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

That figure isn't misleading, 23.3% of people in this country weren't born here.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=EU_population_diversity_by_citizenship_and_country_of_birth

We have the 4th highest rate in the EU. But the government when they quote figures will say Irish citizens because that is lower as a result of them handing out Irish citizenship like it's confetti.

It's only increasing year on year. It was 17% in 2016, and 20% in 2022. You look at programmes like Reeling in the Years, or footage from the past and you would see an indigenous Irish population. In 1985 for example, which is well within our lifetimes, that figure was 2-3%.

Now if you walk around certain parts of Ireland, you feel like a minority in your own country. I see it in certain schools, I see community centres that are used as a mosque as much as anything else. You see cricket pitches being put in as amenities in new housing developments. Go there at the weekend and it's full of Indian kids playing cricket.

The government talks about foreign people integrating into Irish society and our culture. I by and large don't see it. Our local GAA club had an underage blitz tournament, I didn't see many foreign nationals playing. Look at our TV screens, The Sunday Game, where are these people coming through? They have their kids opt out of learning Irish in school. Go to Fleadh Cheoil, who's participating and largely attending?

A large swathe of Irish people can't afford to buy homes. Our Irish birth rate is declining, and yet our population is growing rapidly. All of this is intertwined and if it keeps going, Irish people will end up a minority in our own country and some of our culture will be something read about in history books or maybe seen on future editions of Reeling in the Years. I don't know if some people are oblivious to what is happening, don't care, think they're virtuous or are too busy counting their profiteering. There's so many proverbs that describe what is happening to Ireland, slowly, slowly catchy monkey. Or fables too, the boiling frog. How long before we croak it?

It's also not sustainable, as economists like David McWilliams have warned for some time.

https://www.davidmcwilliams.ie/post/if-we-want-less-strain-on-capacity-we-should-limit-immigration-to-some-extent

Bertie was 100% on the money. Thats the problem the govt has.

There are over five hundred pages belonging to this thread. And this thread is the second iteration of illegal immigration threads into Ireland. I wonder how people have the mental energy to keep particiapting here in terms of often very long posts & arguing the toss with posters of differing opinions, despite knowing the situation is not going to change. Yet the politicians keep conniving & planning behind closed doors oblivious to the cares of the community. Well…not oblivious because I feel they know exactly how we feel but they are beholden to secret deals made that it trumps national interest & social cohesion.

I don't know where I'm going with this really. It's just an unerring feeling of raging against the dying of the light when gargantuan amounts of people totally at odds with western values continue to flood our shores.

That's the second year in a row that this has happened.

Two months should be followed by deportations

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Were they doing so on the back of social welfare, free accommodation, free healthcare etc.

Irish people did indeed emigrate but they worked. A lot went to Australia, Canada, NZ ETC which was part of a visa application system for required skills.

pops up regularly, Shure the Irish emigrated, they should take in the world

and where / who is suggesting that we take in the world…..through our ‘open borders’ …….(to borrow a phrase from trump and that other lovely fellow farage…)

I heard on the radio today, the top story, that a man died after being stabbed numerous times.

How our national broadcaster("The Truth Matters) headlines it:

"Assault"

How the Independent headlines it.

"Stab victim"

Now you can look up the stats on stabbings, and who the majority are that carry out these crimes in various countries and cities. You won't get that detail from the Gardaí:

https://www.garda.ie/en/about-us/publications/general-reports/knife-related-crime-2015-to-2024.pdf

You only need to watch an episode of Crimecall to see evidence of this. I would say the trend of knife crime in Ireland overall is increasing. What a surprise.

Other cities/countries do provide the background of who the majority of the victims are and who the perpetrators are. Regularly watching Sky News, I didn't need to be told this information.

https://benkinsella.org.uk/knife-crime-in-the-capital-2021/

I read the victim is from Nigeria, another fact omitted by RTE("The Truth Matters").

Can these figures be trusted….
https://asylumineurope.org/reports/country/republic-ireland/statistics/

Turkey with 3,000,000 has the most AS’s worldwide.

surely an EU wide acceptance that only someone that comes through an EU migrant camp gets reviewed for possible asylum and the rest are out full stop.

The media don't help with their blinkered and biased reporting. Still no mention on the RTE Six One News about the man's nationality, even though it's been reported elsewhere.

Interesting soundbite from a Dublin man being interviewed on the street today, and it's different from the clip in the RTE link I posted above. The other 2 women say the same in both reports. You'd wonder how it made it through editing, "A whole lot of Dublin is gone bad, all over. So, I do the security in the shops."

The first woman interviewed says, "This Is not the first time something's happened, so it is actually very disturbing."

She's right, it's not the first time, and it sadly won't be the last time either.

Virgin Media News are the same.

Remember how RTE and many other outlets chose to drop the photo of this particular individual.

https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2025/0527/1515192-drimnagh-investigation/

Bertie said what anyone who can open their eyes can see. Certain areas of Dublin are defacto no go areas now due to gangs of second generation "new irish".

Some RTE wag said a decade ago that "dublin is an unadulterated kip" 🤒