The government has been telling us that Ireland would be obliged to have 650 asylum seekers relocated here from other EU member states (or pay a fine) based on our GDP & population figures under the EU Pact on Asylum & Migration, but that's not really the truth.

I heard it discussed on one of RTÉ's weekend shows a couple of weeks back and they went into the details. The number of asylum seekers that Ireland would be expected to process per year using our current economic indicators is 13,927. The 650 figure was calculated based on the number of asylum seekers which arrived here last year: 13,227.

They subtracted 13,227 from 13,927 to give a figure of 650. If, for example, zero asylum seekers arrived in Ireland 2026, we would be obliged to have 13,927 asylum seekers relocated here, based on our current economic indicators, or pay a fine of at least €279 Million.

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Coole Update: The trucks carrying cabins for asylum seekers have left as a result of the successful direct action protest which began this morning and continued into the afternoon. A convoy of concerned locals are following them and are currently en route to Mullingar.

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🚨 Community Alert for Killorglin, Co. Kerry.

According to The Kerryman, a car stopped and approached a child who was cycling home from Cromane National School on Wednesday afternoon and asked him did he want to go for sweets. Another child was also present.

The vehicle which has been described as a black or dark Renault Estate type vehicle then moved on.

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Pat Kenny swiftly nudged on from "strange narratives". 😁

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Tom Moran, on the ballot in Castlebar for the Irish People.

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"The Land of Ireland for the People of Ireland."

-Land League founder, Michael Davitt.

Tom Moran says Davitt served as the inspiration for his work in the Mayo Says No campaigns.

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Last reminder: Tomorrow, May 20th is the deadline to register to vote in the local and EU elections on June 7th.

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If Tóibín is shocked that McEntee granted an amnesty to 1,000 rejected asylum seekers with deportation orders in 2022, why didn't he say anything at the time when she announced that's what her amnesty scheme for illegals intended to facilitate? Why only bring it up ahead of an election? You know why.

Some of the detail in the Mail's report is incorrect: There were two tracks in McEntee's amnesty scheme: One for illegals and another for asylum seekers. While illegals had to be in the country for four years+ to apply, asylum seekers only had to be in direct provision for two years+.

3,000 so-called asylum seekers were successful in applying for the scheme along with 5,000 illegals.

So-called expert on asylum, Catherine Day, had advised providing an amnesty to asylum seekers to clear out the system out ahead of the government's adoption of the recommendations in her White Paper. Sinn Féin also lobbied for McEntee to extend her amnesty to include asylum seekers.

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If you're in Navan, consider giving your no.1 to independent candidate Edel Gillick.

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At the Blarney Stone guesthouse on the Western Road in Cork, which earns €125K a month to rent out their 12 bedrooms for the accommodation of so-called asylum seekers.

One of the men attacked the other with a screwdriver.

Drakeford Limited, who own the property, also bought Abbeyville House in Fermoy for the same purpose.

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People Power.

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The construction contractor tasked with building 84 modular homes for 328 foreigners next to a halting site in Clonmel has pulled out after the rental company providing their heavy machinery refused to supply any more.

Two of their excavators were burnt out on Thursday night. A portable security tower with cameras, which was subsequently brought to the site, has also been vandalized.

A 200-year-old tree on the site, targeted for removal and claimed by some to be a fairy tree, still stands. 🧚

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Workers have now left the site in Clonmel.

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