33:15 - Elderly woman in crowd asks "With 75 immigrants coming into our Country, how safe are our children & women in this town?". A local man interjects "They're not safe" and a committee woman agrees "No, they're not," but quickly adds "If it was 75 Irishmen, they still wouldn't be safe."

33:32 - The committee woman (suspected NGO associate) wants to get "the full documentation waiting time" reduced from 6 months to 3 months "for our group". What she's confusing the crowd about here is the scheme called 'Labour Market Access Permission'. If an asylum seeker's application has not been rejected within 6 months of making it, they are allowed to work and continue working if they subsequently are rejected but appeal the decision.

33:51 - The uselessness of the vetting process is outlined.

34:15 - Admits some of them will not be genuine refugees (try most).

34:44 - Steering committee women tells the crowd if they see absolutely any suspicious activity to report it to the gardaí. Extra resources are being put into Kinnagad and they will investigate it. They'd prefer to discover someone was just being overly cautious than not be called.

35:42 - Cllr Leonard claims asylum seekers don't want to step out of line as it would mean their application is null & void and "they are in many cases sent back". This isn't true.

35:59 - Cllr Leonard downplays the significance of the anti-social incidents reported on social media, says the number of incidents actually reported to the gardaí is miniscule.

36:45 - Local woman in crowd speaks about not being able to walk down a bothrín by herself.

37:34 - A man from the crowd speaks who would later walk out of the meeting and was probably the only local there with some backbone. He calls out the defeatism of the steering committee and criticises them for being concerned about the welfare of the asylum seekers over the welfare of the people of Kinnegad. He gets interrupted by one of the women at the table who declares the only way to fight back is on a humanitarian angle, to see if the hotel owner has broken their contract and duty of care towards the asylum seekers. She also mentions the horror of there not being an NGO present when the migrants arrived. The man asks if a protest could be a good route but immediately gets shut down.

41:57 - The man points out the incongruity of the committee claiming to be pushing back against the DP centre in town while simultaneously accepting 75 more asylum seekers.

42:23 - Cllr Leonard's friend Jimmy O'Connell steps in to finger-wag at John Coyle — "We have to do this in the proper way. We can't bad-mouth these men."

43:04 - Cllr Leonard asks for questions from the crowd to be put to government ministers & IPAS.

44:20 - Cllr Leonard laments the planning permission exemption which was introduced in 2015 allowing hotels to accommodate asylum seekers in perpetuity. The former leader of his own Labour Party, Alan Kelly, was responsible for introducing the legislation incidentally.

45:10 - Steering committee woman says we have to go "the humanitarian route" in opposing the asylum seekers being accommodated at the hotel — it isn't good enough for them etc.

47:38 - Steering committee woman wants any amenities laid on for the asylum seekers to be made available to Kinnegad residents. Good luck.

48:36 - An Australian woman living in Kinnegad for 20 years asks if county councils are regularly bypassed on issues like this. She asks why nobody saw this coming when the hotelier owns two other hotels which he is using to accommodate asylum seekers.

49:48 - Steering committee woman replies that Sinn Féin TD Sorcha Clarke from Mullingar told her that "no county council is taken into consideration for any direct provision centre", though we knew this already.

50:39 - A woman asks whether the asylum seekers are allowed to do voluntary work. They're not as they're not vetted. "We don't know whether they've ever been arrested or in prison as they have no documentation so it would be on your conscience if god forbid something happened".

51:34 - A woman from the crowd suggests locals should "get to know" the unvetted asylum seekers as "ignorance, you know, breeds hysteria" and "we're a very kind town". The man with the backbone who spoke up earlier gets up and leaves the meeting. You can hear his heavy foot steps.

52:55 - A man asks if the asylum seekers are allowed to wander wherever they want. He gets told they have to sign in and out of the hotel. A committee woman says the gardaí have told the asylum seekers they aren't allowed anywhere near children like playgrounds (why, did something happen?). A woman in the crowd says they've been spotted in playgrounds. The committee woman says to call the gardaí if that happens again.

