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Anyone check out how much John Campbell pretend doctor earns from this bluffing. Makes you think.

People are just looking excuses to f**king complain, "he's stealing my job" and "they are clogging up the doctors surgeries" The same fecker isn't sick nor has or wants a job!!

Of course there are chancers and hey, fair fucks to them, getting out of some of those hell holes is worth the effort, put the systems in place to use the extra labour force to fill in the gaps of the ones (from here) who refuse to work, cause they stubbed their big toe one day and claiming whatever new DLA benefits available to them!!

So to paraphrase, you are in favor of unlimited migration of economic migrants to Ireland and you feel that the Irish Taxpayers have a financial obligation to provide these people with a better life

Economic migrants will generate more money, what are the tax payers paying for if they are working? Irish tax payers (not you of course) won't be paying extra if an working migrant family comes here to work.

As for unlimited, that's what you have taken from it. I said put systems in place as use them to fill the gaps in the labour market that are not being filled, Ireland can only hold so much with the infrastructure, hospitals, services and so on. Do you know the limitations? Has there been a government assessment on this stuff? That needs looked and a figure needs to be found.

Migration will only continue, stopping it is impossible, Ireland got away with it for so long, was probably seen as a poor country and up north an internal war going on didn't make it look appealing.

Piling people into 'hotels' camps and other places isn't the answer either short term or long term, that's just creating ghettos and tensions, mistrust and leads to the far rights people thinking they are being taken over.. Currently in Ireland its made up of 94.5 white Irish, you'll be fine if you ever come home

Illegals should not be allowed btw, unless they can prove they are refuges running away from a war torn country as such.

What made you want to leave here? To better yourself in another country? Have a better living? Is your living standards better there or here had you stayed?

I put up an interview when a barrister spoke on the Joe Duffy show about his experience processing asylum claims. 498 out of 500 were rejected because "it was his belief that 498 of them were chancers who were telling lies and trying to game asylum system"

So why should an Irish person who's paid tax their entire lives have any financial obligation to these people?

Many of these people come from third world countries, have no educations and don't speak English-what exactly are these hundreds of thousands people going to work at?  We are a small country-how many people can we absorb?

Yes-I did emigrate

With a valid passport

With a visa

With a letter saying I had a job

With a letter from a sponsor saying they would be financially responsible for me

With a criminal background check

With a medical (HIV/TB-both having to be negative)

And I moved to a place where I was almost identical (culturally) to the people who lived there

So you emigrated. You didn't claim asylum. What's your point?

Secondly, only 2 requests were actually processed as genuine requests for asylum. I'm not sure what the point is here either, they rejected the requests of the chancers so is that not what you are arguing for?

Seamus it's not big Pharma to blame, it's that Mary Poppins one going around feeding people spoonfuls of sugar.

I'm just back from Ireland and an elderly relative has a home health care aid that's a lovely black fella

If he's there and working he's obviously identifiable and vetted.

Anyone who has a problem with identifiable and vetted migrants is a racist

Anyone who has a problem with unidentifiable and unvetted migrants is not a racist

Confused with the first line, he's just a lovely fella, I don't need to know his colour at all

Unconfuse yourself then. (that's how the almost 90 year old Irish person described their carer to me, so it's entirely relevant to the discussion  at hand and allegations of racism that are being bandied about)

I'm with MR2 on this, his colour is irrelevant or how someone  described that person to you.

He's an immigrant who legally entered the county and is entitled to work, and by all means a throughly nice guy.

We do have Irish black people as well you know 

I don't get it, these immigrants are all over here freeloading yet clogging up the GP surgeries at 65 euros a pop 

Campbell is a grifter making money of the back of people sharing is bad science and misinterpreted data.

White middle class, middle aged men triggered again. 

Climate puppet Thunberg's staged  arrest at a German coal mine

she's only 20 should she not be in school ?  the climate change course must only takes two years

The f**king triggered state of you 

[Put it this way it will be years before I am in it again.]

Refugees are living in tents in the middle of winter here and direct provision is widely regarded as inhumane and people get stuck in that system for years on end, but you wouldn't think it reading comments here.

I always hear about rural Ireland dieing and all the young people leaving, but wouldn't think it reading about small towns being 'at capacity' apparently.

Apparently the UK is going to become overran with Muslims, and the UK percentage of muslims currently stands at around... a staggering... 4%... yes,  a whole... 4%...

History should not be lost on us as Irish people. America's nativist movements has its roots in anti-Irish and anti-Catholicism.
Many of the Irish and many other white immigrants to the US became integrated by embracing racism against blacks.

Just because the Irish abroad were treated like dirt, does not mean we should treat migrants in a similar manner. We should have perspective and empathy and think ourselves better than those who treated us so badly.

I'm taking the family home this summer for the first time in a decade (first time for my youngest, second for my wife and oldest).

I can't comment on the general topic as I have no direct knowledge of what is going on there, but I'm expecting a drastically changed, bursting at the seams society going by much of what is being alleged here.

It is amazing how quickly people forget how we have been on the other end of it though.

Let us know what you think of Dublin when you visit. Was in it this year for the first time in years. Put it this way it will be years before I am in it again.

Do explain.

I just fill the plate up with lean protein and non-starchy veg rather than reducing portion size. Anyway if you training hard you need the fuel. 

[MSM use to discredit him.]

Ah I'm not sitting here on a new years eve debating it, if you get a chance go listen to some of his longer form content not just snippets that MSM use to discredit him. Some really good stuff. Anyway happy new year to all

Seriously 

Andor is fantastic

I enjoyed andor too, first few episodes quite slow but then it improved

Its brilliant and probably the best thing since Rogue One or Mandalorian. There are parts of Obi Wan etc... that are great but don't have the same consistency. 

What would you give the world cup out of 10 so far?  Probably 4 as its been so so

Not much more. An awful lot of boring 0-0s with a few hammerings thrown in. Portugal-Ghana probably the game of the tournament for me.

4 out of 19 games nil-nil. Hardly a lot.

Did the Germans get a premonition about the final score?

when you pull a stunt like that you have to make bloody sure you win the game or else you look foolish.

The Iranian team pulled a similar stuff with the national anthem and don't look foolish 

Adding time on is just another futile attempt to make football "perfect" which will inevitably lead to lore problems than it solves.

So don't add time on?

Not so much that, so much as just don't try to pretend that injuries and stoppages aren't part of a football match. The halves are longer (at 45 mins) than any other sport for a reason: it allows for the ball not being in play.

Obviously an unusually long stoppage needs to be catered for. And a few extra minutes here and there for shithousery seems fair. But whacking back on 10 mins over 45 mins in a normal game of football? No f**k that. No need.

The direction given to refs is around 30sec per substitution but up to the ref's judgement too. With the possibility of 10 subs per match, you could have around 5 mins added time before injuries etc. are taken into account.

Most of the games where there was extra long stoppage time also had players down for head injuries too. Those were easily 3/4 min stoppages.