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The Late Late Show met some of Ireland's newest citizens

“It was the proudest day of my life. Honestly.”

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LAST FRIDAY, IRELAND gained 3,000 new citizens in a ceremony held at the Convention Centre in Dublin city.

Ryan Tubridy was there to greet all the happy people after they got their Certificates of Naturalisation.

What a welcome:

But he wasn’t just there as part of the welcoming committee, as last night a few of those taking part in the ceremony were his guests on The Late Late Show.

New Irish citizen Aksana Sidarchuk told Tubridy her story of arriving in Two-Mile Borris at the age of nine from Chernobyl.

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Mary and Eddie Clancy took her in when she first arrived temporarily, and were in the audience to celebrate with her last night.

“I was a little bit unwell at the time and I spent a few days in Limerick Hospital and Mary and Eddie were very generous and kind to me over the years – they brought me back every summer for treatments and I’m in Ireland since I’m 19,” she said.

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Given Tubridy was there for the ceremony, he had his own take on proceedings: ”That ceremony had a great effect on me – I thought it was positive and emotional and warm … I’d love to know what it meant to you.”

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“It was the proudest day of my life. Honestly. I actually cried when I had to declare my fidelity and loyalty to the nation,” Sidarchuk said.

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And she finished on the most enthusiastic note:

If I – touch wood – die in Ireland, don’t fundraise money, I will be happy buried in Irish soil. Wrap this flag around me, I’m home!

Lola Ayetigbo also gained her citizenship last week – and told the story of her late son Shetemi, who tragically died at just 16 years old.

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So many viewers at home were touched by the whole segment:

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And this quote just about summed up the prevailing attitude of people watching at home:

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:09 PM

    @Jack Cassady: Depends how you define Irish jack. If they move here, embrace the culture and live happy and productive lives alongside their neighbors, then they’re Irish as far as I’m concerned. Try be a bit more open minded.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:55 PM

    @Matty kinevan: true, but if they fake abuse back home, or arrive 9 months pregnant which used to be the case, then they should all be deported.

    Yes to genuine workers, and deport all the spongers and bogus asylum seekers.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:59 PM

    @kevin: So you would send any 9 months pregnant woman back home because she’s pregnant? Are you some kind of a$$hole or something?

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    May 1st 2017, 3:08 PM

    @Matty kinevan: Why would a 9 month pregnant woman come from Africa to Ireland? Is it because she heard of the National Maternity Hospital?
    And less of the hate speech, please.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:07 PM

    citizenship is being given around like its nothing after a while anyone will be able to get it then we are going to have more problems

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:25 PM

    @gamescentrel: it’s €1000 got citizenship. Plus background checks, employment record, civil obedience etc.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:36 PM

    @Alan Brogan: is there a test like the US and Australia?

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:41 PM

    @Gulliver Foyle: don’t know. Don’t care.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:56 PM

    @Gulliver Foyle: or Britain. No there’s not.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 4:54 PM

    @gamescentrel: Hopefully we will have more punctuation too!

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    Apr 29th 2017, 8:11 PM

    @gamescentrel: you may just have had the simplest comment in the history of the journal

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    Apr 30th 2017, 12:25 PM

    @gamescentrel:

    Ah poor G, I understand your concerns.
    We give away citizenship like Americans, Australian give to the Irish. Imagine if we weren’t members of the EU how many European countries would have to issue passports to the Irish.
    God love ya G, I hope you can get a night’s sleep with all the worries you.

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    May 15th 2017, 9:01 PM

    Alan Brogan doesn’t know the answer.
    I do.
    There is no test. Irish naturalization procedures are the laxest in Europe.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:21 PM

    How long before there are more immigrant Irish citizens, than the indigenous native population? Will it be spot the Paddy in 50 years time say? Will our culture, tradition’s and way of life suffer as a result of mass migration into the country?

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:30 PM

    @James Doyle: In 50 years time, these people’s kids will be paddys, just like JFK was American, Ned Kelly was an Aussie, Ché Guevara was Argentine and the Beatles were scousers

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:33 PM

    @James Doyle: Hopefully, we need to replace the current indigenous bigots, they have regressed mentally over the past few decades, time for the gene pool to be broadened.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:41 PM

    @Grainne Abdulaziz: Yeah you’re all for equality you. Replace them with what exactly? A big happy ummah?

