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DRONES ARE BIG business. It’s a growing industry and while the legalities around it are still being worked on, the popularity of drones as toys is quickly growing.
One company that is involved in this sector in this is Parrot, a French company that’s one of the bigger players in the industry. Alongside its collection of drones, it has a number of mini drones including the Parrot Rolling Spider, an affordable version of its collection.
Yet while it’s cheap (relative to other drones), what’s the quality like?
Build
The Parrot Rolling Spider is a small quadcopter, one that could just about fit in your hand without the wheels attached. It has a plastic build, but despite this, it’s actually rather sturdy. It would survive a fall or two, but you wouldn’t want to put it to the test too many times.
The front has two LED lights shaped like eyes (there are stickers included if you want to give it fangs or shark teeth and jazz it up a bit) to let you know it’s on, the right LED doubles up as a charging notification, turning red while you have it connected to your computer.
The drone is lightweight, meaning it’s easy to carry, but it also means that if there are moderate gusts outside, it’s going to be blown off-course slightly.
It’s not a big deal as it’s sturdy enough to survive a few crashes, but you wouldn’t want to be flying it in a small space in case a random gust directs it towards a wall.
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Controls
When you first start up, the controls may come across as a little confusing but are surprisingly intuitive.
The drone connects to your smartphone (iOS or Android) via Bluetooth meaning the max range you can fly it out would be roughly 15 to 20 metres. It can also reach an altitude of five metres for those wondering.
Lift-off only requires a button press and it zips into life straight away. Using both a D-pad and tilt controls, your left thumb controls altitude and rotates the drone while your right thumb moves it (while tilting). It works well in practice and unless you’re incredibly reckless, you should have no problem moving it around.
Pro controls are a little more advanced, giving you complete autonomy of the drone. It allows greater maneuverability but if you’re not used to the basic controls, you’ll likely crash it again and again. Thankfully it’s sturdy, but you want to give yourself a lot of space when testing it out.
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In-Flight
The first thing you will notice is the noise. It’s not deafening, but if you’re hoping for a subtle flight experience, you won’t find it here. The best way to describe it is it’s like a swarm of bees as the four rotors spin very quickly, and you’ll certainly feel it when you stand close to it.
However, you quickly forget about it as you zip around and take it in whatever direction you wish. It’s rather fast which may catch some people out if they’re being careless, but the inbuilt sensors make it rather difficult for the drone to spin out of control. On the off-chance it does, it still manages to keep itself stable, even if you let go of the controls.
The altitude of the drone does change a little bit randomly – sometimes it will rise or lower without warning as it adjusts itself – but overall it’s great at keeping its composure.
Landing it is also a button press away, which causes it to drop rather dramatically if you’re doing it from a height(which by the way, you shouldn’t do).
Hardware
The spider wheels are really there if you want to drive it – or give it extra protection when flying – but to be honest, you probably won’t use them. They’re fun if you want to drive up a wall and stick to the ceiling (acting a little like suction cups), but it’s likely you’ll discard them in favour for the drone itself.
You wouldn’t notice it by looking but there’s a built-in camera located at the bottom of the drone, allowing you to capture anything underneath it. While it’s a fun idea, the quality is rather low and it’s difficult to aim, meaning you’ll likely forget about it while you’re flying around.
Considering how many features there are, there’s usually a drawback and it’s a pretty big one: the battery life. One fight will last roughly eight minutes before it does an emergency landing and it’s disappointing when you’re getting into the swing of things.
What’s even worse is charging the battery can only be done via your computer (there’s only a USB cable for it) and takes roughly an hour and a half to go from empty to full capacity.
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Summary
The Parrot Mini Drone Rolling Spider is enjoyable to fly, and one that you will get the hang of pretty quickly. However, the battery is a weak point – both when it’s in use and when it’s charging – and keeping an eye on battery levels does take away from the experience.
Still, the pros greatly outweigh the cons and it’s incredible fun to pilot, and kids will definitely get a kick out of it. It may only be for a few minutes, but they’ll be an enjoyable few minutes.
Pros
- Sturdy build.
- Powerful hardware.
- Easy to pilot. Different modes for beginner and advanced users.
