Justice Minister Helen McEntee has decided to permit migrants to apply for 5-year multi-entry short-stay visas. Previously 5-year visas were only offered to Chinese citizens since 2019 when the government sought to increase the export market for milk and beef to China.
McEntee suggested it was a response to the effects Covid restrictions had on international travel.
"This will make travelling to Ireland a more convenient and attractive option at a time when travel worldwide is resuming and our tourism industry, in particular, is reopening following the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic."
Weren't we supposed to be disincentivising frequent flights now to save the climate...?
Migrants will be able to come and go at their leisure, and if they stay one day in Ireland per year, they can then apply for Irish citizenship after five years, no other criteria required (three if they have a child here).
Very convenient.
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McEntee suggested it was a response to the effects Covid restrictions had on international travel.
"This will make travelling to Ireland a more convenient and attractive option at a time when travel worldwide is resuming and our tourism industry, in particular, is reopening following the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic."
Weren't we supposed to be disincentivising frequent flights now to save the climate...?
Migrants will be able to come and go at their leisure, and if they stay one day in Ireland per year, they can then apply for Irish citizenship after five years, no other criteria required (three if they have a child here).
Very convenient.
🔗 independent.ie
independent
Government extends five-year visa previously only offered to Chinese nationals to more countries
Ireland is moving to extend to all countries a special visa privilege currently only enjoyed by Chinese nationals coming here.
It's the same energy as erecting Nelson's Pillar and putting royal insignia up everywhere.
It's so the Irish are under a constant awareness that they are a captured people.
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It's so the Irish are under a constant awareness that they are a captured people.
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Fun day out for the kids on the 30th: Learn how to rap about about shanking rival gang members in proper London patoisese.
Proudly sponsored by Drogheda Arts Festival, innit.
You can read some of their lyrics here (archived).
"I can't stand them boy from the nine
All they know tell lies tell lies but there main boy got splashed baptised and another nine boy got hospitalised"
Here's the track.
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Proudly sponsored by Drogheda Arts Festival, innit.
You can read some of their lyrics here (archived).
"I can't stand them boy from the nine
All they know tell lies tell lies but there main boy got splashed baptised and another nine boy got hospitalised"
Here's the track.
🔗 droghedaartsfestival.ie
🔗 archive.ph
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They kept the lid on this for a week and now it's relegated to a regional section of the Indo.
We're supposed to be having a 'national conversation' about male violence but all these attacks are too inconvenient.
Another one happened in Blanchardstown during the week which they're also sitting on.
Notice they how they refuse to mention his race. That's policy from up high. They won't even do it for missing persons because it would look daft if they did but not for criminals, but it's dafter that they don't for either. It doesn't mean the suspect isn't European however. They have to do it for everything.
This "non-Irish accent" descriptor could be a loop-hole decent gardaí are exploiting to get the info out.
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We're supposed to be having a 'national conversation' about male violence but all these attacks are too inconvenient.
Another one happened in Blanchardstown during the week which they're also sitting on.
Notice they how they refuse to mention his race. That's policy from up high. They won't even do it for missing persons because it would look daft if they did but not for criminals, but it's dafter that they don't for either. It doesn't mean the suspect isn't European however. They have to do it for everything.
This "non-Irish accent" descriptor could be a loop-hole decent gardaí are exploiting to get the info out.
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There's a new study being released today about the foreigners in our prison system. The project was supported by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission so it probably doesn't contain much useful information.
They've subtitled the study 'The rights, needs and experiences of foreign national and minority ethnic groups in the Irish penal system,' so you can already see what their angle is.
Sorcha Pollak has been given an advanced copy so she can frame it for Irish Times readers:
>The study, the first of its kind carried out in the State, reports that foreign nationals and minority ethnic communities are over-represented in the penal system.
Could it also be then that foreigners and minority ethnic communities are also over-represented in the criminal community?
Impossible. It's because the justice system is racist, you see:
>The study found foreign nationals were sentenced to an average of 32 months for controlled drugs offences, compared with a sentence of 23 months for Irish nationals. Foreign nationals jailed for sexual offences were sentenced to an average of 68 months, compared with 52 months for Irish nationals.
Because this couldn't possibly have anything to do with the severity of their crimes. We've all seen the reports — 'The judge suspended the final year of the sentence because the defendant would face a harsher time in prison due to his foreign background etc'.
Some of the data:
>About 15 per cent, or one in seven people, in Irish prisons come from a foreign national background. Nearly three-quarters of all committals in Irish prisons were recorded as white, while 3.8 per cent were reported as being an ethnicity other than white. However, the Irish Prison Service could not provide ethnicity data for 22 per cent of committals. These “significant gaps” in data meant it was not possible to give an “accurate depiction” of the Irish prison population, the report warned.
That's a large data gap. Even they're calling the study junk, but it will be used to call us racist and give more lenient sentences to foreigners.
🔗 irishtimes.co,
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They've subtitled the study 'The rights, needs and experiences of foreign national and minority ethnic groups in the Irish penal system,' so you can already see what their angle is.
Sorcha Pollak has been given an advanced copy so she can frame it for Irish Times readers:
>The study, the first of its kind carried out in the State, reports that foreign nationals and minority ethnic communities are over-represented in the penal system.
Could it also be then that foreigners and minority ethnic communities are also over-represented in the criminal community?
Impossible. It's because the justice system is racist, you see:
>The study found foreign nationals were sentenced to an average of 32 months for controlled drugs offences, compared with a sentence of 23 months for Irish nationals. Foreign nationals jailed for sexual offences were sentenced to an average of 68 months, compared with 52 months for Irish nationals.
Because this couldn't possibly have anything to do with the severity of their crimes. We've all seen the reports — 'The judge suspended the final year of the sentence because the defendant would face a harsher time in prison due to his foreign background etc'.
Some of the data:
>About 15 per cent, or one in seven people, in Irish prisons come from a foreign national background. Nearly three-quarters of all committals in Irish prisons were recorded as white, while 3.8 per cent were reported as being an ethnicity other than white. However, the Irish Prison Service could not provide ethnicity data for 22 per cent of committals. These “significant gaps” in data meant it was not possible to give an “accurate depiction” of the Irish prison population, the report warned.
That's a large data gap. Even they're calling the study junk, but it will be used to call us racist and give more lenient sentences to foreigners.
🔗 irishtimes.co,
🔗 archive.ph/ml20f
The Irish Times
Foreign nationals and non-whites get longer jail terms for sex and drug offences, study shows
Foreign nationals and ethnic minorities overrepresented in Irish jails, research finds
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