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

I think it's pretty reasonable to ask exactly what the upper limit might be.

If we set a limit at, lets say, 10 million then that's leaving many many millions of people behind in poverty and war. So we only reward those who can actually make it over here and once a certain number get through the door then that door would eventually need to close.

How is it even good for migrants themselves if we are going to put more an more pressure on to the systems that they need.

People always go on about Irish not being able to get homes, places in schools or access to healthcare but this affects people arriving here also.

Again, it comes down to common sense. If we struggle to accommodate 80,000 new arrivals this year then we're going to struggle even harder to accommodate 100,000 next year and 120,000 the year after that at some point it harms absolutely everyone to keep going like this.

In the past 2 years I've visited Paris, Madrid, Venice, Rome, Amsterdam... all cities in counties which are having issues with immigration and who have either voted in a right wing government, or have a right wing party riding high in the polls. I never would've believed it until I was there, but they appear to have way less immigration than we have here in Dublin. You walk down the streets and it's mainly the citizens of that country. Same in hotels, restaurants, shops, public transport - it's mainly natives. Yes, in terms of actual numbers they have a lot more than us, but Ireland just doesn't have the population to absorb the amount of immigration we have here.

Part of the charm for me of going on city breaks to these cities is observing how the locals live and go about their business, how they dress, how they communicate. Sadly for anyone visiting Dublin, this is disappearing at an alarming rate, and we're probably only in the early stages of our immigration experience (it's really only become very noticeable for me since Covid). I feel like we've sold our soul for the sake of an economy, and we will come to regret it in a big way. It's not even like growing the economy has given us a better lifestyle or standard of living either - far from it.

Labour over in the UK really tightening the screw, the home secretary below states that she wants every single asylum seeker hotel closed.

Are our politicians the last idiots left in Europe or is there any other country with ones as stupid?

Journalist Alison O Connor was on the radio yesterday with a panel discussing Jim O Callaghans pretty mild asylum proposals and she said if they were put to a public vote today unfortunately they would be popular

74% of hiv cases recorded last year are from people born outside the state.

HIV a new report from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and World Health Organisation (WHO) found that, among 30 countries, Ireland has the second-highest rate of overall cases, at 18.8 per 100,000 – significantly above the European average of 5.3 per 100,000.

The HPSC said that 989 cases were recorded here in 2024, affecting 594 men and 394 women.

The majority of diagnoses made last year (74 per cent) were among people born outside of Ireland. Four-in-ten first-time cases – representing 97 people – were diagnosed with late stage infection. Dr John Gilmore, assistant professor in the UCD School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems, described the finding as ‘really disheartening’.

“Ongoing rising rates in HIV transmission are deeply concerning, particularly at a time when we are closer than ever to ending new HIV transmissions,” he said.

https://www.imt.ie/news/ireland-has-second-highest-levels-of-hiv-per-capita-in-europe-new-report-finds-28-11-2025/