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  • enjoyed this, well made and great message

  • @LambFilms Many thanks. Glad you liked it.

    RonanG

  • Well done. The helplessness, hopelessness and humanity of the situation is so well captured. Lighting and sound are first class. Congrats to you all.

  • @Ecalpon55 Many thanks for your comment. Much appreciated and gives me the will to go on making films.

  • millions of white women out-side ireland in countries like england france brazil spain holland and america give birth to millions of half-caste and quarter-caste children and out-breed redneck men because in the eyes of the white woman the white man is pure evil and a failure to normal society. hopefully irish women will also wake up from there slumber and join there many european sisters out-side ireland and also like them start breeding half-caste and quater-caste kids.

  • @OBAMAisHalfCaste Technically, Black and White are not colours at all, so the argument about the colour of one's skin is in my mind, an irrelevance.

  • Very good work Roman. The "no solution" ending emphasizes the problem of the administrative responses to the chaos, with an administrative personnel which only defends itself & its professional logics against the real. The heroe is a man who has to start everything again in his life from scrap & does he have the good cards : a network, an education, a skill. So, he is like trapped btw 2 realities : the 1 of the world he comes from & on which he has lost any positive influence & his new unknown 1

  • @cyphicle Many thanks Cyrille. On the button!

  • @RonanG well, as the son of a former colonial power and still a very active power in Africa, I have decided to be aware of this kind of questions since it is part of my political identity as a French citizen and as the son of a colonial family. But I was absolutely not counscious that Ireland could be now involved in this category of problems related to foreign policy. Your short movie demonstrates, once again, if necessary, how much good will or good counscience may produce disasters too.

  • well done... all good

  • @kmacc390 Many thanks. Much appreciated.

  • great work Ronan

    Cheers

    James

  • @bigeeezy Many thanks James.

  • awesome works!!

  • @DiegoDCvids Muchos gracias amigo!

  • 5*

    Peace and Love

  • @CanadianBeaver Many thanks. Right back at ya!

  • waaeaa

    Its tough love time baby, now answer the question...

    Pygmies.. you find them more, less, or equally as scary as other Africans?

    This phobia is destroying you man, let me help you get over it. Open up to you uncle Tom... let the healing begin. :-)

  • When were the invites sent to asylum seekers(sic)?

    Must have missed that one.

  • Dubhlinn1916 I find it strange that for a man who hates this film so much and who hates Nigerians with equal fervour, you spend an awful lot of time hanging around my channel and this film in particular. Perhaps in that angry body lies a liberal trying to break out.

  • I am a republican who does not take kindly to the abuse of the Irish taxpayer.

    Do you support Pammy? Do you believe her?

  • I think you will find with NAMA and the bank bail out that our own Government is abusing and robbing the Irish Taxpayer a lot more than some unfortunate immigrant. Still, this action will at least solve the immigrant problem for you. We'll be so broke, no one will want to come here anyway.

  • Are you going to do one about Pamela Izevbekhai, REMEMBER HER?

    Poor Pamela looking for asylum, for her 2 little girls so they aren't mutilated and then die like her other dead child. That would be such a hard hitting and emotional story, you must do a film on it immediately.

    Except of course Pamela Izevbekhai is a liar, a liar who forged dcouments and dumped her own solicitors when they tried to verify her case

    ... there is and never was a dead child.

    Do ye believe every sob story...

  • As a young rookie journalist asked Mrs Lincoln on the assassination of her husband in the Ford Theatre, "Apart from all the trouble, what did you think of the play Maam?

  • Complete shite, sam, a bit of realism wouldn't go astray. Unlike that bullet. (Everyone loved my husband)

    (But apparently my earlier critique (and its detail of the how's and why's) were lost on some people)

  • Earlier critique? I thought that was just a bitter little racists view of the film? Perhaps I'm being over sensitive.

    Ronan

  • show the racism.

  • Sad obsessed little man. Why are you so afraid of them ??

    Try to reply without using the phrase "16 year old black girl" and Ill try not to use the phrase "racist prick".

    Ohhh never mind. Your a Racist Prick !

  • ijusttom

    Why were you so afraid of your boss?

