In Ireland, Out-of-Control Immigration is Wreaking Havoc
Apr 1, 2025 10:00 am
By Hugh Fitzgerald
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The soaring immigration in Ireland is wreaking havoc in the country. It is destroying the sense of wellbeing, costing the state a fortune in benefits, arousing resentment especially among the Irish poor, who are suffering the most from the government’s mad policy of favoring — in housing, health, and transport — the mainly Muslim economic immigrants who arrive, posing as asylum seekers. Ireland has been the most anti-Israel country in the EU, but now it is suffering from an influx precisely of the same people — Muslims — who threaten the Jewish state’s existence. More on the rising tide of anti-immigration sentiment in Ireland can be found here: “‘We’re being taken for fools’: How soaring migration came back to bite Ireland’s political elite,” by Michael Murphy, Telegraph, March 30, 2025:
…Ireland’s government has, in recent years, advertised the country as a lucrative destination for refugees. In 2021, then-minister for equality and integration, Roderic O’Gorman, issued a series of tweets – published in Arabic, Albanian, Somali, Urdu and French – pledging that new arrivals would receive “own-door” accommodation within months.
The message travelled. The following year, non-Ukrainian asylum claims in Ireland surged by 400 per cent. They arrived amid a housing crisis, with a shortfall of 250,000 homes. And the strain wasn’t evenly felt: it landed hardest in rundown estates and rural towns, where schools, hospitals and housing were already under pressure – and where, locals say, they were never warned or consulted….
In Roscrea, County Tipperary, residents protested after the town’s only hotel was repurposed for asylum accommodation. Leo Varadkar, then-taoiseach, insisted no community had a “veto” over who moved into their area.
With emergency powers in place to bypass planning laws, he was technically correct. But this left residents with little recourse beyond legal challenges – or taking their objections to the streets.
While most protests remained peaceful, several in deprived areas turned violent. In Coolock, a run-down part of north Dublin, skirmishes erupted, with Gardaí pepper spraying and beating back protestors with riot shields. The planned asylum centre there was torched three times. By August 2024, there had been 33 arson attacks on asylum accommodation over the past 12 months.
Initially the protests were held up as evidence of the emergence of ugly “far-Right” politics, in which locals wrongly objected to the arrival of large groups of “unvetted” males into their communities. The government insisted the asylum seekers were screened and composed of vulnerable people of all demographics fleeing war….
The government’s “screening” of these immigrants is faulty from the get-go. It is wrong to accept the claims of “asylum seekers” who turn out not to be fleeing persecution or death, but instead are economic migrants hoping to batten on all the benefits the Irish state provides. And judging by the violent behavior of many of them — including making whole neighborhoods unsafe around the buildings where they have been housed — the vetting of these predominantly young male migrants for criminal or violent behavior has been insufficient.
Irish officials claim to use Eurodac, the EU’s centralised biometric database, to vet arrivals. However, records up to 2023 indicate that Eurodac has never been used by Irish police to conduct criminal or terrorism related background checks.
There exists a biometric data base — Eurodac — available to all members of he EU, that the Irish police could have used to conduct background checks of criminal or terrorist links or sympathies, but apparently Eurodac has yet to be used by the Irish. What explains this astonishing failure to properly vet arrivals?
A string of high-profile crimes involving suspects of foreign-origin – some so outrageous as to be without precedent in Ireland – have intensified public unease. In Sligo, an Iraqi beheaded two men in a homophobic attack. In Dublin, a naturalised Algerian migrant stabbed multiple children. In New Ross, an eight-year-old girl, whose mother was an Irish convert to Islam, was allegedly killed by her partner.
Officials insist there is no link between migration and crime. But with nationalities omitted from crime statistics, many draw their own conclusions. Rumour and rage fill the vacuum left by the lack of reliable data….
The government is afraid to release information about the nationalities of those who commit crimes in Ireland. It knows how many of them are Muslim migrants, and does’t want to provide grist for the anti-immigration mill. It has chosen to keep Irish citizens in the dark. |
