@Ben dover: what a comment

@Radek War: Great comment

@Ben dover: If only we could deport the racists instead, Ireland would be a much better place.

@Padraic O’ Sullivan: we have finite resources: builders, land, materials etc. ifs actually not the answer.

@Anthony Curran: agreed.

@Padraic O’ Sullivan: Yes we should build more houses. But we should also be protecting our border and not just watching as thousands of illegal immigrants enter the country. Anyone that enters this country illegally should be deported.

@Anthony Curran: oh the irony of a SF supporter wanting to throw Irish people out of Ireland.

@Ger Whelan: I hear you’re a racist now Ger. Should we all be racists too Ger?

@Anthony Curran: What’s it like to be a SF supporter who like the Brits wanted the Irish out of Ireland to allow foreigners to settle here?

@Ben dover: you can remove every single asylum seeker, it will have ZERO effect on housing as asylum seekers are in ipas centres not houses ya gowl

@he didnt take the 120k because he already got it split over 3 years: they’re in IPAS centres while their claims are processed, then they get a nice, shiny front door key, to their nice fully furbished free house, courtesy of the Irish taxpayers

@Ben dover: who were ya blaming the housing crisis for before johnny foreigner?

And they are going to stay in them centres forever they are? Wake up man, the ipas centres are only stepping stone to a free house that our taxes pay for!

@Padraic O’ Sullivan: More houses are being built,– but they are being given to immigrants you gowl ,– do you not know that??.

@he didnt take the 120k because he already got it split over 3 years: No , every local authority has been building these modular houses for immigrants and they are in them.

@Ben dover: You want Trumps policies fcuk off to America, ye won’t be missed here

@Padraic O’ Sullivan: Stop taking in foreigners we can’t look after! Why should we keep urbanizing every inch of Dublin to give houses to anyone who comes in the door instead of shutting the doors and just building houses for native Irish?

@Staker Wallace: No country would take an Irish person in for free and give them hand outs including a house at the expense of natives. Nowhere would.

@Anthony Curran: You are the one who hates your own identity and are openly saying you want to replace the native Irish with foreigners. Liberals like you are self hating, self destructive and dangerous. That’s why you also work harder for Palestine than the Irish. No country would take in an Irish freeloader like you but we take in foreign freeloaders and hand them houses?

@Anthony Curran: You already are racist. You are a white guilter who hates your own skin and hates white Irish.

@Ben dover: If you think there’s a housing crises now, wait till Trump deports the undocumented Irish

@he didnt take the 120k because he already got it split over 3 years: They shouldn’t be here at all! A new medical center in Wexford was full upon opening because they took in all asylum seekers.

@Setanta O’Toole: You would not get into any country and get a free house so why are Ireland doing it with foreigners?

@FoxyBoiiYT: America won’t take us because Trump is smart. So why should Ireland take foreign freeloaders? How about YOU go live in Gaza? Your favourite place in the world!

@Dermot Blaine: Those undocumented Irish are native Irish. If they belong to this country and are illegal in America they SHOULD be deported back here. And in turn we should be deporting every foreign freeloader back to where they came from including Ukraine. One young Ukrainian was on the news grumbling about the conditions she was staying in here saying she intended to go back to Ukraine because she was better off! There is no gratitude whatsoever.

@Ben dover: would be useful if we could also deport our own home grown wasters and spongers….

@Beachvibe: there’s 3 council lists. Standard, Medical Priority, and Pensioners. Nationality doesn’t come into it. Any actual evidence that foreigners are being housed at a quicker rate than Irish people? That doesn’t mean calling me a liberal who hates white Irish people btw.

@Ben dover: Reclaim our sovereignty from immigrants? I don’t see them in Leinster House.

@Michael Whyte: he means his social welfare payments.

