The Government is to consider purchasing a €57m student accommodation complex in Cork to house up to 400 asylum seekers.

A value-for-money exercise conducted to compare the cost of private serviced accommodation found that the State could potentially save between €120m and €260m over a 30-year period by purchasing the property. The comparison used the current rate accommodation providers charge to host asylum seekers of between €78 and €111 a day.

The property isn't named in the report but the description matches that of Ashlin House on Bandon Road which only completed construction in 2022 and offers beds to students for €240-€289 a week. The development was a contentious one among locals who took to protest with one councillor describing it as a “visual intrusion on the landscape”. So, if this is the property, I doubt they'll be pleased with its new purpose.

As for the students, the recent Ireland Thinks poll found only 11 per cent were concerned about immigration while a massive 56 per cent were more concerned about the weather. But maybe that will change, in Cork at least.

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Nearly €4 million was spent on interpreters in Irish courts over three and half years reports the Mirror.

🔹 Translators who spoke either Polish, Romanian, or Lithuanian were needed the most between January 2020 and July 2023.

🔹 There were 8,156 cases that required a Polish interpreter, 6,459 needed for Romanian, and 3,944 for Lithuanian according to documents obtained through a Freedom of Information request.

🔹 In addition, there was also a high demand for those who could translate Russian, Portuguese, Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, Slovak, Georgian, Latvian, and Hungarian.

🔹In total there were 34,270 cases which required translation services over the three and half year period for a cost of €3,843,403.62.

🔹 There was also a noticeable spike in the need for Ukrainian interpreters since the Russian invasion and Some of the more exotic tongues included on the list were Swahili, Amharic, and Edo - which are all spoken in Africa.

🔹 In 2022, Judge Miriam Walsh was slammed after she said she was “sick to the back teeth” of defendants looking for interpreters despite living in Ireland for years when a foreigner who had lived here for five years appeared before her on assault charges against two people in a takeaway — "They don’t need assistance when they’re signing on for social welfare. While he might have very little recollection of what happened, his two victims have."

🔹 "He’s been living in Ireland for the past five years and he wants an interpreter. He didn’t need an interpreter with him when he went to buy his drink, or when he goes shopping. They know more English than we know ourselves. I’m sick to the back teeth of people hiding behind interpreters. He beat the sugar out of two people who were just doing their job that night."

The hidden cost of diversity.

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Tipp FM talks to Laura Boyle on day 60 of the vigil outside Abbeyville House in Fermoy which has been earmarked for 56 single male asylum seekers.

Boyle said their campaign has now evolved and they've moved away from being willing to accept women & children being accommodated at the property after witnessing the scenes in Roscrea where they were "weaponised" and "used as pawns".

As for being branded far-right, she said if disagreeing with the government on immigration policy makes them far-right, then they're far-right.

She also rubbished Roderic O'Gorman's "patronising" attempt to engage with them after hearing him talk about how great it is to visit communities to dispel myths around immigration.

"You're not going to counteract the supposed myths around immigration because we are living it and we know what we see with our own eyes. It's like telling us to deny the nose on our very faces. So the kind of engagement he's proposing is not the kind that is going to build trust."

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Kate o Connell, Fermoy & Mitchelstown Sinn Fein activist and screamer.

Day 7 on a chilly night in Roscrea.
Biggest crowd yet.
Enough is enough.

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⚠️ 5 Shocking Reasons Why Ireland's March 8th Referendum Could Change Everything 📉

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The government want to give "durable relationships" the same status as marriage

Minister for State Neale Richmond admitted this was for "family reunification": chain migration 🔗✈️

In 2017, then Minister for State David Stanton said some "family reunification" applications were for 70 people!

If the government passes this amendment, it could increase immigration by 70x!

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I'll be livestreaming from Dublin today. https://www.youtube.com/live/UQ6ljUyhUWo?si=dov0RmEhJ57qvHfs

"Whose streets? Our streets!"

Huge crowd in Dublin city centre now for rally against mass immigration and the government's reckless asylum system 🇮🇪

Follow @TheBurkeanIE for live updates

Posted this facetiously but half the people engaging don't realise. Likely I'll wake up tomorrow to a torrent of abuse from American boomers. Bangladesh abú.

One of the things I would like to do/have in mind with the channel is the idea of doing something different every year.

In 2020 and 2021, this was a channel focused on the lockdown, the statistics behind covid and the impact of the vaccines in terms of excess deaths.

2022 and 2023 saw the channel take another change in direction. It mainly focused on how the political machine in Ireland worked, how the public mood would change and how various facets of Irish society would reshape themselves as we moved forward. However, it was focused on what is going on right now and the short to medium term. There was not as much to it beyond that.

For 2024, there's a number of different topics I want to talk about, but I have a project in mind. It's mainly about discussing the foundations of Ireland today, how it came about and how it explains what we are seeing today. I'm calling it The Big Thing, for lack of a better phrase.

Part One will be about the shift in economic policy in Ireland (and the world) post 1972 and how Ireland's economic policy began dominated by a fascination with multinationals, an obsession with free trade and theorists like T.K Whitaker and Paul Krugman, and how the deregularization of the aviation industry and the improvements in the shipping industry have contributed to where we are today in terms of mass immigration.

Part Two will move onto how the economic collapse in 2008 happened, how that changed the country in a profound manner and how that has impacted how Ireland is structured.

Part Three based on the previous, will go into how the modern left is built. The previous two sections will act as the foundation of this. It goes into the theory of bioleninism and how Ireland's institutions changed post 2011 when Fine Gael got into government.

Part Four will be on pensions and the economics of mass immigration. It will also go into the consequences of a collapsing TFR and the impact that will have.

Part Five and Part Six will be about the energy sector and the health service respectively, which will follow on from this.

Part Seven (which I might do beforehand) will be about what the regime will do in light of coming under increased pressure. In terms of the electoral system.

Part Eight will be about foreign policy, geopolitics and extremely speculative, far more so than the other parts. Things like the impact the Russia/Ukraine war will have.

2024 is going to be an extremely important year for our country. More than likely, I'm being overly ambitious here and other things might feed into this, but this is what I'm aiming for here.

Hope to see you all in the next bit.

'It has skyrocketed' - Irish exemptions in schools 'slowly killing the language'.

There are two ways to get an exemption

1) Irish kids have to have something like dyslexia or some other learning disability and they can be excused
2) Foreign kids can generally get an exemption. A Muslim kid in my year got an exemption from Irish for the leaving cert despite having done Irish since junior infants. No learning disability or anything and just also took up Arabic to get easy marks since he was fluent in it and studied it after school anyway.

So is there a growth in Irish kid with learning disabilities or foreign students?

https://x.com/newstalkfm/status/1755600478929551514?s=46&t=pNbxp9c2Iv2tXQJwWtLnaw

Can I interest ye in another Aontú?

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