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Anti-immigrant surge likely as Irish economy deteriorates -- Resentment of foreign doctors and workers tip of the iceberg

Posted on Monday, April 09, 2012 at 08:15 AM

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DanOLoingsigh | Apr 20, 2012, 02:49 PM EDT

ILN - A Racist would be someone who took exception to the actions of a person of ethnically different origin, where he would accept the same actions taken by 'one of his own'...no need to excuse bad behaviour from whatever source...btw is quoting Winston Churchill politically correct?

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DanOLoingsigh | Apr 20, 2012, 01:29 PM EDT

IrelandNorth - You are confusing the island and the State - the portion that became independent is now 'post - independent' - also you are confusing the borders policy of the EU - only countries that signed up to 'Schengen' operate 'Open Borders', in that no passport controls are made at border crossings. Neither UK or RoI are part of Schengen...the lack of passport controls between the two parts of Ireland (the island) derives from the CTA (Common Travel Area) agreement between them, which predates EU membership - the adoption of the Fiscal Union in 1993 meant Customs (as opposed to Immigration)frontiers were no longer needed - I do hope this helps...

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IrelandNorth | Apr 20, 2012, 06:17 AM EDT

DanOLoingsigh (DOL)! Ireland as a whole isn't independent. 'Post-independent Ireland' (sic) is therefore a Platonic terminological inexactitude. If the European Union (EU) operates an open borders policy - as Bythebay (BTB) quite rightly states, why does s/he persist in referring to a consequently non longer existent border between a 3.3 province (26 county) Republic of Ireland, and a 2.3 (6 county) neo-provincial statelet of Northern Ireland? Definition of "racism/-t" in contemporary Ireland, as coined by their new Church of Political Correctness: (a) Verb - any Irish citizen who takes exception to being hassled by a non-national private paramilitary policeman contracted by CIE/IrishRail using taxpayers money. (b) Any Irish citizen who resents being jostled by competitive foreign language students of profitable private language colleges (without library facilities?) competing for public library facilities funded by Irish tax payers. 'Racist' noun - working class person who despairs at ever being properly understood by middle-class fellow citizens/nationals seemingly incapable of understanding his socio-economic circumstances.

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DanOLoingsigh | Apr 16, 2012, 11:56 AM EDT

Countries of origin where over 10,000 resident were in Ireland at 2006 Census - China, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Nigeria, Poland , UK, USA (source Central Statistics Office Ireland 2006 Census) 2011 Census - Largest increases since 2006 Census - Romanians (up 110%), Indians (up 91%), Polish (up 83%), Lithuanians (up 40%) and Latvians (up 43%).

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DanOLoingsigh | Apr 16, 2012, 11:51 AM EDT

George – tell me how many stamps in your passport for these countries? Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Bosnia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia, Hungary…have you watched the sunset along the Khyber Pass? Drank a PIVO in Belgrade, or a beer in Amman, or a coke in Baghdad…

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DanOLoingsigh | Apr 16, 2012, 11:41 AM EDT

Black minority ethnic (BME) - A term used to describe people from minority groups, particularly those who are viewed as having suffered racism or are in the minority because of their skin colour and/or ethnicity.

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GeorgeDillon | Apr 15, 2012, 01:07 PM EDT

More abuse and nonsense from oloingsigh. "Little Irelander"? You stupid fool, I have traveled more in one year than you'll travel in a lifetime, and I have forgotten more languages than you'll ever learn. And that includes Irish, a language you hypocritically use in your ID. In fact it is you and the Mad Mass Immigrationists who are the Little Irelanders. I am always struck in Ireland by the fact that it is the people who have traveled widely, and by that I don't mean a week on the Costa del Sol or a drunken trip to an English soccer game, it is those who have traveled widely who most strongly oppose Mass Immigration. That's because they see how vulnerable a culture and small nation is to globalization. People like me don't want to see Tahiti taken over by migrants, nor Guam, nor Palestine, nor Ireland. We oppose the amorphous conformity that International Capitalism has decreed as the goal of the 21st century. You're just a stooge for big business, but I doubt if you get any of the economic benefits. Your geography rates a D minus, you seem to think that India, Pakistan, China etc are in the EU--that's why the streets of Dublin are flooded with people from such places. As to your knowledge of Irish history--give yourself a big fat F grade. WW2 ended in 1945. Mad Mass Immigration--the kind that is occurring in Ireland now--only commenced about 2000. 55 years of Irish history, and you know nothing of it. Idiot Mass Immigrationists like Olooney live in an intellectual vacuum. And how about stopping the charade of using the Gaelic ID--you want to see an amorphous globalized Ireland that will kill all vestiges of Gaelic culture. And by the way, what is BME in your cult language? Those of us outside the Mass Immigrationist cult don't understand your nonsense.

