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

That’s the problem with good old be kind Ireland. We blather on about having no choice but to adhere to our EU/International obligations but don’t enforce these obligations on others. That would be embarrassing and only seek to damage our esteemed reputation.

oooh, is Ms Wakefield aware of O'Gorman's 2021 welcome in eight languages?

February 2021 tweets outline the government’s plan to end Direct Provision and provide “own-door” accommodation to any and all asylum seekers in Ireland after just a few months. ..in English, Irish, Arabic, Georgian, Albanian, Somalian, Urdu, French.

That looks like a wish list more than the law 😎

There is no way this is been enforced here we are two soft and politicaly correct. The whole system is a free for all here.

Is that true though? In my view, there is a hardening towards migration going on all across the developed world — the Irish government among them, with greater acknowledgement in the post-Covid / post-Ukraine migration spikes that tougher enforcement is needed. Governments are speaking more frankly now on the difficulties posed by migration and the need to try build more robust administrative procedures for dealing with illegal migration and asylum seekers / refugees.

Those are steps in the right direction as far as I see it and, slow as they are, I'd be inclined to say that those wishing for more radical and immediate change (in my own opinion) going to have to reconcile themselves with certain realities that will temper their expectations. Those realities are not posed by left / liberal ideology — they are posed by the way our economies work, the resources we demand, the products we demand, the opportunities we demand, the travel we demand etc. The entire modern comfort lifestyle is built on globalisation, and with that inevitably comes migration which will continue to affect our demographics.

If a Right wing party came along that was honest about this, and which took an intellectual and thoughtful approach to migration which acknowledged that each ratcheting up of policy towards migration must come with wider socioeconomic change (including downsides) and even the loss of some things we like, I'd find that more compelling. Unfortunately though they aren't targeting that particular thought market — swathes of the Right have clearly decided that their path to power must be built on anti-intellectualism, fear-baiting of migrants as dangerous savages and the general harnessing of anger.

You can almost hear him telling himself 'the serious face Simon, do the serious face'

Let me be clear

Ben Scallan, journalist, good one 🤣

Ben Scallan is an Investigative Reporter, the majority of Journalists in Ireland blindly report whatever a Politician has parroted to them based on the briefing mail which has been circulated to them by HQ that morning.

It's always particularly interesting to note when someone stands up and publicly says the things they claim nobody is allowed to say, with no particular consequence against them for saying it. But I suppose you can't let irony get in the way of a good speech :-)

And surprise, surprise it didn't take long for his lies to surface. The state gives taxpayers money to allow housing associations like Didean Dóchas buy up housing which they lease back to the government for social housing. Except they prioritise IPAS.

https://x.com/i/status/2067309088363470871

And the best part, it's all done via an Isle of Man based company!

Now that's real journalism.

The Journal should do one of there fact checks on this !