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A Cork member of the National Party calls into the Neil Prenderville Show on Red FM to discuss last Saturday’s ‘Cork Says No to mass-immigration’ protest.

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"We don't believe in borders. We believe in the free movement of people" -MEP Mick Wallace.

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Curious line in today's RTÉ report today about the number of people in the direct provision system.

RTÉ says of the 20,001 people living in direct provision and emergency international protection accommodation, 5,064 have been awarded international protection.

However, last December it was reported that more than 3,000 asylum seekers had benefited from Helen McEntee's blanket amnesty scheme for illegals in 2022 which included a separate, less publicised track for asylum seekers.

So I'm left wondering does this 5,064 figure include these 3,000 beneficiaries of McEntee's amnesty because they were not awarded international protection. They were not granted refugee status or subsidiary protection. They were just told they could stay as a result of being in the country for over two years.

It's possible these 3,000 have already moved out of direct provision and found homes, but I doubt it.

The Irish Times report, being more careful perhaps, just referred to the 5,064 as 'people with status to live in Ireland'.

A Mater Hospital cleaner who was jailed for five years for possessing child-abuse material had passed garda vetting despite convictions abroad for sexual corruption and abduction of a child, it has emerged.

An Garda Síochána were asked by the Irish Independent how a person with convictions abroad could be passed by the garda vetting procedure. No answer was available at the time of publication.

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/news/convicted-child-abductor-passed-garda-vetting-to-get-job-in-mater-hospital-42382501.html

The man who sexually assaulted a 50-year-old woman out walking her dog in a Fermoy park had only just been released from prison for raping a 14-year-old in Moldova before arriving here to take up work in a meat factory, as he is entitled to do under EU freedom of movement rules, being the bearer of an EU passport — a Romanian one.

Similarly the suspect who was arrested (and shortly released on bail) for allegedly attempting to abduct a child in Ballymun last month was also Moldovan, and he also had arrived here on a Romanian passport.

The suspect who was arrested in December for the alleged rape of a young woman who had been celebrating a 21st birthday also in Fermoy was also Moldovan. No details on him yet but there's a fair chance he was also 'Romanian' on paper.

A Moldovan working here told me once that Romanian passports are so easy to get that he could arrange to get me one if I wanted — a real one. Friendly guy, but I declined. Apparently, over quarter of Moldovans now have them.

Today, inside the male toilets in Jervis Street Shopping Centre, an Eastern European man thought he could masterbate in front of me. He thought wrong. I chased him out of the toilets and apprehended him until security and the Gardai arrived. I overheard that this is not the first time he has done something like this. I was told I will be contacted to make a statement. Who will he do this to next? You? Your brother? Your son? This. Has. To. Stop.