@Harry Callahan: Oh like you? Well Harry even though you spend more time protesting for Palestine than at your job or contributing to Irish society, you still are Irish. The foreign illegals need deportation asap. The ones liberals like you are bringing in cause you love anarchy

@Anthony Curran: so anyone who has a problem with unchecked illegal migrants coming into the country is a racist now, are they ?

@Setanta O’Toole: They are building modular houses specifically for foreign immigrants. And they already did prioritize them over the Irish. They opened a new GP clinic in Wexford and the Independent reported it was full with the majority of patients being migrants. When the native Irish struggle to get a GP. You do hate white Irish and you do hate your own because you have let illegals in to be planted in OUR communuties. Don’t dare try to say Trump is wrong on this. He is following the law and you have hurt us and our country. Liberals like you are dangerous.

@Michael Whyte: They are working their way up the ranks

@frank dowling: The liberals complaining must also think they are entitled to just walk into America or get hand outs. The irony. Trump is just restoring law and order. While liberals have let anarchy descend in Ireland. They cannot talk.

@Beachvibe: they are building significantly more social houses than 700 modular homes for Ukrainians you cherrypicked to suit your narrative. The social housing list doesn’t go by nationality. It goes by circumstance, and need. Immigrants are allowed to go to the GP too. Blame the government for neglecting rural areas with social services for years rather than being a useful shill and letting them off the hook by blaming immigrants. I suspect you consider anything left of torching an IPAS centre as ‘liberal’. I am ambivalent to the level of immigration to this country. I do know that every problem the likes of yourself are so quick to attribute to immigrants has existed long before their recent influx though.

@Setanta O’Toole: We shouldn’t take in foreign immigrants if we can’t look after our own and if we cannot give sufficient GP care or houses to our own we should not be giving them to immigrants period. Their countries are in charge of looking after them. Ireland is in charge of caring for the Irish. There are Irish people living in hotels and streets who deserve a modular home over asylum seekers.

@Setanta O’Toole: America is way bigger than Ireland and even Trump has the common sense to know if you didn’t come here legally you cannot be looked after. He is putting Americans first and nobody is putting the Irish first. White guilters like you just hate your own and liberals oppress the Irish rather than prioritize them.

@Ger Whelan: are you talking about building free houses.

@Beachvibe: Examples please?

@Eugene Comaskey: Any examples of this? Proof maybe?

@Beachvibe: They did for me years. Those who forget their history are doomed tp repeat it.

@Ben dover: Immigration is not the cause of the housing crisis as you allude to. The housing crisis was there well before people began to grouse about immigrants. Poor economic conditions lead to people looking for someone to blame and the east target is the immigrant, instead of the capitalist, who views housing as capital and a money-making market. This current model needs to be done away with, and replaced with a better system.

@he didnt take the 120k because he already got it split over 3 years: now tell me are they expected to live their whole lives in IPAs centres….are we expected to build more and more IPAS centres to accommodate the thousands and thousands arriving on a weekly basis…is that what you are calling for?

@Padraic O’ Sullivan: Aul Paddy is a strange far-left virtue-signaller. Don’t be like Paddy. Have common sense instead. MAGA

@Michael Whyte: easy*

@Michael Whyte: Repeating yourself like a troll. Can you not reader white guilter?

@Michael Whyte: When even your liberal buddy Setanta admits we are building houses for Ukrainians lol

@Beachvibe: We aren’t giving GP care to immigrants over ourselves. That isn’t how it works. If you need a GP appointment you go to see one or arrange an appointment. Nationality isn’t a significant factor when getting a GP appointment. Likely need is.

@Brian D’Arcy: I agree. In Irish history we let others colonize us and oppress us. I guess we are doomed to repeat it?

@Michael Whyte: If we have a housing crisis already and a health crisis already why are we exacerbating it by having wide open borders and adding to our population with illegal immigrants who also need those things? This is why Trump is using common sense and you anti Irish liberals are not.

