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FIVE PEOPLE FOUND in a shipping container in Wexford on Sunday night have been taken to Dublin, Gardaí say.
The migrants, were discovered inside a container delivered to a Wexford transport company on Sunday evening.
The four adults and a three-year-old child were found inside an unaccompanied container which came from Cherbourg to Rosslare on the Irish Ferries Oscar Wilde ship.
The container was picked up by a haulage firm and brought to New Ross, where gardaí were contacted.
A Garda statement said:”Gardaí at New Ross are investigating the discovery of three males, one female and a minor which occurred at a transport company in Marshmeadows, New Ross, Co Wexford on Sunday at approximately 6pm.
All persons are now under the control of the Refugee Applications Commissioner.
The migrants – three men, one woman and her young girl – are believed to be Kurdish. They have told gardaí they were fleeing persecution and will be seeking asylum.
All five were in good health, gardaí say, and have been brought to Dublin, where they are being dealt with under immigration legislation. A three-year-old child was among the people found, they added.
Deportation
Last year the International Protection Act 2015 was enacted, giving An Garda Síochána increased powers of deportation.
Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald recently said, in answer to a Dáil question, that over 4,000 people were due to be deported from Ireland this year.
The 2014 Bill has also been criticised by migrant rights groups for eroded the rights to family unification.
“We need to step up our response to the humanitarian crisis, step up our resettlement scheme,” Edel McGinley of the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland told TheJournal.ie.
“When people have no alternative, they take extremely risky routes, and it’s very lucky that these five people didn’t die in the shipping container.
When we don’t have proper ways for people to access the State, for relocation, people will take risks with their lives.
“We need a lot more people on the ground, staff from the Government staff to resettle people across the country. Also, we also are not following any model of integration, when people are coming here.”
Oxygen deprivation
Last February, Gardai discovered nine men inside a container that was also delivered to New Ross.
It’s almost 15 years since eight people died in a freight container which arrived in Wexford. Two children were among those who died from oxygen deprivation in the container.
Last month, an International Refugee Council survey of European sentiment found that Ireland is the most sympathetic country towards the arrival of Syrian refugees.
Last year Ireland resettled 178 refugees, and would need to settle a total of 6,116 refugees or 1,223 annually to meet a target set by the IRC for European countries, based on GDP and population.
On 10 September 2015, the Government pledged to take up to 4,000 refugees through the Irish Refugee Protection Programme as part of the European response to the crisis.
Earlier this month, Minister Fitzgerald said that 550 refugees and asylum seekers have arrived so far in Ireland through the programme.
She added that 1,300 are scheduled to arrive in 2017, and that the Greek relocation programme is now fully operational.
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Wonder if they intended to end up in Ireland.
I have to mention this: I have it recorded, Stop Search seize is a program on tv about Irish customs. I have this episode recorded but I don’t have the wherewithal to put it on you tube.
In the episode you see a woman from Africa casually strolling up to the customs official and hand in 5 passports, herself and her four kids. This was last year 2015.
The officer says to the woman, Are these your passports? She replies NO they are fake! Casual as hell she says they are counterfeit, The officer shows the passports clearly on camera that they are bright shiny new passports. The officer says they are South African passports, how did you get into South Africa? ( a save country ) she replies I jumped, I jumped the border!
She had gone into South Africa, got a plane to Dubai, and then to Dublin with 5 Dodgy passports. There were no more questions asked except the commentator on the programme says the woman is in luck because the immigration office is open on Burgh Quay so she will be accommodated in direct provision for asylum processing Immediately!!!!!
So this is how our immigration policy works! It’s utterly amazing to me. Especially when the woman are dressed top class, the camera constantly pans on the woman’s clothing and handbag also all the kids in brand new designer clothing. I repeat amazing this was last year, so I can only surmise it’s going on today. This woman will probably give her far fetched story to immigration ( rehearsed ) and be given asylum and a house for her 4 kids and wait for the hubby to arrive!
No wonder the country is messed up. We don’t look after our own but continually look after these immigrants.
I had to publish the above, if you saw the ease that an illegal got into this country you would be speechless like myself.