    Poor tommy, claims to defend immigrants but when a 16yr old black immigrant girl was bullied everyday in tommys workplace by his boss, Tommy just said nothing and did nothing, he let it continue.

    Shame on you tommyboy, no wonder you want this kept a secret, shame on you.

  • Reply to that one up top crazy boy... :-P

    Just copy and past something incoherent under it... as you do :-P

  • Guest? That implies there was some sort of an invitation.

    According to the Minister for Justice, 90% of all "asylum seekers" are bogus.

  • Tell me Dubhlinn1916? Would that Minister of Justice be the great friend of republicans, Michael Mc Dowell? I would have thought a republican such as yourself would not be sucking up to such a man. Then again you seem to have missed Tones idea of 'Catholic, Jew and Dissenter' as part of a plural Ireland aswell. Not to mention the 50,000 Irish economic refugees leaving Ireland today to work illegally in the USA. Of course they are white so that's ok right?

  • No, Dermot Ahern. The vast majority of "asylum seekers" are in fact, economic migrants.

    Real asylum seekers, like those in the Gaza strip, Haiti, etc cannot afford to travel through many safe countries to get to Ireland. Middle class Nigerians can though.

    They came here for one reason, and one reason only. To target our ludicrous welfare benefits.

    Deport.

  • As fo quoting Tone, where did he say "allow in hundreds of thousands of economic migrants" or "allow tens of thousands of bogus asylum seekers free access to our generous welfare system"?

    As for the Irish in America. If tey are illegal, deport them. But allow us to deport the illegals here, bogus students, welfare fraudsters, those who are in sham marriages etc.

    We will be deporting a lot more than 50,000!

  • So sad..... Once again, Ronan, thank you for bringing into focus what matters - not material things, but family (both by blood and by kinship). Eugene Ebhonuaye was outstanding.

  • Many thanks back. Indeed Eugene was a rare find and gave an outstanding performance.

  • @rglovesu2

    Indeed, so thats why he ran off and left his family back in his native land. And that actually happens to be the norm....how many black men have done that in reality, a hell of a lot.

  • RonanG:

    MoC:

    Love the intro..captivating...interesti­ng footage and superb original sound track

    Big big edit...this says so much about very emotional times...Love this very much.

    many many many starz****************

    sincere

    god bless

    meriah.jason. [ i c o E

  • Many thanks Meriah!

  • fine work my friend

  • Many thanks for taking the time to watch James.

    Ronan

  • Tá fáilte romhat mo chara...

  • Hard hitting and emotional.A great performance by the actor and a great script.I really enjoyed watching...Nar laga Dia do lámh...

  • Go raibh mile maith agat!

  • @Coirpeach

    "Great script" ....I see.

    So the woman from the refugee council doesn't bother her arse to come over in person with the news that this chap just lost his wife and kids, never mind the fact of ...what is he doing away from them in the first place

    but then she asks after delivering the news...

    ...are you ok?

    Only from ppl who don't have a clue about reality.

    Well done for highlighting what I have alwyas said about you liberal so-called do-gooders - all about yourselves, isn't it.

  • Many thanks for watching.

  • Good Stuff , Irish lived, worked, outside Ireland like many before, I am very proud of you being true to Irish cultural values, which werre never racist some of my truest friends are African Immigrants I have met while working some arrived tired & hungry, yet shared the work & food with me they are my brothers!

  • Well done Ronan, God bless talented filmakers who make our hearts swell, and to Eugene your emotion is palpable, Pam x

  • Many thanks Pam. And yes Eugene Ebhonuaye gave a very powerful performance. A talented man!

    Ronan

  • incredible, so few words, such emotion.

    the vision you have Sir.

    Pru

  • Many thanks Pru. The film was written, filmed, edited and produced over 5 days at the Galway Film Festival here in Ireland. Glad you liked it and thanks for your comments.

    Ronan

  • Very deep and moving film .

    Loved it

  • Many thanks for dropping by FLAussieShep. Glad you liked it.

    Ronan

  • Many thanks Kel. Glad you liked it.

    Ronan

  • Fantastic production,very moving.

  • Great video x

  • Many thanks Lisa. Glad you liked it.