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:45 PM

    @Matty kinevan: People with intelligence, and skills that are required in the economy. I wouldn’t expect you to understand, stick to trying to be funny.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:46 PM

    @Grainne Abdulaziz: Yes Grainne, I would suggest some serious self reflection for yourself.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:49 PM

    @Grainne Abdulaziz: I understand that you’re actually a bloke pretending to be a woman, using a phony account. What kind of maniac does that? Seriously, you must have absolutely no life whatsoever.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:50 PM

    @James Doyle: What “mass migration”? The numbers coming to Ireland over the last 10 years are tiny compared to other countries. And I don’t know what you mean by “indigenous native” Irish. Do you mean people born and raised here because in 50 years time these peoples kids and grandkids will be Irish. They’ll drink just as much Guinness, eat just as much Tayto crisps and moan just as much about foreigners coming here as any other Irish person.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:52 PM

    @James Doyle: in case you wondering foreign-born citizens including those that have attained citizenship brings the number close to between 17%-20%, but roughly speaking 860,000 people living here out of 4600000, in the early 90′s is was 1% it wasn’t until 2002 that this started to big change to the countries demographics

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:55 PM

    @Grainne Abdulaziz: were the indigenous Indian americans raciest when they tried to get the Europeans off their land?

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:56 PM

    @ÉireBarbarian: You don’t sound like a native yourself with such appalling grammar; ‘that this started to bi g change’? What does that even mean!! Mo náire thú!

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    Apr 29th 2017, 3:01 PM

    @ÉireBarbarian: raciest? WTF?

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    Apr 29th 2017, 3:03 PM

    @Grainne Abdulaziz: Mo Mo like to wear aisha nighty when speaky to man in sky :-)

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    Apr 29th 2017, 3:09 PM

    @Emeralds: Yes but their genetic make up will not be Irish. I am aware of the saying that the Scandinavian invader’s who came here in 10 th century became more than the Irish themselves. Time will tell, I will not be around to tell one way or the other. The globalist’s agenda is to remove national border’s destroy native cultures, and create one mass consumer market where the rich get richer and the poor poorer, allow mass migration drive down wages, and working condition’s. That is my concern on the whole mass migration issue.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 3:10 PM

    @Grainne Abdulaziz: From the Sahih Collection of al-Bukhari, Hadith Number 2442
    Chapter 54. The Book of Gifts and their Excellence, VII: The one who gave a gift to his friend aiming for a time when he was with one of his wives rather than another——- He said to her, “Do not injure me regarding ‘A’isha. The revelation does not come to me when I am in the garment of any woman except ‘A’isha.” —- Seriously what’s the about?

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    Apr 29th 2017, 3:21 PM

    @Grainne Abdulaziz:

    Do you not like James Doyle’s views, and are you intolerant of his, and others’ opinions, which differ from yours?

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    Apr 29th 2017, 3:22 PM

    @ÉireBarbarian: how can you be a white Nigerian? You know Nigeria is a very hot country so Nigerians are black not white.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 3:28 PM

    @gregory: Some Nigerians are albinos

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    Apr 29th 2017, 3:37 PM

    @gregory: the same way a Nigerian can be Irish, my parent moved there before I was born and I lived there most of my life, your double-think is unbelievable

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    Apr 29th 2017, 3:46 PM

    @gregory: and incase your wondering I wasn’t considered Nigerian in Nigeria, us white kids were called “oyinbo”, it’s not considered racist, but in the context it’s used it usually is

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    Apr 29th 2017, 4:15 PM

    @Matty kinevan: Maybe ask you Imam? I’m an atheist myself so I’m not familiar with your Holy Qu’ran.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 4:22 PM

    @Grainne Abdulaziz: You can’t even bring yourself to type “holy qu’ran” in lower case, can you. Jeez… brainwashed to bits

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    Apr 29th 2017, 5:15 PM

    @Ricky Spanish: In 50 years nobody will be drinking Guinness nor eating pork products if we keep selling off our identity to anyone who can afford a passport. € 1,000 once down payment and years of € 12,000 a year in pension for a single person at today’s rates. This country and it’s people are being totally broke and still thousands came here because there were freebies, many of them hadn’t heard of Ireland before they Googled Social Welfare. I wish those who live with out culture to the fore but the scammers should never be allowed to land here in the first place. These people who bought their citizenship yesterday will cost us € 360 million every year in pension payment and goodness knows how many will be back living in leisure back home and our country will still be broken

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    Apr 29th 2017, 5:23 PM

    @James Doyle: for the most part I think if a child spends a majority of their life here and goes through the system they are very much Irish , can’t say the same for the parents they don’t have the same shared experience as someone born here

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    Apr 29th 2017, 5:43 PM

    @ÉireBarbarian:

    Just look to the UK, France , Holland and Sweden to see if the children will become ‘Tayto’ Irish.