Bruce Jenner an absolute legend.
That’s shocking John. Should be sent on the next flight back to Dubai .
John,
Are you proposing we send that Kurdish family back to be slaughtered by IS or Turkey or whoever? Maybe they’ll let you examine their clothes first to make sure they’re not wearing anything too fancy for your liking.
No Billy , if they have been registered in another EU country they have to return there. We must stick to the rules
John, I was looking at that programme and was laughing my head off. My wife and I and my 3 kids came back from France via Rosslare in our car in August and drove straight through customs with showing our passports. Oh and so did all the French, Dutch, German and Eastern European cars beside us.
We are so open.
@John Clark:
You are quite clearly a racist
Tony,
Isn’t it interesting that Ireland is well prepared to break the rules when the powerful and wealthy need protecting such as the Apple tax dodgers? But when ordinary people need protecting then suddenly it’s “We must stick to the rules”
Damn the rules of the elites. Let’s look after these people.
I saw that episode too. It blew me away how easy it was for her. She aid she was from Zimbabwe which isn’t at war. She could have also gone to South Africa, Namibia or Botswana which are all wealthy safe countries. Why do so many people think kurdish and the UK is the end of the rainbow??
@Billy Mooney:
Lets fill the world with flowers and balloons and bring these beautiful people here to live in Ireland. The poor people here can just get out of their houses when they can’t pay their rents and sleep on the streets and in hotels. We need to embrace diversity. #LOVE
@Billy Mooney: a huge amount of those ‘ordinary’ people are economic immigrants. why dont you and your AAA spongers go see a bleeding heart specialist
@O’Callaghan Stephen:
Do you know what your problem is?
Xenophobia. We are going to need these people here to replace our own population when the 8th amendment is repealed.
@Billy Mooney:
What exactly do these people need protection from? If living as a Kurd in Turkey is so difficult, why don’t they hop the border into Iraqi Kurdistan? Not only would it be almost culturally identical to Turkish Kurdistan but also quite safe given the sheer amount of weapons and training thrown their way by the US.
The reasons don’t add up.
I rest my case. Racist am I billy? Up yours.
J,
The homless crisis exists because the small rentier section of society gets very rich by keeping houisng as a scarece and expensive commodity. Ireland lacks none of the real resources (skilled labour, land, building materials etc) to provide everyone with a decent and affordable home. Let’s break the rules of this rotten system and build the houses that are required to meet the needs of the population.
@John Clark: You’re so confused you don’t even realise who accused you of being a racist.
Jason,
Seriously? You’re advocating bring a 3 year old into a war zone? Pitiful stuff.
@j scotus eriugena: get out of it Ive got an acute case of WallyPhobia. Theres no recovery from that ;)
The thing is Billy, that this is not a Kurdish land, and they have hopped their way from save countries top land in Ireland. If I am escaping war, and if I really have no intentions to emigrate in search of a better life (which is an economic migrant) but to just escape war and return as soon as is safe, then I’ll look for asylum in the first safe country I can land. Emergency’s can’t wait, if is a real emergency the would ask for asylum in South Africa, Morocco, Algeria, Botswana, Namibia, and if someone comes from Syria or Iraq, Then the closes safe countries are Turkey, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Armenia, Azerbayan, etc, etc.
Then they also don’t have to put up with bad weather and our infidel way of life, where women are considered equal and people like Rossanna Davison can pose naked. God help them to expose their children to our sacrilegious way of life.
@Juan Venegas: Arguing with wally is like debating with one of the hosts in westworld. He’s pre programmed with a database of leftist soundbites ;)
I hope that’s a particularly painful dose you’ve caught there Stephen. I understand that having your well programmed beliefs dismantled can be a disturbing experience but you ‘ll be the better for it in the end.
Juan,
You do understand that women are treated largely equally in Kurdish society and have a leading role in the front lines in the battle against IS?
@Billy Mooney: Sorry Billy I saw the wrong avatar that Scrotus idiot. I should have directed at him.
Again sorry Wally, I have that right anyhow.
Yes I am a bit flummoxed today but it is because of my first post on this article, I am fuming. My wife is not from this country so I hope deters anybody that call me racist. Although she has been working here solid the last 9 years.