    Ronan

  • That was a really awesome film, brought a tear to my eye! so sad,

  • Thank you Debbie. I appreciate your comments and apologies for bringing a tear to your eye even if it was for all the right reasons.

    Ronan

  • wow very very nicely done

    I love the sounds and the cam angels

    aww sad ending very great

  • Many thanks Meosha. Glad you liked it.

    Ronan

  • Great direction/story line Ronan.

    And seeing Eugene, (Edmund) receiving the bad news of his family, shown through the distorted glass of the front door..Class;)

    Potent stuff.

  • Many thanks for watching and comments Ray. The film was written, cast, filmed, edited, produced over five days and screened at the Galway Film Fest as support to closing film of the fest.

    Ronan

  • well done!--really captures the feeling of despair--keep making movies : )

  • Many thanks Liz. Your comments are much appreciated.

    Ronan.

  • i would love to be in one of your movies.

    michael

  • Who knows Michael? Maybe one day. Many thanks for the compliments!

    Ronan

  • powerful stuff ronan. well done.

  • Many thanks my poetic friend!

    Ronan

  • Brilliant work. Important topic. Moving story. Wonderfully artistic.

    Thank you for using your gift in this way.

  • Many thanks Linda. Really appreciate you taking time to watch it.

    Ronan

  • I see. Tactics just like the Black and Tans used to do here. I wonder if you would have been so brave had your victims been armed. I doubt it very much. As to your contention that war is not pretty you are right, however from your previous post it would seem you have not taken your own advice and seem to relish the though of dragging some poor unfortunate civilian through the bush. Is that your idea of fighting for your rights, by torturing and killing civilians? Not much bravery or honor there.

  • Make it economically impossible for the foriegn invaders to survive here and they will get the message.Just like our people did to captain boycott!

    CVP did you kill poor Edwins niglets?

  • Got into another africoons cab today.

    Ran off on him again.

    I advise people to do this.

    Most africans are fast but not these coons we have in Ireland,overweight fucks.30euro fair gone byt bye.Another wog bez gettin no moneyz of yt!

  • Polskascum, I know it may be difficult given your rather limited intellect, to string a coherent sentence together, but you really must try harder if you want to be understood. Believe it or not, there are two Dolphins in a California aquarium that have a better command of the English language than you do.

    Ronan

  • If you love jigaboos so much go over to Africa and help them.Less of your propaganda on youtube.Stop importing these 3rd world beasts to our shores.

  • Polskascum, as the young journalist said to Mrs Lincoln on the night of her husbands assassination in the Ford Theater, 'Apart from all the trouble, what did you think of the show?' Did you like the film? You never said. You must know it off by heart now, having spent so much time here.

    Ronan

  • It was great,apart from the part the jigaboo was on!!!!

  • No cant find any fault with the quality of the filming per say,its still liberalist propaganda!

  • So, in order to escape your own perceived misery of living here with a few asylum seekers or people of the wrong colour or faith, you will go and seek a better life in a better place in another country. Maybe you have a lot more in common with asylum seekers than you think my friend.

  • No jigaboos should be allowed into Ireland.

    3rd world vermin.

  • It seems that rage, hatred and lack of education are the real friends of racism, oh and of course cowardice, as displayed by people like yourself polskascum, people who hide behind a cloak of anonymity to vent their arguments. Are you so ashamed of who you are? I guess with statements like the above you ought to be.

    Ronan

  • Ronan you do realise that the niggers that you want to help hate the white people just as much as we hate them.You cannot tame a wild beast.Its inner chimp is always waiting to come out.Are you going to put up part2 of this anytime soon?You know showing how Edwins drug dealing career is developing?

  • So, run that last bit by me again? Black people hate white people, yet they come over here seeking help in a country full of white people? Mmmm. They sound nearly as dumb as you! As to asylum seekers developing into 'drug dealers' as you put it, I doubt very much that there'd be room for him given that most of those positions are taken up by indigenous white Irish people. I guess in your black and white world you don't think of those things. Too busy thinking of new ways to express your hatred.

  • The jigaboos see Ireland as an ATM.Niggers dont like working.Look up the stats for blacks on welfare in the US and GB.Kinda out of proportion seeing as they are a minority.But hey why should you care,your house is paid for,probably have a lot of cash in your ac.The youth of today have to compete with immigrants undercutting them in employment.Typical liberal using minorities to feed your own ego.