@Michael Whyte: Well we are because as you rightly pointed out Michael, these problems already existed in Ireland and yet the government decided to have wide open borders and take foreign immigrants in by the droves who also need these things when the Irish were already struggling

@Beachvibe: immigration by invite only. That’s the way to go. Select who you need and give them a work visa. Very carefully balance the labour needs of the state with property availability for approved immigrants.
Also reduce social welfare benefits for asylum seekers to reduce attraction to immigrants.
It has to be controlled and scalar , the open door policy by Roderick tipped the balance and everything got completely out of shape and caused upheaval and unrest.
Also, I think if this state invited an immigrant via visa and subsequently they have gainful employment for over 10 years contributing to the state, they should be offered citizenship.
Immigrants commiting crime should have visa revoked and deported after custodial sentence.

@Beachvibe: Explain to me how I’m a white guilter please. As for repeating myself I don’t know what you are alluding to, my asking for proof of claims to two different accounts? I think the Journal sometimes shows comments twice, it’s a bug. I am not a liberal. Liberals are defenders of the status quo of neo-liberalism, which is the source of many of the problems in the west. As for housing for Ukrainians, it has already been pointed out that you cherry picked that example for the sake of your narrative. Do not resort to insults when having a discussion, use facts or do not reply at all.

@Mr “JonnieBoy” Johnson: Mass deportations need to happen. Ridiculous that the government just let anarchy happen and wide open borders.

@Beachvibe: why are Ireland doing it with Irish also.

@Michael Whyte: No it is not a journal bug you are trolling by acting thick under every single thread. Read this again. We should not be building homes of any sort for any immigrants because as you RIGHTLY pointed out we had this problem BEFORE they came where our own native Irish are struggling to get houses and many ARE STILL HOMELESS. I hold liberals like you and Setanta with utter contempt. All of you. It isn’t just that you lack common sense. You literally prefer foreigners over your own people. And with how obsessed you liberals are with Palestine, I don’t think you really even want to be here half the time. I have seen my own family and friends suffer in this country because of liberal attitudes like yours. You caused so much hurt, destruction and anarchy in our country.

@paulie: Explain?

@Michael Whyte: Article from 2006….numbers have grown enormously since then….they are prepared to wait….it’s hardly going to happen in one generation, is it? More and more given citizenship more and more voters, no?
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/sharia-law-in-ireland-if-muslims-are-the-majority/26416822.html

@Setanta O’Toole: remind me again, which year had the record number of homelessness…oh that’s right 2024….now tell me which year had record number of immigration, ( illegal and illegal) 2024……I wonder what ever could have caused this?

@Mr “JonnieBoy” Johnson: that’s just too much like common sense….can’t see our Gov or the NGOs & lefties going for it!

@Beachvibe: If only we had an election recently and had empirical evidence of how many people agree with the far right and their kick out foreigners, ban the gays and burning books agenda? Oh wait we did and they didn’t get a single seat

@Michael Whyte: so your logic is…we already had a housing crisis so whatever is the problem of allowing thousands and thousands of foreigners to come here, who will also look for a home, God I can’t see a problems with that at all….how thick do you think we are! But perhaps you’re in the property trade, is that why you’re so supportive of allowing this to happen whilst berating others for calling it out, rich get richer isn’t that rightMichael, a nice little profitable business has sprung up for some….no? All in the guise of moral and legal obligations….

@Beachvibe: couldn’t agree more but we do need the hardworking immigrants for the country to flourish. Mass deportation of those who cant or wont contribute to our society, we’ve enough home grown ones already to manage. All non national completing a prison sentence should be deported too, no exceptions.
It’s not racist to fix an issue that arose through government incompetence and lack of planning which is damaging the welfare of the citizens of the state.

@FoxyBoiiYT: He’s entitled to his opinion. You are a typical far-left bullyboy facist.