BTW when my wife got an Irish passport last year it cost us 1300 euro in total. If she was an asylum seeker at the same initiation ceremony ( Citizen ceremony ) Its free, yes Free, check that out on the Irish official passport site…………….I could go on.
@Billy Mooney:
Only 600 women serve within the Peshmerga out of a force of up to 200,000 soldiers. Hardly playing a ‘leading role’ when they can barely fill a battalion.
As for the “bring a 3 year old into a war zone” claim, I’m sure you’re aware that Kurdish forces in Iraq and Syria have been the ones responsible for recapturing much of the territory that ISIS came to control. The original Kurdish territories before the conflict broke out are more than safe.
@John Clark: What does your wife have to do with it? Did she arrive here in a shipping container?
Jason, would you put your own child I to that situation. Don’t be a dick.
@John Clark: Stop, Search, Seize is on youtube, well quite a few episodes. It’s a 20 part series on sky, which one did you see?
@John Clark:
Well John
If you are not in favour of open borders then there is only one other thing you can be favour of.
RACISM.
Billy . The kurdish women will be treated to the sharia law boloxology that every other Muslim hell hole practices. We know this because the Kurds published a draft constitution that cements Islam at the heart of a future kurdish state. Turkey would seem like a utopia compared to what the kurds have planned.
@Paudi Onail: Season 2 episode 10 about halfway into the episode………………
Juan,
You might also realize that this isn’t Venezuelan land and yet you are Venezuelan and live in Ireland. If we were to apply the same principles to you as you want to apply to this Kurdish family then you would be deported back to Venezuela.
Or do different rules apply to you because you’re wealthy?
@John Clark: anyone who questions the lunacy is ‘quite clearly’ a racist, once more we’re told. You can have an opinion in 2016,provided you fully submit to the status quo
John Clark,
Fair enough, apology accepted. But programs like the one you described above are designed to drive a wedge between ordinary people. Don’t fall for it.
People are basically the same irrespective of where they come from. We all want to provide a decent home for our families, good food on the table, heat and light, healthcare and education for our children and to have a decent job. If people can obtain these basics then the vast majority are satisfied and will never leave their home place.
It is the brute exploitation of the capitalist system and the violence and misery that it drives which sends people searching desperately across the globe for safety and a better life.
This grossly exploitative system is preserved in large part by keeping the working class divided and fighting over the scraps so that we never look up and see who the real enemy is dining royally at our expense. That’s the real agenda behind programs like Stop Search Seize, Benefits St and a host of other poisonous bile designed to demonize outsiders and erect a siege mentality in the rest of us.
They set us at each others throats under a variety of guises including religion, nationality, gender, race, working vs unemployed, public vs private sector, etc etc etc as they understand perfectly that a united and organized working class means the end of their domination.
Well Billy, the thing is that I was honest from day 1 and I came as an economic migrant, and I didn’t come out of need, as I come from a middle class family, I came here because I liked it. I didn’t want to change a thing, only help to improve it for the better and constructively criticise what needs to be criticise for the greater cause, with democracy, freedom of speech and Western values as my flagship. I don’t want religion and state to mix and I am 100% pro women’s equality and progressive. The opposite of some Muslims. I’m not lobbying for a day off or for special status for my my kind as I don’t need special status, unlike the Clonnskeagh gang who are openly lobbying for Shariah and school segregation, my values are exactly the same as everyone else in this, my lovely Ireland. Just people brainwashed like you with a broken record copy and paste childish behaviour and tarnishing what many of us are trying to do. Trolls have no self respect, if you would, you would start by putting your picture and your real name just like mine. Everyone can see my face, my posts and my friends. I don’t hide in the shadow of a fake name probably wearing a unwashed Che Guevara T-shirtt and a North Korean flag stocked on my wall.
What you are Venegas is a laughable hypocrite. You didn’t even have the wit to know your were skating on thin ice disparaging desperate immigrants as an immigrant yourself. I’d take 10,000 Kurds into the country before a deluded twit like yourself. Our immigration control needs to be tightened up considerably to exclude self satisfied neoliberal clowns such as yourself.