Cons
- Only 8 mins of battery life per charge.
- You can only charge it via your computer.
- Bottom facing camera is tough to aim and image quality is grainy.
The Parrot Mini Drone Rolling Spider is available in Apple Store (€99), PC World (€99), Currys (€99) and Vodafone (€129).
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Interesting to see that the survey asked only whether we could or not, not whether we should or not, or wish to or not. Nor did it allow anyone to express whether they trust the systems being used to confirm whether or not any claimed refugee is in fact a refugee or not, or whether or not they’re satisfied that the screening process for them,is for for purpose or not.
That’s how you manipulate public debate through polling. It’s all about what you omit.
@Marlowemallow: ‘fit for purpose’ that should say. I wonder if the Gardai interviewing alleged refugees have asked their views on the illegality of and punishment for apostasy in Syria. If they did, no doubt,they’d discover not a single Syrian who supports that law… Funny how that works.
These polls never get the full picture
What’s the reason they don’t think we can cope? Probably money. Ask them what they think the refugees cost v the actual figure there will be an enormous gap. You see this in questions about overseas aid and cost of politicians all the time.
The Saudis have 100000 air-conditioned tents at a place called MIna and it would make sense to move them there ready to go back home when the shooting stops. On the other hand the Saudis have no intention of putting up with the mayhem experienced by Europe
My new rant about refugees is that we should take them in and give out hospitality but only on a temporary basis. I can’t see the problem with this idea. If they are fleeing war then bring them in and let them work. Holing them all together is a recipe for extremism anyway. Issue them a 5 or 10 year VISA and then if the war is over they have to leave. It’s our moral duty to help them out of a bad situation. But they can go home afterwards. We have no obligation to change our society for them. They could even apply for citizenship after their VISAs expire. If they have integrated and are productive let them stay, but if not, off you pop.
@turlough, let’s be honest…. Even the most liberal of people can see (if they are capable of critical thinking) that the asylum system is ripe for abuse. I’m about as liberal as it gets but it’s obvious that we have a system that best serves the legal profession and accommodation providers. By looking to reform the system in order to provide swift and final decisions it would serve us as taxpayers as well as those who have a genuine case for asylum.
@Hugh Mannatee: How would we cope with even a small number going off to topple a government or do jihad and ending up in jail ?
It’ll keep the Journal happy. The Ibby syndrome is mercifully rare though.
@mack, that sounds like the “poison m&ms” argument. It’s a weak argument that reflects your bias more than makes any point.
@Tony Canning:
As i asked the other poster can you provide examples of abuses of the asylum system? And no, ‘anyone can see it’ wont do.
Stop being obtuse Turlough. There are numerous cases of African children being much more developed than normal kids their age. They don’t have access to Growth Hormones that freely in Africa. There are people that arrive on planes without passports. How is that possible? ISIS are saying they will send trojan horses. Isn’t that an abuse? Many women used to arrive pregnant that had no real claim for asylum. So many that we changed the law. Is that enough? Will I continue?
Up to 5,000 jihadists are feared to be in Europe after returning from terrorist training camps, the head of Europol has said.
@Turlough Conway: did you not see the photos in the uk papers the other week of so called children asylum seekers even the photographic system for determining age had them shown as 20/30 years of age and not children as they claimed….
@Hugh Mannatee: I see Citizens Arrests of these Treasonous Political Elites soon Enough .Time to Stop this Breeding Experiment of our own IRISH Identity .War has been Planned in Ireland by this Muslim Invasion of our Country,by our Political Elites.This war is becoming Foisted on the people of Ireland by our “Bilderberg” insiders in Dail Eireann.
The most logical suggestion of all! They must be kept in the East – Europe has been used as a dumping ground for these poor unfortunates – of course the ‘Dumpers’ are laughing up their sleeves at us – those who initiated the bullet firing should be held fully responsible for the welfare of the displaced!
4,000 becomes how many when family reunification is taken into account? Liam Cunningham was pathetically calling anyone who disagreed with him a racist. He went to a refugee/migrant camp and is now a world authority on the subject, apparently.
I have no issue with Ireland looking after refugees fleeing from a horrendous situation. When we needed help with in our moment of need the hand of friendship was shown to a million of us. Our turn to be understanding.