    These countries, especially the UK is having to deal with cultural ghettos, where English is not spoken even by second, third and subsequent generations. The ghettos are expanding and there is native flight from the cities, it is self perpetuating.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 5:48 PM

    @Jho Harris: the system will collapse soon in most western countries, as social welfare is like a pyramid scheme, it only works if more people are paying in more than is been taken out

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    Apr 29th 2017, 5:52 PM

    @Joe: this is why I’m for one-for-one quotas, it’s a fair system that helps avoid this, for every Irish person that goes to Poland we except one Polish person.

    Switzerland had an excellent system
    http://www.expatica.com/ch/visas-and-permits/A-guide-to-Swiss-citizenship-and-permanent-residence_107630.html

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    Apr 29th 2017, 6:07 PM

    @Grainne Abdulaziz: I agree there is a lot of bigot’s North and South in the Island of Ireland and some broadening of the gene pool is not a bad thing but it is the amount of broadening that concern’s me. How many cultures, and way’s of life have been wiped out by imperialism and greed in the name of progress? The Globalist’s agenda is to remove National border’s create one mass consumer market, encourage mass migration, drive down wage’s and working condition’s, result the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 6:12 PM

    @James Doyle: The only true genetic Irish are gingers with cystic fibrosis and coeliac disease. Everyone else is a mutt.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 8:21 PM

    @James Doyle: actually we seem very capable as a race to be able to lose touch with our culture traditions and way of life on our own …..without needing to pass the blame onto immigrants as you suggest

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    Apr 29th 2017, 10:01 PM

    @DaisyChainsaw: I married one of the gingers with coeliac disease (no cystic fibrosis, thankfully) and we produced two beautifull muts! I should be congratulated on improving the gene pool ;)

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    Apr 29th 2017, 10:07 PM

    @Dave Hammond: If you paid a bit of attention to Irish culture you would realise how stupid and uninformed your comment is, I assume you live in Dublin where nobody knows or cares whatever the rest of the country is doing. Added to that we have politicians who recently launched a a festival of Irish culture which including Chinese, African etc dancers. This people well very well have fine cultures but their culture is not Irish heritage. This time last year they made a complete celebrations of The 100 celebrations of The Rising.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 10:48 PM

    @Zmeevo Libe: You absolutely should!

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    Apr 30th 2017, 11:29 AM

    @James Doyle:
    It shall be easy to spot you James as your tone explains your mind-set.
    Please explain what exactly is Irish culture, is it learning Irish dancing, playing the banjo, supporting Gaelic games, speaking the Irish language and going to Mass on Sundays or perhaps it’s going to the pub and shouting “Man U” and demonstrating what a wonderful Xenophobic you are.
    By the way I have no interest in any of the above and my great great grandparents were Irish.
    What exactly does Irish culture qualify an Irish person for. What is the difference between an Irish person who immerses them selves in Irish culture and one that has no interest

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    Apr 30th 2017, 11:33 AM

    @ÉireBarbarian:

    Why do you assume that these people are on welfare.
    Your analytical brain is not very analytical.

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    May 1st 2017, 3:05 PM

    @Grainne Abdulaziz:
    Gene pool? Quite the racist, aren’t you?

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    May 1st 2017, 3:06 PM

    @Matty kinevan:
    And they are persecuted by the locals.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:10 PM

    RTE and Tubridy are fascinated by the idea of people from overseas coming to Ireland.
    ` Your from Venezuela, and your an Irish citizen, do you like it here?? isn`t it great, aren`t the Irish great craic, isn`t it the best country in the world ?

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:11 PM

    @Patrick James Walsh: So she was on? Off to the Rte player I go

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:18 PM

    @Patrick James Walsh: worth every euro isn’t he?

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    Apr 30th 2017, 12:10 PM

    @Patrick James Walsh:

    Actually, you and Tubs should get together then you can fascinated by you.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 1:59 PM

    Does that girl know that she’s disrespecting the flag already !

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:11 PM

    @Suzie Sunshine: How?

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:17 PM

    @Suzie Sunshine: Can you advise us all of the rules? What high standard of reverence that we Irish have always demonstrated, has she broken? What punishment would be be appropriate?

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:24 PM

    @Suzie Sunshine: you’ve never been to an international soccer or rugby match, have you!

