Ireland ‘to remain multicultural’ well into the future

IRELAND WILL remain a multicultural country into the future despite the end of a period of mass immigration and it needs to fundamentally review its policies to reflect this, a major study on migration trends has said. The Trinity Immigration Initiative, a three-year research project, found migrants generally enjoy living in the Republic. However, many face challenges such as racism, language issues and poor delivery of services from the State. Immigrants primarily decide to come to the...

Immigrants stay put despite recession

A MASSIVE 'exodus' of immigrants who made Ireland their home has not materialised due to the recession, new research has found. However, unemployment has been rising faster amongst new EU member state migrants than amongst Irish workers, the study from the Trinity Immigration Research Programme revealed. "With the recession, new mass immigration to Ireland has ended. However, contrary to some expectations, the immigrants have not gone home," said Professor James Wickham, chairman of the Trinit...

South Africa and Genocide

Genocide Watch is an organisation which seeks to raise public awareness and influence public policy on actually occurring or potential genocide. According to its mission statement it exist to "predict, prevent, stop, and punish genocide and other forms of mass murder". On the organisations most recently updated file on countries at risk of genocide, politicide or mass atrocities there are 37 ethnic groups . The are 8 ethnic groups currently identified to be in so-called "stage 7", which mean...

A Dialogue on the Nation-State

The actors involved herein are an aged and sagacious Professor who teaches philosophy, physics and naturalism at an old and prestigious university. The second actor is the Little One who is a young and beautiful girl of 12 who often visits the professor for conversations, through which she tries to satiate her insatiable curiosity of life and the Universe; she is a clever one, with a bright future ahead of her. The Professor and Little One have arranged to meet under a large window in an ...

The Failure of Irish Language Revival

I recently happened to come across an interesting study on Irish language revivalism which was conducted by an American entitled: Modern Irish: A Case Study in Language Revival Failure (from which I have use excerpts and have attached at the end of post). It is quite worth the time to read (it’s fairly short) as it brings to attention things we may have skimmed over and overlooked in relation to revitalizing our native language. Still, the same old criticisms are evident concerning the Irish ...

Like the crest of a wave

Sometimes somethings are unstoppable. Other things can be stopped if the people rise to take action. Peter Sutherland has vested interests in keeping the borders open. It's just that big money and big power go together. It's reassuring that we have Sutherland, his eminence to guide Ireland through the dark tunnel of the future. Meanwhile Biffo when he spoke at the Trilateral commission, he arrived late as a protest that he had leave after his address. Even if Biffo was in high heels he stil...

Is leatsa é? Na labhair gaeilge linn!

yourcountryyourcall.com It's not open to everyone. Yes folks you don't have to be Irish and you don't have to be living here. You don't have to have much interest in the past or future of Ireland either. despite the vigourous use of the Irish language in advertising this grand quest you had better not submit a suggestion in Irish. Now you might think that since Ireland has its own native language you might be able to make a suggestion in it. Since the government (which 'supports' YCYC) decla...

Anything Britain can do, Ireland can do later

Yet another brainwave by the public servants of Ireland. This time the Gardaí want people fingerprinted who have been arrested for getting  drunk and mistaking Mary Harney for a bouncy castle. Perhaps in Canada they adopt the policy castoffs of the US? In Portugal to they nose under the dinner table of Spain? I'm not sure but with spectacular brilliance the Irish government employee can be sure to choose that policy that has already been implemented in Britain. In Britain they went a step furt...

Markets! Finance! Scandal!

David McWilliams on the Keiser Report, 18 March 2010 David McWilliams appears @ 13:10 in the following clip David McWilliams Max Keiser

Vincent Browne: The Boy who Cried Wolf

On the Thursday 11th edition of the TV3 show Tonight with Vincent Browne [1] we were treated to a theatrical event involving liberals and their favourite 'r' word. Needless to say, they put on a very politically correct show. The theatrical event began with Browne informing viewers that he received an email the likes of which are often received and dutifully ignored. He then proceeded to read aloud some extracts from the email which describes what would happen to a person should they cross the...