Could you quote the Irish or EU law that allows polygamy and pays out family benefits for as many wives as you want?
Dying to see that,
@Beachmaster: its what these type of actors and musicians do, they do this sort of thing at some stage. then write songs, look for publicity. what else can they do? stunts.
@Mack more populist lies but that’s become the norm at this stage
@Beachmaster: And when he said something like “Oh, it’s them now.. The refugees should be referred to as US” – the audience starts cheering.
Either he has a very loose grasp of English or he can’t find a proper argument. I’ve been living in Africa for months at a time, even decent cities are dirt traps. He’s comparing refugee camps to Dublin city, whereas Lagos or Pretoria are more accurate.
@MackPilon: __ The UN Refugee Convention lays down the ground rules for the rights to “family life”, and that was long before the EU even got started.
“Polygamous marriages legally performed in another country where the law allows it are legally recognised for the purposes of welfare benefits, but not for pension, immigration or citizenship purposes.[1][2] It is unofficially believed that there are up to 20,000 polygamous marriages in the Muslim community of the U.K.[3] There are also social media platform for polyagamous match-making such as SecondWife.”…That’s the UK position and I’m pretty sure ours is exactly the same.
Actually just checked an polygamous marriages aren’t legally recognised here but there’s a catch. Polygamous marriages with children involved would result in those children being entitled to be reunited with their father and given the family connection with their mother it would be extremely unlikely asylum would be refused. So while polygamy isn’t officially recognised as a legal concept in the case of asylum applications where children are involved it doesn’t really matter.
@Ryan Carroll: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3414264/Want-higher-benefits-marry-one-wife-New-welfare-rules-hand-extra-taxpayer-cash-polygamists.html doing it in England soon. Europe will follow and bend to islam.
We’ve shown absolutely no regard in the last 6 years in looking after our own homeless problems, so how can we look after 4000 others? We need to get our priorities right first.
We should be able to do both if the desire is there but is it??
@Gavin Mckenna: Asking Irish to cope with refugee influx is like asking one hand man to clap his hands. It sounds like joke but its not. Surely jokers (thejournal?) have both hands ??
@Gavin Mckenna: although 4000 may be a target number, next year 517, not 4000.
@John Flood: But 1 more person is already too much to house. I really want to help these people, but evacuating Africa is not the solution.
We could help by donating crops etc, which would also allow us a stronger footing to support these individuals. But offering up a house, when our own citizens are dying on the streets, isn’t the solution.
Very easy to stick a comment in the journal about getting our own house in order. Not seeing much outcry in real life though.
Instead of moaning here write/email Minister of Justice with your concerns. Until numbers do nothing has a chance of changing.
Take it from me the whole JUSTICE Dept don’t listen to ordinary folk like us
Ha what happened to all those spare beds people had.
The milk of human kindness gone sour. Disgusting statistic. They are welcome.
When did the majority matter?..
The housing shortage is of course de facto government policy and not the fault of desperate refugees. The Irish state has always served the interest of the minority capitalist class at the expense of the majority.
Nothing to do with this subject but decisions should not be made by ‘the majority’. That’s called mob rule. They should be made by an educated and informed selection of people hopefully for the betterment of the majority.
Ireland is a large country considering its population and could quite easily cope with an influx of genuine refugees. The problem with Ireland is leadership and a lack of any cohesive plan by our leaders other than stuffing their pockets and filling quangos with party cronies and pension merchants.Its just a pity on the year that is in it.We have replaced British imperialism nearly 100 years later with a corrupt shower of incompetent self serving gombeen men and women.
@Fozz: Careful Fozz, that sounds like a Republic you are describing – the Irish Republicans will never stand for it!
@Fozz:
Who gets to decide which “educated and informed” people will govern us?
Fizz, is that the same enlightened trinity lit soc based crowd that’ve been calling the shots for 200 years. That’s been infesting our legal and other professions with their own little cliques and their social reproduction methods. That have maintained and strengthened their position through colonial, free state and republican eras and would remain very secure in a multicultural society. I wouldn’t let them make the decision … I’d Pol Pot their arses.
