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IN A DOCUMENTARY due to air tonight, TV3 will explore Ireland’s much-criticised Direct Provision (DP) system.
For The Irish Asylum Seeker Scandal, the station gained access to a DP centre in Mosney, Co. Meath – the first time any camera crew has been inside one of the facilities.
More than 4,500 people currently live in 34 DP centres nationally.
The system is supposed to deal with asylum seekers within six months of their arrival, but many have been living in centres for up to 10 years because of delays in processing their applications for refugee status.
The Department of Justice recently confirmed that the Government spent €1.27 billion on asylum seekers between 2005 and 2009.
During the documentary, residents in DP centres claim to have experienced violence, abuse and propositions to earn money from prostitution.
Kobe, a woman from Nigeria, is one of the asylum seekers interviewed in the programme. She came to Ireland nine years ago and has an 11-year-old daughter and an eight-year-old son – both of whom grew up in a DP centre. The whole family now lives in one room in Knocklaisheen House, Co Limerick.
Speaking about her experience in Ireland, Kobe said:
I don’t know how to be happy, you know that word happiness? I don’t even know it. It’s so sad that my children are at the receiving end you know. I said to my social worker the last time I saw her, ‘I just want to stop crying, how do you stop crying? I just want to be happy’ but you know it’s just so hard, when I see the kids growing up.
Kobe added that she finds it difficult to fill her days.
“You wake up … it’s just the same old thing every day. When the children go to school, I love working, I clean my house, I move the bed around and I do that until they come home from school and like that, the day just every day, nothing to do.”
The Irish Asylum Seeker Scandal will air on TV3 today at 10pm.
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Can we have one week without one of these articles telling us how evil we are for giving people shelter and food?? Just one week is all I ask….
You are forgetting that the ultra liberal agenda is more important than relevant factual reporting.
Why does the article not explain the background to this woman living in an asylum centre? Why did she leave Nigeria? Why did she travel up through Africa, through the length of Europe, through England, maybe Wales to Ireland? What was the result of her asylum application, was it rejected? Was she found to be lying? Did she appeal again and again while living here all expenses paid and all at tax payers expense? There is a possibility that the circumstances are different, if so can the Journal please enlighten its readers who otherwise can with over 99% certainty assume that the facts are something like I have described as over 99% of asylum applicants are on investigation found to just people with no in-demand qualifications hoping to enter richer countries by lying about their circumstances. If there were only a handful of people doing this we could turn a blind eye, but that is not the case as hundreds of millions wish to crowd into the attractive parts of the world which were it allowed would convert these locations into 3rd world shanty towns within a few decades. Everywhere I have worked including UAE was only on condition I was doing a job which could not be filled locally, and that is how any country which does not wish to end up as one big shanty town filled with the world’s poor operates its border control.
Donal Agreed. We are being taken for the ride of the centuary on this issue by the industry of do gooder organisations that have mushroomed .Have a look at their web sites no accounts, salaries etc. Even a mini bus is supplied to take Ms Kobe’s friends to the Post Office to collect the €18.
How much of the €1.27 billion has been pocketed by lawyers.
Process for accepting or rejecting needs to be made quicker. Genuine cases should be welcomed to their new home. Those rejected should be sent packing asap.
I used to post that applications are processed in 16 to 18 weeks, I was wrong – it’s 12.
Source: Nascireland.
“The median processing time for asylum applications in 2014 (to end April) is 12.1 weeks. Various strategies are being advanced to manage processing times in ORAC including the scheduling of some Saturday interviews”.
Many years ago I was posted to Glasgow and was unhappy there so I came home.
@Scare.
I always wondered did anyone believe that PR nonsense about fast processing…
Why doesn’t Kobe go for a walk or do some volunteering while her kids are at school… Go find your happiness and stop waiting for it to find you
Why is Kobe claiming asylum in Ireland? There are no direct flights between Dublin and Lagos, with a lot of ‘safe’ countries in between and as well as that there is no war going on in Nigeria. Yes there is low level insurgency in the Muslim north, but Nigeria is a vast country and the south is relatively untroubled. It sounds like Kobe is the archetypal asylum shopper, like the mob currently queueing up at Calais in France trying to break into the UK.