53:23 - Someone from the crowd interjects that one woman who spotted the migrants roaming around the playground didn't think to call the Gardaí. Guess the Sunday World didn't talk to her either.

53:32 - A committee woman empathises that she felt uncomfortable when she was forced out onto the road by a group of the asylum seekers walking down the street.

53:40 Cllr Leonard defends the asylum seekers being at the playground, citing cultural differences.

55:25 A man in the crowd is under the illusion asylum seekers are screened as soon as they arrive in Ireland — "They don't come in as rapists and terrorists and blokes that are going to kill you, you know what I mean. They're screened."

56:08 A woman wonders how they are screened if they have lost their passports.

>The gang mostly used Italian documents as its national papers are easier to forge or copy than most other European countries. Once they arrived in Ireland at Dublin Airport, the people dumped their documents and claimed asylum.

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Albanians & Georgians were the only two groups Leo Vardakar (as Taoiseach) admitted to being responsible for submitting large numbers of dishonest asylum applications. We were told that "an immigration clampdown" at Dublin Airport saw applications from both nationalities "slow to a trickle" in 2019. It was short-lived.

Yet, when Minister Roderic O'Gorman launched the white paper to end Direct Provision committing to provide all asylum seekers with their own homes within four months of their arrival, two of the eight languages he published it in were Albanian and Georgian.

They're laughing at you.

>Mnyandu, who uses the pronoun “they”, had arrived in Ireland two months earlier, seeking asylum from the persecution they suffered as a trans person in South Africa.

If Mnyandu felt persucted in South Africa, that's a matter for the justice system in the "rainbow nation". It's not grounds to fly 14,000 kilometers to Ireland and demand asylum.

>Mnyandu received leave to remain in Ireland in April...

That's how Sorcha Pollak explains to her readers that an asylum application was rejected but the asylum seeker was allowed to stay regardless.

So it took just over two and half years to claim asylum, be rejected and then granted amnesty. The government is right. They have sped up the processing time.

🔗 irishtimes.com

Glencolmcille, 1914

Ireland is falling apart while our politicians commit to vast reconstruction projects in foreign countries. The more failures that accumulate domestically, the grander the macro-goals become. We can't house our own people but we can make grand promises to save the planet. We haggle over the costs of redressing negligent construction practices which affect tens of thousands of native Irish people, but at the same time write blank cheques for infinite asylum seekers. Our politicians sound increasingly like PR reps for a contracting company as it bids for globalist vanity projects. nationalparty.ie/join

🌡 Temperatures rising out there.

Stay cool.

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We need to throw money into Nigeria so our pensioners can retire, guys.

-Latest economic advice from The David McWilliams Podcast.

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https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/37544

Regardless of what you think about Tommy Robinson I'd advise people to watch this film on Hope Not Hate. This thoroughly amoral, hypocritical and repulsive organization, are a tentacle of the British power-structure which seem to exist for no other purpose than to destroy the lives of any native who disagrees with the policies and ideology of that power-structure.

It was refreshing that Robinson referred to them as such and not allow them to be incorrectly called ''Marxists'' or ''Far Left''. They are not in any way radicals, they're enforcers of the current regime.

When Nick Lowles grins at the charge of contacting Pakistani drug gangs in order to dig up dirt on dissidents that isn't some kooky lefty grinning, he has the full backing of the British state and media.

What's being revealed is that behind the PR and dumb neoliberal slogans, is a soulless, bureaucratic mindset which frequently crosses the line into outright sadism.

Sam Blanckensee, Incoming Chair of Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI) speaking at one of the government's Shared Island events:

"TENI always has a breakfast the morning of Dublin Pride, and my favourite thing about it is the young people, and when I say young people I mean 7 & 8-years-olds, coming in with their parents — so young, very young trans people who discovered their identity probably during the pandemic, whose parents are maybe struggling, and for the first time they’re meeting friends, they’re making friends with people with a similar identity to them in a similar space"

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Cllr Denis Leonard was bemoaning the regulations which permitted Harry's Hotel in #Kinnegad to change its function and accommodate asylum seekers without needing planning permission. He said he wanted to look into it. I guess he's only bothered now that his town was affected.

