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IRELAND CONTRIBUTED ALMOST €65o million in Official Development Assistance (ODA) last year, according to the Irish Aid Annual Report 2015 which was released today.
Among the causes that the money was allocated to, were the Ebola recovery plan in Sierra Leone; improving maternal health services in Mozambique; and providing fuel-efficient stoves to Malawi as part of global climate change efforts.
Of the total €647.51 million that was allocated to international development, €142 million, or over 20%, was spent on emergency humanitarian support in conflict and natural disaster situations.
The top five recipient countries of humanitarian support in 2015 were Syria, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia and Central Africa Republic.
Commenting on the work of Irish Aid, Minister for the Diaspora and International Development, Joe McHugh said that this year “was a year that was once more marked by appalling levels of human suffering as a result of conflict and natural disasters”.
He added:
Irish Aid allocated €142 million which was used to provide shelter, food and essential services to thousands of communities across the world.
The Irish Aid Annual Report 2015 also says that Ireland contributed to the successful peace negotiations in Colombia; human rights issues in South America, and achieving a 100% retention rate for girls in education in specific areas of Afghanistan.
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The UK hold a referendum and abide by it’s result. It’s Prime minister resigns because of an unkept promise. Then some here have the audacity to knock them with our record in such things.
Our guys simply repeat the vote no one resigns, its a wake up day for Europe and Ireland.
The hep c scandal alone should have shamed our lot but no not a thing
She may have had a point as although Scotland is a country, but not an independent country.
Not for much longer Chewy.
Its only a matter to time before Scotland goes, the union is on the verge of breakup.
There is an unelected cabal in Brussels called the org:
A “Faceless ‘’ soulless, ruthless, nebula of dark heavy
Energy.
It issues rules, injunctions and political decrees, to those
Fearful of a bite from a faceless mouth that never shuts;
It spew hot air at the world and cold invective at those it
Refuses to acknowledge as classless and free.
There is an entity in Brussels representing less than =.1%
Of the global population, telling you to do the bidding of
The machines they control.
A couple of hundred years ago they invaded the Castle of
Dark mothers in Belgium, installed there since, they’ve not
Been idle.
Producing remorseless hungry beasts with impaling horns
And gnashing teeth, in faceless mouths that bite the hands
that feed them.
It has endless corridors, countless rooms with numerous
names and numbers defying calculation manipulated by
machines
Working on auto pilot night and day for the laggard’s in
Control of destiny.
Delighted!
A vote that took courage, going into the unknown.
The easy vote was to remain.
We should follow along with Denmark.
#change
It certainly takes courage to throw your economy, union and prime minister off a cliff. Doesn’t make it a smart decision.
The vote was dictated by the oldest, most nationalist and least educated. That doesn’t sound like a pathway to prosperity to me.
Agree Lilly. Regardless of short term economic effects on share holders and currency speculators, this is a great day for working people of Britain. Well done UK!
Actually it was the working class that came out and swayed the vote!!!
Working people of Britain?? I WORK. My colleagues work. Where are we going to get money for research? There IS no money now! Already things are slowing down. We’ve received the staff email. The idiocy knows no end.
What staff email?
A couple of hours in? Talk about a knee jerk reaction. At a minimum it will take 2 years for the UK to cut all ties with the EU and finally be free. A minimum…
Could be more, Denmark has itchy toes and is ready to run, I hear Sweden might go too. Switzerland is ready to help the UK if needs be.
Ireland would collapse Lily, stop with the ultra nationalist nonsense now. You want your country to kill itself? Fine.
@Titus. maybe you’re sense of entitlement was part of the problem. You want to know where you get money for research. Do you not realise how that even sounds? All you seem to be worried about is your job which seems to be there because tax payers fund it.
Fck my job, do you want science to stop? Do you have any idea what science brings to an economy. Obviously not with that idiotic comment.
And it’s a bit rich to talk about personal reasons in voting considering working class UK voted to protect THEIR jobs.
