This evening.
Demonstrators outside Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin protesting at the “failure” of the European Union to save the lives of migrants crossing from Africa to Europe via the Mediterranean, where some 1,750 migrants have drowned so far this year.
(Leah Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
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Because stopping lots of people getting on rusty old boats in Africa to illegally migrate to Europe, is the EU’s responsibility.
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If people outside of the EU’s borders want to put their lives at risk why should it be the EU’s responsibility to do anything about it?
If these people were trying to legally immigrate through the approved channels they could arrive safely on a passenger boat in a port. Or an airplane in an airport. If they choose to put their own lives in danger by breaking the law its on them.
Yeah! Let ’em drown! They deserve it, after all!
They don’t deserve it do they? It a function of undertaking a hazardous activity.
They had options.
Try and obtain a visa legally. Fly in safety to some destination.
Or pay some scumbags ten times more to take you across open waters in an overloaded boat that is likely to sink
You think they would really have gotten on a boat that is at serious risk of sinking if the safe legal option was actually an option?
It was always an option with being denied the only risk. They took the the other option with risk of death and lost. Oh well.
You, Roger, are also a cretin.
Jesus – I agree that Europe can’t let everyone in willy-nilly, but you’re a psychopath, Roger.
For your sake, I hope you never have any serious hardship to endure in your life, Zaccone. Your attitude is disgusting.
Well, EU member states did destabilise Libya, and then abandoned its citizens to the mayhem that followed. Western allies in the Middle East also armed various factions setting the country well on its way to failed state status. The traffickers are taking advantage of this lawlessness.
Sadly and Strangely, EU leaders have no difficulty in supporting America’s regime change tyranny, whether in the Med or in Ukraine. Maybe it should be called “Blair’s Syndrome”.
I despise these people. Look at the girl in the white shirt. You can hear her annoying voice spewing shtty opinions from here.
Thanks for your annoying fingers typing shitty opinions from your keyboard.
Aye, cos she’s the one who totally decided to invade Libya and send a wave of economic migrants to Europe. All they are looking for is a genuinely good, peaceful life.
As much as a b*s*ard Gaddafi was, he actually predicted that if Libya falls, mass free for all migration to Europe would occur.
Was that boat carrying Libyans you clown?
No, but Libyans fit the narrative nicely.
it’s like dumb and dumber here..
As reported in various mainstream outlets, Libya has become “the main launching pad for migrants seeking to reach Europe” eg http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/19/700-migrants-feared-dead-mediterranean-shipwreck-worst-yet . No one said anything about Libyan nationals.
Volker Turk, the director of international protection at the UN refugee agency:
“Most of the migrants taking the perilous journey were refugees. If you look at the numbers last year, over 50 percent of the people who crossed the Mediterranean were people in need of international protection. Mostly Syrians (31%), Eritreans, some Somalis,”
So am I “dumb” or “dumber”? If you were a Syrian why would you want to get on a leaky boat in Lybia?
Don’t you geography -at all?
dumber I guess, (it’s spelled “Libya” ..seems Geography is not your forte ) maybe you’re unable to step outside of your own comfort bubble and appreciate how desperate these people have become in order to be willing to take such a risky journey – the most accessible point of embarkation for Syrians to illegally enter Europe apparently now being the Libyan coast
I thought that was John Lydon
No way – Have you not seen his recent butter adverts?
What do they propose we do? Open the borders? I’d love to hear the alternatives, especially for a country like ours that can’t even house it’s own citizens.
Pretty sure there’s a couple a’dozen rural villages and townslands that would be delighted to have new families plant roots.
Stop typing like a brainless bogman. Rural villages are hardly renowned for their enlightened views on dark skinned immigrants,
Wanker
Not everyone in rural Ireland is the narrow minded intolerant muck atin’ mick you’d like to think they are
Like I said. There are plenty rural schools, clubs, post offices, GPs, merchants etc that would love young families back amongst them
It may not suit Urban City Slickers like yerself
But we all can’t be Michael McDowell, Lucinda Crikey, Breda O’Brien or other South Side swanks
Ah now Frilly, the best we could do is lock them up in one of those camps while we wait for word from Syria or Eritrea or whatever other poxy hell-hole they fled to confirm their refugee status.
Termonfeckin beckons you reckon?
I’ve always found Cork people, to be the most warm hearted and liberal people on the planet – in fairness
Does yer man still need the Addias runners in the first pic? He could have paid for a flight if he could afford those trainers than take a poxy boat
The utter lack of empathy on display here is staggering. Take a look at footage from Syria and Eritrea and any one of the godforsaken places these people are fleeing from, and then come back and tell us about how you wouldn’t do everything you possibly could – even take unimaginable risks – to get away from there, to get your family away from there, to find a better life.
They’re getting the boat from Syria? Do you have learning difficulties?
Yes and here they are all coming to your house. Put the welcome on the mat there like a good lad.
So what’s your solution Barry? Educate us all to show more empathy?
As Eamonn Clancy points out (above), we can’t even house our own citizens.
We clearly can’t educate them all either.
Tis a cold, bitter world some posters on here live in.
How dare ye judge the actions of others from the safety of your ivory towers?
How dare ye judge the commenters on here, from the safety of your rather large ivory tower.
Especially with the current shortage of registrars
We banish our own, and the allow a free for all from elsewhere
arising from the policies of the elite of Europe, how come these
people end up fleeing their homelands, who is siphoning off their
resources and wealth, who toppled Gadafi and for what purpose
We need to educate and train those who flee to go back to their
homelands and take control of their resources and wealth for the
benefit of all their fellow citizens.