@Emer McDonnell: oh look, Emer giving it the QC bit thinking you have a great gotcha. Nothing to do with ever-rising and astronomical house prices, crippling rents, the cost of living crisis, vulture funds hoovering up property, numerous vacant and unoccupied properties not being offered as living space, government not delivering on social and affordable housing promises and a housing crisis thats been getting exponentially worse year on year? No, it must have been the imigants, even when it was the bears, I knew it was dem! Didn’t realise so many Irish lived in IPAS centres before 2024 either. Thanks for letting me know.

@Ben dover: 100 percent wont tough

@Beachvibe: but at least back then most of us tried to fight back….other than those who sold us out and got rewarded by the king …makes you wonder doesn’t it…who is getting rewarded in this case and by whom?

@Setanta O’Toole: ahh so asking a very straightforward question is suddenly QC…and where did I say Irish were living here in IPAS centres? Now tell me who exactly benefits if demand outstrips supply…is it the average Irish person…? But yet your logic is to continue to allow thousands of foreigners to continue to flood in here who will also be looking for homes…I’ll tell you one thing the Gov & developers thank their lucky stars that there’s people like you supporting it!

@Setanta O’Toole: now here is a report from IRC and Nick Henderson who seems to have an awful lot of power and influence as an unelected NGO….anyway their aim is for refugees to all get their own door accommodation….nothing better for us than having a British man dictate who should get accommodation….Cromwell would be proud and thank you for encouraging it!
https://irishrefugeecouncil.eu.rit.org.uk/Handlers/Download.ashx?IDMF=d3a3eba2-7649-402a-9953-e630461cab20

@Emer McDonnell: No, phrasing it like you were Columbo did. The majority of IPAs applicants/asylum here live in them therefore their impact on housing for Irish people, would be neglible no? Nobody benefits, demand outstripping supply is the root of the housing crisis. If you can see where I advocated letting ‘thousands of foreigners flood in’ anywhere and quote it back to me, i’d be grateful. I just don’t believe in blaming them for the failings of our government. You are obviously happy to though, given you glossed over every other contributory factor I mentioned. Thanks Beachvibe. Sorry, ‘Emer’.

@Michael Whyte: Nick Henderson an unelected NGO from IRC who seems to have an awful lot of influence and publicity is calling for all refugees to get their own door accommodation!
https://irishrefugeecouncil.eu.rit.org.uk/Handlers/Download.ashx?IDMF=d3a3eba2-7649-402a-9953-e630461cab20

@Emer McDonnell: Again, your two ID’s ascribing things to me I never said or ‘encouraged’. Brilliant put down, now lets examine how far entrenched with the UK Far right and Ulster Loyalists that the anti immigrant movement is in Ireland. Oh wait, there’s only an 800 word limit on these comments.

@Setanta O’Toole: as I said the aim of NGOs is to give them all their own door accommodation! Are you disputing that they are actually calling for it? Now tell me where do they all go…if there are thousands entering on an ongoing basis are you saying there’s infinite room in these centres?
https://irishrefugeecouncil.eu.rit.org.uk/Handlers/Download.ashx?IDMF=d3a3eba2-7649-402a-9953-e630461cab20

@Setanta O’Toole: what the hell are you rambling on about, so because two people share the same views you in your ignorant little head think they must be the same person…….you do know that no one is falling or actually cares with the far right label…it has lost all meaning…however thanks to people like you genuine refugees and those who came here legally are now suffering from the consequences of your encouragement of open borders…I get the feeling you are benefiting from it!

@Emer McDonnell: i don’t give a bolox about your link or have any intention of reading it. It’s a strawman argument that has nothing to do with my original point which you largely ignored and just ran with the same anti-refugee rhetoric. Pulling fictional points out of nowhere and attributing them to the person you are debating with is not a good technique to win arguments, just makes you look ignorant.

@Emer McDonnell: not because they share the same views, no. When the posts are written in the exact same style and parlance and said person has the exact same tendency towards hyperbolic language and strawman deflections, along with a shared tendency to stretch their point over 2 comments where one would have sufficed, then I think they are the same person.

