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

This week the papers have been absolutely full of rape , stabbings and murder by immigrants

The government and left can excuse all the above but watch them go absolutely crazy if anyone says hurty words about people who have no business being here or any interest in our culture or way of life .

Remember the government are literally taking money out of our homes and giving it to these rapists and murderers instead of our sick children , elderly and homeless

Exactly the Government has done zero work on the expenditure side and the revenue/income side its just US multinationals propping up the economy. The whole Irish political/economic situation is just simply extraordinary when you see other countries fighting over millions and our lot handing out billions of money like no tomorrow. They really have no clue though and are just riding the extraordinary wealth we have received from terrible US tax policy. Until the tide changes on US MNCs nothing changes, as they themselves have benefitted from globalisation, it is an ideology that all parties agree with, so nothing changes until the countries economic situation changes.

There’s a letter in today’s Indo from the CEO of some NGO saying while it’s costly to accommodate the new Irish it’s affordable for one of the richest countries in the world and reminds us the Brehon laws mandate us to feed and clothe anyone who arrives at our door.

This is what we’re up against

Wait until the EU Migration Pact kicks in.

We ain't seen nothing yet.

Politicians and NGOs talking about how rich the country is, is justification for transferring tax payers money into crony bank accounts. It's gaslighting.

No.. there's 3 ipas within 500 metres... Asylum, mount st. marys, and some other place with rows of bunk beds.. no planning permission either

The answer to this is not complex or hard . Stop the benefits and stop housing them .

Say no , whatever penalties the EU give the country will pale in comparison to the billions we are spending but more to the damage we are doing to the country now and for our children’s futures

Simple but unfortunately it takes politicians whose goal is a better future for Irish people and not their own European political ambition . Corruption and liars unfortunately

Our debt would be half as bad if FF hadn't sold us down the river 15 years ago.

Only in Ireland would a man who was part of that government be the Taoiseach in 2025.

https://www.thejournal.ie/interpreters-bill-courts-service-ireland-6848629-Oct2025/

2 million quid spent on interpreters in the courts in the first 6 months of the year alone

How enriching for us all

Was this meant to be directed at me? I am unsure where I have been commenting on the "quality of the posts people make" — even in the post you replied to.

All of this discussion ignores the fact that we can literally just look at the UK which has had far more immigration from the third-world for far longer than we have had. It clearly has made large swathes of the midlands and London virtually unrecognisable in one or two generations. Parts of Birmingham have less than 5% white British people as residents. These areas are significantly poorer and have higher crime and other issues versus areas that have less immigrants.

No sane person would look at the UK and think that Ireland would want to suffer the same fate. Once the immigration error is made, it is very difficult and expensive to deport your way out of it as many of the worst areas are third and fourth generation immigrants at this stage with full citizenship.

We simply need to wake up and look at what has been happening all over Europe before doing away with our own country and culture at the altar of living up to our "obligations" which is just politically correct virtue signalling rubbish.

https://m.sundayworld.com/crime/irish-crime/gangster-child-rapist-and-predator-hotel-porter-among-23-romanians-deported-from-ireland/a1299532676.html

Would these individuals named in the above article have been vetted before coming into Ireland? Or would they have to be?

Does there ever come a moment when people on here accept that this is not a left / right thing? There have been right wing and left wing governments in power over the last 100 years in the West and migration has trended upwards regardless. The UK veered rightwards in the run-up to the Brexit referendum, they got to a point where the likes of Priti Patel was Home Secretary. The end result was record levels of immigration. Georgia Meloni talked tough on migration before she was elected. A naval blockade to stop the boats — finally we would have the sheer common sense of right wing politics in the Mediterranean. The end result? Meloni's abandonment of the blockade, the acceptance of the need for migration and a movement towards an idea that collaborative policies between EU countries to tackle and reduce migration are the way forward. She championed the very same EU Migration Pact that many on here decry.

Immigration also exists because of things you want too. There are rights, freedoms, conveniences, services, benefits and all manner of things that all individual citizens want that in some way have contributed to both the ease of migration and the need for it. You will never solve the immigration issue as long you continue to delude yourself that it's all some other ideology's fault. It is a topic that requires humility as to the enormity of managing it effectively.

You're second paragraph is where I think a lot of people get things wrong. You say slowing population growth to a point that would materially impact housing growth would mean we have to "target" the working immigrant community in this country.

This is not the case. Those already here that form the working immigrant community would remain and, in fact, would directly benefit from fewer new immigrants.