  • White irish drug dealers are our problem.They are irish.

    Africoons are not our problem.

  • Niggers are wild beasts they should be caged at all times!

  • As I pointed out already polska, you and I are genetically identical to all other humans with only a hairs breath between us and the apes. That kind of knocks a huge hole in your rather dumb and irrational arguments. It's a bit like the creationists trying to avoid talking about dinosaur fossils because they so obviously kill any notion that the earth was created six thousand years ago in six days. Mind you polska from your posts I would say that their is evidence that Neanderthals did survive.

  • Fuck you liberal cunt.

    Are you a queer Ronan?

    Id say you love cock.

  • When you respond with such crudity it actually makes me smile. I know that I've beaten you on logic and rationale and now so does everybody who reads theses posts. You really are a dumbass to fall for that and now that you have I'm finished playing with you and you are dismissed!

  • Is Ireland good place for benefits for immigrants?

    Thank you

  • You have a very nice house Mr Gallagher.

  • They come over here for one reason-Financial gain!They are prejudiced against whites all africoons are.They blame YT on all the problems in Africa.Always looking for "reparations" eg the colonel.I say send the begging bowl back empty this year.We have sent them enough "aid".Over 800million last year alone.Think of how many houses that could build for the poor of Ireland.Time to fend for yourselves niggers.

  • And so did you. The first correct thing you have said since you came on here. Gall Cobhair meaning foreign help. We were actually nothing better than mercenaries. We got paid for fighting, by rich chieftains, and they got their moneys worth because we were in big demand. Again what all this has to do with Asylum Seekers or economic refugees is beyond me but I'm sure you have your reasons but at last you are beginning to see the value of research, with it you tend to get things right more often.

  • Policeinterceptor, it really is important for all of us to at least form a semblance of coherence to continue the debate. You're fluent in gibberish in many languages. I see also from your ref to sub-humans your time reading Mein Kampf and playing SS Officer has not been wasted.

  • Also arschlock:Du kannst nicht Deutsch reden oder schreiben. Und auch hasst Du mein Handle misverstanden. Typisch.

    Take your pidgin German and your sad self and bugger off. And I believe the bit you seem to think answers my request to back up your allegation is not mine.

    But then facts aren't really your thing.

    Now,I've wasted quite enough of my life on you,and propose to move on. Geh zum Teufel.

  • Ronan I refer you to my previous comment,about not dealing with idiots: they drag you down to their base level,then beat you with their experience. So stop feeding this insignificant pustule of pestilence,this flatulent fool.

    We now know he's a cretin in at least two languages.Leave him to his "intellectual" pretensions and let him hang out down in his cess-pit with his fellows.Who only need look in their mirrors to discover Untermenschen.

  • BTW Perhaps you can show where I said we owed billions etc to victims of colonialism? If I was thinking along those lines I would start a bit closer home.

  • Like I said, you seem very expert on Mein Kampf. Good bedtime reading I'll bet! Not hard to figure where your political and social influences were spawned, views which you hold so dear and consider so important you vent them from behind the screen of anonymity. There's passion and belief for you!

    Ronan

  • It seems that you are not reading the posts put up by me and others answering your points. I think you prefer to listen to your own voice. This is exactly what your friend wheelsofire said you would do and quite frankly I am getting bored with it. If you want to engage do so, but please do not ignore the arguments thrown back at you and then ask the same dumb question at the end of it all as if they were never addressed. It may seem clever to you but anyone reading the posts will see your game.

  • I think you will find that was in response to your ludicrous suggestion that we owe Asylum Seekers and Africa nothing. As to wheelsofire I am sure he or she can speak for themselves, I certainly can't.

  • Seems to me you have been reading Mein Kamp!

  • Your point being????? Forgive me for bringing this up, but what exactly has that or most of the others comments you made, got to do with Asylum Seekers rights in Ireland? But thank you for the history lesson which seems to be that two wrongs make a right!

  • So it was ok for white men to illegally invade Africa and steal their land and resources yet you whinge and whine about a few refugees coming here. Methinks your problem is you just don't know who to hate now that the Brits are all but gone from NI. Like I said before there is no logic to your argument and with each post you prove that. I rest my case.