Correction… Fozz
@Fozz: so if 100 people say no and 10 educated and informed ? people say yes the 10 should win the day ? strange way of looking at democracy….
Just as a matter of interest, where will this influx be housed? How about our own homeless?
Sweet divine Jesus,you lefty fools talk some nonsense.
Some of the racist vitriol here is terrifying. We live in dangerous times.
I don’t know why you got so many red thumbs Paul Mc.
@Fozz: “Decisions should not be made by “the majority” – I think you’d like that oul’ Hitler chap.
Taking them in is one thing but there seems to be no plan as to what to do next.
They should be taken in… set up camps for them where they can get fed and clothed. Educate them as to our western values. Make sure they are healthy. Then find a solution to get them home. America and Britain, along with their allies have destroyed the region. The destabilised countries need stability, An elected government and funds held by the u.n and paid for by countries involved in destabilising the area, which they can draw down for infrastructure. Then we can send them home to where they want to be.
Its ironic c the two countries that have destroyed these people’s countries are the most against taking their refugees in, they never wanna clean up their mess.
Put them in rural Texas towns then see how fast they support the next Mid East war when it means more are coming
@Dan: the screening answer was laughable, they’re checked for health, nationality, age. thats about it. how can they know they’ve not criminal backgrounds? they don’t. besides all that, how much respect have they for western culture. theres also this argument, if they’re given jobs they will integrate. what a load of muck. they won’t integrate with or without because theyre culture and religion dictates that. its not about work or no work, its about respect.
Paudi: That is a generalisation too far. There are lots of Muslims who have integrated. I see them working and going out with their friends and colleagues. There are a large proportion who do this. I don’t care what religion they are. It doesn’t bother me as long as they leave it inside the door when they leave their house.
Should weallow the new refugees skip the queue and get a house ahead of the people in direct provision or should we put the new refugees into direct provision and let them wait their turn?
@Patrick Gough: What houses? Don’t we have an housing crisis on top of everything else?
No we only have a housing crisis in our major cities. Plenty of free accommodation around the country
@nialls:
So what exactly is a Syrian family without a lick of English supposed to do out in a housing estate in the middle of Longford? It’s not just about four walls and a roof, it’s about the entire support structure around them.
@Jason Culligan: Well it’s either a war torn street in Syria, a rat infested camp site in France or a nice quiet home in Longford. What would you choose? As the saying goes, beggars can’t be choosers.
Jason foreign nationals have and are being integrated far more successfully in smaller rural areas but again don’t let hat fact get in the way of your BS
We can’t cope with our own homeless so how can we cope with 4000 imports? When we have homes for all our own people, then and only then should we consider bringing those displaced by certain western ‘superpowers’ to this country. (unless Katherine Zappone has room at hers for 4000 and the means to keep them)
KatZap sweeps them up with love. She is the closest thing to Mother Theresa we have. She is quietly building a nest egg of travel expenses to build the KatZap Centre of Love and Hope for Foreign Kids. No Irish, No dogs allowed.
We couldn’t cope with 400 to be frank, never mind 4,000. They must be dispersed and put outside Dublin and Cork, and as soon as the fighting stops in Syria, deported immediately.
@Fred Johnson: Why can’t the 14th wealthiest country in the world ” cope with 400 to be frank, never mind 4,000.” ? By any reasoning, that sounds really bizarre no?
@Neil Mcdonough:
Because Dublin and Cork are not exactly swimming in spare accommodation in case you haven’t noticed. And outside the cities there is almost no new housing being built on any sort of scale.
It’s all fine for Germany, their aging population means they have literally hundreds of thousands of empty apartments that can be used to house these people. Although at a colossal cost to the taxpayer (€30 billion per year apparently). We are not in the same situation.
Deported sounds uncharitable. Say compulsory renationalisation instead. It’s got a lefty feel to it.
@Fred Johnson: Seriously, have you actually thought it through? 14th richest country in the world can’t cope with 400 or even 4000 refugees? It’s totally bizarre and it seems people have now officially lost all sense of reality in favour of some narrative of how this small number of immigrants will be an intolerable burden to the state and a risk to the native culture. Jeeezz . . .
