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

Iamwhoiam, can you post the link thanks. Social media has become a cesspool and shouldn't be taken as gospel.

Regardless of the authenticity of the post ( which I cant find again ) the facts remain . ARP is still payable at €600 to anyone who rents a room to a Ukrainian regardless of their income or circumstances . The same does not apply to an Irish or EU citizen

It is paid whether the Ukrainian person is earning a good salary or is receiving social welfare

Yes they reduced the ARP from €800 to €600 per month but its still a huge inequality

Same here, she was looking for a place to live in Dalkey close to her job and mentioned ARP. I randomly get these posts on my feed every now and again. The worrying thing is that if you type 'Ukraine Accommodation' into the search bar, there are hundreds of similar posts and dozens of groups and communities set up for these types of posts.

No surprise Kitty Holland would be saying something like that.

It is just virtue signalling nonsense from the politicians, all trying to one up each other for a pat on the back and be told they are a great person with only a few like Carol Nolan calling it out. Then you have their cheerleaders in the media cheering this on and calling anyone against this far right and racist.

The truth is that the majority of people are not against people coming to this country if they are coming to work, contribute and adopt the country. I would also say most people in this country have no problem with genuine Asylum seekers coming here seeking help and shelter. But what people are against is being taken for mugs by both their own government and organisations in this country and also by the chancers coming here and being allowed to game the system. The government and their agencies need to start putting the country first, tightening up the rules and enforcing them, having quicker turn around on asylum applications and getting rid of people who have no right to be here. If this is done then everyone is a winner, the country wins, the people coming here win and the genuine asylum seekers win but at the moment the only people winning a select few government cronies raking it in with money being paid of the accommodation and also the chancers who have got in now and are making it harder for the genuine cases.

https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2025/12/29/man-claimed-12000-in-pandemic-payments-while-in-state-illegally/

This article is a good example of the utter chaos and fraud within our immigration system.

It's a complicated story of illegal entry into the country, false documents, multiple PUP claims, and in the end, a suspended sentence.

Even the Judge admits that the system is wide open for abuse.

I will try to summarise it.

This man from Cameroon used false Italian documents to apply for a PPS number here in 2018.

He entered the country a second time in Jan 2020, and overstayed.

In 2020 and 2021, he made 36 false claims for PUP in Oranmore.

In Jan 2021, a deportation order was made against him. [as should be well known by now, we rarely enforce these orders, we simply expect the person to leave voluntarily].

In Aug 2021, he left voluntarily, but returned again in May 2022, and applied for a second PPSN, in his real name. This led to a Garda investigation, and he was arrested in 2024. That established that he is in the country illegally. A second deportation order was made.

Guess what is the outcome of all of this? A suspended sentence!!!

I had looked through this thread to see if someone had posted this story, but missed your post. This guy must be laughing to himself, soft touches everywhere, defrauds the State, commits numerous crimes and all he gets is a minor slap on the wrist.

Governments of the last ~25 years have been nothing short of treasonous. They facilitated the sale of Telecom Eireann via a ponzi scheme where many Irish people lost money, facilitated the closure and/or sale of our small indigenous industrial base (Irish sugar, Bord na Mona, etc…), facilitated and encouraged vulture funds to buy up property in prime locations in our cities. Basically, anything that could benefit anyone but the Irish people has been cheered on. They have the neck then to say that we must do more. Watch now as the whole climate net zero charade gets into full swing, another whip to beat us with. Same old, same old - there is something severely lacking in the mindset of the Irish political and ruling class and that is to extract as much coin from the Irish taxpayer to benefit everyone else, and if that everyone else is from non-western nations then it's all the better for their virtuous egos.

Mind you don’t miss this, everyone.

To be clear, I think it’s lovely that the ‘new Irish’ would be included in the story of Ireland. But to use that as the promotional image seems almost intentionally provocative. It sends the message that Ireland’s evolution culminates with multiculturalism.

I’ve scanned through it on the Player, and of about ten performances, four of them are by solo black performers. There doesn’t appear to be any Polish representation, though I may be wrong.