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:25 PM

    @DeFonz: you should know the rules and should respect the flag ..and relax , I never said anything about punishment!

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:26 PM

    @Suzie Sunshine: Yeah, her and every other fan at the World Cup

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:27 PM

    @Suzie Sunshine: Shut up Suzie. You are a perpetual whinger on here.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:35 PM

    @Suzie Sunshine: would rather we all respected each other, not a few pieces of coloured material!!

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:35 PM

    @Suzie Sunshine: we don’t have rules on respect for objects, like in the UK and the US. They can wipe their arse on tricolour flags stitched together and no laws will be broken. Apart from some chaffing.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:49 PM

    @Ian Walsh: Suzie likes to run with the Alt-Right herd around here, it’s another thinly veiled xenophobic and sneering remark.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 3:04 PM

    @Ian Walsh: on the other hand, I’m a mentally unstable multi accounting fücktard, currently pretending to be female.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 3:04 PM

    @Grainne Abdulaziz: Sorry but no.

    While I wouldn’t agree with all that Suzie says (and on this occasion it just seems a silly comment) I’m certain that she doesn’t deserve the labelling of “alt-right”.

    It’s getting very boring all this labelling that goes on here. Mostly just designed as sneering comments in themselves. That goes for whether it’s alt-right, liberal, racist, lefty, whatever.

    I’d love it if the journal just auto replaced a list of those words to “a person with a certain point of view” – nicely non-descript.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 3:14 PM

    @Alan Brogan: I have …

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    Apr 29th 2017, 3:27 PM

    @Gulliver Foyle: there is a protocol though .

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    Apr 29th 2017, 3:29 PM

    @Grainne Abdulaziz: it is not at all . Just shows the way your mind is working. .

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    Apr 29th 2017, 3:32 PM

    @Tony Canning: cheers .. my comment was more a tongue in cheek one .. but as usual everyone jumps on here …

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    Apr 29th 2017, 4:17 PM

    @Suzie Sunshine: you sound american to me. in the end if the day , ima flag is just thread and 3 colours on a stick.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 5:48 PM

    @James O Carroll: at the end of the day … no it’s not .

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    Apr 29th 2017, 8:14 PM

    @Suzie Sunshine: can we operate a one in one out system of citizenship? I suggest Suzie as the first to go

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    Apr 29th 2017, 8:26 PM

    @Dave O Keeffe.. you’re so kind …

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    Apr 29th 2017, 9:49 PM

    @Suzie Sunshine: You’re full of it, there is a protocol for the flag but it’s only enforceable for the military and government property. If you were to apply the protocol to everyone in the country all the pubs and hotels that fly flags would be in breach for not taking it down on the day’s it’s not to be flown. 1000s of Irish sports fans would be in breach for wearing the flag as a cape or writing slogans on it. Your real gripe is – how dare a Ukranian be granted Irish citizenship?, and the flag is just a petty excuse to hide the real reason

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    Apr 29th 2017, 10:00 PM

    @Darren Tully: see that’s where you’re wrong .. way off course . I have no issues with this lady at all and if I did then I would just say so . It was a tongue in cheek remark . That is all .

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    Apr 30th 2017, 12:06 PM

    @Suzie Sunshine:

    Really, well just have a look at all the Irish soccer fans at international games, the Irish
    Olympic teams, the fans at Cardiff Arms Park etc.
    The Sunshine comments are rather dull, to say the least.
    When it suits< Suzie , When it suits.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:15 PM

    Céad Míle Fáilte. We need sexy foreigners to stir up the gene pool.

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    May 1st 2017, 2:55 PM

    @Deviléire: so why are we giving citizenship to so many ugly ones?

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:12 PM

    How long will it take to spot the indigenous Paddy in Ireland?

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:49 PM

    @James Doyle: Surname of Doyle, from Irish Ó Dubhghaill, meaning descendant of the black-haired foreigner. Your ancestors weren’t indigenous either.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 3:09 PM

    @James Doyle:
    overstatement:
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    noun
    the action of stating something too strongly; exaggeration.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 6:14 PM

    @Brian Ó Dálaigh: I hope you brough poor James some aloe vera for that burn!

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    Apr 30th 2017, 2:59 PM

    @James Doyle:

    Very difficult in deed, considering that were are populated with Scottish, Welsh and Normans.

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    May 1st 2017, 3:04 PM

    @James Doyle:
    I think I saw one in O’Connell Street yesterday.
    He was waiting for the Airport bus.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 1:48 PM

    The comments section is going to be interesting (pulls up chair and popcorn.)