@Fred Johnson: not sure where you got the €30bn from – coming up with your own figures again by the look of it.
they estimate a cost of just over €3bn but that’s for 460,000 refugees.
4,000 refugees coming here would cost substantially less
@gjpb:
I’ve just broken the numbers down for you, you are hopeless.
@Fred Johnson: give me proof of the 22bn?? then show me your source for the 8bn for infrastructure, security, etc??
you continually make up nonsense statements and can’t take it that you have been called out time and time again.. you are an absolute joke.
For German taxpayers, the most expensive aspect of the crisis—coming at a cost of €24 billion between 2017 and 2020—will be to cover for the social benefits granted to migrants after they obtain asylum, This cost will nearly double from €4.2 billion in 2017 to €8.2 in 2020. This is because the government expects asylum seekers to continue coming to Germany—for instance via family reunification—and because those granted asylum are entitled to higher benefits than applicants.
The German finance ministry expects to spend €77.6 billion ($86.2 billion) over the next four years feeding, housing and training refugees as well as helping their home countries to stem the flow, according to updated budget estimates for the period from 2017 to 2020. Adding budgeted costs for the current year would bring the total to €93.6 billion between by 2020. WSJ
@Fred Johnson: show me where you got your costs from?
as I said, you have been proven incorrect now on many articles that you comment on so why would I believe more rubbish that you spout.
‘go back to where you belong’ – that just shows what a bigoted loser you are.
you have lost the argument……again :)
@gjpb:
Where i got my costs from? Is the German Federal Government an adequate enough source? They estimate the costs at €15k per migrant.
I would actually at least double that when you consider the opportunity cost of allowing these migrants to live rent free on government owned property. The government could be receiving about €15k per year in rent on the open market for each apartment (on average across Germany), instead it gets nothing from these migrants.
@Fred Johnson: post the links for all of this and the details of the migrant numbers that you talk about. provide some sort of link for the 8bn infrastructure costs that you mention also.
@Fred Johnson: earth calling fred – where are the links to backup your figures?
or have you been proven to be talking rubbish again?
its not we can’t take 4.000, we can’t take 40,000 which it will become and thats how much they always lie to us. we were there before with the ‘only this much will come’. won’t fool us 2nd time. the irish navy, a neutral force, fooled into providing a taxi service to africans to illegally emigrate and in doing so supporting human traffickers – how much is done to stamp that out? nothing. how much is done to setup up provision camps in safe zone over there? nothing. Most of them coming from that direction are not syrian and not refugees but economic migrants. then the argument shifts “but sure so what, aren’t they migrants fleeing poverty” – shifting goal posts much? forgetting those genuine refugees who need help most?
This is globalist agenda pulling the wool over your eyes. I see replies now set up to argue against those who talk about our housing crisis. Yes, the families have a roof over their heads in hotels, but what about the homeless single person? The biggest problem is these new arrivals WILL be housed before our own.
The globalist agenda is pushing hard, so much that we are now to blame for not building enough, the banks aren’t lending enough. NO, its because inward migration is fuelling the shortage. Everyone and the dog on the street knows it. So, all the business buddies, all the landlords, can’t retire happy they’ve made the moola.
To hear this hollywood actor on claire byrnes show speak with the ‘racist’ trick – he must have said it 20 times, is like listening to another hired gun, a famous one, to win over the public. “Well if he thinks it, then it must be right”. These are PR fools, they want to do good and yes I agree they need help but they don’t give a s*** about you only whats in their head and they can well afford to say it. Sick of listening to these figures dictate to what we should and shouldn’t do. Go make a film about your utopian fiction, this is the real world and most of us live in it.
@Paudi Onail:@Paudi Onail:that was an excellent statement, well said, I concur with everything you said
@Paudi Onail: Very well said.
Japan rejected 99 per cent of asylum applications last year, accepting only 27 refugees, government figures have shown. Wow! Think about it Ireland think about it.
I guess Japan isn’t obligated to do so and recent events have probably persuaded them to think long and hard. Yes. It is a closed nation, but a very safe one in regards to global standards. One to chew on. . .
@Ian McGrath: Japan is 125mln people and Ireland is 4.5mln – this mean we are approx. 28 times smaller. And it is simple to count how many refugees we should take if they took 27.