Of course I don’t these questions to be answered because it is most likely this doco is going to be one sided propaganda piece edited by the Imigrant Council or some other identity politics NGO.
I agree with you almost entirely.Will they ever make a documentary about why those who bitch about how hard things are in their home countries, Leave them to go to other countries rather than stay and do something about it?Millions died across Europe to get what we have today,like it or not.Why do they not do the same,Stay and fight for change?The vast majority of them are freeloaders..simple as…someone might as well say it…It is what most people think.
Maybe Ms. Kobe would be happier in France or the UK or whatever country she came here from, because she sure as hell didn’t come here from Nigeria.
Leftist white guilt merchants who advocate open borders immigration will not be happy until Europe no longer looks like Europe, but looks more like the Middle East and sub-saharan Africa.
There s a fair few irish not happy either , she’s fitting right in
But immigrants deserve to be happier than native Irish duh
These “fair few Irish” that you allude to:
Are not living on €19.00 a week
Have not fled their home-land out of sheer fear and terror for their & their children’ s lives.
Aren’t cooped up like battery hens in one bedroom with two young children
Aren’t verbally and physically attacked at random because of the colour of their skin when they do venture off their encampment
Aren’t totally, hindered and prevented from becoming part of the outside world that they live in while locked for years and years in a miserable lonsome existence
1. “Are not living on €19.00 a week” – After rent, food, transport, electricity, tv, phone, taxes – Neither am I (and I earn 30k per annum)
2. Have not fled their home-land out of sheer fear and terror for their & their children’ s lives. – Neither have the majority of people living in Direct Priovision. If they had they would not have been refused as many times as these people have been to end up living there 10 years. Do you honestly believe these people are waiting 10 years on an initial decision???
3. Aren’t cooped up like battery hens in one bedroom with two young children – Myself and my partner, who both work, and our 2 year old child live in a one bedroom apartment that is not much bigger. We have 2 rooms, a bedroom and a kitchen / living room. And we cope.
4. Aren’t verbally and physically attacked at random because of the colour of their skin when they do venture off their encampment – A MASSIVE generalisation, you know as well as we all do, that the level of racist attacks in this country, while disgraceful, is nowhere near as prevalent as the media would like us to think. Also, and I hesitate to add this, not everything you say to a black person is racist, even if some would like to think so. I can have an argument with a person from any race, creed or religion and not be racist. If the person i’m arguing with decides to accuse me of racism however – what do I do? It’s my word against theirs, and I have a fair idea who would be believed.
Plus the word encampment brings about ridiculously OTT connotations. These aren’t prisons / concentration camps / whatever else the bleeding hearts would have you think. They are open facilities where people are free to go out and engage with / in the local community. The fact that the militant portion of residents choose to treat these places as places of detention is not the State’s fault.
5. Aren’t totally, hindered and prevented from becoming part of the outside world that they live in while locked for years and years in a miserable lonsome existence – See above!!! A large portion of the residents volunteer in the local community, and enjoy great relationships with local Irish people.
What has to be realised (and its clear from the comments section that ordinary Irish people really are not as exercised about this issue as the media would like us to think) is that the vast majority of these people have had their applications refused a number of times, but they keep lodging appeal after Judicial Review after appeal and so on. You really think the State wants to fork out all this cash? No, but they have no other choice, and its the most humane option available.
And it is humane.
Oh – and what was the protest in Cork about a few weeks ago……? Sky Sports. and they got it.
I don’t have Sky Sports.
But hey, i’m Irish – so who gives a fu*k.
Well said James.
‘Are not living on €19.00 a week’
But they’re not really living on 19 euro. They’re getting 3 meals a day and accomadation courtesy of the taxapayer which cost far more then 19 euro a week. You would imagine people who fled starvation and death would be happy to be guaranteed 3 meals a day.