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    Apr 29th 2017, 3:33 PM

    Those that reject their own cultures and nationalities for a convenient and easily obtainable nationality are nothing more than carpetbaggers.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 3:49 PM

    @Joe: admit it, you’re just worried about having to compete for the affections of your cousin.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 3:55 PM

    @Matt Connolly:

    Are you some kind of incest apologist Matt?

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    Apr 29th 2017, 3:57 PM

    @Joe: just observing that you seem to prefer your genepool unmixed

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    Apr 29th 2017, 4:01 PM

    @Matt Connolly:

    And how would that be? Statistically, what are the odds that a culture of several million individuals would have to rely on familial interbreeding to maintain a distinct population?

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    Apr 29th 2017, 10:13 PM

    @Joe: Ok, Joe, I’ll bait. As a foreigner married to an Irishman I don’t have your approval. I suppose you wouldn’t approve of us moving to my country, since a proper Irishman will be lost? We could of course divorce but being a good Catholic that won’t make you happy either. Any suggestions?

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    Apr 30th 2017, 11:09 AM

    @Zmeevo Libe:

    I could live in the US or UK for a hundred years, but I would not renounce my nationality, where it is not necessary, to become a citizen of that country. My point was nothing about living in the country.

    I am always disappointed when someone turns their back on the country of their birth for short term gain, like Barry McGuigan, or as an exercise in ingratiation. That’s carpetbagging, like .

    In your case for instance, I’ll risk making the assumption that you are East European, possibly Bulgarian, as you would have a right of residence in Ireland as an EU citizen, why would you reject your heritage?

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    Apr 30th 2017, 11:59 AM

    @Joe: I am Bulgarian, but I am also Irish, in the sense that I have lived here for almost 19 years and have internalised a lot of Irishess. I admit a lot of these people come as overly keen, but that is perhaps because they want to convince the “locals” that they are not “in it for the benefits”. As for rejecting one’s heritage (and I presonally have a dual citizenship), maybe some of these people were running away from something? Personally I know recent arrivals who left because they were tired of the corruption at home and percieve Ireland as a more just society (and my, are they in for a rude awakening!)

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    Apr 30th 2017, 12:19 PM

    @Joe:

    Good Man Joe, The only rejection is of you Joe. You are so well informed. The obvious correlation is the return of millions of Irish scattered around the globe, to Ireland.
    Joe, you wouldn’t get out your front door. You wouldn’t be able to get your fingers up to the keyboard to type this gush.

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    Apr 30th 2017, 12:25 PM

    @Zmeevo Libe:

    Perhaps the ‘runners away’ are doing a disservice, should they not stay and create change. Or are some societies culturally corrupt?

    I spent 35 years in England but I would not describe myself as English as well as Irish

    In a situation where citizenship is not a prerequisite for residence, dual citizenship, is no citizenship. It is unnecessary and as you have said yourself, in other words, it amounts to ingratiation and that is carpetbagging, as I said originally.

    On a broader point, the first duty of government is to protect its citizens. Part of that must involve the protection of its citizens culture. Allowing immigration to reach the level of almost 20% is an abject failure of that duty.

    Because of the ease of achieving citizenship in Ireland, with passport handed out to pretty much all comers, it is providing a route into the UK for non EU nationals. There is an upsurge in non EU nationals turning up in the UK with Irish passports. This is likely to increase when the UK leaves the EU.

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    Apr 30th 2017, 12:30 PM

    @Ben Moten:

    I suppose you missed the point that I made, that I was not commenting on immigrants living in Ireland per se, it was about carpetbaggery.

    Of course I could suggest that your opinion may be skewed because you have a vested interest in immigration. But then, that would be jumping to a conclusion, which you have just done.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 4:30 PM

    God we are a great little country…we will always welcome people from foreign lands and try make them feel at home……but why do we go along and make 3000 of them citizens now having to care for them and allowing them now be eligible for social welfare and so on when we cant do so for those born and raised here already??? To me that just doesnt make sense. If we had a lot of natural riches and were a very well off country i’d say something ..but we’re not!

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    Apr 29th 2017, 4:37 PM

    @#knowingitall:

    It is also being used as a clearing house for entry to the UK for residence.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 4:56 PM

    We ARE a well-off country. Most countries are poorer than us. We weren’t always, but for the last twenty years or so, we have been, the recession notwithstanding.