I’m all for helping people. But would it not be better to get out own house in order before inviting people over? We have a housing crisis and a homelessness problem that is only getting worse. I would think those issues should be tackled before we add to the problem.
The minister on RTE has just now said she met a woman who lost a baby on her way to Greece and she is now pregnant again. Am I mad thinking this is crazy?
The picture attached to this article is false and gives a fake impression of the situation and what is going on. 95%+ of these refugees are not women and children. They are young fit healthy fighting age males, most come from a backwards incompatible culture and simply will not integrate.
What is never mentioned is the Kalergi plan and how all of this is by design.
@John Fergus: In addition to what you have pointed out, many are not from war zones, but are economic migrants who have moved en-masse into Europe because someone spread the word that we are a soft touch and that we will happily house and feed them as well as allowing ourselves to eventually become a minority in our own country.
Don’t give in to this emotional manipulation. The majority of these migrants are unaccompanied, military age men.
Before you make up your mind on this issue, take a look at this:
That documentary was very interesting, the navy are doing an amazing job, no one can fault them there. Seems we are trying to fix the problems countries like France and Britain created in the first place by destabilising the region. Britain is a funny old place, either take a countries natural resources by force or supply it with weapons to destroy a regime that doesn’t fit it’s bill, then give out about said refugees that want to come into there country that they contributed to destroying. I’m all for helping refugees but we also need to get our own affairs in order. The worlds gone mad.
@Patrick Norton: Which countries did they destabilise my I ask ?
Surely you must be talking about all the liberal democracies in the middle East and North Africa.
With fights breaking out outside the mosque in Longford a bigger mosque will need to be built.
Longford is typical of run down poorly. serviced provincial towns where refugees are dumped and forgotten about.
Bottom line is ok. Why are irish families living in hotels rooms with no home of their own? I’m sick of reading about our “inaction” to take refugees in here but sort out our own citizens first ok and then by all means see what we can do with the poor unfortunate refugees.Im absolutely sick of this bull from do gooders and politicians. Help own on first end of story.
If we became a nation on the run would we go to Iran or turkey for asylum clearly not. We would go next door.
@seanie: Most Syrian refugees are ‘next door’ in neighbouring countries.
@seanie: We didnt go ‘next door’ during our crises in the middle of the 19th century. we went to the USA and they took us in.
STOP enough is enough STOP
Majority of persons surveyed is not the majority of Irish People
@Rsm Young: Do you have evidence to suggest that the survey was not carried out correctly?
@Tom Sullivan: Read it again…were you asked for your opinion in any poll on the matter..no!!!. So how can it be the majority of Irish people as not all the Irish people were surveyed. The sample surveyed may not represent the opinion of the actual majority there fore the result may be skewed depending on the group.
Lets take Refugees out of an oil /asset rich country…
Temporary visas is the only rational approach and only to those who flee to the nearest safe country, sick injured & orphans first…….. & no rights to citizenship regardless of reasons past or future.
Then take twice the amount with those conditions strictly adhered to……we could be world leaders on the issue.
This is the greatest humanitarian crisis since WW2 and with the Irish history of seeking a better life else where, you’d think a little more compassion and empathy might exist here.
They mostly adhere to a sick religion. Personally, I just don’t want them here. We’ve managed to break the stranglehold Catholicism had us, only to start importing these animals. They’ll be looking to mutilate our kids with female circumcisions, imprison our women and cover them head to toe in the name of Allah (the pig), before we know it. The numbers that do integrate are tiny, most just want to reinvent whatever sh it hole they came from.
@king Tut: What we are Really Discussing is this “Utter Invasion ” of our Tiny Country that is Ireland.Deliberately Bankrupted,Paralysed and Then this Invasion .Political Treason has been Inflicted on our Country .Time to Resist this Sellout of our People.But you cant say that ,under The Ban on Free Speech Act [ Incitement to Hatred Act] this Comment is deemed Racist.EU out of “Eire”.Referendum need Fast ,but hey the 158 wont Permit this.
@Pat Stapleton: Pat What’s With All The Capital Letters? I’m All For Free Speech, But Let’s At Least Attempt To Write Coherently.