‘Aren’t cooped up like battery hens in one bedroom with two young children’ 3 people in a room is not equivalent to battery hens, less of the hyperbole please.
‘Aren’t verbally and physically attacked at random because of the colour of their skin when they do venture off their encampment’
Direct provision centres are not ‘encampments’, the use of that term suggest tents in a field surrounded by barbwire. Do you have evidence these people are being attacked, when they leave, or did you just make that up? I reckon the only place that tends to happen is in your over active imagination.
‘Aren’t totally, hindered and prevented from becoming part of the outside world that they live in while locked for years and years in a miserable lonsome existence’
Well the simple solution to that is to stop launching appeal after endless appeal, everytime your claim for asylum is rejected.
Kinda stealing my thunder there Scipio!! :)
Totally agree though, time for people to wake up!!
Re: the cork protest, they were also looking for an on-site gym and better internet access accordingly to the irish examiner.
Not sure what your nationality has to do with your opinion?
Am I to think, because you are “Irish” you believe it gives you right of passage to express your obvious, to put it mildly ‘resentment’.
I wish I could afford a gym. I just do an hours walk outside instead. Plus my modem is as powerful as hamster in a wheel.
Twas far from Gyms and high-speed broadband access that we all were reared, never mind asylum seekers from sub-Saharan Africa!
Lol. It looks that way. By the time I composed that comment and hit submit, yours was already up there.
Completely agree with James
Ruth
If we cannot be honest about the situation then let us be brutally frank. No asylum seeker coming to Ireland arrived here as their first port of call. Under the Dublin Convention rules they should have their applications processed there. Instead the vast majority tea up their documents and cane remember how they were transported here. This frustrates their application and the necessary investigations surrounding their status.
When a decision is made about them and it’s negative they appeal it and continue doing that all the way through the Courts and on to Europe.
We need to change the rules. All case should be processed within sixty days. If applicants refuse to provide accurate and truthful information about their first port of arrival they should be sent back immediately
This should start tomorrow.
No further issues.
Brilliant
And the sky sports alone costs €5k per annum.
James I couldn’t agree more well said!
I would imagine they are not very happy….There is just not enough free stuff.if we do not give them more they might just go home.
If your not happy then head back to the country you arrived from as their are no direct flights from Nigeria obviously pulled the have a child get Irish passport stunt but found that road blocked………there again wont get child allowance,single parent allowance house etc that she expects to get…….Why are we not told if her application was refused and if it was refused then is she appealing etc etc dragging the process out spending tax payers money.time that all those who looked for asylum and refused are sent back no more dragging out process and the tax paying quangos that were set up by govt depts are either wound down or moved to looking after the irish homeless rights and needs and stop bleeding the tax paying system………
They sought asylum and they got it, we probably took in a lot more than we could cater for though. More stringent regulations required to enter Ireland in future perhaps.
I am sick to the teeth of the poor old asylum seekers, people in the general public do not have a clue what the vast majority of the people living in DP are like, they are the rudest, most ungrateful and dare I say it racist bunch towards the people who work there and to people in general. Cultural diversity my ass, manners cost nothing. Each and every one living in DP has their own personal agenda whether it’s a genuine case for asylum or not. If fleeing from such plight why do they protest about having no sky sports, no school bus to take kids to school, no ethnic food(you live in Europe now), no light milk, no gym, no 24 hour access to food/milk, not enough choice on breakfast cereals, not enough choice for peoples lunches, the lists are endless! If you don’t like it then what’s stopping you heading else where, there are many families of all nationalities in Ireland struggling to put food on the table and pay bills, join the club and welcome to reality.
Raw agreed. And to add – one word missing from all reports on this issue “THANKS” and I doubt we will hear it tonight on TV3.
This should help the open border agenda merchants play on the emotions of the gullible, well done.
Junior Soprano
” She’s like a woman with a Virginia ham under her arm, crying the blues ‘ cause she has no bread”
and dont forget her children in school free would she have this service in nigeria no as a previous comment said there are thousands of unhappy irish out there .