    And why do we commit to caring for those who work in our country and pay taxes to contribute? I would say because they are as entitled to the benefits their taxes pay for as any of us. Using their taxes just to benefit the rest of us would basically mean we were sponging on them. “It’s OK for them to contribute to the country, but not for those contributions to be used for their benefit.”

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    Apr 30th 2017, 1:14 PM

    @Joe: Thats something else that we should be asking after giving out passports to 3000 “foreigner”and making the citizens…it may give them entry (freely) now to the UK but because they are now hold “Irish citizenship” will that now open the doors for their relatives to come in???

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:33 PM

    And where are these lovely people going to live

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:38 PM

    @The Pig: They’re already living here *facepalm*

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:39 PM

    @The Pig: The Venezuelan girl can move in with me immediately. I presume the rest will live in regular houses.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:41 PM

    @The Pig: Ireland

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    Apr 29th 2017, 3:15 PM

    @The Pig: I do not see many sleeping on the street’s like the native born Irish.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 3:26 PM

    @James Doyle: Thanks you James. Nice to know someone is alive inside.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 3:31 PM

    @Matty kinevan: couldn’t help but wonder how irregular your house is? Designed by an architect with a skewed roof perhaps? Best of luck with your Venezualan adventures :)

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    Apr 29th 2017, 3:59 PM

    @gregory: Huh?

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    Apr 29th 2017, 6:17 PM

    @James Doyle: Take the native borns into your home. Then they won’t be on the streets anymore.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 6:56 PM

    @DaisyChainsaw: Are you for real, or just acting the clown? this is a serious issue.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 10:54 PM

    @James Doyle: What? People coming over here taking your job, polluting the purity of the race and shit like that? I think it’s hilarious watching bigots having shitfits over “de furriners” getting citizenship!

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:18 PM

    If I eat Chinese food does that make me Chinese? After all, you are what you eat.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:27 PM

    @ÉireBarbarian: You must’ve eaten a lot of gobsh/tes so

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:32 PM

    @Emeralds: I think you should have to marry or have some ancestral connection to your citizenship, if you think that’s raciest then your calling Chian , Japan and many other nations racists because that’s their policies

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:36 PM

    I think to qualify that criteria you need to eat Chinese people rather than the food, otherwise you would be a carnivorous predator or a horse.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:39 PM

    @ÉireBarbarian: Go to Japan or China so. This is Ireland and we have no such law

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:44 PM

    @Emeralds: my point is that other countries do give us such liberties, I cannot go to China or Japan and demand citizenship after 5 years nor would they ever consider me a fellow country woman, so do you consider these countries policies as racist or are they jut trying to protect their culture and heritage?

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    Apr 29th 2017, 3:13 PM

    @ÉireBarbarian:
    Poor baby thinks that citizenship for others means we have to re-write our history?

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    Apr 29th 2017, 3:33 PM

    @Tony Canning: My parent were Irish who moved to Nigeria, I lived there for most of my life and experienced much racism during my life there, I was glad to move to a country like Ireland in my 20′s, but I can’t consider myself Irish because I don’t have the Irish experience of growing up here going to school and living like an Irish person, I can’t relate to their experiences just like they can’t relate to mine.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 3:40 PM

    @ÉireBarbarian: you can get Japanese citizenship and all of the legal rights that come with it. Chinese citizenship is impossible, even if you were working legally in China, met another western woman working legally in China and had a child born in China, that child still cannot get Chinese citizenship.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 3:53 PM

    @China Photo Daily: that’s raciest, Chinese can come to western countries and avail of western citizenship but we can’t. China needs some lessons on diversity, it’s a two-way system or else it doesn’t work.

    My apologies Japan does not permit dual-citizenship, which is fair enough, but how do they police that ?

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:25 PM

    They’re welcome as far as I’m concerned but let’s be honest here, there’s no real ancestral connection with this country is there.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 3:14 PM

    @Jack Cassady: So what? I note you’re writing this in English…..

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    Apr 29th 2017, 4:53 PM

    Just as there wasn’t for all the Irish people who settled in America or Britain or Australia or just about everywhere. You don’t need an ancestral connection to live in a country, adopt its traditions and raise your children as citizens.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 5:33 PM

    @Margaret Lane:

    That is correct, most people don’t have an objection to immigration in itself. What is a concern is the rate of immigration, cultural and religious separation and behaviours that are changing the social fabric of the country.

    From almost no immigrants to almost 20% in less than a generation is significant and disturbing. Especially when Irish natives are prevented from voicing their opinions or labelled for doing so. No society can absorb that rate of immigration without problems coming to the fore.

