The worst bit about all of this, of course, is that we didn’t even get a link out of it. Like it would have killed the Deputy to send us a bit of traffic. Though, to be fair, the article in question did very well anyway: It’s a niche website & I’m not going to […]
One of the main advantages, we’re always told, of European Union membership, is that it affords Irish people the right to travel to and live freely in 26 other European countries. No passport checks, no immigration requirements, no papers – just hop on a plane, land in Vienna or Rome or Bucharest, and you’re as […]
The publication of an ESRI report on forecast population growths and consequent housing requirements was published on December 14. The report, Regional Demographics and Structural Housing Demand at County Level was compiled by TCD research professor Adele Bergin and Abian Garcia Rodriguez of the ESRI. As John McGuirk noted yesterday, all the forecasts contained are dependent on arbitrary […]
Extraordinary. Usually, in Ireland, if you say that one way to reduce the demand for housing is to lower immigration, you’ll be dismissed as a rabid racist who’s peddling fake news. But in the Irish Independent this morning, no less an authority than the ESRI is out warning that a reduction in immigration, due to […]
There is, in Ireland, a law against stealing cars. If you steal someone’s car, you are liable to be arrested, prosecuted, and, if convicted, either fined or sent to prison. If the Gardai recover the car you stole, it will be returned to its original owner. So imagine for a moment how people might react […]
Governments seldom fulfil promises made in pre election manifestos or even Programmes for Government. So the small and fractured Green Party can be happy that when it disappears again from public prominence, it will have left yet another toxic legacy as it did in 2011. For a party that only won 7% of the vote in the […]
The Lancet is one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious medical journals. It is also highly influential in the world of health policy formulation. It can quite literally be a career making event for a researcher or a scientist to have their work published in the journal. Indeed, in the niche world of […]
On the one hand, good. There’s not much point keeping a law on the books that’s been transparently flouted by most EU countries for years: EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday that proposed new migration reforms would replace the so-called “Dublin Regulation”, which governs which member state handles a new arrival’s asylum […]
The European Asylum Support Office has just published its first Country of Origin Information (COI) Report on Venezuela, and the news is not good. What is genuinely startling however is the scale of the attempted exodus that has taken place. The EASO observations on the Report find that: “the deterioration of the political, security and […]
The International Protection Appeals Tribunal (IPAT) exists to hear appeals on the decisions of the International Protection Officer on applications for protection in the state. In plain English, it’s the body which decides whether an asylum seeker is properly entitled to asylum in the state. People appearing before it, then, have a right to expect […]
There has been an overwhelming increase in County Waterford’s migrant population over the last two and a half decades, the local council has heard. According to Ivan Grimes, Director of Services for Waterford County Council, the proportion of migrants living in Waterford has increased from 1 in 20 in 1995, to 1 in 7 today […]
There are several ways by which a person might illegally immigrate to Ireland. They might, for example, come here on a temporary work visa that entitles them to be in the country for a period of time, and then stay here long after that visa has expired. They might simply sneak in on the back […]