"Migrants going to Ireland," states Rishi Sunak PM

@BOOTS52PollyPrissyPants to get in get visas and jobs and bring their families over is all i assume.

@DanielGault imigrants that can come here and work etc yes but these are illegal and can not work or provide for themselves either. Then we have the sham of direct provision. I am not now and never have been a whole 'help our own first' because sometimes 'our own' want to benefit from the state but the housing crisis is ridiculous here. Our hotels are now taken over by refugees from Ukraine which is costing towns and villages money because it takes away from tourism. I fully get a lot of immigrants over the years have taken on jobs Irish people will not do but the housing crisis is because we have a care of duty to house people coming here and we really cannot house Irish people.

'cannot house our own' has been going on for decades. There are definitely problems with our immigration policy, but lack of social housing here is due to failure by multiple governments to provide for it. It's not immigrants. The economy wouldn't be what it is without immigrants. The health system woi collapse overnight without them. 'our own' is a load of me bollix in that regard.

Also why is it only young males in their 20's/30's leaving their supposedly unsafe countries, the women are more in danger there than anyone and loads claiming to be gay and saying they will be persecuted if they go back. It has just got out of control and people are fed up and angry. Cannot open your mouth here or you get called far right.

I am Irish and there is loads of people from outside the eu now and lots coming in from u.k. to Northern Ireland YES and loads coming in on planes with passports and then supposedly lose them on the plane. Should not be allowed off the plane without said passport and sent back to where they came from. Cannot house our own and we have taken in vast numbers and so many from Ukraine and really looked after them but people are pissed off now with our so called open borders and government doing sweet fuck all. Closing nursing homes to accommodate immigrants. Has to stop now as we are a small country and we have more than done our bit. Boats have to be stopped before they leave to come to all our shores.

@Solgrass yes but that aside it now seems that this is being subcontracted out to Ireland to deal with.

Irish courts have deemed that Britain is no longer classes as a safe haven. Therefore people are crossing to border to register in Ireland.

Go read again before you comment

That's been cleared up for me thanks, see above.

Are you being deliberately disingenuous or just very, very ignorant? Under the Dublin regulation, migrant claims are to be processed by the country in which they first entered the Union (which incidentally will only in the rarest of cases happen to be France.) Obviously this doesn't apply to secondary migration from the UK.

You'd wonder though, it feels like nobody wants the North sometimes. It's a poisoned chalice in a way. Too much hassle for either side. Leave them to their own devices etc. I wonder what the future holds.

The OP isn't a 'she', @DanielGault .

I don't think Simon Harris is a gay man of Indian descent?

Oh do not start me on that. One day Leo, then Micheal then the walking corpse. We dont make it easy for ourselves but yes I get you. I just think that Britain will not leave us alone till they get some kind of border which they failed to get in brexit.

Lol, sorry, the taoiseach switching business has my head wrecked! But you get the general point!

However going back to us being mythical sure you only have to look at the twats that voted for brexit and when asked questions about Ireland genuinely did not know 26 of our counties were nothing to do with them.

lol, people are still coming here. If some are still going to Ireland it is because they are a richer country, with better opportunities and a better human rights record, not because they are afraid of us shipping them to Rwanda.

Yes! Totally this.

@DanielGault Our Taoiseach is a straight white Irish man I think you will find.

I adore the fact that OP has just been looking up Ireland's demographics and deigns to 'inform' us all of her exciting findings. Like Ireland is some some sort of mythical, parallel universe. She must live under a fucking rock. Our Taoiseach is a gay man of Indian descent for example. We are a nation of people who emigrated and we have had a lot of immigrants in the last 20 years. Not without it's problems but on the whole has been a huge benefit for the country.

Google it? Seriously it doesn't take much.

To date in 2024, 6,739 people have applied for asylum, of these, 6,136, or 91 per cent, were first encountered by the authorities when they arrived in Dublin city, indicating the vast majority crossed the border from Northern Ireland after leaving Britain.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/asylum-claims-in-ireland-to-more-than-double-this-year-xl63kf9ws#:~:text=To%20date%20in%202024%2C%206%2C739,Northern%20Ireland%20after%20leaving%20Britain.

Scapegoating us will not work this time I am afraid.

Also yis can feck off thinking we are going to scratch your back after all ye have put us through.

OP do you work for sky news cos I lost the remote control here a few hours ago and have that stuck on in the background and sky news is also bloody obsessed with us Irish and this Rwanda thing.

Evidently not 😂😂😂

Jesus wept, haven't you got a bloody life?