@Setanta O’Toole: so you don’t give a bollox about what the Irish Refugee Council are calling for….so you really don’t haven’t a clue what you are talking about! Continue living in your blissful ignorance…whilst berating those who actually have a clue…

@Setanta O’Toole: well Setanta if that’s what you think you must have at least 5 accounts here, no?

@Emer McDonnell: nah, one is bad enough for the mind.

@Anthony Curran: Just think, it is many so called racists who actually go out to work and pay taxes that are paying the dole and benefits for all the Irish and foreign scroungers in our country.

@Meatball Martin: No they do not. That is fake spin put out by people looking to cause trouble!

@Harry Paisley: He does not win court cases or bankruptcy cases or tax evasion cases.

@Emer McDonnell: They can call for whatever they want, but it won’t make a difference. You seem to think the IRC have power and they don’t.

@Beachvibe: We bever “Let” anybody colonise us. We were invaded!

@Thomas Sheridan: So everybody who gets benefits are scroungers!
That is a very simple way to look at it and completely wrong one as well.
Pensioners are scroungers for example! People with Disabilities or people with long term illness are scroungers.

@Michael Whyte: Don’t you know how hard it is to register with a GP? If you’ve a medical card the HSE force a practice to take you if you get turned away from 3. However, if you work and pay taxes that fund medical cards, then you are on your own. Illegal immigrants get the medical card as overwhelming majority are not earning enough to put them over the threshold, at least when they first arrive, so they have a significant advantage over Irish workers in getting registered for a GP.

@Ben dover: Ben Dover and I’ll show you where you can stick your sovereignty

@Fergus O’Donnell: Law breakers are “violating the constitution”

@Fergus O’Donnell: well considering 42% crop pickers are illegal immigrants we may soon find out what the problem can be when you enforce the law with out due care. Of course he’ll just boot a few to play to his supporters and then forget about the rest. If he actually does what he says the knock on effect to prices will be an absolute disaster.

@Larissa Caroline Nikolaus: You don’t need a warrant to arrest or deport an illegal alien you left wing loon.

@tommy bailey: so, you’d be happy for immigration services to storm your house without a warrant because they believed there were “illegal aliens” residing there? That’s what you are advocating.

@tommy bailey: Correct, they do have the right though against unreasonable searches and seizures, and the right to education.

@Larissa Caroline Nikolaus: The claim that deporting undocumented immigrants violates human rights or is unconstitutional is not supported by legal precedents. U.S. law allows for deportations under the Immigration and Nationality Act, where due process is provided through immigration courts. The Constitution gives Congress the power to regulate immigration, and while the Fourth Amendment protects against unreasonable searches, immigration enforcement has specific legal allowances to arrest without a warrant under probable cause. Therefore, while the manner of enforcement can be debated, the process itself is legally grounded and not inherently a violation of rights or the Constitution.

@Ethan: it’s not that the deportations are illegal. It’s entering homes without a warrant which is a breach of the US Constitution.

@Larissa Caroline Nikolaus: They are violating the rights of American citizens by invading their country. If you are there illegally you get deported. Without that law there is anarchy. This is why liberals like you couldn’t even run a bath.

@Larissa Caroline Nikolaus: The lady with the non Irish surname is the one complaining? You don’t get to do that here.

@Pablo: Illegal is illegal no matter what.

@Soundy Sound: Yes because they are keeping me and my country safe duh!!

@Kevin Farrell: He wants to get it done fast. If you have nothing to hide, you have no need to worry about it.

@Beachvibe: if state forces are free to break into anyone’s home without a warrant, everyone has something to worry about! Imagine your crying when they’ve thrashed your house and scared the bejeesus out of your mammy upstairs!