@Titus
You know nothing about me so don’t make a bigger fool of yourself assuming something you know nothing about.
Ill answer your question, yes, I do know the value of research. I work in a tech sector.
And “THEIR” jobs are is just as important to them as yours is to you. But you seem to have a superiority complex as a researcher who does not see that.
Oh so my comment gives you enough insight in to my character and “superiority complex” but I can infer nothing from yours, is that how this works?
So if THEIR jobs are important to them and they vote accordingly how is that somehow different to me?
Genuinely interested to see what profundity lies in your next comment.
Immigration was the deal breaker!, Boris is a happy man this morning…..
Not immigration per se but Islamic immigration, I bet if you ask anyone who voted out because of immigration I bet the first word that comes out of their mouth would be “ISLAM”?.
A misogynistic, homophobic, grievance mongering fascist ideology!.
Geldof and his mob of luuvies giving two fingers to a bunch of poor fishermen from his yacht on the Thames could be the defining image of the Bremain campaign.
The EU were already given the oppertunity to agree a separate deal with the UK on borders and immigration. They sent Cameron packing back to London with some Mickey Mouse gestures that weren’t good enough. They called the UK’s bluff and now they have spoken. This is democracy at work.
The EU will not change Islamic immigration in any measurable sense as the EU has nothing to do with it !
I am not arguing for or against immigration but the fact is that huge portions of British society have had issues with the topic
The vast majority of Muslim immigration into Britain originates in Nigeria ,Pakistan, India and Bangladesh – not any EU country (but ex-colonies). The quantity of Syrians and Afghans making it into Britain is tiny in comparison.
If a citizen from these countries is illegally there today they are there illegally full stop, it has nothing to do with the EU ! !
The topic of so called “Islamification of Britain” (if there is such a thing) is to do with their own historical legacy not Europe. If thats why they voted to leave they were duped, as Brexit doesn’t change this.
Tommy Tiernan put it best “Britain is famous for going out and conquering the world…….Then getting upset when those people follow them home”
“A misogynistic, homophobic, grievance mongering fascist ideology”
You could literally be talking about ANY religion right there!!
Come off it Gavin stop making excuses Islam is the most oppressive religion on this planet!.
Tommy Tiernan certainly did not ‘put it best’. Tommy Tiernan as per usual was in search of low hanging fruit.
This vote came down to a lot more than the so-called Islamification of Europe.
Was replying to William Boyd’s comment (which I whole-heartily disagree with)
“I bet if you ask anyone who voted out because of immigration I bet the first word that comes out of their mouth would be “ISLAM”?”
@WilliamBoyd
No. Not just islamic Immigration, all of it. People are pi***d off being a stranger in their own country and not feeling at home in their own home country. They are p****d at all immigration whether it be islamic, east European, African, Chinese or middle-eastern, this is Europe, this is our home and we are sick of leaving the front and back door wide open and our home being taken from us.
Steve I could happily live with any immigrant bar that sick religion Islam
again: You could be talking about any religion there!!
I worked in Bromley, south London, on 2006. A girl in the office didn’t know Scotland was a country. She was going out with a Scottish guy and she didn’t realise until they were driving rotech meet his parents and she saw the sign ‘Welcome to Scotland’. I was later on Manchester and I was taking to a girl and I mentioned I was thinking of going traveling around Europe. She said “where is Europe?”. You are up against it when people like that have a vote.
Yep. I have a mate who worked with a girl who thought the sun and the moon were the same thing. She gets a vote.
True story.
I knew a girl from Coolock who thought that milk came from supermarkets – and didn’t know of cows’ involvement…
Same mate was getting a lift home one evening from work and that same girl was in the car too. Driving past Fairview park they noticed a couple of lads messing and throwing fruit at each other. My mate said what are they tomatoes? And she replied saying “no, I think they’re Polish.”
I knew a girl from Tallaght who voted for Paul Murphy. You are up against it when people like that have a vote.