    Ronan

  • The Afrikaans or white South Africans were descended from the Dutch Boers and were the inventors of Apartheid. As for the NYPD, as I said, being an illegal alien myself I kept my contact with them to a minimum.

    Ronan

  • So crime is ok as long as it's white and indigenous? If you are so concerned about crime how is it you seem to condone gangland killings as a 'Culling of Skells' whatever they are...No. Don't tell me...It's a Belfast thing! The word hypocrisy comes to mind....

    Ronan

  • Gangland killings/lifestyles/influences etc are one of the real problems of our times.I live in west dublin,born and bred for my sins.Its what a vast amount of the youth aim to achieve when they grow up here.They see the clobber,women,cars,jewellery,r­espect and power!Im only 21 years of age,David McWilliams calls is the tiger cubs?Well in west dublin they are the a gangsters wet dream.I know what iam talking about here any questions pm me.Ive lost a lot of friends/fam because of this bullshit.

  • And the sixty or so gangland killings here over the past couple of years? Who was involved in that? I think you will find that particular crime wave is nearly 100% homegrown Irish. As to the 'Crime Fear' being whipped up by people like yourself, it is irrational, nonsensical and is not borne out by the facts. But then again hysteria, not facts are your stock in trade it would seem.

    Ronan

  • Immigration on such a scale into our country is a problem.Nobody except far left loonies are calling for open borders.Nobody except far right loonies are calling for closed borders.We have to look and find the perfect middle ground.Gangland/drug culture especially in Dublin is my main concern,along with our transport system and our health service.

  • Actually a lot are Christians. As to the drink guzzling Ballymun man? Even if he was from D4 and had a drink problem I wouldn't give him my blessing. As to the Tsunami reference I live 40 miles inshore so it's not on the top of my priority list and I certainly wouldn't be calling 911 after the appalling and criminal mess they made of New Orleans.

    Ronan.

  • I wouldn't mind anyone bringing home my daughter as long as they respected her, themselves, and the law of the land but I can see you are a guy that clearly likes to see the best in people.

    Ronan.

  • Whatever your beliefs, whatever your opinions, no matter what you do, please don't take up filmmaking.

  • I suggest you take that up with the Human Genome Project themselves. The figures I posted were cut and pasted from their web site. I like to feel it's better to present an informed view, so a bit of research is always good council.

    Ronan

  • At 20 million a movie I doubt anyone would turf Eddie Murphy out if he brought home their daughter. Me, I'd much prefer for Denzel Washington to bring home mine.

    Ronan

  • Are the racist trolls gone yet?

    And Polskascum,you are right:your handle could easily misconstrued.

  • wheelsofire I have already explained in detail.Whats your point?

  • Sorry polskascum, I was only trying to be supportive. Equally chastened by being misconstrued myself. Touché!

    I wasn't having a go.

  • It seems that your contention that genetics divides the races would be argued against by the scientists who discovered and mapped the Human Gnome as stated by them below.

    The human genome contains 3164.7 million chemical nucleotide bases (A, C, T, and G).

    The total number of genes is estimated at 30,000, much lower than previous estimates of 80,000 to 140,000

    # The order of almost all (99.9%) nucleotide bases is exactly the same in all humans.

    Hope that clarifies a few facts!

    Ronan

  • This is the problem when you have a one track mind. Where at any point do you see a gun? Could not the bang be nothing more than a metaphorical door slamming in his face? The gun theory is your interpretation and this is reasonable, but it's not the only one. An open mind sees wider horizons.

    Ronan

  • A very intense scene. I love the close ups of the character.

    I noticed you added a part of your namesake with "Mary G".

    Sandy

  • Well spotted Sandy. I have a sister who works with the UN and kind of took it from that.

    Ronan

  • It reminded me of something Hitchcock would have done, by walking through at least one scene of his movie. :)

  • Yes, he did that but even Hitchcock wouldn't scare small children like my ugly mug would! But same kind of idea there.

  • No, but because she already lost a daughter who died during this cruel and barbaric ritual. I guess that might be motivation enough to want to protect her two surviving daughters from the same fate. It's never that (excuse the pun) black and white. Life isn't lived in monochrome.

