Comments on: [Opinion]Migrant workers are not a comodity, Councillor Galvin

By: Cheebah and all that - Limerick, Ireland

Cheebah and all that - Limerick, Ireland — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:29:35 +0000

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By: gary

gary — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:31:00 +0000

I know 5 burly guys from the Baltics having been 2yrs here they told me they are ''going to enjoy the generosity of Ireland on the SW & never want to return home'' ah well i'm racist ..

By: jonijoe

jonijoe — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:16:43 +0000

Onnie,Its what they believed,not my opinion.Don't try and tar people or play the race card.

By: Onnie

Onnie — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:44:54 +0000

So you do believe then that black people are just one step above dogs?

By: me

me — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:56:07 +0000

I don't blame workers for being here to work or being out of work, i blame the government who couldn't open the flood gates wide enough and now have to pay even more than they would have done. Small minded, small thinking.

By: killarney

killarney — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:12:55 +0000

This fraud has been tolerated for many years in the times of plenty by the State institutions. Now scapeogating on immigrant – indeed portrayed as guest workers has started – the problem is not the foreginers but the inability of the Government to control. Now see how welcoming is the nation when it seems that it has to share its limited resources. You can name the situation as exploitation – those people have honestly worked all 2 years and deserve the same support as anybody else, their contribution should not be minimized because they are not belonging to here. Same with asylum seekers – they are not allowed to work and have to survive on 19 euro per week in State provisioned accomodation so in order to live they try to work illegally. Now the proposed changes in Work permit scheme will affect those coming from outside of Europe resulting in increase of the illegal employment . Not mentioning the individual lives – such accusations dehumanise – take into account that these are individual lives organised in Ireland. Migrants belong to here as much as they belong to their home country.

By: jonijoe

jonijoe — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:44:41 +0000

“Just like the Irish did in the 1950s and 1960s. We Irish stayed nice and quiet when the UK was going through the tough economic times in the 80s. There were no calls from the likes of Galvin for the Irish to get out of England during the 80s.”

What a load of tripe,I was there in the 80's the amount of abuse that was dished out by the natives was tough going.We Irish were never accepted over there,maybe it was the bombings whatever, we were one step above the blacks in their eyes.
NO DOGS,NO BLACKS,NO IRISH.
Stick to what you know,Stop talking through your pipe.

By: Áine

Áine — Wed, 27 May 2009 05:08:50 +0000

Fair play. Sometimes I think it is only the lunatics that avail of the right to free speech. Galvin is an example of the worst type of narrow-minded inward-looking lunacy in our city and our country. We NEED a diversity of citizens to stretch our understanding of life and to recognise the important things in that life.
This recession is a desperate burden, but we will get over it. Right now it is undermining our feeling of security, but we will get past it. And when we do, I hope we can look back with pride at the way in which we dealt with the most vulnerable members of our society. The people of Limerick are well able for hard times, but I hope – as we have done in the past – that we carry one another through it. We are bigger and better than this.

By: Ian G

Ian G — Wed, 27 May 2009 03:34:53 +0000

Ooh I do love the "I'm not racist but".

I was very interested to learn after researching this recently that practically all reputable studies on the subject suggest that (at least on the national level) immigration does not and has never done anything other than benefit an economy. Odd really, even I didn't expect it.

Dear oh dear.

By: foreigner

foreigner — Wed, 27 May 2009 01:42:57 +0000

thanks for your comment…
thank God there are not many “Glavins” arround and we still feel welcomed here in Ireland