Jason – Living as a Kurd on Turkey IS difficult! Most Turks regard them with utter contempt. I have a Turkish friend who refers to them as “dogs”. Yet they are the main force fighting IS.
@Peter King: It’s hardly possible. If they are Kurds they no doubt wanted to go to the one truly secure and peaceful place in Iraq – Autonomous, Iraqi Kurdistan, and ended up here because of some dreadful mistake. I presume it is some sort of joke that they are trying to claim asylum in Ireland.
@Billy Mooney:
MASS-IMMIGRATION IS A SCAM WHICH COSTS MONEY WHICH IS TRANSFERRED ONTO IRISH PEOPLE AS INCREASED COSTS ON SERVICES IRISH PEOPLE NEED AS WELL AS LESS RESOURCES.
- jobs, schooling, university places, accommodation, rental market, part-time work, hospital and health services, etc., disabled, drug rehab, hospice care, cancer care, home-help care etc.
We are already giving €630-€640MILLION A YEAR in foreign aid – do not let #OpenBorder Extremists emotionally blackmail and guilttrip you, the Irish have nothing to be guilty about, other nations do however for taking advantage of our help, aid, volunteer work in 3rd world. We owe nobody anything except ourselves now and our future descendants.
Kurds have not been under threat from ISIS for a long while now
ISIS’ retreat to Mosul brings surrounding villages back to life, reveals extensive tunnel system
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/10/14/isis-retreat-to-mosul-brings-surrounding-villages-back-to-life-reveals-extensive-tunnel-system.html
Quote from #OpenBorderExtremist AAA party Billy Mooney:
“People are basically the same irrespective of where they come from.”
So if we are all the same, why do we need to import people to have……”multiculturalism” and “diversity”
Ah the wonderful bs contradictions of the OpenBorder loons.
@Billy Mooney: Billy , you should watch tonights six o clock news on RTE, this family were not in any danger, they got in to the container in a french town in central France, the container was picked up and driven over three hours to Cherbourg, passed through two immigration points and sailed to Ireland over a further eighteen hours, now why would they expose themselves or particularly the little child to danger when they could have registered with the French authorities, this is an abuse of process.
@Honeybee:
“COME TO IRELAND. IT IS A VIRGIN COUNTRY. THERE IS PLENTY OF MONEY TO BE MADE”
A remarkable insight into the view of Ireland as a destination for foreign criminals was discovered by gardai in Dublin last year after they had arrested three Nigerian nationals, members of an organised mobile phone theft and drug smuggling organisation. The gardai checked the phones of the three arrested and on one, they found a text that had been sent to an associate back in Nigeria. It read: “Come to Ireland. It is a virgin country. There is plenty of money to be made.”
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/ireland-its-a-great-country-for-a-criminal-29260026.html
Lose the naivety and wanting to the approval-seeking, by all means be polite and nice to your fellow man, but do not be taken as a mug or treated as a doormat by anyone in life, this includes our right to our own country, there are better and more sustainable ways to help other nations less well off. The #OpenBorderExtremists are not only damaging our country but also poorer countries.
Return to sender, fine the shipping company
Port authorities in France should be fined
Or be kind, take them in and give them food and shelter.
@I Am A Horse:
Do you have space in your gaf?
@Paul: Fined by who for what?
I Am A Horse: yeah offer them food and shelter, even throw in some water and cigarettes, then send them on their way.
@I Am A Horse: Indeed. And then, when they are medically certified fit to travel, they should be put on an aeroplane to safe, secure, Autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan where they will be in far less danger than in many parts of our wonderful capital city.
So many safe countries passed through before Ireland. I’d deport them back to France.
Return to point if origin .simple as that
Deport them now ! No right of asylum, since they have come from France.
This is not the asylum system envisioned back in 1951. There are 65 million displaced people in the world and probably billions with a valid claim to asylum. By default, we ration access according to one criteria: whether or not you can get to Europe. Those who can are by definition not the most persecuted, poorest, most vulnerable, most in need of asylum. Our system is insane and unethical and it needs reform, yesterday.
