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THE MIGRANT RIGHTS Centre Ireland (MRCI) believes the St Patrick’s Day celebrations this weekend offer an opportunity to highlight the plight of an estimated 30,000 undocumented people in Ireland.
The centre said that many of those migrants are living in constant fear of being deported and is using the bank holiday weekend festivities as an opportunity to highlight their plight.
“This is a day that reminds us of being Irish, of our shared values of equality and justice that as a nation we want the world to see,” said Edel McGinley, from the MRCI.
“Just like the undocumented Irish across the globe, they too are deeply rooted within our communities, working, paying taxes and trying to make a better life for themselves and their families.
“They have made Ireland their home. But they live in the shadows under tremendous stress and fear of deportation.”
One of those who is classed as undocumented said that she felt “invisible” in the current situation in Ireland.
“I have three children to support and I work really hard to provide an education for them. Yet I am in limbo,” Elisia Fuentes, who is originally from the Philippines and came to Ireland in 2007, said.
Speaking for the Justice for the Undocumented Campaign she called on the government to provide a “fair and pragmatic solution” by introducing a regularisation scheme that would consider the “rights and responsibilities of undocumented people living here.”
Last year, Dublin City Council passed a motion supporting the introduction of an “earned regularisation scheme”, allowing people working undocumented in Ireland to gain legal status.
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Looks like il be watching a load of ads
They will be loading them on now and making you wait a minute before they clear.
Just get the ad blocker extension on chrome! It’s free!
Some websites have managed to work around the ad blocker such as TV3 Player so I wonder will YouTube do the same, hopefully not.
I honestly didn’t realise YouTube had ads until I started watching it on my mobile. I’d downloaded ad blocker on my laptop years ago so it came as quite the surprise.
If it came to it, I would happily give up my TV subscription and TV licence and just pay Youtube instead. They deserve it at least. Sky is a bad joke and RTE is the pits.
not to be confused with Red Tube
whats that?
pull the other one Ken….
Pretty sure he is pulling on something
The beginning of the end for you tube, And the chance for someone to set up “New Tube”.
Not sure Google have thought the pricing through. Can’t see many people willing to pay a score a month for Google play music and YouTube. Expect to see a sharp rise in piracy again.
This will be the end of YouTube. The whole reason it became popular was because people could freely be creative and how others their talents.
Adsense and vloggers ruined that. People will not pay to watch that crap that currently dominates YouTube
Just get extensions on your browser, I’m sure there’s ways around it.. 10$ a month is madness.. Can’t see it going anywhere
That works out at € 8.81 over here.
Netflix is better value.
Time for a Continuity YouTube me thinks
Ads it is so…
Adblock plus on Laptop & AdAway on rooted phone. I dont see any Ads.
I take it they’re adopting the Netflix/Spotify model. But (for me anyway), paying to skip ads is not something worth paying for. I mute the ad and do something else while I wait. When you add up all those 30 seconds for the year (excluding the ads you can’t skip, you know the ones), that’s a lot of time I spent being somewhat productive. The YouTubers get their money from showing ads cos I let it run and I didn’t spend money. Crisis averted.
Would it be considered a crime to shoot pewdiepie?
Only if you blog it.
$10 a month. how about no….
$10 a month is nuts when they give content creators .000000001 of a cent of that . At least netflix is financing new content and shows.
I said this was going to happen due to ad blocker and i got argued with and red thumbed and told this wasn’t going happen. Now we all know google is looking for extra money but they have the excuse they need.
Google services will start blocking IP’s and system with adblocker installed and when google do it everyone will follow. Law decided that ad blocker can block content so inturn so can google .
have your say