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our new European cousins

  • 30-12-2013 09:22PM
    #1
    hedgehog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 317 ✭✭


    Welcome to the new Europeans who are eligible to work in Ireland from Jan 1st.
    I don't think many will bother coming as the work is not there unlike 2004.
    Have been to Croatia and they are really sound,fabulous looking women,never been to Romania but I hear they have a good basketball team and perhaps Ireland can poach some of the gymnastics talent from Romania for our next olympic bid.
    I know a couple of girls coming here from Croatia who we met on holidays 3yrs ago,they are hoping to pick up work in the tourism sector but they saidcnot many have plans to come to Ireland due to the negativity of the recession.
    The more the merrier I say as we are all part of the EU


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  • #2
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    The Romanians, a great bunch of lads.


  • #3
    Lenin Skynard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭Lenin Skynard


    Welcome, Romanians. Be prepared to hear a lot about a certain penalty shoot-out.


  • #4
    Sir Humphrey Appleby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,465 ✭✭✭Sir Humphrey Appleby


    Dobrodosli Hrvatska :)


  • #5
    seano12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 88 ✭✭seano12


    hedgehog2 wrote: »
    Welcome to the new Europeans who are eligible to work in Ireland from Jan 1st.
    I don't think many will bother coming as the work is not there unlike 2004.
    Have been to Croatia and they are really sound,fabulous looking women,never been to Romania but I hear they have a good basketball team and perhaps Ireland can poach some of the gymnastics talent from Romania for our next olympic bid.
    I know a couple of girls coming here from Croatia who we met on holidays 3yrs ago,they are hoping to pick up work in the tourism sector but they saidcnot many have plans to come to Ireland due to the negativity of the recession.
    The more the merrier I say as we are all part of the EU

    Mr.Barosso is that you?


  • #6
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    hedgehog2 wrote: »
    Welcome to the new Europeans who are eligible to work in Ireland from Jan 1st.
    I don't think many will bother coming as the work is not there unlike 2004.
    Have been to Croatia and they are really sound,fabulous looking women,never been to Romania but I hear they have a good basketball team and perhaps Ireland can poach some of the gymnastics talent from Romania for our next olympic bid.
    I know a couple of girls coming here from Croatia who we met on holidays 3yrs ago,they are hoping to pick up work in the tourism sector but they saidcnot many have plans to come to Ireland due to the negativity of the recession.
    The more the merrier I say as we are all part of the EU

    The employment eligibility actually applies to the Romanians and the Bulgarians OP.


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  • #7
    NuckingFacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,221 ✭✭✭NuckingFacker


    I know loads of Romanians that have been here years. I find most of them dead sound. What's changed with their (Romanias) status? Do they no longer need work permits? I'm not hugely bothered -the ones I've known are all very hard-working..they're all not too fond of the Romas though.for whatever reason..that might be a different story..


  • #8
    Pro Hoc Vice
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,087 ✭✭✭Pro Hoc Vice


    NuckingFacker wrote: »
    I know loads of Romanians that have been here years. I find most of them dead sound. What's changed with their (Romanias) status? Do they no longer need work permits? I'm not hugely bothered -the ones I've known are all very hard-working..they're all not too fond of the Romas though.for whatever reason..that might be a different story..

    They have not needed work permits since middle 2012, http://www.nascireland.org/latest-news/removal-of-work-permit-requirements-for-romanian-and-bulgarian-nationals/


  • #9
    Daqster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 723 ✭✭✭Daqster


    Sandra Romain finally able to work here. Nice one.

    /Dusts off Sonycam


  • #10
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    hedgehog2 wrote: »
    Welcome to the new Europeans who are eligible to work in Ireland from Jan 1st.
    I don't think many will bother coming as the work is not there unlike 2004.
    Have been to Croatia and they are really sound,fabulous looking women,never been to Romania but I hear they have a good basketball team and perhaps Ireland can poach some of the gymnastics talent from Romania for our next olympic bid.
    I know a couple of girls coming here from Croatia who we met on holidays 3yrs ago,they are hoping to pick up work in the tourism sector but they saidcnot many have plans to come to Ireland due to the negativity of the recession.
    The more the merrier I say as we are all part of the EU


    Their women are safe in our hands.


