Chinese tourists flood to Ireland in record numbers

Do the Chinese still spit on the carpet and then politely rub it in with their foot?

The headline is partially right: The Chinese are flooding into Ireland in great numbers. The problem is that lots of them are not flooding out again. They now dominate an entire area of North City Dublin where working-class Irish communities used to exist. And the Chinese in Ireland are all supposed to be students!!! Students who will never graduate, I'd say. But there's an even worse wave underway right now. Indians. The place is overrun by them. I guess India must have joined the EU while I wasn't looking.

Sinn Fein protect the norths workers.Some of you gone down the yellow brick road it's about "TOURISM" and the mighty yuan.

Great news, wonderful peoplele, cultured and educated.Keep them coming . Now where are we going to send those narrow minded conservative west brit free staters to make room for these great productive Chinese people.To hell or to Connacht as one of their great adversaries migh say.

IT WILL PROBABLY END LIKE THE BRITS WHO HAVE LOST ABOUT 2million tourists into an already overcrowded island,50 years from now u will probably have a paddy OWong 4 president,couldnt be worse than what you have had lately,DONT BOTHER WRITING,I LIKE CHINESE,FOOD ,MUSIC AND THE PEOPLE ARE HARD WORKING AND INDUSTRIOUS..JUST MAKING A POINT ABOUT UNCONTROLLED IMIGRATION

philib04: Steady on! NI exists with the help of vast subsidies and support from Britain - who in turn gets that funding from the UK working class Taxes. Remember they are also bailing out the British Bankers as well as Northern Ireland. Just for fun, if you get a spare minute - imagine how your precious DUP/SF leadership would manage without the crate-loads of money being shipped from the Mainland! ~ Don't be so cocky! That well could dry up at any time,so it could!

This is great news, if it is true. Let's hope the jobs being created are actually going to the Irish, so we can stop the flood of our own people out of the country.

rosks304, Northern Ireland is not the problem and is doing quite well, go raibh maith agat. Northern Ireland, under the joint leadership of Sinn Fein and the DUP is working through its problems unlike the basketcase ROI. The Republic has decided to bail out its' bankers at the expense of the ROI working class. Maybe the ROI can get a loan from one of these Chinese tourists.

A plague on he naysayers,the Chinese market has huge potential and a plus for Ireland.

I wonder just how many of these Chinese "tourists" will join the approx. 50,000 other Chinese "students" or visa overstayers and join the ranks of the permanent foreign alien resident crowd? Betcha you can receive more money on Social Welfare in Ireland than you can earn working 14-hours a day/7-days a week in a Chinese sweatshop.

It's time to start posting real estate For Sale signs in Mandarin. With inflated prices.

Guys start learning Chinese. A takeover is eminent,let them have Northern Ireland,any takeover bid there would be an improvement.

Good for Ireland with the Chinese tourists. I have four distant kin visiting Ireland and NI now. My tips to them have helped with their travel plans to Ireland. Distant kin in NI are touring them about now. Hope they can get to Magheracloone in Co. Monaghan to see where their ancestor Rebecca was from. Still working on figuring out how my Magheracloone lot are related to all of folks mentioned above. We know we are related it is matter of how we are related. Irish genealogy research can be pain at times.

Time for Ireland to open English languages institutes (combined with tourist and cultural trips) for Mandarin speakers. Also add prepping for the TOEFL exam. It's about time some people in China spoke with an Irish touch rather than Canadian, US, or British. But please, make sure that clear Irish accents are spoken in these institutes.

Will the Chinese 'authorities' reciprocate with a visa waiver for Irish tourists who want to visit Tibet. Better still, will the Chinese 'authorities' collectively waive their visa as they leave that illegally occupied country quietly and offer recompense for their abuse of it/them.