Despite its best efforts, the Irish Times has had to recognise the new Women’s Coalition on Immigration with a classic headline: “The fringe women’s anti-immigration group supported by three elected politicians.”
The lede: “The Women’s Coalition on Immigration is claiming a link between sexual violence and migration in Ireland.” Will horrors never cease?
Back to that headline: Fringe? Who says its fringe? Oh – the Irish Times, with fringe (two can play at this game) journalist Ellen Coyne giving us the story – heavy on the snide remarks but light on impartiality.
Coyne’s piece begins: “(Independent TD, Carol) Nolan was one of two TDs who had come to speak at the anti-immigration event earlier this month that sought to claim, without evidence, there is a link between sexual violence and migration in Ireland.”
Without evidence? The public record is the evidence, especially as conveniently enough, the Government does not currently publish crime statistics broken down by country of origin and ethnicity. This is why Laoise de Brún, leader of the group, is calling on the Government to publish crime statistics broken down by country of origin and ethnicity.
If you want evidence of a link between immigration and crime, ask Ashling Murphy’s family. You can’t ask Ms. Murphy herself as she was murdered by Jozef Puska, a Slovak national. The jury found Puska stabbed Ms Murphy 11 times in the neck and slashed her once with the edge of a blade before leaving her to die in the thick thorns and brambles by the side of the canal towpath between Tullamore town and Digby Bridge in 2022. He is currently appealing his conviction.
Or only last week Adeleke Adelani, caused the termination of a woman’s pregnancy by forcing her to take abortion pills before locking her in a room. He was jailed for nine years for that offence. Adelani is also serving a seven year sentence for a separate offence, so he has been a busy man. Or as the Sun reports on a one “Depraved rapist Lovemore Dube” who amazingly enough was deported from Ireland ten minutes ago. This is probably causing great upset in the editorial room at the Irish Times.
“Dube — who also goes by the name ‘Eugene’ — was handed a seven-year sentence in 2013 for raping a woman in 2012. Following his release from prison in 2018, he has served time in recent years for theft, assault and threatening behaviour.” That’s just for starters. Show me your evidence!
What the fringe newspaper probably means is where is your fancy data, you know the evidence that has to be approved by some left-wing open border academic, in the left wing studies departments of the University of Left-Wing Studies that shows immigrants are more likely to commit crime than the native born population.
Never mind that when the sex abuse scandal broke in the Irish Catholic Church the demand did not go up to ‘show me the evidence that priests are more likely to commit child abuse’ than say men in the family home. That would be considered a distraction, an unnecessary demand that bordered on the immoral. The fact that the priests were abusing children is the story, you nincompoop.
However, funny enough, evidence that there is a link between immigration and sexual crime does exist in other countries. Even the Irish Times admits it. There is the Jay report from the UK. According to the Jay Report, a UK government inquiry into child sexual exploitation in Rotherham, the majority of perpetrators “were from minority ethnic communities.” Awkward.
Fringe journalist Ellen Coyne had to admit, “It is true that migrants are over-represented in crime statistics, including sexual offences, in countries including Germany, according to statistics recorded by German police, Sweden, according to a 21-year longitudinal study, and Denmark, according to figures from the Danish ministry of justice.” Very awkward.
But the IT wasn’t happy with that! Fringe journalist continues, “But research linking immigration and crime can be complex. In Sweden, for example, research has said the gap between the crime rates of immigrants and native people narrows when adjustments are made for socio-economic factors. In Denmark, a 2020 review of research linking immigration and crime warned that results differed depending on the data collected, and a 2025 study warned that public perceptions of immigrant crime rates were higher than the reality.”
“Adjustments are made for socio-economic factors.” What nonsense is this? That makes it worse as we are forever being told how immigrants are the ‘most vulnerable’ and come here with nothing. Even so the gap only ‘narrowed’ so it’s still there even after the adjustments. (By the way you cannot in good conscience adjust for factors that are integral to the group you are analysing.)
Therefore, even on the bonkers analysis by the IT, immigrants are more likely to commit crime than the natives. As for public perception- oh so it’s all our fault, for reading the papers and the crime reports and what not.
It seems to me that the evidence we have of migrants are over-represented in the crime statistics in Germany, Sweden and Denmark. The Swedish studies are from a 21-year longitudinal study which sounds pretty solid to me. The Danish numbers are from its own Ministry of Justice, and both countries are considered left-wing. But the Irish Times just don’t like that evidence because of ‘adjustments’ and ‘public perceptions.’
However, I completely reject the idea that we have to prove that immigrants are more likely to commit sexual crimes than the natives. Even if immigrants were not over-represented in the statistics, it doesn’t matter. And that’s because, and this is fundamental – are you listening idiots at the Irish Times – we are stuck with our native born rapists, child abusers and murderers. We cannot deport them, sadly, nor can we execute the most serious offenders against children, because funnily enough, of people like you.
But what we should not do is import more potential predators, especially those from countries with deeply misogynistic countries such as Afghanistan that the foreign office warns you against travelling to. That is a political choice and sold to us by the fools at the Irish Times. Putting your own population at risk is immoral and depraved.
So that’s the fringe newspaper the Irish Times for you, who believes there is no evidence that links immigration to crime, apart from all the evidence they have cited in their piece and the fact that some immigrants are convicted of crimes (along with the natives) every day of the week in the courts.
Apart from all that there is “no evidence” of a link between sexual violence and migration in Ireland.