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

Packrat · 21-10-2025 09:25AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123923627#Comment_123923627

From reports it sounds to me like there was a car used as well.

spakman · 21-10-2025 09:55AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123923627#Comment_123923627

Red line luas brings you to citywest

Backstreet Moyes · 21-10-2025 10:07AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123923633#Comment_123923633

Yes I read the reports and from memory the city centre is a good bit away from city west and not really a walking path to get there.

It has been years and things may have changed, which is why I asked a question, I have no idea why that has upset you?

dmakc · 21-10-2025 10:09AM

Good to see MM get ahead of this issue by tweeting congratulations to Japan's first female prime minister this morning

Backstreet Moyes · 21-10-2025 10:09AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123923738#Comment_123923738

Thank you so that is a possible way to get their without car.

But no idea why the city west would be a 10 year olds destination if running away.

DebDynamite · 21-10-2025 10:34AM

The RTE article is very scant on information on the man who has been charged, but gives a lot of info on the victim. They don’t mention that he is African, came here as an asylum seeker, failed in his application and was subsequently served with a deportation order this year. Why was this not mentioned?

https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/1021/1539658-dublin-assault-investigation/

Allinall · 21-10-2025 10:40AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123923772#Comment_123923772

I'm not in the least upset.

You were wondering how she got into the city centre. From the RTE report:

Tusla said she was living in a fully-staffed, registered residential placement when she absconded while on a planned recreational trip with staff in the city centre.

PokeHerKing · 21-10-2025 10:43AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123923879#Comment_123923879

Jesus what a statement from Tusla..

tabby aspreme · 21-10-2025 10:49AM

When she first absconded she went to a relative's house, she then left there, gardai are looking at CCTV from the luas stop's, there's a fair chance this girl grew up with very little parenting and may well have been used to using public transport on her own

Butson · 21-10-2025 10:53AM

"the accused, who cannot be named"

Indeed.

Allinall · 21-10-2025 10:55AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123923894#Comment_123923894

Never mind. Before the courts now.

21-10-2025 10:56AM

Can a person who has been given a deportation order still get welfare? I'm assuming they can't, but just wondering as the RTE report says the defendant is not working

Necro · 21-10-2025 11:04AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123923861#Comment_123923861

Mod: There should be no further discussion of this case as charges are now filed and the matter is before the courts. Thanks

21-10-2025 11:23AM

It often strikes me that there's a near invincibility in pro open borders thinking. 200k people come to Ireland in three years; it's not too much because there were more in Ireland pre-Famine. People destroy passports on planes; well it's not their fault, they aren't used to trusting authorities. People ignore deportation orders; they're actually genuine refugees, the authorities just didn't make the right decision. Immigration will worsen the housing crisis; it's no problem because it's theoretically possible to build enough houses.

Ireland has run its policy on this childish thinking for more than 20 years. Only a few weeks back the Taoiseach genuinely referenced pre Famine population while discussing immigration 180 years later. I doubt any of our leaders are of a mind to acknowledge there have been serious errors made, but that's what almost every ordinary person can see by now.

It is incredible that our leaders are so out of step not only with their own people, but also with all the other governments in western Europe.

Geuze · 21-10-2025 11:27AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123923936#Comment_123923936

Well, there is an American called Michael Kelley who is a failed AS being housed by the local council.

Ash.J.Williams · 21-10-2025 11:29AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123924035#Comment_123924035

The government can't see the problem, mcentee walking over northside shielded by cops to prove dublin is safe showed that

dmakc · 21-10-2025 11:29AM

MM has today congratulated Japan's first female prime minister. His next tweet has championed young girls aiming for STEM subjects. Two empowering female tweets. Read the room. No accountability.

Coolcormack1979 · 21-10-2025 11:45AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123923235#Comment_123923235

Banty not bothered with making €€€ on the gaa managerial rounds anymore

dominatinMC · 21-10-2025 12:28PM

Genuine question, why can't we have a referendum on immigration? We've had them for much more trivial (relatively) matters. I suspect the answer is EU obligations, but can we not as sovereign independent state ignore those obligations, theoretically-speaking?

Viscount Aggro · 21-10-2025 12:51PM

MM was quoted as saying "we do not have open borders in this country... Ireland has robust immigration controls"

What is the term, when someone is telling you something... and yet you know this simply not true?

Be right back · 21-10-2025 12:56PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123923778#Comment_123923778

He has priorities to every other country but his own.

Necro · 21-10-2025 01:03PM

Mod: I won't say it again, I'll just start threadbanning people. Stop discussing the incident as it's before the courts. This is site policy, not even forum policy

Multiple posts have been deleted just now.

angel eyes 2012 · 21-10-2025 01:06PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123924363#Comment_123924363

Out and out lies or gaslighting the general public.

That guy has never cared about the Irish electorate, that was obvious when he was Minister for Health. He should've remained in the classroom teaching. The latest scandal with the presidential election fiasco just shows that he can demonstrate very poor judgement, cost the party the guts of a million on a failed campaign and yet his party have forgiven him.

Thelonious Monk · 21-10-2025 01:36PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123924289#Comment_123924289

What would you change in the constitution with this referendum? Do you mean no more asylum seekers or no more immigration at all?

Unless we dissolve the good Friday agreement we have a huge open border with the UK. That's where most asylum seekers come from.

mrslancaster · 21-10-2025 01:46PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123924376#Comment_123924376

This is the most sickening part of this whole fiasco. It’s not only MM either. There’s so many of our political class who have more interest in citizens of other countries and places than in the lives of Irish citizens who elected them to represent our interests.

The billions spent on the refugee industry here plus the billions spent every year on foreign aid is a scandal when so many local services are in dire need of funding.

More people seem to be waking up to the reality that the extra strain on all our services is the result of a rapid increase in population which is the result of huge immigration in the past decade.

It is simply unbelievable that this state can budget to spend billions next year on the citizens of other countries yet it doesn’t have the resources (mar dhea) to give Irish working taxpayers an extra euro.

PokeHerKing · 21-10-2025 02:07PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123924479#Comment_123924479

We dont need to change anything in the constitution or the GFA.

We need proper policing, containment and processing of all AS/Illegal migrants.

Open air detention facilities under armed guard. Three square meals and some form of labour to try and offset the costs.

Process and deport but if unable then indefinite detention.

The above may still be preferable to some people from certain countries/backgrounds etc so they will still come.

But we are looking after ourselves first and foremost.

Everything else is essentially open borders.

Thelonious Monk · 21-10-2025 02:12PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123924612#Comment_123924612

Ok but I was asking the poster what the contents of this referendum would be.

And good luck getting a camp going with children held under armed guard because there may not be many but there are plenty of children here brought by their parents or born in IPAS seeking asylum too, half the women in the IPAS centre beside me seem to be pushing prams.

PokeHerKing · 21-10-2025 02:15PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123924635#Comment_123924635

Oh I expect nothing to be done. Easier to do nothing. Plus the current setup allows politicians and people connected to them to funnel taxpayers money into their own pockets.

Im just stating what should happen if we want to have actual immigration control.

Jinglejangle69 · 21-10-2025 03:05PM

https://extra.ie/2025/10/08/news/irish-news/refugee-budget-e2bn-2026

Just 2 billion while we can’t get GP appointments and dental assessments for our kids.

Backstreet Moyes · 21-10-2025 03:54PM

Sinn Fein calling out the government on their handling of immigration today.

Have they changed there tune, I thought they were more open borders than the current government.

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