There’s a Twitter account in the UK called Yookay Aesthetics, which catalogues images of the dysfunctional side of multicultural Britain, in contrast with the warm and fluffy images of official advertising. Examples that I recall include an uncovered beef carcass being carried from the back of a van to a kebab shop, a white policeman speaking Arabic in a recruitment video, a sped-up video of walking down a crowded street with no white faces in sight, etc. I suspect the person behind the account is a racist, but it’s a striking compilation that should concern regardless.

I’ve been subconsciously cataloguing Irish examples. There’s the CSPE textbook which negatively contrasts a traditional Irish family with a multicultural one. There’s the ad for St Patrick’s Day which centres a black family. There’s the Islamic reading at the President’s inauguration. There’s ’winter lights’. There’s the arm-swinging, hip-hop interpretation of Irish dancing. There’s Ebun Joseph. And there’s the above representation of Irish culture.

Although the political situation is deeply unhealthy in this country with practically no real opposition to speak of and a captured cowardly media afraid of their own shadow lest they be banished for wrongspeak like Meyers,waters ,Hobbs and the rest and a national broadcaster which has morphed into the pr wing of the government with a bit of fake sparring thrown in to satisfy the masses exchanging little presents when the cameras are off , I would prefer the movement to grow organically internally and am wary of outside interference by non citizens ,they allways want their pound of flesh in the end ,unfortunately I see no brave pragmatist on the horizon with the charisma and character to steer us from the cliff but sure maybe he/she is there.….waiting for the time

Unfortunately the down time over the Christmas break, has meant I've spent more time on the phone than I do normally, but I've been shocked by the many pro immigration pieces on various media sources. Rather than reporting on the shifting public and government opinion, it seems they've doubled down on their left wing and woke ideologies.

They also have an ethnic right to return. Irish DNA means something.

Bogus language schools have resurfaced again with a new TrustED compliance required for Colleges. to continue . This escalation of fake courses has presumably remained unchecked for sometime as the government has taken steps to combat it .

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2151675/ireland-stop-backdoor-immigration-student-visas?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQPMjc1MjU0NjkyNTk4Mjc5AAEerwaLejAKvMbGKNxq5v3ZeWHHIQ4XMcXAUBeai4kMYt98x828kno_GsYm00o_aem_BPJRfvVNpLnbKdzmLkuknQ#Echobox=1767095154

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Looking at CSO figures about a 1/4 of Ukrainians are of fighting age are living here .Based on the number in the EU at over 1 million also the numbers in Ukraine that get dragged off the streets to fight .Some like to claim Ukraine is mighty and all want to fight , not so .

SHarris has landed himself in very hot water from the left. He claims a significant number in homeless accommodation have no right to housing. The Dublin Regional Homeless Executive Oct report said “the main driver of single homelessness is refugees or people with leave to remain leaving direct provision in the preceding eight months”. Also, of 89 families entered homelessness in Dublin in October, just 38 were Irish.

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/housing-planning/2025/12/31/simon-harris-claims-significant-number-in-emergency-accommodation-dont-have-housing-right/

Left parties blame government and landlords but stubbornly refuse to admit that unlimited immigration critically affects housing. Even the Local Government Management Agency briefing advised ministers that in June25, non-EEA people were 27% of homeless and people from abroad were impacting homeless numbers.

However, EO’B (SF) said ‘conflating the issues of homelessness and immigration is not only dishonest - it is dangerous.' SHarris also said he was ‘shut down’ in November when he said immigration numbers are too high. CSheehan (Lab) said he should withdraw that and know better- the Tánaiste making misleading statements in relation to immigration is unhelpful and dangerous. RHearne (SocD) said Harris was trying to deflect from government housing failures but the cause of increased homelessness was evictions by private landlords.

https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/12/31/sinn-fein-and-labour-criticise-tanaiste-over-comments-linking-homelessness-to-immigration/

It’s the job of opposition to whinge but I sometimes wonder if any politician in this country understand simple arithmetic. It’s not rocket science - when the bucket is overflowing, just turn off the tap.