@Marlowemallow:
As said since beginning of this capitalist mass-immigration cheap-labour scam, the most desperate are left scrambling and dying in the mud in Africa and Asia while the chancers and worst elements step on them and make it to Europe.
Not to mention it is not sustainable, eventually western countries will become as poor as some places in Africa and will no longer be able to help Africa. Interesting to see how the OpenBorderExtremist far-left are in bed with the OpenBorderExtremist Far-right on this.
@stevenocarroll: That’s right. There are girls in Africa who’ve been married off to some old man, gave birth, suffered from fistulas (tmi for anyone not familiar with childbirth – that means a fourth degree tear and double incontinence) and are now cast out to live on the edge of society. Those girls will never leave their village, let alone make their way to Ireland. Their rapist ‘husbands’, on the other hand, no problem. And the open borders extremists have the arrogance to claim the high moral ground.
@Billy Mooney: This may come as a shock to you open borders nuts, but sometimes,even people with slightly darker skin lie. You hide your open border aims under the cover of humanitarianism. It’s an abuse of the entire concept of refuge. And you do it because you know perfectly well that you cant win an argument for open borders on its own merits, so you use emotional manipulation about asylum instead.
We reject 94% of asylum requests. Nobody thinks people with dark skin don’t lie.
With that rate it’s clear they can spot the genuine refugees from the economic migrants. We also bar asylum seekers from work and welfare. What more would you suggest?
@Marlowemallow: That is why we have officials and a process in place to deal with them case by case and make a decision. It wouldn’t work to leave it up to the commentors of the Journal to decide who is a genuine asylum seeker and who isn’t.
@Niamh Kenneally: Does that process work?
Stick them on the first container back.
I didn’t think so many people would agree with me.no lads sorry back on the truck and go back where ye came from, we have a homeless crisis here sorry about that.
imagine leaving the country of paris nice monte Carlos to live in blancherstown
I dont Dublin to end up like london.. We are small country with limited resources…
Best of luck to them if they can stay in ireland after that horrible journey
They chose to go inside a cramped shipping container with limited air to get to Ireland to escape the dreadful horrors of the war in France?
Opportunistic illegal economic migrants, return to sender.
@John Byrne: France? They’re Kurdish.
Just like the Irish chose to go on coffin ships? Nothing to do with anything going on at home? Well, I tell you what – those who did choose the coffin ships left behind a country of small-minded peasants.
@Niamh Kenneally:
If they have such an issue with Turkey then why are they seeking asylum in Ireland after travelling through numerous safe countries?
@Jason Culligan: I don’t know, I haven’t had the chance to ask them.
Maybe because they were locked in a f*cking shipping container and not driving it through Europe themselves.
Maybe the issue with Turkey is the over-crowded and dangerous refugee camps they’d be stuck in for possibly years.
Would you or I stop in Turkey? Like hell we would.
@Niamh Kenneally:
They ARE Turkish Niamh, which point of that did you miss?
They’re already from a relatively safe country. They’re leaving Turkey because they’re not happy with the treatment of Kurds there and, rather than leaving to join people from an identical cultural background in Iraqi Kurdistan, they decided to hop on the European gravy train.
@Jason Culligan: Sorry, is there some invisible ink you can read in the article that I can’t see? ‘They are believed to be Kurds’.
That’s all it says about their origin. This..”They’re leaving Turkey because they’re not happy with the treatment of Kurds there and, rather than leaving to join people from an identical cultural background in Iraqi Kurdistan, they decided to hop on the European gravy train.” is all your own conjecture. You don’t know anything we don’t. They will be dealt with the proper way and if they are falsely claiming asylum they’ll be deported. What’s the issue?
Jason, you think seriously think that northern Iraq or south east Turkey is a safe place right now? Take a vacation there and send us the photos and then we might believe you would seriously consider bringing a 3 year old there. I’m looking at my 3 year old right now and I can tell you I’d move heaven and earth rather than let her be sent to a place like that.
@Niamh Kenneally: Indeed, Niamh. Once they are medically fit to travel they will, no doubt, want to return to safe, secure, Autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan rather than be returned to safe, secure, France under the Dublin Agreement.