    Ronan

  • So you agree. We are all equal. You've lost me with the six pack and the sniper/girls rape women thing...

  • What gun?

  • Given these stories are true, has no Irishman ever raped anybody? If he had would we all be quaking in our boots irrationally assuming that all Irish men are rapists? If rape or the ability to rape and rob is the standard by which you want to set against races then I'm afraid our history of rape, plunder and murder is as gory as any others so I guess we are equal on that score too.

    Ronan

  • monkey want to live like white man...so white man give monkey leg up so he can be equal. so monkey bites the hand of white man, rapes his women and call white man racist.

    These savage beasts need to be segregated posthaste.

    We have our own criminals to deal with without the government importing them.

  • Sorry to burst your bubble WhiteVendetta but white and black men and women are all descended from Monkey, unless of course you believe the earth was created in six days in which case one would truly have to question the benefits of evolution. I can take it from your comments you didn't exactly like my film then?

    Ronan

  • Oh I am well aware of evolution.are you one of those "bleeding heart liberals" who are brainwashed into thinking we are all equal.

    And some evolved more than others(white men) and those who are more like the ape(negroid man)

    Now go and masturbate over your picture of Ernesto Che Guevara,Like a good little Marxist.

  • It seems from your response you have good reason to be pissed off with evolution. As for masturbation, as Woody Allen said, don't knock it, at least its sex with someone I love!

    Ronan

  • You cannot be a guest of the nation if you break and enter into our home. 90% of asylum seekers are found to be fraudulent, the percentage is even higher for blacks, especially Nigerians (96% i think). Hardly any of these fraudsters are ever deported.

    Under the Dublin convention an asylum seeker must seek refuge in the first EU country they enter. This is obviously not Ireland as there are no direct connections between these countries and Ireland.

  • If however you have broken into that home because you are seeking sanctuary from some threat, our obligation under The Dublin Convention Agreement is to offer them temporary sanctuary while we rigorously check out the applicants story. A figure you should familiarise yourself with is the amount of rejections these applications get. A Nigerian woman who last week lost her High Court case to avoid being sent back to a country where female circumcision will be performed on her daughters. Ronan

  • IS IT TRUE IRISH IN DUBLIN ARE NOW KILLING POLISH PEOPLE?i thought the irish were peaceful.

  • Yes it is true, but it is also true that Eastern Europeans are killing Irish people.

  • How did your "friend" come to gain the knowledge of this womans nationality?Could she have been a bit of-a-wheeler-dealer?Kinda like some del boys in Dublin?Or is everywhere black person a Nigerian scammer?And if an irish person does the same "their just a bit of a scoundrel"?My ma bought my 1st pram of a local west dubliner,Im sure he didnt fill in a vat invoice,black people dont hold a monopoly on shady dealings!Me pram fell apart after a week,didnt get a refund either.Prick!

  • A civil servant working nights CVP!Well if thats true which I very much doubt,I would be more concerned over her "overtime" payments and expenses!

    Civil servants expenses reciept in question.

    1-They all drank expensive ports-e267.50

    2-Fine fillet steaks-e367.75

    3-Taxi fares-e345.00

    4-Hotel(they felt unwell to far to bring them home)-e 1100.50

    5-Overtime(had to look after them in sickness)-e500.00

  • Is this filipino "nurse" in fact a filipino brasser?I think so seeing as you seem to have been on "cultural" visits to Pattaya!?!You have no problem taking advantage of these "3rd worlders" for your own pleasure!?!

  • Facts or a link for this obvious disregard for the law CVP?I would advise you to contact your local gardai rather than spouting it on the net.Thats if its factual.....Is it?Or is it incitement for your own racist agenda?

  • And it seems from the rather robust response here there still are many who would be on the Southern side of the US Civil war today were it still going on.

    Ronan

  • In 1976 I lived as an illegal immigrant in New York. I lived on 139th and Fordham and passed through 125th every night on my way home from my 'illegal' work as a barman. I know too well of the dangers there and in the 70's it was a lot worse, but I also knew many decent people, far in the majority in my mind. I was there for the same reasons economic refugees come here, a crap and corrupt economy at home and a chance to better my fortune and future. Kind of familiar sounding isn't it?

