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Yelof · 05-01-2004, 05:51 PM

I haven't lived in Ireland for more than 10 years now and since I left (although hopefully unrelated to my exit) Ireland underwent an economic boom. Dublin is now a very expensive place and now many of the poorly
paid jobs are occupied by economic immigrants, Dublin is now a much more cosmopolitian place then when I lived there as a kid and in my teens. Personally I and many I know think it is for the best, Ireland had more then it's fair share of monoculture in the 30's 40's and 50's, however I am disgusted to here many voices in "Ireland of the welcomes" speaking against "spongers", a bit rich coming from a country famous for near 200 years for casting it's sons and daughters out to the world to seek their fortunes.

I felt Ireland should have been more understanding.

Worst was when we had to take in 1000 Bosnian refugees during the war there and people moaned about this, not noting the 300,000 in Germany for example

Some links

http://irish.typepad.com/irisheyes/2..._in_irela.html

http://homepage.tinet.ie/~calypso/racism/intro.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/3054113.stm

http://www.christopherlong.co.uk/pri.shannon.html

05-01-2004, 05:51 PM	#2
Yelof neither here nor there Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 179	I haven't lived in Ireland for more than 10 years now and since I left (although hopefully unrelated to my exit) Ireland underwent an economic boom. Dublin is now a very expensive place and now many of the poorly paid jobs are occupied by economic immigrants, Dublin is now a much more cosmopolitian place then when I lived there as a kid and in my teens. Personally I and many I know think it is for the best, Ireland had more then it's fair share of monoculture in the 30's 40's and 50's, however I am disgusted to here many voices in "Ireland of the welcomes" speaking against "spongers", a bit rich coming from a country famous for near 200 years for casting it's sons and daughters out to the world to seek their fortunes. I felt Ireland should have been more understanding. Worst was when we had to take in 1000 Bosnian refugees during the war there and people moaned about this, not noting the 300,000 in Germany for example Some links http://irish.typepad.com/irisheyes/2..._in_irela.html http://homepage.tinet.ie/~calypso/racism/intro.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/3054113.stm http://www.christopherlong.co.uk/pri.shannon.html