@dangermouse:
Best of luck to them if Dangermouse is going to put them up and feed them.
@John Byrne: thats the response of someone who deserves no more empathy then a dead rat !
Can understand. Kurds get a bad time and are heavily oppressed by the turks
Yep, thats true. But 9/10 alleged “Kurds” are actually Afganis or Turks.
How do you know, Brent?
@Lorem Ipsum: A family member was married to a Turk who had claimed he was Kurdish originally. Turns out he was from Alanya, and already had a wife and two kids there.
Thankfully the family member secured an annulment. We had do statements with the Gardai who told us “9 our 10 so-called Kurds are actually Turks or Afghans”
@O’Callaghan Stephen: But not in Autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan – which is where they appear to be from. In any case, they came here from safe, secure France, and under the Dublin Agreement, France is where they will be returned to if they still wish to pursue a claim for asylum.
@O’Callaghan Stephen:
We still have a right to our own exclusive territory.
The best way to help other nations, is to support their right to their own exclusive territory too, not to take in the world, because it is not sustainable and leads to the country less able to look after its own people and therefore less able to help other nations.
dont worry —sure we will give them a nice new home & plenty of cash .. welcome migrants
@Ryan Carrol: Observe peoples reaction to their claim to be Kurdish. Idiot open border lefties like Billy do assume they’re telling the truth. In fact, they are of unknown identity, ages, origin and criminal records. Because they either destroy their ID papers or have false ones.
If people really grasped that darker skinned people can lie, Germany would have taken for granted that some jihadists would lie,claim to be refugees, then torture some people in the Bataclan. Ireland should not admit entry to anyone whose real identity, age, background and country of origin are unknown and unascertainable.
War criminals, genocide participants and people with serious criminal backgrounds are not entitled to asylum even under our 1950s legislation. Back in the real world of 2016, that determination needs to be made before we permit entry, not afterwards. Afterwards kind of defeats the entire purpose of that exemption.
Not least because deportation of unidentifiable,unlocatable people coming from failed states or states that refuse to accept them back, is a joke. Refusal of asylum stats are meaningless in the context of the failure of deportation.
Love the way people accuse people of being racist but those people are right our borders are way to easy to get through this is always benefitting sex traffickers and the mail order bride let alone all the counter feit product that we purchase and give to our kids which can have very bad outcome such as pharmaceuticals cigarettes alcohol etc and of course what actually going on is were letting all these people claiming asylum and not getting to the people who actually are escaping genocide of war struck countries
Defenitely not pro open borders..but 178 refugees last year..FFS. Here in sweden,the opposite end of the twilight zone..163,000 last year,80,000 the year before and 50,000 this year even with major crackdowns.
@Raymond Power:
If Sweden wants to commit economic and social suicide, that’s their choice. Ireland shouldn’t be obliged to take in anyone from a conflict thousands of kilometres away.
Jason as pointed out I am not opposed to your point,but my point is even the procentages of genuine Syrian refugees runs in to the tens of thousands in sweden.ireland took in thousands of Vietnamese boat people in the seventies after all…the irish figures are striking for a western nation.
Raymond Power: that’s Swedens choice, if they want to destroy their country fair enough
Have already responded to jason pointing that out..see above.
@Raymond Power:
Again Raymond, taking so many Syrian refugees in the first place was a choice that Sweden was not obliged to make. Just because Sweden decided to take in significant numbers of people from a conflict far removed does not mean Ireland has to do the same.
Using previous acts of generosity is also pretty unfair. It sounds as if you’re insinuating that those who are generous once are obliged to be generous again.
We have taken in 400 refugees so far this year thats officially from Enda & Co. They are proposed to be only Syrians.
Illegal asylum seekers or economic Immigrants like the lady above I wrote about from Zimbabwe which is NOT WAR TORN are in their thousands each year. But we take care of them all, and house them in proper housing free of charge for the rest of their hand out life.. These people do not on the whole contribute to Ireland whatsoever while they make phone calls to their continent to get their mates and family in also, can’t really blame them, our society is so messed up. We will have to pay the piper in the end though, that you can bet on.