@Soundy Sound: My mammy is more scared of walking down the street because of undocumented illegals in her community and in tents on streets thanks to liberals like you. If the police need to do their job to keep us safe that’s a worthy sacrifice for brief discomfort. You have no right to talk. Liberals like you have let anarchy happen to Ireland.

@Kevin Farrell: Entering homes to remove illegal immigrants without proper legal authorization can indeed raise constitutional concerns, but it’s not an automatic breach of the Constitution. Under the Fourth Amendment, authorities generally need a warrant to enter a private residence, except in exigent circumstances. The process for dealing with immigration enforcement is governed by federal law, Immigration officers are supposed to follow legal protocols, you’re simplifying things too much. Immigration enforcement involves legal steps, including warrants when needed, to comply with the Constitution. It’s not the straightforward breach you’re making it out to be.

@tony hilton: Yes it is. You break the law by jaywalking. These people are in America to work and make a living, as their own countries in Central & South America are economically unstable, ironically due to American interference in their affairs in some cases.

@Beachvibe: You keep blaming these liberals, yet they’re not in power? Also your mammy shouldn’t be afraid of people in tents protecting themselves from the weather. Also where are the free houses for these immigrants in tents? The government handouts? Maybe there are none because they don’t exist.

@Michael Whyte: Then they should apply to get into America legally. If you are illegal you get kicked out simple. Michael you are pro anarchy that is your problem and you are a very entitled person. Jaywalking is illegal in America because it can cause accidents. Common sense evades you.

@Michael Whyte: Until the far right get into power then Ireland IS too liberal for it’s own good. Even your liberal friend Setanta admitted that Ukrainians alone are getting 700 modular homes built for them in a community. Irish homeless don’t get that but we are looking after other countries citizens? Independent reported a GP clinic in Wexford opened and it became full quickly with the majority of patients being migrants. They shouldn’t be on our streets or in this country. If they are camping on our streets that’s the sign we are taking in what we cannot handle. They also get free travel passes, medical cards and weekly government payments. I as an Irish person want to pay taxes to benefit me and my countrymen not foreign illegals who we have wide open borders for.

@Michael Whyte: so if i break into your house but I wash the dishes and put the laundry on then it’s okay?

@Beachvibe: Ja woll!

@Beachvibe: Again creating false narratives about people you haven’t even met. Jay-walking is illegal, but are you prosecuted for it? That is my point, which seems to have evaded you.

@tony hilton: No it’s not, because breaking and entering is a potentially serious crime, illegal immigration isn’t. The example you picked is also unrealisitic. It just doesn’t happen often.

@Michael Whyte: If a policeman catches you jaywalking in America yes you are punished. Also illegal unvetted migrants in Ireland is not a false narrative. In fact you were just defending them being here?

@Michael Whyte: Illegal immigration is a very serious crime you entitled anarchist

@Beachvibe: Any proof of these supposed benefits? You say they are getting all these benefits, yet at the same time they’re on the streets? You’re contradicting yourself.

@Beachvibe: Your hyper-focusing on the jay-walking, it was just an example. The false narrative I was alluding to was the narrative of you calling me an anarchist, not immigrants.

@Beachvibe: Absolutely

@Michael Whyte: They shouldn’t be on our streets or in our country at all? They are on our streets while waiting for a house. Clearly we cannot look after them and they should not be here. Stop repeating yourself. You already lost.

@Michael Whyte: You promote and defend wide open borders, illegal immigrants. Therefore you are an anarchist.

@Michael Whyte: illegal immigration is not a serious crime? That’s news to me and yes it doesn’t happen enough , I hate doing the dishes

@Pablo: so you support slave labour, good to know!

@Emer McDonnell: illegal immigration isn’t a thing in ireland. These people are requesting political asylum and are intitled to reside here until their request is investigated and adjudicated.

@Larissa Caroline Nikolaus: that’s completely false. Ye lefties are gas like ye swoon for deporter and chief Obama then like.