The 9 at 9 Here’s what’s making the news this midweek morning.

@Peter King: how will him giving a speech at the RDS make things easier for the UK?

@Peter King: regardless of his motives once mass immigration continues to sky rocket we will be out as well.

@Peter King: I would LOVE to see an Irexit.. To much has been added over the last 10 yrs . The vice grip is gradually closing and if we dont jump now it will be to hard to when we finally wake up to what Europes real agenda is. #Irexit

@Peter King: But it should be and it could be if we all got together.

@Paul Fahey: if Ireland left the EU with the UK the border becomes the sea. That’s makes the UKs job a lot easier. That’s why he’s pushing this.

@Paul: what “mass immigration”?

@Paul: ah yeah and we can go back to the good old days in Ireland. No roads, no money, high interest rates, 3rd world conditions..ah yes, bring it on…you absolute tool.
It seems these people target the very simple and uneducated with propaganda. Well done Paul, you’ve categorised yourself.

@Peter King: Farage is a fantacist who likes to have his own platform and newspapers to write about him. I doubt that Irish governments would ever see the need for holding an In/Out referendum, making Ireland poorer.

@Peter King: it IS a thing!! Soon

@The Viking: we joined the EEC if my memory is correct and not the EU Superstate!

@Gus Sheridan: Exactly. I dont mind common borders. I like the fact that we would help each other out in times of need . I do mind that we share a currency. That we are been told how we spend it. Alot of laws that are being heaped on us . A single European army in the pipeline. Police forces. The strangle hold is tightening. Time to jump.

@The Viking: What complete drivel.

@MK76: I appreciate your veiw. Well that is mine. My own Independant veiw…!!!

@Hugh Jass: Third world conditions?

In the 1960′s ONE salary could get a 20 year mortgage for an affordable house. There was no hospital overcrowding or school waiting lists. Cars and insurance were affordable and there was little crime anywhere.

Do you mean those third world conditions Hugh?

@Paul: But it wont be Paul. About as much cuance of SF getting into government.

@John Hagin Meade: only a total and utter moron could think ireland was better off in the 1960s.

@John Hagin Meade: was that perhaps because a lot of people left? There was a hell of a lot of crime going unreported in schools and homes

@The Viking: It was nothing more than a string of shallow rhetoric, seeking online attention.

@John Hagin Meade: Jesus Christ please tell me you’re not serious

@Ricky Spanish: ….. Errrrmmmm……Nigerian gangs terrorising Balbriggan?

@MK76: As I said its my own personal veiw. Again tho I appreciate your veiws regards others veiws.

@Hugh Jass:

At least our problems were ours….Now we are importing them.

@Amanda Doherty: I’m confused as to what that has to do with being a part of the EU. Nigeria is not part of the EU, therefore immigration from there is irrelevant to the topic. It’s that kind of nonsense that the Brexit camp spouted in their campaign, when most of their “immigration problem” is not linked to immigration from within the EU.

@Ricky Spanish: 17% of our population is foreign born, with the vast majority having arrived in the past 15 years. That mass immigration.

@Hugh Jass: You for got to mention John Charles calling all the shots and our puppets jumping to his commands! –’Twas nice!

@John Hagin Meade: when we joined in the 70s, you waited 6 months for a phone, we hadn’t a decent road surface in the country, no industry to speak of, everyone lived hand to mouth, foreign holidays were unheard of for most, no shopping centers, interest rates stood at 17 percent if you managed to buy a house, the list is endless. Europe has been very good for us.

@Jean Carter:

Jean Carter… So the EU aren’t pushing the ‘Migrant Crisis’???. All men, all Middle Eastern and African. Mummy Merkel is forcing these thugs on Europe as a whole. Therefore, completely relevant.

@Liam Doyle: ” 17% of our population is foreign born,” You’re right we need to get the 280,000 British nationals on the next ferry, Taking our jobs, scrounging on the dole, refusing to speak our language, selling drugs and committing all sorts of crime.

@Hugh Jass: May I borrow your crystal ball when you are finished with it!