Raymond Power: you didn’t really, you just said because Sweden want to destroy their country ireland should do the same
@Ian O Connell: No, he didn’t say that at all. He was pointing out that the tiny numbers we have compared to Sweden make it laughable that the meatheads are making out that we’re overrun.
@Raymond Power: 178 taken in through controlled means, how many have come in like this? you can bets 100s more than 178. by year you be talking thousands. theres estimated 30,000 here illegal already. thats a shocking figure and many even working!
Niamh kenneally: how many would you allow in? 5000? 20,000? 50,000? 1million? 2 million?
How many 3 year olds would you leave in a warzone? 1? 5,000? 5 million?
You see Niamh, we’ve taken in 178 refugees but the person replying to you can only count to ten (or twenty if they take their socks off), so as far as they’re concerned we’ve taken in an infinite number.
@Raymond Power Sweden will end up the tip of Europe . Liberals ruinning the country and stupid as f£ck . https://www.thelocal.se/20161016/islamic-state-flag-is-legal-in-sweden-prosecutor-rules
@Raymond Power:
and how many asylum seekers and eastern European immigrants have we had since the 90′s, nearly 20% of our population is now non-Irish. It is a fundamental human right for any ethnicity to protect its ancestral exclusive territory for its descendants. This is part of the conditions against genocide and which the UN convention of genocide stipulates.
Five people came into New Ross in the container, but there’ll be a lot more than five people trying to smuggle themselves out, if the container is left unlocked for any length of time.
Give them a tent and send them to Dundalk.
Cead mile failte
I thought this was the Daily Mail comments section for a moment ..
Seriously though.If you and yours were living in a war zone mostly created by Western ‘democracy’,and you were given the chance to escape, would you prefer to live in a tent in a muddy field in France,or would you try your utmost to get to a country which is perceived worldwide as friendly & welcoming,one in which may give you the chance to make a better life for your family?
I know which one every person on here would go with.
@stewie: Well said stewie bring them in, bring them all in sure there is plenty of room and housing!!!!!!!!!!!
and they contribute to society so much.
You absolute dope.
@stewie:
Or they could just, you know, travel to Kurdish territory in Iraq or Syria where they would not only be closer to people more culturally and linguistically similar to them but also safe from Turkish oppression.
@stewie: I know. I don’t know why I read the comments here at all; we are a nation of ignoramuses.
@Jason Culligan: It’s almost like you forgot those are war zones or that Turks are not the only oppressors out there. (hint. IS)
@Niamh Kenneally:
It’s almost as if you forgot that Kurdish forces have been steadily pushing ISIS back for years now. Did you miss the news that Iraqi Kurds have grown the territory under their direct control by over 40% since 2014?
The 3 year old will no doubt be delighted at the progress against ISIS.
@Niamh Kenneally:
another #OpenBorderExtremist virtue-signaller, more worried about her image and what status she can garner professing her multicult credentials to all and sundry, you know Niamh any other era and you would have been first in line to scream burn the witch or the main window squinter in Catholic unspiritual Ireland. But here you are with your pious devotion and zealous fanatacism for your new religion of multicult and its dogma of mass-immigration. Awymen
My neighbour has 3 children. Her husband lives in Africa with another wife and family. He visits Ireland for 3 weeks each year. He also visits his other wife in France for several weeks each year. A lot of these people are different to us and have different values to us. We can accept or reject other peoples cultures and ways of living.
Stick a stamp in them and send em’ home!
IM so disappointed at the amount of backward thinking, numb-mindless, begrugging people on Journal,,,
These are “people” who have traveled from their own country under fear of death in most cases and left all their world behind,, lost relatives into filthy refugee camps where people live day to day and most have their seen death of close family members through war and criminality,,, where all we have to worry about is what stupid TV program pissed you off ,, or the choice of 161/171 car yoru gearing UP TO FLAUNT , or the price of drink ,, or some infantile minute financial worry you impose upon yourself because yoru all like sheep, hypnotized by the media !!!
Grow the F**K up people ,,, !!!
The mother should be arrested for child abuse
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