There’s an inherent belief in official Ireland that certain ideologies are not truly “Irish”. It’s wrong.
‘Unprecedented’ level of migration
Fianna Fáil TD John McGuinness says that the government’s current immigration policy is “simply shambolic” and is “giving rise to a huge public reaction that is negative.”
“You’re taking from us our only hotel.”
Mattie McGrath: “The thought that [asylum seekers] all get automatic medical cards is just a pure joke. It sticks in the craw of…all the other countless patients that are striving and begging to get a medical card, and they can’t.”
Responding quickly with accurate information is a necessity, because sometimes the wrong information can be published even by those acting in good faith.
From climate to immigration
That’s two of the media’s top two topics – Gaza and RTE – barely registering with the electorate at all, while the voters care about things that have been shunted significantly down the news agenda.
Asylum claimants
What I will say is this: Village is in the financial position it is in precisely because nobody is buying what it is selling.
A year ago, there was an opportunity to offer the electorate something really different. Instead, the choice has been made to offer the electorate some empty rhetoric.
D Hotel to be used as IPAS centre