“You wake up … it’s just the same old thing every day. When the children go to school, I love working, I clean my house, I move the bed around and I do that until they come home from school and like that, the day just every day, nothing to do.”
- break out the world’s smallest violin…
Kobe is just trying to appear to be very miserable in order to get a European passport and a place to live.
Where is the father of her children? She had one of them in direct provision. I just head on the radio that funding for the Irish society for the prevention of cruelty to children is being cutback, this will result in vulnerable children having no means of help that is badly needed. Now we have people arriving from Africa demanding every benifit under the sun and calling us cruel. 1.3 billion in a few years? How many homes could that build and how many jobs could be created. Take a look at this short video regarding immigration from 3rd world countries.
These people should be helped in their own countries and not see Europe as some sort of goldmine where homes and welfare grow on trees. They will just end up destroying the welfare state.
@ neimad spot on!…….my thoughts while watching the programme…AND THE OSCAR GOES TO…….!
If they are not happy they are free to leave the state and return to their home countries any time they wish.
Nobody can make you happy but yourself. Just another sob story…
A roof over your head, 3 meals a day, all utility bills paid for, free education. You’re looked after better than those from here. If I wasn’t happy I would return to my home country.
Well there was a civil war in Nigeria in the 1970 (I think) 100,000,000 lost their lives none headed for the Emerald Isle!! , mind you that same country in 1985/6 sent home at bayonet point 200,000 migrant workers from neighbouring countries.
Maybe she should volunteer or go out and march against the treble water charges.That is something to do !
Kobe is just trying to appear to be very miserable in order to get a European passport and a place to live.
Where is the father of her children? She had one of them in direct provision. I just head on the radio that funding for the Irish society for the prevention of cruelty to children is being cutback, this will result in vulnerable children having no means of help that is badly needed. Now we have people arriving from Africa demanding every benefit under the sun and calling us cruel. 1.3 billion in a few years? How many homes could that build and how many jobs could be created. Take a look at this short video regarding immigration from 3rd world countries.
These people should be helped in their own countries and not see Europe as some sort of goldmine where homes and welfare grow on trees. They will just end up destroying the welfare state.
How much aid have the Irish given to Africa, how many Irish aid volunteers put their lives on the line for them? The thanks we get is to be labelled “racist”.
Well Solar Auroch I find that Irish people only get called racist when they are Racist.
Actually you are called racist every time you disagree with black person.
How the fukk can it take 9 years to process her case?
Appeals and more Appeals, takes years for each one to go through the courts.
“I propose an interrogation of how the Irish nation can become other than white (Christian and settled), by privileging the voices of the racialised and subverting state immigration but also integration policies. Stage one of such interrogation would be to do all we can to defeat the citizenship referendum on June 11.”
Ronit Lentin, Trinity College Dublin.
The Irish are being emotionally blackmailed by unrepresentative people & groups with agendas to destroy Irish ethnicity & Americanise the Irish population, examples include ultra-leftist university academics & immigration-pushing NGO’s who advise the govt. on immigration policies.
“The EU should “do its best to undermine” the “homogeneity” of its member states, the UN’s special representative for migration has said.”
Peter Sutherland, former FG politician.
The business class want a continuous cheap labour supply, driving down wages, outcompeting the Irish – by replacing cohesive settled communities who have stronger bonds & less vulnerable to wage-slavery, with a constant inflow of transient, unsettled populace. They are socially engineering a populace with no allegiance to anything except struggling against other slaves to secure a job, thereby destroying resistance to state & private exploitation policies.
Don’t worry Laoch Airíoch, when they take over after the immigration tsunami has settled they will find a job for you as a spokeswoman for the oppressed class.
Oh Please, they are here for one thing and one thing only and that is a free life
They have no intention of contributing to society or integrating , i mean what do they offer us that we are lacking??
