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

No pearl clutching. I don't care what goes on in other countries. Nothing to do with me. You well know the point I was making. And in regards to refugees, I'll make it very clear what I think..

No refugees

No asylum seekers

Mass deportations of anyone who shouldn't be here or is here illegally. I don't care about their race, colour, creed or religion. All gone.

The only person that seems to be posting official Department of Justice reports on the number of Non Ukrainian arrivals in the state from January to April of this year is the nwl account on Twitter/X (@nwl88444048).*

4139 arrivals the largest of which 22% are Somalian, Pakistan and Afghanistan are 19% and Nigeria 14%, Georgia 6.4% and Other 39.1%. The other is not broken down in the report.

The state takes 2 - 4 years to process each at the typical cost of €122,000. So they will cost us approximately €504,958,000.

The Department of Justice most recent estimate is that 87 - 90% of arrivals come via the North.

Remember the pearl clutching in the media about the €505 million package to stop further haulage protests and how this was giving in to the protestors? How many articles will we see about this in the media? I think we all know the answer to that.

*This account looks at a wide range of subjects from statistics released by official Ireland on things like housing starts, to prison overcrowding and court notifications on upcoming cases that may go under the radar. They are also the one that seems to have broken the Daniel Ennis story about him being the company secretary and warehouse manager of a company that was raided and fined for selling cigarettes and tobacco without tax stamps.

Great read. Extremely well written. She lays the blame 100% at the door of this and previous governments> They (FFFG) really do take us for mugs.

But, but, but refugees don't take up ordinary houses, it's just old hotels n offices the refugee industry cheerleaders told us. Young working couples getting outbid by the government on housing .

The Indian/EU deal will be very telling. The Indians that come here will be well educated, competing for the well-paid, high-end jobs AND buying the famous €650K houses! They will be affecting the middle-class directly.

There are a huge number of them and they will want to go to an EU country that speaks English. Wonder where that could be?

There is a world-wide contraction in IT jobs, mostly being 'blamed' on AI. As ever, it's a much a cost thing as anything else. Sinead makes the excellent point that a compliant work-dorce, willing to work harder for less will become very attractive to the FDI tech companies. Will the government do anything to regulate this? You wouldn't be confident, would you?

Yep I'm losing my job of nearly 30 years to Indian outsourcing.

clearly, anyone with half a brain can see this. We excel at enabling it here, no longer allowed to sing carols at the kids Christmas concerts, the Christmas lights being replaced by the Winter lights in Dublin in case we offend. Above all we have to "welcome" our new friends and give them access to a better standard of living than the ordinary Irish person. Rather than being proud of our own heritage and culture,we are dumbing down everything and homogenizing everything so we all blend and live in happy clappy land together.

The trouble with Ireland is that being such a small country and population, the change in demographics is alarming and much quicker than any other country. No wonder Irish people are worried, afraid, angry and asking questions. What on earth did our Government expect……particularly Micheal Martin? His gaslighting and disgust at Irish people's reactions has really ramped up lately. It's like he cannot tolerate any disagareement because he is protected in his bubble. Yet every ordinary person is asking questions, is seeing the change, is increasingly alarmed, if not for ourselves then for our kids and grandkids!

We excel at enabling it here, no longer allowed to sing carols at the kids Christmas concerts,

Who told you can no longer do this?

 the Christmas lights being replaced by the Winter lights in Dublin in case we offend.

No they aren't. The Winter Lights is a separate festival in operation since 2017.

Jaysus , the outrage-ometer has been cranked up to 11 on bertie. The refugee industry doesn't like anyone sticking their head above the parapet, it's an existential threat to them.

You'd think fianna fail would read the tea leaves with their polling and what has happened starmer in the uk n throw Micheal Martin out but they seem incapable of it. Best of luck to them, they're gonna need it

replace the x with twitter

Thank you. That's very kind

so called war zone

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainian-capital-kyiv-under-massive-russian-attack-mayor-says-2026-05-14/

Russia ​carried out its largest aerial attack over a two-day period since the start of its war in Ukraine, pounding the capital Kyiv ‌and other cities with hundreds of drones, Ukrainian officials said on Thursday.

"So called" apparently.