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

So 50% of migrants are non eu?

I think most people find this topic really distasteful. I've plenty of non Irish friends and wouldn't want them to feel unwelcome

However, given the housiing situation, it means reducing non eu visas or make accommodation unaffordable for large swathes of our youth. I blame the government. Israel, migration, ukraine, neutrality. We seem to following someone else's tune and it's not the fault of immigrants coming here to work/ study, it's our government setting policy.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/16/sweden-votes-to-back-laws-reinforcing-its-immigration-crackdown

If you're the one making the claim that the far-right position is correct, then the onus is on you to defend that claim, not on me to refute it. That's how things work. If you can't or won't defend the claim, then you have no claim.

We already have the option to do this with EU citizens. We don’t. We don’t even keep notes on who’s in the country from the EU.

Folks, don’t feed the Sealion 🦭

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning?wprov=sfti1#

The dynamism of the Polish economy at the moment is a mirage created by the closing of the gap. Poland has a much older poulation that Ireland, with fewer young people and fewer children.

Talk to Polish who have made thier lives here. They are happy to have a holiday home in Poland, but they are choosing to stay here to rasie thier families. Someone on an average wage in Ireland has a higher purchasing power than someone on average wages in Poland, when relative differences in cost of living is taken into account. A two bedroom apartment to rent in Warsaw is about 40% cheaper than one in Dublin. Average take home salaries are about 50% less.

A lot of the indicvidual stories of "plenty" in Poland are from people who can live in in Poland while working for companies based in higher income economies.

There is a lot wrong here. There is a government who are captured by the asset holding / hoarding class and are refusing to do anything to address housing as a result, however the grass is not always greener elsewhere. A lot of the problems we face are the same as those in many other countries

I'm really curious the media and political parties and some posters here keep referring to the far right ? who are they ? are they a pollical party ? as far as I know in this country we have only centre and left wing parties or is it just a group of people ? apologies if this has been answered before ?

Fingers crossed anyway 🤞

what word describes this behaviour. One cannot call it racism as it's not based on race!!!!!!!!!!

Extracts from an article in today's BBC,

'They came with machetes' - deadline looms for migrants to leave South Africa, South Africa has become a hostile place for undocumented migrants, as a deadline set by protesters for them to leave the country approaches. It follows a series of mainly peaceful protests this year led by the anti-migrant group March and March, opposition party ActionSA and others which have set 30 June as the deadline for undocumented migrants to leave.Sticks in hand, the marchers have been chanting "Mabahambe" - a Zulu phrase meaning "They must go". Joseph came to South Africa three years ago and was working as a domestic servant before having her children. Her legal status is not clear - she says she lost her passport and other paperwork in a robbery. She aims to go back to Malawi on one of the buses the Malawian consulate has been arranging with the help of donations for its desperate citizens to leave Durban. Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria and Zimbabwe have also been organising repatriations by air or bus over the last few weeks - with about 3,500 foreigners volunteering to leave so far. The South African authorities said the more than 500 Nigerians recently repatriated had been in the country illegally.' "We can't have South Africa being turned into a refugee site for all failed African states… every country prioritises its citizens and we want the South African government to do the same." Protesters, like Mecha Ramorola, also point to the country's strained public services with South African "people fighting for scarce resources"."We are struggling to get our children into schools. We are struggling to get our old people into hospitals," Ramorola told the BBC during a march in the capital, Pretoria'.

Yeah we know who is in the country and we know everything they are saying thanks to the "Doughnut" (GCHQ). What is being done about it is a different matter.