Idiots
Fear and idiots. Now we have the worst market crash in decades. If only someone had predicted this…
They’ll pay the price, lots of opportunities in this for us as now we’re the leading English speaking market in the EU. Perhaps this’ll be the start of a brighter tomorrow for Scotland and Northern Ireland as well.
You feel for the sensible English folk for the times that lie ahead, they’re certainly not in the majority.
No matter what the consequences of this result are does this not show the pure selfishness of politicians? Cameron promised this referendum purely for personal gain with the goal of gaining power at any cost to the British people.
Banks down up to 35%. Pound at a 31 year low, Footse 100 down 8.7%. This is what happens when you do not listen to experts. It isn’t rocket science. Stupid people. We’re all going to suffer for your ignorance and in many cases, out and out racism.
I’m pretty sure the same would be said about us if our decision to leave the UK was today rather than in the 1910′s. Sometimes political and social freedom is more important than the value of shares.
Someone had to use the racism!
Perhaps they are sick to death of being bullied by the EU. Taking their sovereignty away but by bit.
Sorry, how much does independence buy again? What’s the going rate?
It was racism ffs!!! Fighting against imaginary brown people. The markets have crashed!! What else do you need!?
Well independence inevitably bought us one of the wealthiest economies in the world, even if it was mismanaged, while the North is still struggling to catch up with even some Eastern European countries.
The UK is the 4th largest economy in the world and it was a major player even before entering the EU. It will weather the storm and eventually recover like almost every economy does. Sometimes having the right to decide your own path and not giving power to bureaucrats who disrespect democracy is more important than short-term economic performance.
To be treated like a human rather then a consumer
Sorry, 5th Jason. Because that’s dropped too. I could have sworn we had European elections. It’s not some enigma we have no hand in. Look, the expert consensus was this would be horrendous. And it is. And even the Leavers have had the balls to begin to admit this was worse than imagined. To be frank, nationalism and independence isn’t worth piss. This is a ploy by rich elites to manipulate the working class. A hint for the future, free of charge: if the elite are raising get the poor in a rebellion it isn’t a rebellion. If it was the rich would have already run to the hills.
The vote is against being told what to do by the unelected fat cats in Brussels.
Lots of opportunities in this if we had leaders with vision. Alas we have Kenny who simply follows British lead and has spoke of the horror of a Brexit.
England’s difficulty is Ireland’s opportunity.
It was democracy at work. Calling an electorate idiots because you dont’ agree with a vote is quite ignorant.
It is a momentous day. No one really knows what will happen, even the Brexiters seem a little surprised and confused.
The saying “Be careful what you wish for” may come back to bite them.
No – the 5th largest. After the US, China, Japan and Germany.
Well said Gerry !
Eirexit vote now please ?
Titus, you’re right that there are European elections. Let me ask you this though, can you name more than 10 MEP’s without googling them? Do you even know what they’re discussing on a daily basis?
That’s before we touch on what the EU has done to Italy and Greece. An elected politician (granted a bad one) replaced by a European bureaucrat and ex-banker in Italy and Greece literally having economic law dictated to them by the EU (look up the forced employment regulator that the EU will ‘supervise’ complete with new rules that the EU is forcing on Greece). The EU doesn’t give a rats about anyone’s rights.
@Nosmo – what are you on about? He has forfeited any power that he had as a result of this referendum.
@Jason. What’s the reaction in the Netherlands? I read somewhere a few weeks ago that there was talk of an exit there too.
The Nederlands, France Denmark and maybe even Italy. This is far from finished, and who really wants an EU under German hegemony, which is what we have right now ?
Ignorant? You for real? If you think the decision of the electorate was idiotic then you are quite entitled to express that. Just like you have the right to say that it’s momentous. As long as the British politicians don’t ignore the will of the people like FF did here and make them vote again then you can say whatever you want
doesnotcompute, he used the promise of an EU referendum to win an election purely to gain power in the short term and had to follow it up with today’s fiasco. Purely selfish to the extreme. Came back to bite him in the ass. He will go down as the worst Prime Minister in British history when this period is written.