But if he does look into it, he will find it was a specific planning permission exemption introduced by the former leader of his Labour party, Alan Kelly, acting as Minister for the Environment in 2015.

Here's the link:

🔗 irishstatutebook.ie

Ireland has temporarily suspended its participation in the Council of Europe Agreement on the Abolition of Visas For Refugees for twelve months.

Ireland signed up to the agreement in 1969. Our now former co-signatories were Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland.

The UK signed up in 1968 but suspended their participation in 2003. France suspended in 1986.

The agreement meant people granted refugee status in any of those countries were allowed to travel to Ireland without the need for a visa as long as the visit did not extend past 3 months. It was for visiting relatives etc.

What has been happening apparently is that people have been using these temporary travel passes to get into Ireland where they just make fresh asylum claims. Ireland is more attractive than the countries they left, I guess. There are free homes on offer within four months of arrival after all, and our deportation system is voluntary.

It could be that some countries are granting them refugee status so they can get their travel passes, leave and come here. The full nature of the abuse isn't detailed. It isn't stated which countries they're coming from. There's probably a set list.

Apparently in the year from January 2021 to January 2022, 479 people arrived in Ireland using these temporary travel passes and then claimed asylum.

A further 281 asylum applicants arrived here who had been granted refugee status in other EU countries which hadn't signed up for the agreement. The reports don't explain how they got here or where they are from.

But that means 760 out of the 2,649 new asylum applications Ireland received in 2021 were from people who had already been granted refugee status elsewhere in the EU. That's 29% of of the total. 18% used travel passes.

Why is this only coming to light now? Why wasn't the agreement suspended before? How many are have been coming in this year?

>Justice Minister Helen McEntee said there is “evidence” that the system may be abused.

Try looking a bit harder, Helen. You'll find the whole system has been a racket for the past 25 years, but you know that. We had to wait until there was no beds left in the country before they did something as minor as this.

🔗 independent.ie

English open borders lobbyist Nick Henderson and a regular Irish woman called Marie react to the news that the government wants to impede migrants granted refugee status in other EU countries from making fresh asylum claims in Ireland, attracted by Roderic O'Gorman's promise of their own homes within four months of arrival.

Broadcast Midlands 103 | 19 Jul 2022

A few more details on the suspension of Ireland's participation in the visa exemption agreement for refugees.

00:00 Some migrants are using forged temporary travel passes. These would be in addition to the numbers using genuine ones.

00:42 They're admitting that our "different accommodation standards" are attracting them here. Our lax deportation system isn't mentioned.

01:11 They keep quoting this hokey figure that the migrants doing this only make up 7% of the total. They seem to be calculating it by contrasting the number who arrived on temporary travel passes in 2021 (479) against the total number of asylum applications which were being processed in 2021 (6,494). Well over half of those arrived before 2021 though.

2,649 new asylum applications were received in 2021 so those who arrived under the visa exemption agreement made up 18% of that total. That's what's relevant as this seems to be a new trend. A further 11% of the total (281) had refugee status in countries not signed up to the agreement.

“Irish” people? “Genetically” susceptible?

But I thought we were told anyone of any skin colour or genetic background is Irish?

https://www.independent.ie/news/taoiseach-warns-irish-people-are-more-genetically-susceptible-to-skin-cancer-41851630.html

Instead of a serious endeavour to research and understand this overlooked and grossly misunderstood aspect of Irish nationalism, we’re left with the written equivalent of a 2 am. rebel ballad night where old boys swivel on their barstools and drunkenly mouth along to the words of “Viva La Quinta Brigada”. Play it again, Sam. And again… and again… and again.

https://www.theburkean.ie/articles/2022/07/20/a-marginal-understanding-why-left-republican-analysis-of-the-irish-right-flops

Helen McEntee has decided this boy is less deserving of justice than others but nobody has been able to explain why.

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