Cope is such a strange word. Of course we can “cope”. We’re not going to all have a nervous breakdown with 4,000 refugees coming in.
The question should have been ‘would you be happy to welcome 4,000 refugees?’. That would be more revealing of how everyone feels.
Viral picture of a refugee with a cat and twitter can’t cope! Click here for The Daily Edge’s uncopable list for Irish Mammies.
People commenting about how we should help our own homeless first are clearly not paying attention. Homelessness has multiple factors contributing to it from state housing policy and all along the spectrum down to the inability of the persons concerned to respect what having a home means. Even during the celtic tiger there was homelessness. So cop yourselves on and just be straight up about it, that you don’t want refugees at all under any circumstances.
If course we could cope , however where are we going to house them ?
This won’t be popular based on the overwhelming opinions expressed here. I’d like to help these poor people in Syria, especially the woman and children. No one deserves to live in such terror and fear. While I appreciate Ireland has a housing/homeless problem we can still help others. Ireland has never been a perfect society we have always had our own problems however that’s never stopped us helping others before. It’s sad to see the lack of humanity displayed in some of these comments.
@NeilGoochFerriter: Neil. A lot of the opinions and ‘likes’ here are not expressed by people resident in Ireland but by trolls posting from abroad for politcial reasons or money.
Of course we could. Such bull.
@Deborah Behan:And house them where? Pay for them how?
Well they cant be housed in Dublin city centre However 4000 is not too many with extra dependents the real figure us around 20000 Lots of houses in rural Ireland Many will also want to return to Syria after the end if civil war there
@John003: Well if there are lots of houses down the country, we could move people who don’t commute to these towns. Dublin is pure chaos and housing people who don’t work there, doesn’t make sense.
Reality is, there are half built estates that need a lot of work. I’d suggest Fás train people using these ghost estates. Finish them off and provide housing for those struggling, without contributing to the nightmare in Dublin.
@Wesley Moore: You suggest the government should train apprentice builders/bricklayers/electricians/plumbers and carpenters to finish houses on nama estates that noonan has already budgetted to sell for a fraction of the going rate?To house homeless and refugees in these houses? Are ye mad? That would involve the ‘stable recovery’ brainwashed government actually doing the sensible thing.
@Deborah Behan: How many have you taken in? Should the cost of their accommodation be put on your tab?
Why are we taking people from Calais? Is it because we watch too much BBC/ Sky and think we live in England ?
Ridiculous
Deport them all. They are all economic migrants.
@Rockclimber55: Exactly. Refugees do not normally cross several safe countries in order to mass at the border of one country in particular. They want into the UK and that’s all they are willing to accept.
RTE listeners really think we can’t accommodate 520 people?!? That’s hilariously xenophobic and prejudiced. Says more about the listeners than the issue. Those 520 people will probably contribute more to our economy than the 180,000 unemployed people on benefits.
I say welcome them in.We can cope.500 is a small figure.Most will be kids and we should look after them.In time they will settle in
This isn’t about looking after the refugees it’s about looking after your own first .We have a lovely family of refugees living a block away lovely family and on the other side is a good friend of ours is waiting for a house on a list for 10 years renting a one room apartment that you would not put your dog into it. So what’s the answer House your own first .
In other news, majority of Irish people can’t do basic maths.
It is not that many people. if you put one family in every town with more than 800 people, two if there is more than 1000, 6 if more than 5000 and 100 people in each of the 5 cities, you are over the 4000.
Why is an Irish government taking in refugees without having a housing plan or budget to settle them into. They are looking to charities,church/religion and front line services to help with the influx. It’s a recipe for a disastrous outcome, if we as a nation, i.e. Government have not got the resources we should not invite them in. Rediculous.It will lead to mayhem in the coming years with disillusioned young migrants and families , bitter about how they have been received. Typical Irish bolloxoligy.
I thought she was elected to look after the children here in Ireland .Irish tax payer paying her wages.Bringing over migrants here with nothing in place for them. Are homeless Irish kids going to be bumped down the housing list to make way for these?
No fan of open borders but a planned 520…here in sweden 250,000 since 2014.ffs a bit of perspective.
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