We already have our own set of lazy dole heads why broaden our horizons and cater for the undesirables of Europe and Africa
Ireland is a laughing stock and until more stricter immigration laws come into play that sees us only take in people who benefit this country we will keep declining and will sooner or later turn into the likes of Sweden,France etc eg Failed mass immigration hellholes
After we get IW out of the way the next set of Protests should be based upon the failed project that is mass immigration
We have only been in the EU for a little over ten years and the landscape of this country has changed an awful lot and for the worse
Can you imagine what it will be like in 50 years when we have multiple generations of welfare tourists, roma gangs, Islamic maniacs
I know i’ll get red thumbed by the usual PC do gooding losers but people really need to WAKE UP
After we the people destroy Irish water, mass immigration is next on our list
Let’s be real here , these people are here for one thing and one thing only..a free life
These people didn’t flee their countries out of fear , if they did they would have set up camp at the nearest point of safety not travel thousands of miles through several countries to get to our tiny little island.
These people have no intention of integrating or contributing to Irish society, it’s all want want want and give nothing back with them and the clueless do gooders who support them and play the racist card are just as bad
I’m afraid Ireland has a huge problem on the way and that is the biggest social failure in recent times eg Mass immigration (with no control)
Just a quick look to our neighbors in the UK doesn’t paint a pretty picture for whats to come down the road for this country,
The likes of the UK, Sweden and France have shown mass immigration is a failure
We could easily resolve this issue by implying strict immigration laws like Canada,OZ etc but that will never happen while we are apart of the EU, We have enough lazy free loaders of our own to sort out why sort we cater for all the useless individuals of Europe and Africa aswell
Since we joined the EU a little over 10 years ago the landscape of our country and cities hasn’t dramatically changed and i fear for the worst
Can you imagine what it will be like when you fast forward 50 years if we let this continue, generations of Welfare tourist families, Roma gangs, foreign criminals ,Islamic maniacs all running riot in this once great nation
Once we the people defeat Irish water and the government our next (highest)priority has to be tackling unrestricted mass immigration
If we don’t our grandchildren will never forgive us and our national identity will be a distant memory
WAKE UP PEOPLE THE TIME IS NOW
@ My Asset Colum… where do I sign up! I’m ALL for protesting to fast track deportations on failed asylum seekers and let’s face it… after 4 years they are failed let alone 9! They actually believe their own lies.. they genuinely believe they are escaping persecution. … one lady on Red Fm recently told a shocked presenter she was in Ireland claiming asylum due to an abusive husband but she is fully convinced she is in genuine need of refugee status. It’s not even provide housing for refugees, it’s all asylum seekers with immediate effect! I blame the radical Anti Deportation Ireland crowd for giving these people false hope… the Irish will never ever stand to be held to ransom like this when we haven’t got it for our own especially now feelings are stirring with the water protests and vigilante protests in Waterford… we take so much and then SNAP
Seriously where do I sign up for the protest??? If they can protest I sure as hell can!! But with Sinn Fein and AAA pro immigrants who will be ballsy enough to actually act for 90% of the Irish population who sure as hell don’t want failed asylum seekers here anyway!!!
If no one else in the country has not already attempted or at least thought of these kind of protests i highly recommend we start planning now
I am based in Dublin so will need at least a few members from different villages/parts of Dublin to help out
People in other counties and cities we really need to get this going
What dates suit for the protest??
Sugar Gemini i appreciate your feedback and i do feel we can overcome this as it is not racism in the slightest it is only the do gooding FG heads that spring that card as they have nothing else to bring to the table
PEOPLE THE TIME IS NOW IF WE LET THIS CONTINUE OUR COUNTRY WILL GO DOWN THE DRAIN
No other country with Balls would let this happen the time is now to stand up to unrestricted mass immigration while we still have the chance
Saturday the 22nd of November will be the day Ireland fights back against the poisoning that is being fed to us by the corrupt rats in the EU
They’re not at all grateful are they ?
My parents provided me with ‘Direct provision’ when I left school but they CHARGED me 35 quid for it the the cheapskates. I didn’t know you could complain about getting accommodation and food provided, should I look for a refund????
Can we not bring out a law that allows us to deport this lazy shower of ungrateful desirable’s if they continue to have the absolute cheek to complain about their free stuff ???
Is that much to ask?