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DanOLoingsigh | Apr 14, 2012, 03:15 AM EDT

Dillon and his band of ‘Little Irelanders’ bemoan the fact that Ireland opted to join the EEC/EU, which meant signing up to a range of more liberal policies…including on immigration. Post-independent Ireland had virtually no inward immigration, save a few Nazi’s post war. Sure, a grand place to come back to for a few weeks, preserved in aspic as it was. Then, suddenly, Ireland ‘took off’. There were jobs aplenty, and naturally, others came in…most came legally…but as the country had never had much immigration before, the controls were virtually non-existent, so it was easy for some illegals to get in too. Dillon and Co. can’t differentiate between the legal, entitled many, and the illegal few…if they’re ‘not like us’ then they’re not welcome.

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DanOLoingsigh | Apr 14, 2012, 03:02 AM EDT

‘We regret that we are unable to offer ’waiting staff’ jobs to EU citizens in this restaurant. This is because most of our clientele are ‘second and third generation Irish-Americans’, who insist on being served by staff with Irish accents only. Jobs in our kitchen may be available, on the strict understanding that such staff MUST NOT engage in any conversation with our customers. We hope potential EU employees will understand our employment policies, and remember to be seen and not heard. For similar reasons, we are unable to offer any jobs whatsoever to persons of BME heritage, with or without Irish citizenship.’

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DanOLoingsigh | Apr 13, 2012, 09:03 PM EDT

Dillon, while your "principled" draft-dodging Daddy was doing the shameful and dishonest things that one must do to avoid serving his country, hundreds of thousands of - to you and your Daddy, less principled - young Americans were slogging through the jungles and rice-paddies olf Vietnam, trying to stay alive and carry out their mission as best they could. More than fifty eight thousand of these less principled young Americans died in the service of their country while your more principled draft-dodging Daddy was feeling all smug and superior to the poor grunts who went to war. But in going to war, and risking their lives day in, day out, these young men proved something important to themselves, that they could look themselves in the eye in the bathroom mirror and know that they had measured up, something that your draft-dodging Daddy could never do, nor would his son.

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GeorgeDillon | Apr 13, 2012, 11:38 AM EDT

What a disgraceful comparison by swinefood. He likens Vietnam, a country that was the victim of French and US imperialism, to Japan and Nazi Germany. Outrageous racism, but a staple from this source. As to my father, yes, I honor his memory for many things. And one of these was that he was able to think for himself. He saw that it was wrong to attack a small nation that we had no quarrel with. Years after the war had ended I can remember how he loved to sing Country Joe's great anti-war anthem: "What are we fighting for ? Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,--- Next stop is Vietnam."

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GeorgeDillon | Apr 12, 2012, 09:34 PM EDT

Dillon's rant below is standard fare, the usual epithets and insult, showing the usual lack of imagination. What is new is his remarkable - and proud - statement that his late and principled father was a draft dodger during the Vietnam War - a war in which I served as a combat infantryman, and was recently accused by Dillon of murdering women and children in that tragic misadventure. Of course there were many "principled" fellows who avoided the draft at that time - and many have come forward since to admit that they didn't care a damn about the morality of the war, they just didn't want to risk their precious lives. At the American Embassy in Dublin I was required to sign a paper agreeing to serve in the armed forces of the U.S., if called upon. In short order I was called upon. I could easily have returned to Ireland, or gone to Canada or England. I chose to stay - and was drafted. I put my life on hold for the duration, not knowing if I would ever see Ireland or my family again. Some would say that this was principle. A few might say it was brave. What Dillon says is irrelevant. He says that his father would not fight a country "he knew nothing about." Millions of young Americans fought Nazi Germany and Japan, counties they knew nothing about. Two and a half million youing Americans served in Vietnam - America's first teenage war - a country they knew nothing about. Soldiers do not have the luxury of choosing the war they will fight. In Dillon's twisted mind there are no boundaries, no sense of honor or decency or shame.

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Curitiba | Apr 12, 2012, 05:37 PM EDT

LaoiseRyan-"Awoken, get it into your thick head, there is no such place in the 1st world that is a monoculture!" Yes there is. Japan and South Korea.

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timbobdennehy | Apr 12, 2012, 03:21 PM EDT

Send the culture vultures away since,multiculturalism is so enlightening for them.they are usually well to do people. European Immigrants have only improved timekeeping and work Habits,good for employer,bad for employee.As for the asylum seekers,put them on a commerce course and ship them back over the water. I will have to get another can of boot polish in order to have my car insurance paid for me.

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timbobdennehy | Apr 12, 2012, 03:17 PM EDT

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