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    May 15th 2017, 9:04 PM

    @Margaret Lane: You are crazy to compare a vast near empty country like Australia to a settled country with a history of millenia like Ireland.
    Why did Ireland need to import vast numbers of foreigners?
    It didn’t. The ruling class did it–no one ever voted for it.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 4:50 PM

    I think FG are going to fast with this. No offence to the people concerned but we have a housing and hospital crisis.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 4:50 PM

    @Rosa Parks: “too fast”

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    Apr 29th 2017, 5:08 PM

    @Rosa Parks: In case you haven’t noticed, having concerns about a countries ability to sustain its infrastructure and asking for immigration quotas such as a one for one policy is racist now, and tomorrow you’ll be a bigot and a xenophobe.

    And since it the government’s jobs to plan our infrastructure any policy’s that would address this issue when it comes to planning are xenophobic, meaning the government don’t have to do their job

    at the very least we should be able to bill other European countries for the investment needed to build up our infrastructure for their countries and they should be able to bill us too

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:25 PM

    @Jack Cassady: Yes, they really are Irish. That’s what citizenship means

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    Apr 29th 2017, 4:57 PM

    Irish on paper. Not racially.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 5:09 PM

    @John III Sobieski: So?

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    Apr 29th 2017, 5:22 PM

    @John III Sobieski: can you be racially Irish? I would say my race is white, not Irish.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 5:29 PM

    Yes we are White, we can also be broken down into a specific group from a racial point of view, as can other peoples. Irish people have distinct characteristics, most Irish people would be able to spot another Irish person out of a group of random White people.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:40 PM

    Wait’ll they see the house prices and the rent prices, they’ll have to work 2 jobs like most people America just to exist in this so called society.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:47 PM

    @Diogenes: They didn’t fall out of the sky last week, they’ve been living here for years already, is that really so hard for people to understand?

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    Apr 29th 2017, 3:15 PM

    @Diogenes: Is that an argument against them getting citizenship or an argument for the government making an effort to sort out these long standing problems?

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    Apr 29th 2017, 3:15 PM

    All happy clappy in D4 so..

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    Apr 29th 2017, 1:53 PM

    Was that Venezuelan girl on this?… My future wife

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    Apr 29th 2017, 1:57 PM

    @Matty kinevan: keep dreaming …

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:04 PM

    @Suzie Sunshine: I will Suzie :-)

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:10 PM

    @Jack Cassady:
    I suppose the million plus Irish that have scattered across the globe in the last century and a half were probably called worse.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 3:14 PM

    What a lovely lovely girl. I wish you all the luck of the Irish and all the luck of the world. Its people like you who make Ireland what it is today. I hope you go on to achieve great things in life. And the begrudgers let them learn to love themselves before they try and judge anyone else. God bless you and your family.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:36 PM

    @Jack Cassady: Dan Daly didn’t have much of an ancestral connection with America, but he still won the Medal of Honour twice along with the Navy Cross she Distinguished Service Cross.

    Was he American enough for you?

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:56 PM

    Any sexy foreigners reading this and looking for citizenship, I am single and ready to mingle.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 3:17 PM

    @George Beckett: George, meet Grainne. She’s no shirker, a real hard worker, she’ll show you everything she’s got beneath her burka.

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    May 6th 2017, 12:56 PM

    @George Beckett: Irish women are usually fat ,choosy and want younger men than their age .

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    Apr 29th 2017, 4:21 PM

    Ironic that people born in Ireland don’t have to pledge fidelity and loyalty to the nation? Presumably it’s automatically assumed even though there are those whose loyalty is dubious at best!!

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    Apr 29th 2017, 4:51 PM

    @Paul Shepherd: There is an implicit assumption in the law that national origins and birthplace incline someone towards loyalty to the State.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 5:26 PM

    @Paul Shepherd: maybe citizenship and the right to vote should be earned? Would it be that bad?

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    May 6th 2017, 12:54 PM

    @Paul Shepherd: I know 2 that got citizenship and could not give a toss about loyalty . They got it for better benefits and free education .

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:07 PM

    @Jack Cassady: oooh controversial!