@Hugh Jass: outside of high interest rates….what we in Ireland have now is tantamount to third world conditions, and getting worse for everyone who is not a member of the 1 % club. Our infrastructure is in a heap. Homeless numbers are a disgrace, public health is a disgrace, rising costs of education is a disgrace, rising costs of housing is a disgrace…need I go on? All very carefully manipulated by our govt and crony capitalism and the boys in Brussels to keep those already living in third world conditions exactly where they are, and to continue to put more people there. Frankly, at this stage…I don’t think leaving the EU would make any difference. This is a global issue. And until capitalist corruption is wiped out….it will only get worse.

@Brian Fitzgerald: I AM serious. I lived through the 1960′s.

@John Hagin Meade

Yes, and the population had dropped to a dangerous low of 2.8 million people. No wonder there was no waiting lists

@The Viking: Name one of those laws, name the first law you’d change. Also list the harmful actions that have been imposed on Ireland. Also list your occupation and qualifications that back up your wild claims. I’m sick of know nothing know it alls trying to sound smart by peddling nonsense talking lofty on topics they know nothing about.

@The Viking: Your OPINION is wrong and based on nothing. Name the laws that you’d change in the EU, name the legislation that’s been harmful for Ireland. Also list your job title and qualifications please cos I’m f#cking sick to death of know nothing know-it-alls peddling nonsense on topics they don’t know anything about.

@Peter King: it is I personally went. And their was a large crowd their.

@Peter King:
It is for me. Trying to stifle debate, eh? That’s the EU way!

@Peter King: For some of us it is Peter…

@Amanda Doherty: markel is sick in the head.

@Paul:
Begins? You’re ten years out of date.

@Royston Fitzpatrick: uncontrolled EU immigration then….

@Paul: to pull out of the best thing that happened to us because of one cost is like pulling the plug on your own life support because of the noise and ESB bill.

Besides what’s wrong with allowing EU citizens in?

@Paul: Each EU country has a different approach to immigration, to use an example of the spectrum see Hungary vs. Germany.

@Paul: What’s wrong with immigration exactly?

@Paul: ya we have been all over the world, you’re dead right

@Tom Tom: the fact any criminal from the EU is free to move here

@JJ O Riordan: yeah housing, welfare, HSE all on their knees, not to forget criminal gangs operating. .

@danielplainview: in fairness, it was the EU that saved Ireland from being a total basket case and stopped it from being a Venezuela when our idiot politicians bankrupt Ireland. We have to stay in the EU, we need its support because our own gov and their gross incompetence is our biggest risk to bad things happening in ireland.

@Tom Tom: You’ve clearly never heard of Lebanon.

@Paul: if yeah, because before immigration we had none of those problems… right

@Paul:
No Paul, you were right first time. Even an ex judge on the Asylum committee admitted that 95% of ‘Refugees’ are bogus.

@Tom Tom:

What’s the point of deliberately importing ourselves back to those 3rd world conditions?

@Tom Tom:

AHAHAHAHAHAHA. Importing people that hate you just because you are white? Nope, can’t see any problems in the future there om Tom. Let’s go through 800 years of oppression, free ourselves only for the Catholic church to oppress us, then work like dogs through a deep recession, bail out the banks, then…..watch our own leave and be replaced by third world savages…..who will oppress us. Fantastic idea.

@Mick Johnson: You’re hardly comparing Lebanon’s migration problems with Ireland, are you?

@Amanda Doherty: Wow. Just wow…

@Paul: don’t forget about all us Irish emigrants living in Europe. Nothing to stop any Irish person living in Europe so it works both ways!

@Paul: and you feel we’d be better equipped to tackle this with a fraction of the FDI we currently have? Please explain.

@Tom Tom: we had a wave of immigration from another European nation culturally quite similar to ourselves 400 years ago, the problems persist to this day

@Tom Tom:
Tom Tom. That’s it? That’s all you could come up with?

@Amanda Doherty: No point arguing with racist views like that. Your statement said enough.

@Paul: easy or you will upset the leftwing snowflakes

@Liam Doyle: That’s not exactly the same. Plantations, invasions and occupation are a different breed altogether.

@Tom Tom:
You mean you can’t. Tell me where I am wrong….go on. Balbriggan…Rotherham….Oxford….Manchester….. By the time you realise you are being too kind, it will be too late for Ireland and my children.