1 appeal and then bye bye see ya , don’t call us because we never called you . Plenty of room in Africa.
I wonder what kind of treatment us Irish would get if we landed into one of the nations in the EU where the parasites come from and demand everything under the sun, oh wait when we emigrate we actually work,pay our way and integrate into whichever society it is , unlike the welfare tourist’s that we attract to our once great nation
Their children are lovely ,though . Really ,really,friendly kids.. When I’m picking up my dearies from school ,they always have the most beautiful smile for you .
Children become adults and Irish children are just as lovely, with the most beautiful smiles that have their parents features.
;-)
We love them more than our own .
Oh my God whynotme, I’ve just lost hope in the empathy of Irish people when you gain over two hundred red thumbs of vitriol for yourself for simply remarking that the children were nice…
Sad that people are so cynical and have no empathy for others’ troubles. Sure there are no Irish people trying to live in other countries illegally taking any job going to keep a roof over their head n food in their bellies. Would u not do all you could to get your children an education and a better life? The main problem is they cannot work until they are approved or disapproved – up to 10 years. Try living with your family in one room for years and no job – not easy.
Michelle – I’m not sure what you mean. In all likelihood this woman has had multiple appeals submitted and rejected.
Re: empathy; emotion doesn’t make for good immigration policy. The fact is, this person, claiming to be in danger and or fear for her life had to pass through multiple safe havens to get here. The logic doesn’t stack up.
Michelle they are only in the dp centres for ten years because they keep appealing the decision , the process for application is usually about 12 weeks .
Re: empathy -was referring to the comments not the policy. Amazing that you should know the ‘facts’ of this woman’s or anyone’s case.
Here’s a fact Michelle. It’s impossible to travel from Nigeria to Ireland without passing through numerous ‘safe’ countries en route. If you wish to engage in gullibility that is your choice.
That’s it Michelle; play the man not the ball.
Well GO back where you came from
Maybe we should organise a march in the 20th of Nov too. To end the acceptance of any asylum claim from anyone who is not from an adjoining country or a country with direct transport non stop to Ireland?
Non- EUImigration policy cannot allow every Tom, Dick and Harry into a country struggling with bankruptcy, emigration, unemployment, low wages and high taxation. EU countries throw them out at once. We have may eastern Europeans here and it is hard providing for them, even though many work hard and contribute to Ireland. Schoolss, hospitals, roads, infrastructure was all planned for 4.0m people not 4.7 million.
We are a bankrupt state and the African countries must more for each other. After all, we never colonized any foreign country but as in the Us UK etc Irishmen and women hard to work hard to get accepted and make a life for themselves.
Who is benefiting from keeping people in Direct Provision for so many years?
The biggest provision centre where I live, is part-owned by a local FG senator,
its construction was finished just in time for the influx.
The blood boils…
There is no direct flights from Nigeria hoe are we accepting refugees from anywhere we are an island!to get here they must pass through numerous ‘safe’ countries.Asylum should be granded in the first country you enter upon leaving your own country not whichever one takes your fancy or has the best benefit system.we cant look after our own nevermind other countries people!
Maybe if our forebears hadn’t taken their missionary zeal to these countries in a bid to get more members/money for the church and telling them what a little bit of heaven on Earth Ireland is, they wouldn’t be in such a rush to get here now. We exploited them, what goes round comes round.
” We exploited them” WE? Explain please.
There is no logical explanation for that ridiculous comment.
Part of their missionary zeal was giving free western education and medicine, try watching a few ‘radharc’ documentaries to see how whole generations were saved, but you are right if our forebears had not taken their missionary zeal to these countries, they would not be here now, because they would not exist, Africa etc would not be experiencing a population overload.
There are issues that were glossed over in this report . The woman who ate her fake passport and those of her children before arriving in Abu Dhabi on a transit flight to Ireland . There are no passport checks for transit passengers there .I have been through this airport about a dozen times and I never had to show a passport before boarding a flight. Do they fine these airlines ?
The Minister was asked why so few get refugee status . The reporter neglected to mention that 1000 get leave to remain a higher figure than years ago. This is a result of those asylum seekers who have children to get status here.