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:32 PM

    “There are so many reasons every week to despair for Ireland”

    Yeah, cos you look for them so you can spend your whole day whinging on twitter you absolute dose

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    Apr 29th 2017, 4:59 PM

    Some of our famous irish citizens had to leave their country of birth in order to achieve and find their place in the world ,what would ireland be today without those immigrants and the rich legacy they have left ,as long as they come to contribute and integrate they are welcome ,but i do not believe in an open door policy ,we must always be mindful of the interest of all our citizens ,we must have transparent and fair policy

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    Apr 29th 2017, 5:16 PM

    @Anthony Gallagher: for most people, it’s about the cost to the economy, when you have large scale immigration, (last year an additional 26,000 people came to live), you need to invest in the countries infrastructure in order to cater for that arriving before they come, some of the more vulnerable in society are displaced, such as the poor or undereducated who might have once been able to work their way up slowly, but today are cast aside.

    And before you spot some racist rhetoric about “their doing the jobs the Irish don’t want to do” anyone in this country that earn below €35,000 can apply for social housing, and because many foreigners don’t have any family here they could live with can be pushed up the housing list before, so many of these people as “doing the jobs the Irish don’t want to do” actual cost the country money.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 5:19 PM

    @ÉireBarbarian: many of the uneducated may not be able to articulate my point , and are often called racists and bigots, but their concerns are real and have an impact on their ability to improve their lives

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    Apr 29th 2017, 8:34 PM

    @ÉireBarbarian: Now thats what they dont get in happy clappy d4 , the open borders has a negative impact on a significant section of the community , ie , housing , schools , doctors , hospitals , but it does not affect the happy clappy brigade in the land of the cosy people ,so keep it going ,

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:38 PM

    @Matty kinevan:
    Actually I’m just interested in the genealogical dimension.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 3:14 PM

    @Jack Cassady: Good for you. Thought you muted (safe spacified) me the other day btw

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    Apr 29th 2017, 11:02 PM

    @Jack Cassady: What’s your genealogy with a bad, mangled, spelling of an Irish name?

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:42 PM

    Most Irish people define other people’s nationality on their accent, which in reality is the height of stupidity. Accents on English are generally formed in a narrow window during school days. It does help people to use labels and boxes for their own grinder.

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    Apr 30th 2017, 12:09 AM

    Nice use of The National Flag there, thanks new citizens.

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    May 1st 2017, 3:00 PM

    Ireland has the laxest naturalization regime in Europe. Show me a laxer one.
    The aspiring citizen need show NO knowledge of either of the two official languages of the state.
    The aspiring candidate need show NO knowledge of the history, geography, culture and constitution of Ireland.
    The frightening thing is that these people get the vote, even though they may be unable to read a newspaper or understand the news on TV, and know nothing whatsoever about the country.
    And just recently we had people begrudging our Irish emigrants abroad keeping their vote!

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:28 PM

    @Jack Cassady: So? Who gives a shit. Oh that’s right, you.

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    May 1st 2017, 2:53 PM

    Pretty nauseating, How come the views of those who oppose Mass Immigration and wish to see the preservation of Irish Nationality are always stifled? How often have such views received an airing on Tubridy’s snorefest ? (Don’t know, never watch it).

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    Apr 30th 2017, 9:04 AM

    Congratulations to all the new citizens of the Republic!

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:38 PM

    @Jack Cassady: When did “Immigration” say that?

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:42 PM

    @Emeralds: If anyone’s wondering, this was in response to a comment that seems to have been removed

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    Apr 29th 2017, 2:54 PM

    @Emeralds: Are you saying the journal censor comments? Bwahaha that is absurd. They have far too much integrity to even consider doing that!

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    Apr 29th 2017, 3:19 PM

    @Matty kinevan: If there was a comment on here that linked to a drug dealing onion link then some people would still call it censorship.

    There is a link at the top there that alludes to community standards on a website that is privately owned. Step outside expected respectful standards and you should expect your comment to be removed.

    That doesn’t give anyone the right to come back like cry babies claiming censorship.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 3:26 PM

    @Tony Canning: Couldn’t agree more Tony. Though sometimes they do censor comments simply because they go against their editorial policies, just sayin’

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    May 6th 2017, 4:20 PM

    How sad ireland, soon paddy will be no more and youll be able to enjoy the gang rapes, terrorism and other enrichment like the rest of europe. is this really what you fought the war of independence for? handing your country over to people who will destroy your way of life.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 1:56 PM

    Oh

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    Apr 30th 2017, 9:42 AM

    Aksana went to school with us for a year or so during her longer stays in Tipperary before she began living here. She was a lovely girl who was excellent at math and worked hard to overcome the language barrier for her other subjects. I’m done up for her that she ended up living here and got her citizenship.

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    Apr 29th 2017, 1:57 PM

    Test

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