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Ciaran Tierney tweets:

FAILTE … to mark #WorldRefugeeDay on Wednesday, @galwayantiRN are asking as many people as possible to gather at #Salthill beach and spell out ‘Fàilte’ for a spectacular aerial photo (Opposite Coco Cafe, 6.30pm!)

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29 thoughts on “You’re Welcome

    1. Janet, I ate my Avatar

      all the time everywhere
      that’s why we have weird ideas about patches of the earth belonging to territorial monkeys with egos and guns

        1. Janet, I ate my Avatar

          they are the result of a primitive hard working of our brains
          we probably have to evolve a whole lot more to make them unnessary
          but if you are asking if they are a ” bad ” thing
          if say in as far as primitive tribalism is bad ..yes

          1. Rob_G

            I don’t think open borders are compatible with a generous welfare system; can decide to have one or the other, but not both.

          2. Boj

            I do agree that evolution is required but lets be realistic. If borders were removed today the world would be in mayhem tomorrow. All of these territorial monkeys as you put it will be at your door (oooooh). I believe borders are essential for prosperity, security and social cohesion. This is what we are now, and borders are whats required now. Countries have their own laws, and unfortunately the people who break these laws in recent times are now being portrayed as victims? I hold borders to the same esteem as my home’s front door, the contents of which must personally be protected at all costs. That may be primitive, but I call it natural…human if you will!

  1. Shane Duffy

    And where, pray tell, oh wise one, with all the families crammed into b&b’s for a home, all the hundreds sleeping on the streets, the dozens cramped into bedrooms, where oh where are all the unfortunate refugees to go when they get here?

    1. Rob_G

      Migration flows tend to go towards urban area; if many immigrants were settled in Ballygobackwards with little opportunities for employment, and for leisure (meeting people from their own background, restaurants supplying their cuisine), they would move to Dublin or Cork where these things can be found, putting further pressure on housing infrastructure in these places.

    2. simon

      And why not with our own people
      Its the days of technology where technology and communications do away with the need to ghettoise our country
      With planning the whole country can be used and prosperity spread to all corners of Ireland
      If the countryside is used to dump illegal immigrants into our tourism is under threat

  2. Nullzero

    I nice sentiment until you remember that we don’t have enough houses for the people already in the country.

  3. Baz

    okay you want open borders, fine, have them and in return we scrap our welfare system. We cannot have both.

    1. simon

      Exactly open the borders and abolish all services and while we are at it nothing free, no safety nets and then remove all taxes that we pay for things we will not have
      Then watch every freeloader move out
      The EU policy on migration has been a massive cause of what we see now

      1. realPolithicks

        “The EU policy on migration has been a massive cause of what we see now”

        What a bunch of BS.

  4. dan

    Open borders would be a complete disaster. Where would the 100,000 plus refugees live? In tents in the Curragh? Where would they get healthcare? What schools would there children be educated in? And it always seems to be Western Europe that has a ‘duty’ to take in anyone who comes. Not Singapore, or Japan, or UAE or Russia, but the West.

    1. simon

      Exactly
      Anyone who disagrees with the EU migration is painted as a racist
      Sadly what do we pay taxes for?
      If we allow them in our whole system will collapse
      Already there is a move to make all nations in the EU share the Burdon of countries at the front line
      That in theory is fair and the spirit of the EU
      But that means our quota would go up ten times at least
      If that happened our whole system would collapse
      And that is not xenophobic that is fact

    1. simon

      delusional jake38
      You forget the sheer poverty these people are escaping from ,but sadly for us our whole infrastructure would collapse if we opened our borders
      Then imagine when massive tax rises are needed to fund the cost of these new arrivals
      Health
      Education
      Housing
      What about pensions?
      What about our Irish dependents or is this too xenophobic of me to even mention it
      Lets see your solution?

      1. Janet, I ate my Avatar

        Genuine question
        What do you think you achieve my changing your name all the time ?
        Do you think people don’t recognise you? They do…instantly
        So seriously, why bother ?
        Do you forget your own back story ?

        1. simon

          What’s your solution Janet ?
          Just silence all that are not team players and head down the well trodden road of disaster
          You must have an idea ?

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