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

St Patrick is really besides himself as pagan island is there for the taking. Who knew it would be so easy to solve the Irish poodle's missing head problem. I always thought it was the way for Merry O fix their nuiscence.

I am an American citizen who has lived in Ireland for last 6 years. and every year I have to go through loop holes to get my card renewed. I bring money into the country . but who cares right. I look at these ppl and wonder how many of them will be using the welfare system here? how many of them can support themselves? every country may as wll open up their doors and let who ever wants to come in enter. they do anyways. and I have Irish roots but they go back more than 2 generations.

Ironic that this guy Shatter is a big promoter of Mass Immigration to Ireland. He's also Ireland's biggest fan of Israel. Of course Israel has one of the most restrictive immigration systems in the world. But what's good enough for Shatter in Israel is not good enough for him in Ireland.

I hope we won't see the two posters below whining about unemployment or emigration in Ireland. As to their "arguments", they're nonsense. It's not about working or not working. If 5 million Chinese immigrated to Ireland and worked, as they probably would, would Ireland be Ireland? Of course not. The whites who moved into Minnesota and the Dakotas all worked--did that do any good for the Sioux they supplanted? The Jews who occupied Palestine all worked--that was a great benefit for the Palestinians whose lands they stole, wasn't it? Mass Immigration is fundamentally a cultural and ethnic question, though it obviously has many economic elements. The Irish will be an ethnic minority in their own ancestral homeland within a couple decades. Once that homeland is lost, there is no other--Ireland is the only national homeland of the Irish people that has ever existed, or will ever exist. Most Irish people (70%, according to the polls) don't want to lose their homeland to foreign migrants. It seems our two posters below do. They obviously have no concept of nationality or heritage; like the Irish bosses all they want are cheap worker bees for the capitalist system. American readers should do a little math: the Mass Citizenship ceremony described above --just another in what is now a series of them--gave Irish citizenship to 4000 people. That's the equivalent of about 280,000 (two hundred and eighty thousand) people getting American citizenship AT ONE SITTING, ON ONE DAY. It's utter madness.

Maybe Derwahsinn we should stop immigration until Americans get jobs. I'm sure you will wring your hands over that. Also, for the U.S. the greedy buisness owners that send jobs to China should bring those jobs here that our unemployed would love to have. Hey Ralph Lauren our garment center in New York would have loved to make the olympic uniforms, instead you sent the job to China. Do we have any customer service anymore? Oh I forgot those jobs are in India. Something in Ireland and the U.S. smells.

If they bring something positive and are here to work then they are all welcome in my eyes

Whenerver you get stories like these you always get comments like those below. If you think that these people (most of whom who are working and contributing to the economy) shouldn't be given citizenship, despite fulfilling all the requirements, because of the recession. Then, I assume that you also believe that Irish citizens living in the US (or any other country)also shouldn't be granted citizenship in their adopted countries either given that most countries have an unemployment problem.

You got that right, manhattan. And remember that the same politicans and ruling circles who gave Ireland Mass Immigration are now giving it Mass Emigration.

When so many irish men and women have to immigrate to find jobs shouldn't they be the first priority before you open the doors to people from other countries? First you take care of your own before others. Crazy.