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Leo Varadkar says he was “confident” the Yes side would win when he started the #Referendum2024 campaign, but in the last week became “increasingly concerned.” He also responds to whether Neale Richmond’s “serious consequences for immigration” claim contributed to the defeat.
“Leo Varadkar, in my view, should get better advice…He misunderstood what the Dublin Convention is all about.” Dr. Mehari Fisseha, PhD in Migration Studies, speaks to @Ben_Scallan about Ireland’s asylum system, Neale Richmond’s family-reunification comments, and more.
Facts say otherwise
“Your policy has produced this situation, nobody elses” – Gript Editor John McGuirk and Fine Gael Minister Neale Richmond have a heated exchange on the immigration crisis in Ireland. https://www.virginmediatelevision.ie/player/show/1294/214717/0/The-Tonight-Show?_gl=1*16itkdk*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTg1NzE4MDM3Ny4xNzA0ODAwNTcx*_ga_Q61BX3L8E9*MTcwNDgwMDU3MC4xLjAuMTcwNDgwMDU3MC4wLjAuMzc3MTE3NzM3
“It has serious consequences.”
But perhaps your correspondent is simply getting cynical in his advancing years. Time will tell.
if deflating tires is a legitimate form of protest, as some appear to think, then it is a legitimate form of protest for everybody – not just environmental activists.
“EU intervention force.”
The big problem here is – as the recent assembly results suggest – that nationalism in Northern Ireland isn’t growing.
Credit where credit is due.
Irish MMA two-weight world champion Conor McGregor has dubbed the Irish government “lapdogs” of the EU, adding that Ireland has “stockholm syndrome” to the bloc and that “economic partnership should not mean political surrender.” Last week, McGregor tweeted that it was “time to talk about Ireland leaving the European Union.” This prompted Fine Gael TD […]
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 […]
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