Almost 4,000 immigrants from 115 countries granted Irish citizenship in Dublin

" ... your future is now interwoven with the future of this State, its citizens across the globe and in particular, all of us who live on this island." Such nonsense from the Minister for Justice and Minister for Equality and .... Minister for Defence whose loyalty is to Israel. Ireland sold its heart to the EU and soul to Israel. I will NEVER go back.

I see WoundedKnee has another racist git to assuage his bitter mind

@WOundedKnee, I heard one time that Shatter's real name is Shatterowski, that his people are Lithuanian Jews , so of course a fella like that would be in favour of mass immigration - into everywhere bar Israel:-)

WoundedKnee should change his name to wounded brain the little bigot

I am afraid poster Bobby is quite uninformed. The Irish government gives no special treatment to people with strong Irish family connections. Indeed I myself knew of a couple of young Irish Argentines, guys who played Irish music and knew about Irish history, who were turned away by Irish Immigration at Dublin Airport. Of course all the time these Irish-Argentines were being interrogated by the hapless Irish Immigration, countless Latvians, Laotians, Liberians, Poles, Pohnpeians and Pakis strolled right past Immigration and into the Arrivals Hall. The Irish--fools and hypocrites, they deserve all the misfortunes they are getting. We owe them nothing. They owe us.

I think at this stage we are more like the Land of a 100 Thousand (and still counting) Gobsh#tes. Before Shatter took office, there were 22, 000 awaiting citizenship; how far have we got so far with this figure..Meanwhile this Nordic country (from which i type) in 2012 plans to bring in 30,000 S-o-m-a-l-i-a-n-s to settle here. Now, you peeps please explain what all THAT is about...

Sorry simplesandy once you can prove irish ancestors wheather it's 2nd 3rd or more. Speak to the immigration office in Dublin.

@ simplesandy is it not the case that if you have irish connections you get rights to stay and work in the country? I know i have a friend of mine from NY lived in Dublin back in 1990. Her mother and father were irish and she got a stamp 4 visa that gave her the right to work and reside in ireland. And im sure that also extends to grandparents.

INorth - FG in a minority Government??? I don't think so...Check the maths; In the 31st Dáil FG have 76 seats, Labour have 37; Total for coalition = 113, needed for majority - 83. It may be a tyranny, but not of the minority...

More competitors for underfunded library facilities in Dublin and environs which I spent my working life paying taxes to fund, only to be jostled by dangerously ambitious and inherently disrespectful foreign language students young enough to be my children who haven't payed such taxes. Ethnic and racial equality often mean national inequality. Multiculturalism is a sactified euphemism for cheap labour. Immigration above 10% is cultural suicide. Fine Gael is a minority party in a minority coalition government with an even smaller minority party - a tyranny of the minority! Some democracy! Regardless of what any Irish government minister who is relieved of the ignominy of competing for scarce public resources says, the Irish unemployed classes are unlikely to accept [un]naturalised citizenry, not as long as there's a percentile disparity between 14% native unemployment and 20% immigration. (Anyone got the figures for Irish emigrants to the above mentioned countries, and how does one explain such ragged trousered philanthropy (ie giving what one doesn't have/or is not theirs to give). RTE news yesterday showed Taoiseach passing Chinese Gárda going into his palatial Merrion Square offices, a manoeuvre to endear Ireland to China for access to markets. Imagine reception Gda Ping will get on straying into mass unemployment 'working'(?) class areas of Dublin. Maybe that's why he got the PR cushy number?

jeez thats it we,re on the slippery slope to becoming a third world country!!!

Ta bron ort a chara. Get over it and buy a box of tissues Seanmor

i think you are f,,,,,,,,,,,, crazy.to screw such a little country.when you cant supply jobs for your children and they have to leave their homeland and parents, but allow mass uncontrolled eu driven saturation.crazy politics.

simplesandy: Appearently you are of the wrong race, wrong color and probably the wrong religion to be fully accepted in today's Southern Irish state, which is rapily becoming the new homeland of non-Christians from the Third World. But things could be worse for you because I'm less welcome in the Irish than are you, since I support and even speal an Ghaeilge, a language that most T.D.s riducule and reject.

The racists are out of the asylum with there leader (WoundedKnee aka George Dillon).