Scotland voted to stay. Wonder if what another vote for independence would be like now and they could rejoin the EU?
Do you not remember, Scotland was already told 2 years ago by both EU/ECB and Dave Cameron that they would not allowed be members of the EU if they voted for independence?
That’s before this vote. I’m sure a this will change the political landscape.
They weren’t expressly forbidden they were warned that they’d have to reapply to join the Eu as a different nation to the UK
Supposed Scottish nationalists voting to enter the EU, you couldn’t make it up.
Supposed Irish nationalist in Northern Ireland voting to remain in the Eu couldn’t make it up.
Supposed Irish nationalist in Northern Ireland voting to remain in the Eu couldn’t make it up.
Sorry, Ruadhán, but that’s not true. Scotland, at the time, was told it could not simply become independent and remain within the EU. They were told that they would have to re-apply like everyone else. That’s not the same as never being allowed in, as you say. Scotland could, if it wanted to, secede from the UK and apply to join the EU. I wouldn’t see any reason for the EU to refuse its membership application.
All I’m wondering is what the EU is going to do about all the illegal British immigrants working throughout Europe illegally without visas…
Europe should have been more generous to British over immigration They gave Cameron nothing to bring to the voters to limit immigration from EU
The exit will take another 2-4 years depending on the negotiations. For the time being those British residents outside of the UK are safe.
As are Europeans in the UK!
Exactly John. The EU is unreformable. Even a powerful country like the UK was unable to extract any concessions from Brussels. What hope is there for minnows like us?
Sometimes the only way to reform something is to tear it down and start again.
I think that the EU may just be open to reform now. Before today the EU saw a Brexit as nothing more than bluster from Cameron to get a slightly better deal from them. I don’t think any bureaucrat in Brussels genuinely thought that a country would dare to leave the EU, let alone the 2nd largest market.
The only ones to blame on this are the EU. You only need to look at their handling of the Euro crisis and how quick they have been to throw democracy and common sense out the window to protect a fundamentally flawed currency to see why the UK is leaving.
Hopefully some deal will be done to secure visas for those already abroad.
Yep. I’m one of them
Everybody is scare mongering. Fairplay to the UK telling The EU were to go. The EU was showing cracks , now its going to start tumbling.
My thoughts exactly, this reminds me of the Y2K and the scaremongering. When the United Kingdom joined the EU they kept their currency and the world didn’t collapse. We have had sterling and the punt for decades.
Who would have thought that sneering at the underclasses would end badly?
Actually John Mann told the BBC that Labour had shot itself in the foot by ignoring its core vote in not talking about nevermind tackling high levels of immigration.
When presented with this on the doorstep, Labour activists told their own electorate to shut up and stop being extremists, xenophobes and racists.
Well now it’s come back to bite them on the ass.
And still Corbyn and co refuse to engage with their voters. No wonder UKIP are targeting them.
Labour will see more constituency losses come 2020 if they don’t listen to their core vote and respond accordingly.
Brits Out has a new meaning
The economic consequences have yet to play out and that will take years. Nobody can call it so who knows in the resulting EU shake up that 2% might have just done you a huge favour long term. Far too soon to be judging them as idiots. One thing is for sure this lets vote again until we get the right answer craic won’t fly in Britain the way it did here. Don’t forget how the Irish people were hoodwinked in the past.
A lot of people saying Ireland is now the largest English speaking market in the EU now. Is that really true? There are about 8.2 million in Sweden who speak English. About 92% of their population. And from my experiences of visiting the country and dealing with them in work they speak it rather well.
Stop the world and let me off.
Hate wins.
Working class are uneducated and capricious when they vote against the establishment’s dictat but are told how sensible and full of good judgement they are when they do as they’re told, meaning voting against their and their families interests.
Indeed, why should such people have a vote?
Jeremy Kyle land
Could this be the start of the demise of the European Union??
No.
-doesnotcompute, wouldn’t be so sure…..
