nobody who isn't an Irish citizen can claim social welfare or social housing unless they have 25 years of PRSI contributions.

Yeah but the ones who do work are doing the jobs Irish people won't do, so without them Ireland will just collapse!

There's always a new spin to be put on this. Just look at how fast it went from "it's not happening" to "it's happening and it's great" with regards to Irish / European places becoming minority native and white.

It's also possible to be selective with who is allowed into this country. Which one you think it's better?

The immigrants who work in ICT, healthcare, etc. tend to work, pay taxes, be net contributors, and typically not require HAP.

These are usually non-EU workers with employment visas.

Most Irish people are reasonably okay with that.

The problem is with immigrants that impose huge costs on the taxpayer. This is not "fantastic". Many people do have a problem with it.

It does impose costs, billions of euro.

Specifically, the 110,000 UKR refugees and the 160,000+ asylum-seekers.

But we have legal obligations….then there’s the sacrosanct 1951 Geneva convention….not to mention the Irish went to other countries

I think most people agreed that was a bad thing. well for the financial crisis anyway.

Can we really get authentic Chinese, Indian and Thai food here? I find that most of these resteraunts still serve Irish versions of these and are pretty poor. I would be all for the authentic ones but they seem rare in the west of Ireland anyway.

Also, Irish food was never boring, we always had incredible food. For some strange reason most Irish people would not eat it though, I don't know why. Plenty Irish still say they don't like seafood, hard to explain.

All you say is its wrong but provide no evidance try again .