The number of international protection applications made in May 2024 was 1,916 compared to 734 for the same period last year, new figures from the Department of Integration reveal.
The figures show the number of people claiming asylum in Ireland rose by 1,182 compared to figures for the month of May 2023 with the highest group population being single males.
The total number of asylum applicants so far this year is currently 8,694 with on average 56 daily, and 395 weekly arrivals.
39% of the arrivals were single males with the figure at 750 while 9% or 181 of the new arrivals were single females.
21% were couples at 397, with families with children accounting for 31% or 588.
The highest number of applicants came from Jordan (22% – 422) with Nigeria in second place (375 – 20%) Palestine (198 – 10%), Afghanistan (124 – 6%), Pakistan (111 – 6%), Somalia (106 -6%), Zimbabwe (72 – 4%), designated safe country Georgia (55 – 3%), and Eswatini (33 – 2%).
There were 173 requests for family reunification registered in May with 328 incident reports made as well as 399 transfer requests.
The number of persons who have been granted international protection who remain in IPAS accommodation was 5,595.
The number of persons who had their request for international protection granted in May was 414 with the number of persons granted status who left IPAS accommodation at 463 for the same period.
The total population of asylum seekers as of 2/6/2024 stands at 31, 032 of which 6,875 are accommodation in IPAS accommodation centres, 22,366 are in emergency accommodation, 346 in national reception centres, 566 at the City West hub, and 879 in temporary tented accommodation.
With the clown that is Simon Harris stating yesterday that ireland is in no way full when It comes to asylum seekers we can expect these numbers to continue indefinitely and to keep increasing weekly. I’m afraid Ireland is gone pass the point of no return. We are well and truly fucked, and the most annoying and depressing thing about all of this is that we are being fucked by our own.
Ireland as usual punching above it’s weight. The highest prices for rent and house purchases,. cigarettes and booze. Petrol oil and solid fuel and the highest per capita reception of refugees.
Based on the success of FF/FG in the last election, more than half the country are happy with this situation.
Ya Outofideas, and I for one just don’t understand it. As a nation we seem to be hell bent on our own destruction. Considering our history and the sacrifices generations of Irish people made to make this country what it is, it really is heart breaking and soul destroying to watch what’s being done to this country now.
And all these countries are Muslims. Christians are finished thx to the fsggots it’s time for the guns forget the key board warriors 😯
>I for one just don’t understand it
It’s the power of the mainstream media combined with the desire of most people to conform to the consensus being presented to them.
A suggestion: find a copy of the book ‘Propaganda’ by Edward Bernays (published in 1928) — its presentation of this basic phenomenon is very good, and clearly still quite relevant today, even more so due to the prevalence of always-on mass media (TV, radio, internet).
As I’ve said many times: the influence of the media in this question is overriding for many people who only get their news and info from the mainstream — how does the mainstream media frame the issue of migration? — primarily as one of secular morality, i.e. good people vs ‘racists’ and the ‘far-right’ — unless you can steer more normal people to alternative media sources where this issue is discussed more responsibly and rationally, you will have a very difficult time reversing such voting habits — I see this very plainly with the AfD in Germany: it’s a perfectly reasonable party, but it is constantly condemned and vilified in strictly moral terms by the media, and this obviously affects the thinking of many voters.
Jordan, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Zimbabwe, Georgia, Eswatini – these fucking scam lying fucking bastards are bleeding us fucking dry. While our own live in the box room. Single males fleeing what? Are the women and children fighting back home you lying fucking bastards. I watched them in north Frederick street loitering outside the Somali barbers. If I was a betting man I’d put money on it they were organising the Somali scam from there.. What’s really fucking angers me is we have to listen to the Taoiseach of our country fuck us. While the left fuckers tell him to do more. That election has embolden that fucking gobshite. We are being invaded and colonised by these foreigners. When do we get to vote on this. Why are the people of Ireland not permitted a referendum on the destruction of our country. Why do these fuckers get to decide our future.
Visceral and heartfelt comments like yours should always be part of the dialogue — I feel much the same about the issue.
A system completely out of control! The first thing to note is that with the exception of Palestine, the security situation in none of these countries has deteriorated over the last 12 months as you would expect if “push factors” in countries of origin were the explaination for the dramatic increase in the numbers coming here to claim asylum. And even in the case of the alleged Palestinians, one thing you can be sure of is that most of those claiming to be fleeing Palestine will on investigation be found to not to be from Palestine at all, but from Algeria and other arabic-speaking countries where there are no wars.
The evidence is that “pull factors” are almost entirely to blame for this farce. We know all about Roderic O’Gorman’s catastrophic tweets inviting the world to enjoy “own-door” accommodation in Ireland. But what is now the major “pull factor” is the practice of our Minister for Justice, as a means of managing the growing backlog of unfinalised asylum cases, granting ‘leave to remain’ to failed asylum-seekers who appeal their negative decisions to IPAT or bring judicial review proceedings in the High Court. In fact, she is habitually granting ‘leave to remain’ to anyone who can drag out or delay the finalisation of their asylum claim for two or more years. It doesn’t take a genius to realise that this practice only encourages delaying strategies like document destruction, groundless appeals, failure to turn up for hearings on the basis of questionable medical certificates, and serial judicial reviews to buy time to ‘embed’. It also makes Ireland a particularly attractive destination for bogus asylum seekers.