There is no figures for those granted refugee and leave to remain who go on to work here one has to assume its a small percentage.
Kobe forgot to say in her interview that she is working and owes 2 cars.
@ Grady I’m assuming you’re trolling , but either way i hope it lashes rain that day
They’ll get those too. You have to look for reasonably good equipment at the competitive price. Get quotes in, then process the orders. One thing at a time :)
It’s already in ‘ongoing’ tray.
No idea why my comment ended here :)
Anyway … I meant the gym and better WiFi.
10 years of living in those cramped conditions must be horrendous for those young Irish children.
Yes deliberately producing babies for the sole aim of anchoring your claim & cynically securing your foothold in a country after bypassing countless safe countries, then making appeal after appeal for 10 years, is certainly child abuse by those African parents on their children.
Whynotme , very good I see what you’re doing there but I’m not going to bite ! No doubt someone else will .
Maybe they can’t afford condoms, or maybe they are good Catholics indoctrinated by Irish druids in the new faith to not use them for fear that their souls are lost – you do accept they might have souls a Bhridín?
am a white American who is well traveled but never have I ever met racist people like the Irish.
All countries with thriving economies like America, Australia and England are full of the Irish. But they hate to see a non Irish in their country.
But I won’t be too harsh because most of you on here must the the uneducated or the very young who don’t know about the mass number of Irish people who fled Ireland when it was hell there.
Ahem The Irish do not go to foreign countries to seek asylum and claim welfare they work !! Your comparison is not correct. We do not need a yank to tell us our history thanks !
commander, feck off
@ c in c….when they irish go to another country they work very hard to build to the great nations that they are….they dont go for the handouts because there arent any!
How can this treatment be going on in 2014 we as a modern nation should be more welcoming to the people who need assistance from people who have more . We all need to do more for others
Www90, who has more ? Have you not seen the protests over the weekend against the water charges ? We have no more to give !
There is a huge difference between being welcoming and being fooled.
The Irish Refugee Council are organising a demonstration for an end to direct provision on 20th November (Universal Children’s Day). If you are a resident in a direct provision centre in Cork and are interested in going up to Dublin for the demo, please let us know #EndDP
While living in a DP centre you are free to come and go as you wish. If you want to end Direct Provision just leave and don’t come back.
Remember though, after doing so, you have to provide for yourself.
@ Grady Lube
I’m assuming you’re trolling with that post
Either way, i hope it lashes rain on 20th November
Yes end direct provision and the Asylum System that is a farce and costing more than water charges.
well march all the way to the airport,
@ grady lube …..and as usual the cost of transport will be paid for by the irish tax payer……i would suggest grady that the little get together should consist of thanking the irish tax payer for the roof over your head, food, medical card, special payments made during the year, education ( for those that were bothered to use the service), doctors visits, nurses on site, creche, computer, internet, tv and channels . also the numerous organisations that support centres during the year and especially at christmas time, for the numerous clubs and volunteers that give of their time free to coach and mentor children and adults alike and the numerous communities that give food, time, clothes and toys to the asylum community, many of these people would have very little themselves but feel they should share and be grateful for what they have!
grady….the fact is many many asylum seekers are not genuine i have first hand experience of this , nobody is denying a genuine case should be dealt with and promptly , just about every day i hear …”..ireland is a sweet country and easy to get what you want” of course i cant say anything in response as i would be called racist…!
Oh there are much bigger scandals out there. Let’s just say that Church – style scandal Mk. II is on the way, and when it hits Frances Fitzgerald and the Gardai will be seen as what they are: modern day versions of the Bishops of the past.
Get a grip Ann…
Ireland…..the country of a thousand welcomes..eh folks
As I said before: There is a huge difference between being welcoming and being fooled.
@ John o neill, ireland the country that has been hammered right left and centre, corrupt government incapable of sorting the such problems and getting the ordinary person to pay for the disasters , whats the bet there will be one compensation case after another because the free stuff wasnt up to standard!
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