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NEW RESEARCH PUBLISHED today shows that close to half of the population would house a refugee for a short period.
Some 44% of Irish adults say they would willingly put up a refugee while their paperwork is being finalised, if they had a spare room, according to the Red C poll.
However, the majority of people (56%) would not be willing to accommodate someone fleeing conflict, the poll found.
Women over the age of 45 were found to be significantly more unwilling to house a refugee than other groups, with only 35% of this group saying they would do so.
The majority (51%) of people said they think Ireland’s response to the current refugee crisis is “about right”, but a similar proportion (45%) believe that the European Union should do more to assist displaced people.
Almost half (47%) of respondents feel that economic migrants strengthen the country through their talents and hard work, a view most widely held in Dublin (56%).
However, 53% believe economic migrants are a burden on society by taking jobs, housing and putting pressure on the health service.
Some 60% of people living in rural Ireland held this view.
Red C interviewed a nationally representative sample of 1010 adults across the country online between 5-10 November.
The research is part of a wider survey of adults across 14 countries in Europe.
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Is this the guy that openly admitted that he murdered policemen, Serbs, Albanians that did not cooperate, etc? The guy who had something like 18 witnesses against him, out of which 16 all of a sudden caught a terminal case of death? :)
This Hague tribunal is becoming more and more like a Muppet Show. The only difference is that real people, with real families, real victims are suffering for the past 20 years because of this bunch of Muppets playing judges.
According to Amnesty International an estimated 800 non-Albanians were allegedly abducted and murdered by members of the KLA and to date very few of those suspected of criminal responsibility for these abductions have been prosecuted in Kosovo. In this instance, most of Harandinaj and his two pals from the Kosovo Liberation Army were accused of atrocities against Serb, Albanian and Roma civilians in 1998, the majority of the murdered vicims were ironically (for those celebrating in Pristina tonight) ethnic Albanians.
I agree with you Dragutin. The Hague is a tool of the West. That man is a criminal who should be locked up. But then again, he was never going to be found guilty. The US has its biggest base our used the US on Kosovo, one of the rewards it got for supporting Kosovo independence.
Bush, Blair and a good many other Western leaders should have been tried by the Hague but they never were.
If you suggested this in Western media you would be ridiculed. They caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent through unjust sanctions abs am even more criminal war.
Agree completely, Bill Clinton is a war criminal but he gets the red carpet treatment and lived like a celebrity
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