@Tom Tom: not really, point of semantics ultimately.

@Tom Tom: “no point arguing with… ” tacit admission that you are unable to address points raised. If only your ego would allow you admit that, eh?

@Liam Doyle: No, I’m just not going to engage with someone expressing racist views.

@Tom Tom:
Tom. Explain Balbriggan to me. Tell me how mass immigration of white hating thugs is not the cause of the problems there. Google ‘Black gangs Balbriggan’ and then come back and call me a racist.

@Tom Tom:
They made a young (white, of course) lad strip off naked to humiliate him before robbing him. Hit a 70 year old woman, knocking her to the ground. That’ll teach her to pay tax all her life to provide them with refuge, a home and life here.

@Tom Tom:
In fact. Facebook…’ Alternative view Ireland’ will show you the people protesting about it. Coming to a town near you Tom Tom

@Amanda Doherty: And before they were active we had Irish gangs in Crumlin, the Westies in Blanch, not to mention high level Irish criminal gangs all over this island. If it hadn’t been this shower of reprobates in Balbriggan it would have been someone else. The issue isn’t immigration, it’s deprivation, lack of adequate policing, poor social circumstances, the list goes on. If you’re saying you only hate this group of scammers then fine, but your comments had a broader tone to them.

*s c u mmers

@Tom Tom:
Difference is, those gangs were OUR problem. We had to deal with them.There is trouble in every Country, granted. But we don’t have to import it do we? These are RACIST gangs Tom. White haters. That we have given ‘Refuge’ to. They don’t attack black people. That problem is not going to go away, ever. Plus, they are pretty much welfare dependent. so a heavy load to bear for out already over laden tax payers.

@Tom Tom:
I would also like you to explain the 100% muslim gangs raping 100% white children all over the UK. Is that not down to immigration?

@Amanda Doherty: There have been numerous papers debunking the exclusively white ethnicity that is widely reported. A lot of Asian girls were victims, and culturally they were less likely to report the abuse. And how about the White Irish Catholic Clergy abusing 100% Irish white children? Whataboutery doesn’t add to this debate at all. If you’re trying to maintain that immigration is the sole source of evil in the world then you are mistaken. Social deprivation, poverty, poor policing, lack of whistleblowing etc etc all contribute to these situations. Sort those out and you won’t have to worry about foreigners. The majority of immigrants that I have been fortunate enough to encounter are law abiding. Lucky me I suppose.

@Tom Tom:

I would say you were more than lucky Tom. I would say you are positively blessed. I, on the other hand, wasn’t so lucky. I speak from experience, living amongst Pakistanis in the 80′s. Show me the proof of these Asian girls apart from a Sikh Indian girl that they enjoyed as they hate Sikhs too… (Fancy that eh) I’ll tell you what, you can’t. Because there isn’t any. Prove me wrong. Regarding the Clergy, again, that what OUR problem. We dealt with it. Does that make this OK????

@Tom Tom.

Social deprivation and poverty??… Where? How many ‘new Irish’ do you see that look deprived or poverty stricken??? They would’t be here except for the benefits! My neighbour hasn’t worked since he got here. 4 bed house and car on the drive. And since when does that excuse thuggery anyway??? A 70 year old woman is seriously assaulted and you blame anybody but the racist newcomers? My childhood was far from ideal. Can I go out and assault people and blame others? This was a war torn Country until recently and we all have stories. This is different and you know it.

@Amanda Doherty: I hope you’re not suggesting that I excuse thuggery. ANd I certainly don’t condone any of what you’ve described. We can at least agree on that. But it’s disturbing that you can’t see the racial overtones in your own posts.

@Amanda Doherty: Good God. We’re you just not hugged as a child or what? How can you blame the whole refugee population for the thuggery and cynicism of a few?

@Tom Tom:

You’re wrong Tom. I can see racial overtones. Of course I can. But you can’t create Utopia. You just can’t. Look at France, riots all over the place (Paris is horrendous). UK is a kip now. I lived there for a long time and have seen it change before my eyes. Difference is, we can’t afford it at all. One in 6 households living in poverty. It just doesn’t make sense. And the longer we are tied to the EU, the worse it will get. I find it disturbing that you can’t see that, quite frankly.

