Bertie Ahern rejoins Fianna Fail

This is not a surprise, we have always been like this, a nation of curtain twitchers who look to get one over on someone.

Bertie probably has some quiet, standard issue low level mildly xenophobic Grandad type views but he clearly quickly twigged that the woman who opened the door was a total nutcase who should be in the more secure wing of a psychiatric unit and given medication to try and treat extensive brain rotting caused by snorting too much internet.

When you're unexpectedly cornered by a loop the loop like this, be it in a pub, at a bus stop, or anywhere else, you throw them a bone of mild agreement just to humour them, so they won't go postal on you.

Why do I need to judge anyone on merits?

I tend to judge my neighbours on their merits.

But you can use statistics if you want I guess.

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Yes, see your call here is to let them all in and lets get to know them nonsense…..this is the devious angle that needs to be stopped. And I don't think you're being at all sincere here. Most honest people would rely on hard cold stats and make a call there and then.

And people from the Congo are not your neighbour, or ours!!! They are from the Congo

You could look at it another way, what have the Congo ever done to us? where as the UK is a very different story, our similar culture didnt stop them making our ancestors lives hell on earth. I suppose they were white though so its ok.

@Arseboxing I see what you are saying but as someone who works with the public and come across racist conspiracy theorist weirdos a lot.

I either change the subject or pull them up on their rubbish straight away in a non confrontational way.

I had one older lady last week describe my town as "very black" "they are causing a lot of trouble in Ireland" ah no, I dont think so I said. "they are, it was on the news" then she started off about the AGENDA. she could tell I wasnt on the same wavelength so she toned it down a bit from there. she said a black taxi driver once ripped her off, so she never gets a black taxi driver now. 😂

No….again, what has this to do with anything? I have had interactions in Ireland with people from Africa. So far I have never had a bad experience. This has nothing to do with the wider point, though.

The statistics are there for a reason…I don't need to know a person from the Congo to interpret these statistics.

I also don't need to get to know anyone from the Congo to have a view that opening our door to an influx of people from the Congo might not be a good idea. Bertie (someone I have no real love for) said something that in my view was sense, and that many would see as sense.

Ah the old Irish people went to USA, Canada, Australia. Entered by applying for work visas and when in the country had to house and support themselves. Same as lads arriving from the likes of Somalia or the Congo with no ID. Countries that have constant savage ongoing wars that feature rape as part of war as well as burning alive. Have 99% of women undergoing FGM

Also describing people from a huge continent like Africa as “Africans “ as if they were all the same

the Irish went all over the world argument I always found extremely dull, vacuous and bland as regards immigration into Ireland in the 21st century!

Lads do we not have an entire thread already (the size if the Bible now) on immigration? We hardly need a new one just because da Bert happened to stumble on some bitter oul knuckle dragger on his rounds.

What if they just want to live here because they like cooler weather, the culture, the people, the scenery, the work life balance etc etc the same way Irish people move to any other Country. is that an issue for you? im not talking millions of people by the way.

Work life balance ..LOL

It’s extraordinary and embarrassing that this Bertie video is the headline news. You’d swear he had shouted death to immigrants from a fooking megaphone while marching up n down O’Connell street

Usual hysterical media driven nonsense. Although you could say that anything that highlights the nonsense of our unlimited immigration policy and how the ordinary punter has to live with the effects of it is to be welcomed.