15% wiped off the value of my pension. Thank you Britain. :(
Condolences Peter, you should have put it in to property. Never fails !!
It might if we have a lower GDP no panic!!!!!
Peter… sure if your not drawing done on it today nt to worry.. Much ado about nothing really
Disgraceful scenes with Boris Johnson leaving his house from the ‘remain’ side
Perhaps now is the time to redraw the Border with Northern Ireland. The Brexit result shows that the parts of Northern Ireland that want to leave the EU approximate (and by implication to remain with Britain) to the Unionist majority areas and the parts that want to remain in the EU approximate to the Nationalist majority areas (which by implication want to join the Republic of Ireland). It is the Border that the Boundary Commission should have determined upon in 1925. The paradox is that the British would be only too happy to have Northern Ireland exit the UK. In effect the Unionists are up the creek without a paddle. The worst of all worlds. The Nationalists need only bide their time. The biggest obstacle to a Unified Ireland will be the reluctance of the Southern Ireland Government to take in the millstone financially that is Northern Ireland. Perhaps a federal state can emerge with Provincial Devolved Governments in Ulster, Connacht, Munster and Leinster with the State Parliament in Dublin. The Queen must be mortified at the outcome of this referendum. Her only truly loyal subjects are the Unionists of Northern Ireland. She can only parrot what her government instructs her to say. Interesting times ahead.
I have a lot of family in England will they have to apply for a visa?
MasterCard will do.
Eventually, but not for another 2 years at least. Things like this mean that the exit process will take a very long time to agree upon as there’s a lot of European and British expats and capital to discuss.
@Alice SImms
Irish citizens living in the UK have automatic right of abode, so they can’t be deported nor are they subject to immigration controls, unlike other non-Irish EU citizens living in the UK. Essentially they have the same rights as a British Citizen living in the UK.
So no, they will not need a visa.
Thank you can only imagine the administrative backlog that’s going to happen now.
This is the fundamental with democracy in ways… An educated man has an equal vote as the scrounger in a council flat; ridiculous!…
Not to worry, it’ll be like the Nice Treaty, they will vote again and again until the result is to remain.
How many remember voting on 2 referendum regarding the EU and we had too vote twice on each basically until we gave the right result
In fairness, the real financial implications to the pound and wider economy will only be known in about 18 months(when the new reality sets in) and then about 5 years after leaving (another new reality)
Using the first 3 hours of trading as any “proof” whatsoever is pointless
This is not good news for us – our biggest trading partner leaving the club. The UK’s business will now point in new directions.
Your point doesn’t make any sense. Our largest trade partner in terms of trade surplus is the US where we have a $15 billion annual surplus. We run a $10 billion trade deficit with the UK every year. It’s in the UK’s best interest to keep trading with us.
Besides many of their trade partners already are outside of the EU and subject to taxes and tariffs. All that will happen is that prices in both countries on certain goods will go up and be slightly harder to import, not exactly a doomsday scenario.
Jason – remember you got your facts wrong yesterday too! In terms of import and export figures (combined), the UK is our largest trading partner. Easy verified on google.
Import/export combined yes, but remember that imports generate a net loss for your economy while exports generate a net profit. It’s always important for a country to export more than it imports which is basic economics.
We make a net loss every year in our trade with the UK while we make a substantial net gain with the US.
Damn it ,should of changed my sterling to euros for hols to France another gamble I have lost. Seriously though I am gutted As an Irishman living in Scotland that we are been forced out against our will,I know so many Scots who voted to remain in the uk last year as we were told we would not be able to rejoin eu if we voted for independence . Will be interesting to see scots independence polls in the coming weeks.
The liberal press choking on their own bile this morning.
Be afraid be very afraid of Farage.
Already the lies spun by Boris Johnson in particular are being confirmed as ‘mistakes’ by the Leave side as they are being challenged on them…scary that Boris is now the PM in waiting…proven the man would say anything to steer his agenda
A growing movement of ignorant ill informed voters,that has spread across the waters from the US to the UK,
where to next?
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