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

Did u read my questions correctly, as your response didn't answer either

Interesting to compare Irish Times still pushing the “all immigration is always good, all the time” message , without any nuances.
With the change in the debate in Canada. The liberal Toronto Globe and Mail journalist Tony Keller has published a book and is doing the podcast circuit talking about how effectively open borders (mainly low skill workers) have caused economic, housing, social and political problems in Canada starting in the Trudeau years:

https://www.policymagazine.ca/tony-kellers-borderline-chaos-and-canadas-immigration-crisis-the-2025-mcgill-max-bell-lectures/

https://tarahenley.substack.com/p/transcript-tony-keller-9df

“First, business lobbies, who successfully agitated to repurpose the system to “fill low-wage, entry-level jobs.” Keller explained that this group, facing a “labour shortage” almost entirely at the bottom end of the market, saw a massive pool of temporary workers as a way to avoid raising wages or investing in productivity. This directly inverted the Tom Kent model, shifting the system’s focus from acquiring human capital to acquiring cheap labour.

Second, the federal government itself, which ignored sound advice from its own economists in 2016. It was convinced—urged on by progressive activists and lobby groups like the Century Initiative—that a “bigger Canada” was an inherent good. Keller’s data showed this was a catastrophic miscalculation: this new model did not make Canada richer, it has done the precise opposite, driving GDP per capita into a protracted decline.“

In the last 2 years, Canada has been trying to scale back immigration to more “sustainable levels”

https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/economy/immigration/canadas-immigration-minister-discusses-sustainable-immigration-levels-during-halifax-event/

FFS. Gript as a source really? They can't even spell his name right.

Is the Irish Times more to your liking?

He had been in prison a number of times and last lived in a Salvation Army hostel in Dublin 1

I'll never understand what voters see in Gannon, but each to their own. One thing is for sure though, he and others are milking this death to contuine pushing the race agenda. It doesn't matter the skin colour, the security guards would have behaved the same.

We give out citizenship way too easily in this country. We don't value our passport enough

Once given it's impossible to revoke..

Yes, I answered neither. You have no right to demand I do so.

(Even though I actually did but you just failed to join the dots.)

Social Democrats are the pits. And they look like our future.

So you linked to an article you haven't read or no one else can without a subscription?

That is next level link dumping.

Fair play to you.

Yup…trying to equate/compare Irish and English people, who have been mixing for centuries, with so much in common and so much shared history and cultures/values, etc with modern day multiculturalism between peoples with no connection or likeness to Ireland……it's deliberately mischievous and disingenuous.

And did they cchange, no, but it wont stop people tilting at windmills