“If we’re to manage the immigration system, we need to have knowledge of who’s here”: Ministers Sean Canney and Noel Grealish say that the Government should have checks at the border to ensure that individuals who are given deportation orders do, in fact, leave the State.
“If we’re to manage the immigration system, we need to have knowledge of who’s here.”
This being a democracy, we get what we vote for. In this case, it appears that the public voted for a Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael scramble for Ministries and Mercs.
Re-offenders
In hindsight.
Independent TD Noel Grealish and former Fianna Fáil TD Donie Cassidy are to appear before a Co. Galway district court.
The RTE presenter couldn’t resist it, on Sunday afternoon. It might have been nearly six months after the incident, and it might have been in the shadow of several much bigger stories, but this was the opportunity she had been waiting for. “I hear you did well in the Oughterard boxes” was the opening line […]
In some ways it’s not surprising that the Immigrant Council of Ireland (2018 income: €1m, most of it from Government and EU grants) would be taking an active part in the general election campaign, trying to make the case for policies that favour immigrants and asylum seekers. That is, after all, their job, and the […]
In the wake of the controversy surrounding Deputy Noel Grealish’ remarks on remittances, significant political capital was invested in highlighting the importance of basing policy and political commentary on accurate statistics. In fact, the Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohue, took what may be the unprecedented step of writing publicly to Deputy Grealish to say how […]
Before we get in to the rights and wrongs of this, it’s worth looking at what the state’s equality commission believes is a racist comment: “It points to recent examples which have caused it concern, including ….. Galway West TD Noel Grealish’s description of refugees from Africa as “economic migrants” seeking to “sponge off the system here in […]
As far as we know, the idea of “fact checking” was invented a few years ago, as a way to find jobs for those annoying people you meet at a party, or down the pub who have to butt into every conversation with “well, actually….”. Jokes aside, the concept is very simple. You take a […]
Noel Grealish TD was in the wars again yesterday over immigration. This time, he was accused of racism for asking the Taoiseach at leaders questions about the amount of money leaving Ireland in “remittances” to Nigeria. A remittance is money sent home by an emigrant. For many years, for example, Irish families benefitted from money […]