Del, as of yet no subsidence has been noted in Ireland! Before the famine(s) we had upwards of 8 million people on the island and they all survived before foreign governmental misrule stepped in and sent them packing.
I'm not being trite but surely it's time to understand that, having signed up to the 'United States of Europe' then we must expect immigration. If the level of immigration makes the electorate feel uncomfortable then surely it is time to look at whom we have elected and the self-serving policies and agendas which they pursue.
I hold my hands up and say that I voted Fianna Fail in the last 3 elections. That said I have become ever more uncomfortable with their policies and more convinced that they will do whatever is politically expedient to hold onto power and ingraciate themselves to their colleagues in Brussels.
To say that the Irish electorate did not ask for this is to ignore who, exactly, put the present administration in power (myself included!).
As they say 'What goes around comes around' and if we are to deny the newly joining states their rights as equal citizens of the EU then perhaps it is time for us to withdraw from the union.
I've done well in Eastern Europe. My family have done well in Ireland. If we don't like whats going on in Ireland then we always have the option of upping sticks and moving. If, as the vast majority don't want to do, we don't wish to move then we have to take the proverbial bull by the horns and reject the semi-selective policies of Brussels an annex of which is Berties policies at home. Time for a change of goverment I suspect but where is the coherent oposition?
If I choose to register my kids as romanian citizens then should I be happy to see them discriminated against in Ireland or ,should I say, at the immigration desk in Dublin Airport.
Either they are equal citizens of the EU or they are not.
I hope you see, and understand, my personal difficulty with this exclusionist policy.
I'm not being trite but surely it's time to understand that, having signed up to the 'United States of Europe' then we must expect immigration. If the level of immigration makes the electorate feel uncomfortable then surely it is time to look at whom we have elected and the self-serving policies and agendas which they pursue.
I hold my hands up and say that I voted Fianna Fail in the last 3 elections. That said I have become ever more uncomfortable with their policies and more convinced that they will do whatever is politically expedient to hold onto power and ingraciate themselves to their colleagues in Brussels.
To say that the Irish electorate did not ask for this is to ignore who, exactly, put the present administration in power (myself included!).
As they say 'What goes around comes around' and if we are to deny the newly joining states their rights as equal citizens of the EU then perhaps it is time for us to withdraw from the union.
I've done well in Eastern Europe. My family have done well in Ireland. If we don't like whats going on in Ireland then we always have the option of upping sticks and moving. If, as the vast majority don't want to do, we don't wish to move then we have to take the proverbial bull by the horns and reject the semi-selective policies of Brussels an annex of which is Berties policies at home. Time for a change of goverment I suspect but where is the coherent oposition?
If I choose to register my kids as romanian citizens then should I be happy to see them discriminated against in Ireland or ,should I say, at the immigration desk in Dublin Airport.
Either they are equal citizens of the EU or they are not.
I hope you see, and understand, my personal difficulty with this exclusionist policy.