Very few foreign workers/residents in Northern Ireland

anynews14 · 26-02-2014 06:47PM #1

I went shopping in Newry and Dundalk yesterday.
In Newry there were no foreign workers and almost no foreign residents.
In Dundalk there were loads of foreign workers and foreign teenagers.
Newry and Dundalk are only 15 miles apart and both are in EU.
Even the hospitals in the North hire nearly all Northern Irish nurses and doctors.
Why are there so many foreigners on the Irish side of the border and so few on the Northern side?

keith16 · 26-02-2014 06:48PM

So what?

Boskowski · 26-02-2014 06:48PM

Is there a question in there somewhere?

coolbeans · 26-02-2014 06:50PM

Taking a leap into the dark here but I'd imagine he's asking why the difference.

lertsnim · 26-02-2014 06:51PM

anynews14 wrote: »

I went shopping in Newry and Dundalk yesterday.
In Newry there were no foreign workers and almost no foreign residents.
In Dundalk there were loads of foreign workers and foreign teenagers.
Newry and Dundalk are only 15 miles apart and both are in EU.

Any other observations you would like to make?

orangesoda · 26-02-2014 06:52PM

There has been numerous eastern europeans since 2003 or so, my uncle employs alot of them and you just have to go to a lidl srore to see how many there are, very attractive ladies too

Sir Humphrey Appleby · 26-02-2014 06:52PM

anynews14 wrote: »

I went shopping in Newry and Dundalk yesterday.
In Newry there were no foreign workers and almost no foreign residents.
In Dundalk there were loads of foreign workers and foreign teenagers.
Newry and Dundalk are only 15 miles apart and both are in EU.

The Mace beside my business has three foreign workers.
The Tesco Express on the same street has none.
They are only 40 seconds away from each other and both are in Ireland and the EU!:eek:

The King of Moo · 26-02-2014 06:53PM

They don't give them free prams up there Joe.

kneemos · 26-02-2014 06:54PM

It's a conundrum wrapped in a mystery.

The_Kew_Tour · 26-02-2014 06:54PM

I hear your're a racist now Newry!

Davarus Walrus · 26-02-2014 06:58PM

I wouldn't live there either to be honest.

orangesoda · 26-02-2014 07:05PM

Davarus Walrus wrote: »

I wouldn't live there either to be honest.

Well you're lot have no problem with living in the other regions of the united kingdom

kneemos · 26-02-2014 07:08PM

orangesoda wrote: »

Well you're lot have no problem with living in the other regions of the united kingdom

Don't have a problem with the UK,just the north.

cml387 · 26-02-2014 07:09PM

Official answer: Because the UK had different rules to immigration from new EU states up to this year.

orangesoda · 26-02-2014 07:11PM

kneemos wrote: »

Don't have a problem with the UK,just the north.

Cavan and monaghan? We aren't your north

kneemos · 26-02-2014 07:14PM

orangesoda wrote: »

Cavan and monaghan? We aren't your north

Stop voting SF then.

Stavros Murphy · 26-02-2014 07:15PM

orangesoda wrote: »

Well you're lot have no problem with living in the other regions of the united kingdom

Which lots that?

orangesoda · 26-02-2014 07:16PM

kneemos wrote: »

Stop voting SF then.

Don't worry i don't

Seamus1964 · 26-02-2014 07:16PM

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

I hear your're a racist now Newry!

Fecking Greeks, coming over here, taking our jobs and our women..

spurious · 26-02-2014 07:17PM

This is like wandering into a room with three radios all playing different talk shows.

Gatling · 26-02-2014 07:22PM

Basically you know the two bunch of religious nut jobs ie who just can't Live side by side ,
Well they dont want anybody else living there ,
Not Irish ,not British ,not from anywhere else either

Hardly the most welcoming place in the world

The Backwards Man · 26-02-2014 07:40PM

One is half an hour away from Dublin.

The other is the dark side of the moon away from London.

MadsL · 26-02-2014 07:50PM

Yeah, I can't think why immigrants don't choose to live in NI.

Oh wait...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/belfast-mob-threatened-to-kill-romanian-children-1707891.html

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2014/01/18/Homes-of-Polish-immigrants-attacked-in-Belfast-No-Ireland/UPI-63811390025938/

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-17604977

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/arson-attack-on-immigrants-home-was-racist-28740649.html

orangesoda · 26-02-2014 07:55PM

MadsL wrote: »

Yeah, I can't think why immigrants don't choose to live in NI.

Oh wait...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/belfast-mob-threatened-to-kill-romanian-children-1707891.html

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2014/01/18/Homes-of-Polish-immigrants-attacked-in-Belfast-No-Ireland/UPI-63811390025938/

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-17604977

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/arson-attack-on-immigrants-home-was-racist-28740649.html

Not all of Northern Ireland is like Belfast you know, where i live in Mid-Ulster nothing like that goes on

For Forks Sake · 26-02-2014 08:05PM

orangesoda wrote: »

Not all of Northern Ireland is like Belfast you know, where i live in Mid-Ulster nothing like that goes on

http://www.midulstermail.co.uk/news/local-news/man-refused-bail-over-alleged-racist-attacks-in-dungannon-1-5502895

http://www.irr.org.uk/news/an-assessment-of-racial-violence-in-northern-ireland/

18 September 2013: At the trial of Gary Smyth, Lithuanian residents in Dungannon, County Tyrone, expressed their terror stemming from repeated attacks on their homes. Smyth (30), faced charges of criminal damage, disorderly behaviour, attempted intimidation and threats to kill. Testifying at the High Court in Belfast, the Lithuanian residents told how paint was thrown over three of their cars, a brick was thrown through the front window of a home, and a swastika was daubed on the garage door alongside racist graffiti declaring ‘non-nationals must go’.

18 August 2013: A number of cars, a wall and a flat were daubed in racist graffiti in the Loyalist Coolcush Court and Lisnaclin Court areas of Dungannon. Inspector Jamieson of the PSNI, treating the incident as a hate crime, condemned the attack and appealed for witnesses,

orangesoda · 26-02-2014 08:11PM

For Forks Sake wrote: »

http://www.midulstermail.co.uk/news/local-news/man-refused-bail-over-alleged-racist-attacks-in-dungannon-1-5502895

http://www.irr.org.uk/news/an-assessment-of-racial-violence-in-northern-ireland/

Fair enough, i didn't hear about that, surely everything hasn't been complete roses and sunshine for them across the border either? Over the last 10 years i have heard very little negative things happening them, in some cases it has actually been them causing the bother

donegal__road · 26-02-2014 08:37PM

violence and intimidation aside, if you work for a couple of years in the South and pay stamps, if and when you are made redundant, then the dole + benefits in the south are more than double what they are in the North. I'd imagine that has a lot to do with it.

Hootanany · 26-02-2014 08:40PM

And in the North they wouldn't be the most attractive people.

orangesoda · 26-02-2014 08:47PM

Hootanany wrote: »

And in the North they wouldn't be the most attractive people.

Can i ask you to elaborate on that comment?

ClovenHoof · 26-02-2014 08:51PM

Newry is a dump. Northern Ireland is a sectarian rat hole. We do not have that down here. They prefer to live in a country where your religion does not determine your level of humanity depending on which neighbourhood you find yourself in. I'd move down south too.

Hootanany · 26-02-2014 08:53PM

orangesoda wrote: »

Can i ask you to elaborate on that comment?

Speaks for it self.

Very few foreign workers/residents in Northern Ireland

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