  • #11
    JayoHatesMayo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 63 ✭✭JayoHatesMayo


    Restrictions were dropped in the summer of 2012. They could live, work or study here, visa free, since then. http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0720/330013-bulgaria-romania-work-restrictions-dropped/


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  • #12
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    Ever played Left 4 dead 2 when the ominous music starts and the horde comes a running? I dunno why but that music popped into my head just now


  • #13
    WilyCoyote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭WilyCoyote


    Right! That's it:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBuUtvFObQE


  • #14
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,236 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    hedgehog2 wrote: »
    Welcome to the new Europeans who are eligible to work in Ireland from Jan 1st.

    There aren't any. Bulgarians and Romanians have had this since 2012 and Croatia has had it since July 2013.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #15
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    mango salsa wrote: »
    There aren't any. Bulgarians and Romanians have had this since 2012 and Croatia has had it since July 2013.

    Did the world end? Pretty sure we were told the world would end when this happened. That and the Irish being a minority in their own land. Did that happen as well?

    Mumble mumble mumble


  • #16
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,236 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    MadsL wrote: »
    Did the world end? Pretty sure we were told the world would end when this happened. That and the Irish being a minority in their own land. Did that happen as well?

    Mumble mumble mumble

    The UK is going to self implode in 2014 when the billions of Bulgarians and Romanians arrive

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #17
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    mango salsa wrote: »
    The UK is going to self implode in 2014 when the billions of Bulgarians and Romanians arrive

    Good. Perhaps the Daily Mail will self-combust.


  • #18
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,236 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    MadsL wrote: »
    Good. Perhaps the Daily Mail will self-combust.

    One can but hope.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #19
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    MadsL wrote: »
    Did the world end? Pretty sure we were told the world would end when this happened. That and the Irish being a minority in their own land. Did that happen as well?

    Mumble mumble mumble


    It did end but the liberal meedja won't report on its because its not PC.


  • #20
    WilyCoyote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭WilyCoyote


    MadsL wrote: »
    Good. Perhaps the Daily Mail will self-combust.

    Ah now! You do mean The Irish Inquirer

    It's a kinda Karma. Ten to fifteen years ago, droves of Irish people were buying any auld scrap of land with a pile of stones on it from Austria to the Black Sea.


  • #21
    Sir Humphrey Appleby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,465 ✭✭✭Sir Humphrey Appleby


    MadsL wrote: »
    Good. Perhaps the Daily Mail will self-combust.

    Can shít burn?:confused:


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  • #22
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Bah Feckin Humbug! wrote: »
    Can shít burn?:confused:


    ....certainly some animals **** can, if dried.


  • #23
    JayoHatesMayo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 63 ✭✭JayoHatesMayo


    MadsL wrote: »
    Good. Perhaps the Daily Mail will self-combust.

    Be a good little (wo)man, read the Guardian, welcome these people with open arms and vote Labour please.

    This is bad news for blue collar British workers. The last government claimed only 6k Poles would arrive. 600k actually arrived. More competition at the bottom end of the jobs market serves only to do two things; first, it makes it harder for people to get work, and second, it makes it easier for companies to exploit their workforce. When there's large amounts of unemployment, any company can quite happily get away with giving staff zero hour contracts, sh*tty unsociable hours, minimum wage, unpaid breaks, docking their pay when there's not enough work for them to do, and whatever else they can think of, because when people are desperate enough, they'll tolerate that sort of ****. The more people there are in that pool of unemployment, the more likely you are to find someone who'll accept those conditions.

    It's a bad deal for Romania too. Sure, they may get remittances. But over one million Romanians have already left since they joined the EU. They are basically educating their young, only to send them off to the west to work in minimum wage positions. A glut of their young are gone, never to return.


  • #24
    Sir Humphrey Appleby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,465 ✭✭✭Sir Humphrey Appleby


    JayoHatesMayo wrote: »
    Be a good little (wo)man, read the Guardian, welcome these people with open arms and vote Labour please.