@danielplainview: ” discussing honestly its faults and correcting them is whats important” Dream on no one will change the EU for the better certainly not a small fish like Ireland

@Amanda Doherty: look at this fool.. now you’re talking about the UK in a supposed conversation about Ireland blaming African immigration for crimes that happen everywhere whilst claiming not to be racist. Nothing to do with economy, all to do with race – you said to Google ‘Black Gangs Balbriggan’ and talked about importing crime but you’re not racist… not going well for you here is it Amanda?

@Ger Quinn:
Tell you what Ger, I hope I am wrong, I really do. For your children and mine. But what if I am not. What then? Where do we find refuge? Have you considered that? Already, young Irish lads are feeling forced into carrying knives to protect themselves. Where do these lads go to find asylum/escape persecution? Where will our kids go?

@Gary Casserly:
Supposed conversation??? Explain.

@Amanda Doherty: Again, one question mark is enough, why are you using three? You’ve tried arguing thats Ireland would be better off out of the EU. (Everything to suggest this is totally false and idiotic frankley). You’ve then referenced a hypothetical theory of being controlled and dominated by dark skinned people, (hasn’t ever happened before, no logical reason to suggest that; only fear and paranoia). You then introduced stuff that was supposed to have happened in the UK, we were talking about Ireland. You’ve gone off point so much and keep going back to racist comments and speculation. Your credibility is the same as taking marital advice from a priest.

@danielplainview:
You say you want discussion. Are you jhonest? I suspect you are not sincere. The newspaprers, RTE Newstalk etc make sure there is no discussion. And when some people in Dublin try to hold a discussion, countless eurofascists here and elsewhere try to shut them up!

@Tom Tom: We have so so much more of it now. We have criminal gangs from Romanian, Lithuania Russia, Poland, and several parts of africa. Farage is right, we need to get out of the European Union. Our country is being destroyed, slowly but surly.

@Paul:
To slum landlords…

@Gary Casserly:
Nonsense.
Most foreign migrants are whiter than me-latvians,. Russians, poles.
I want them to leave.

@Tony Tobin: ach, Tony, ffs?

@Keith Grant: Well said Keith. He’s a incredible hypocrite. He’s obviously short of a few bob and desperate to get back some of that egotistical limelight.

@Paul Devlin: some are Irish. I think

@Keith Grant: people are telling you what to do from outside your country…wake up.

@Keith Grant:

Merkel and Dipso,Junker, have been telling our wee little Ireland what to do for a few years now.

@Keith Grant:
Stupid post. He’s not telling you what to do. Farage doesn’t give orders.
The corrupt EU does.

@Tony Tobin: Touche.

@Tony Tobin: That’s us in brussels… do try to keep up LOL

@Tom&Gerry: You shinnerbots are a gift that just keeps on giving PMSL

@domas1507: No problem!

@Royston Fitzpatrick:
Why are you afraid of debate? Maybe you’re not so sure of all the bloated claims you made for the EU?

@domas1507: I would rather be with Britain than Europe. We are on a path of destruction, Ireland as we knew it is no longer, in 20 Years Ireland will be a Muslim country, there is no doubt about that. We fought the English for 800 years for our freedom and now we are giving our country over to Islamist’s from African countries. For what, a better economy, is that really worth losing our country for. Farage is right, anyone with an ounce of intelligence will agree with him.

@Tom&Gerry: No we didnt fight the the british for 800 years, the shinner nonsense, we happily coexisted but sorry if that hurts your persecution complex

@The Risen: I did not know Irexit is Sinn Fein policy. I guess I know now.

@The Risen: Yeah Yeah let’s try Dev’s dream once again—An Irish speaking Ireland living within ourselves—-Worked great the last time —–Well didn’t it?

@The Risen: Shinnerbot in awe of UKIP who could make it up

@Royston Fitzpatrick: Bullshit, we need to take our country back, period.

@Tom&Gerry: Its best to just look, point and laugh at you shinnerbots and your nonsensical rants PMSL

@phil:
Those are fair questions.
But those of us who can answer them are censored by RTE. Newstalk etc.