At the root of this mess is the continuing failure of government to take action to deter delaying strategies, or to adequately resource the asylum-adjudication process. We have heard the claims that the staffing of the process has been doubled and that most cases are now heard within three months of arrival. Well, the number of arrivals has not doubled. It has increased five-fold, and it is only a first or initial hearing that the Minister is referring to. It is the first stage in a process of appeals and court cases that can still drag on for years if the applicant makes use of the strategies asylum seekers use to frustrate the finalisation of their cases in the expectation that if they can drag the process out long enough they will eventually get ministerial ‘leave to remain’.
Unless asylum-adjudication resources are increased commensurate with the five-fold increase in new arrivals. Unless there is procedural reform to cut-off abusive delaying-strategies, and unless this Minister for Justice stops incentivising these delaying-strategies by wholesale abuse of her power to grant ‘leave to remain’ to failed and failing asylum-seekers, expect the numbers of arrivals to continue to increase and the backlog of unfinalised cases to become even longer.
>A system completely out of control!
It’s an asylum industrial complex composed of the political elite, the media, and profiteers — there is a lot of synergy among the parties involved, and lots of money at stake — you need an organized and motivated opposition to oppose the powerful interests behind what’s being done to Ireland.
We must resist in some way. Sitting by politely, saying it is terrible, while this govt is stealing our country and giving it to the foreigner, is madness. National protests? We have had national protests in the past over far less. Yesterday I had my purse phished, I think that’s what you call it. My own fault, near home, coming from the supermarket, 5.30, pavement full of people, hard to spot an Irish, all moving rather slowly. May have happened waiting a while at lights, big crowd. I just got lazy and did not bring the usual closed bag with me. An open Dunnes bag, purse was inside a bigger purse, both zipped and the groceries on top. I only found it gone today, they took the €90 cash, left me the cards, and replaced purse in bag. I was only fairly vigilant, not good enough. Please don’t be foolish like me, it’s asking for trouble. Never be lazy. Petty crime rampant. When I told a man about it, he said the wheel of his bicycle stolen yesterday too. I went in to Centra today upr Camden st to buy an ice cream. Found I couldn’t open the fridge. Was stunned when he confirmed it was locked. He came from behind the counter, unlocked the fridge and relocked it again after I took an icecream. Ah look we must react, our values trampled on by the gangsters that are here to scam. Anything not nailed down will be stolen now. We can’t nail down our country but we can lock it, just like the fridge today, by closing our borders and deporting. The corrupt govt is the culprit and the refusal of corrupt SF to act in opposition, another.. Doling out citizenship to reduce the count of the frauds here, pretending they’re Irish, to deceive the ‘far right’ is only another scam. I am going to be an activist from now to call out the theft of our decent culture. I will act when I spot horror, when using the buses. They often put their bags on the bus seats, even at peak hour, when the seat is badly needed. The Irish standing up passively, like asses. They only remove them when asked. One often sees them sitting in seats reserved for those with prams and for the elderly, pretending they don’t know, their bodies and legs spread out. I have intervened before and told them they were in reserved/priority seats. Then they sit on the inside seat, the most secure and comfortable side. They do not have that choice, this is the choice of the prioritised person. They only comply reluctantly. I will intervene and put pressure on sharply as it is harrassment of our passengers. It’s the only way to restore our culture. Pretending you don’t see is being complicit in the theft of our precious values. Other times you’d sit on the outside of a seat and wonder why you’re falling off. Then you’d look across and discover she has a bag propped up on the seat against the window, pushing you off. I will raise my voice smartly and tell her, take down your damn bag, can’t you see I’m falling off, amadán. They cannot be scamming seats on buses too. They don’t like exposure, as their papers may not be open to scrutiny. I would not challenge them on the Luas or Dart, but the bus is a controlled space. I will report what happened me to the guards, there may be a spate of it, just to add one more case to the count.
Obviously it’s an existential crisis for Ireland — you have to think not just about monthly comparisons, but a generation or two into the future — with the reality of human biological differences rooted in genetics, many regions of the world primarily inhabited by non-whites (parts of Asia being obvious exceptions) will always be underdeveloped and poor, so the flow of people seeking to escape that by migrating to the West will not stop in and of itself — it must be stopped by white nations deciding their demographic survival is vital.
And to be clear: this is being done to Ireland, it is not just happening.
The virtue signallers haven’t realised that these people will need looked after when they’re older….ah yes….they don’t care, they’ll have cleared off to Marbella by then.
Pakistan has recently sent one and a half illegal Afghani residents home to Afghanistan. We are still welcoming them in Ireland.
The recent report by Friday that the Dept of Justice is no longer challenging illegals who appeal their “refusal to remain” in the courts, is an example of the absolute shambles and lunacy of the whole appeals system.!
It’s akin to an open ended, ongoing amnesty for every illegal migrant who rocks up to Mount Street and fills up a form requesting resident status.
This beggars belief.
It’s typical of the feminized West — governments all over Europe shrink from forcibly deporting failed asylum seekers, even the criminals among them, because the politicians in charge fear bad publicity — the media will cherry pick a particular case designed to elicit sympathy, and then highlight it — few politicians are willing to risk being the target of that — they are careerists, not leaders.
More than 800 migrants arrived in the UK yesterday by the cross channel dingy route. The highest number in one day since 2022. Are they en route to Dublin via Belfast.??
This is the Normandy wartime landings- in reverse.🙄😜
Negotiating an ironclad replacement for the Dublin Regulation should have been a mandatory part of Brexit — if one existed, these migrants could be legally pushed/sent back into France, and told to apply for asylum there — as it is now, there is no legal basis for doing that.
It is impossible to overstate the irresponsibility and incompetence of most politicians.