    This is bad news for blue collar British workers. The last government claimed only 6k Poles would arrive. 600k actually arrived. More competition at the bottom end of the jobs market serves only to do two things; first, it makes it harder for people to get work, and second, it makes it easier for companies to exploit their workforce. When there's large amounts of unemployment, any company can quite happily get away with giving staff zero hour contracts, sh*tty unsociable hours, minimum wage, unpaid breaks, docking their pay when there's not enough work for them to do, and whatever else they can think of, because when people are desperate enough, they'll tolerate that sort of ****. The more people there are in that pool of unemployment, the more likely you are to find someone who'll accept those conditions.

    More bullshít you must own a dairy farm!


  • #25
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    JayoHatesMayo wrote: »
    Be a good little (wo)man, read the Guardian, welcome these people with open arms and vote Labour please.

    This is bad news for blue collar British workers. The last government claimed only 6k Poles would arrive. 600k actually arrived. More competition at the bottom end of the jobs market serves only to do two things; first, it makes it harder for people to get work, and second, it makes it easier for companies to exploit their workforce. When there's large amounts of unemployment, any company can quite happily get away with giving staff zero hour contracts, sh*tty unsociable hours, minimum wage, unpaid breaks, docking their pay when there's not enough work for them to do, and whatever else they can think of, because when people are desperate enough, they'll tolerate that sort of ****. The more people there are in that pool of unemployment, the more likely you are to find someone who'll accept those conditions.

    Thats Sh1t UK Employment law for you. And The Middle Class Brits that like it that way


  • #26
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    JayoHatesMayo wrote: »
    Be a good little (wo)man, read the Guardian, welcome these people with open arms and vote Labour please.

    This is bad news for blue collar British workers. The last government claimed only 6k Poles would arrive. 600k actually arrived. More competition at the bottom end of the jobs market serves only to do two things; first, it makes it harder for people to get work, and second, it makes it easier for companies to exploit their workforce. When there's large amounts of unemployment, any company can quite happily get away with giving staff zero hour contracts, sh*tty unsociable hours, minimum wage, unpaid breaks, docking their pay when there's not enough work for them to do, and whatever else they can think of, because when people are desperate enough, they'll tolerate that sort of ****. The more people there are in that pool of unemployment, the more likely you are to find someone who'll accept those conditions.

    It's a bad deal for Romania too. Sure, they may get remittances. But over one million Romanians have already left since they joined the EU. They are basically educating their young, only to send them off to the west to work in minimum wage positions. A glut of their young are gone, never to return.

    Better than the ones that perished in Chauchesku's orphanages


  • #27
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    efb wrote: »
    Thats Sh1t UK Employment law for you. And The Middle Class Brits that like it that way

    UK employment law is usually better then ours

    tbh the left will never challenge the globalist agenda because they cling to the whole self indulgent brotherhood of man hangover. No cop on


  • #28
    J_E
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭J_E


    JayoHatesMayo wrote: »
    Be a good little (wo)man, read the Guardian, welcome these people with open arms and vote Labour please.

    etc etc
    Aaaaand thread begins to sink from here


    "any company can quite happily get away with giving staff zero hour contracts, sh*tty unsociable hours, minimum wage, unpaid breaks, docking their pay when there's not enough work for them to do, and whatever else they can think of"

    Yes, it's called JobBridge ;)


  • #29
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Bambi wrote: »
    UK employment law is usually better then ours

    tbh the left will never challenge the globalist agenda because they cling to the whole self indulgent brotherhood of man hangover. No cop on

    Irish Employment Law has far greater protections for the worker


  • #30
    JayoHatesMayo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 63 ✭✭JayoHatesMayo


    Bah Feckin Humbug! wrote: »
    More bullshít you must own a dairy farm!

    Care to address the points that I made? Do you think Britain can take in an infinite number of people or something?


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  • #31
    JayoHatesMayo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 63 ✭✭JayoHatesMayo


    Bambi wrote: »
    UK employment law is usually better then ours

    tbh the left will never challenge the globalist agenda because they cling to the whole self indulgent brotherhood of man hangover. No cop on

    Once we all go to hell in a handcart together.


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