    Ronan

  • Ah yes Ronan but the southern side where soundly beaten!Just like their ilk days,not many rational people have any time for racist ramblings in Ireland they are more concerned about-

    1-Health servive

    2-Economy

    3-Housing market

    4-Gangland/youth crime/drug situation

    5-Just getting on and enjoying the gift of life!Racists should try it sometime,its kinda fun!

  • I refer you to my earlier debate with Polska over this issue. The Irish Govt gives 19 euro in total to Asylum seekers and refugees. Nothing else! Do you seriously think a Government that wont look after its own citizens in health, education and transport areas, would give money, cars, and phones to asylum seekers! If this is the nub of your argument then you are arguing against something that isn't there. Don't take my word for it. Ask them yourself. Ring your local politician ask him/her.

    Ronan

  • Your facts about asylum seekers benefits are correct.But when they are accepted they become refugees!They get the same benefits as any irish citizen,so the facts get destorted,I think them blackies landing here getting cars etc came from a tabloid rag messing around with the facts when a refugee set up a small company and got a gov grant for a car,the tabloid in question played with facts and then it "became fact" in some circles that "they ALL be getting cars and shhhhhhhhhhhhhit for free man"

  • Firstly I need to know who or what the 'riggen' are. In all my time I have never heard of a race or country called 'riggen'. Perhaps you could clarify this?

    Ronan

  • I think you will find BBC's current 'White Britain' series kind of negates this argument. As for my own films all are self funded with no grants or aid from the state. If you do feel you, and others, have something to say on this issue I'd gladly make a film of that too.

  • Why assume I am Catholic? Religion has nothing to do with nationality. As to Adam and Eve I think you will find even the church accepts they were not the first. As to the colour of the first peoples skin it really doesn't matter, from them came all the races of man, i.e. we are all from the same ancestor (and I wont even mention the apes) and if the Garden of Eden is in Iraq then let's hope it's not in the Green Zone as it is probably lying under a McDonalds franchise by now!

    Ronan

  • Bigots then, bigots now?

  • So the fact that someone has good land and cant defend it is good enough reason to throw them off it and take it for yourself? The divide between Catholic and Protestant was well embedded long before the treaty which legitimized by force the division of the Nation of Ireland. The reason three counties were left to the south was because the Northern Unionists feared a large number of Catholics would dilute their culture, which brings us neatly right back to the asylum immigration debate of today.

  • Just what we need: another National Front shill who can't even get his story straight.Just how many Falls Road residents claim to be British?

    Why not go and learn some history? Then you might be able to explain why so many Ulster Prods emigrated to America,where many of their descendants still live around the Appalachians

    in poverty.

    So why not take yourself and your BNP pals back to under whichever flat stone you crawled out from,on what you probably like to call the Mainland.

  • Do what?

  • Firstly thee was no N.I in the time of the famine. Secondly, during the Elizabethan plantation of Ireland (where the natives were ethnically cleansed off their land by Cromwell) the north of the country was the first and most heavily planted area. This meant that traditionally that region had a very strong protestant/planter population which was much wealthier (owning the land)than their dispossessed Catholic counterparts. This became the modern divide between north and south. And I'm Irish.

  • In 1847 most Irish were poor. They were poor because they did not own their own land and lived under a feudal system of Landlord/Tenant where the imperial conquerors (the English) were landlords and the indigenous Irish were tenants on their own land. You are correct there was plenty of food. The English just chose to hoard it and refused to give it away for free despite seeing people die by the thousands in front of their imperially clouded eyes. Don't understand the N.I.reference I'm afraid.

  • Ronan: here's a piece of useful advice I was given a while ago.

    Never argue with racists or idiots.

    First they drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.

    On a more serious note,isn't it odd how semi-literate our racists are?

  • first ,its a well made show.however,the ireland you know will be drastically changed.you will lose your culture and traditions etc.now with over 400000 non irish in ireland,do the math.what will it look like in 50 years,these are economic seekers.where were these people in the 1980s and 1990s,when the celtic tiger did not exist.when the irish went to the u.s. there was no benefits given to the irish.cant wait to see what happens when your economy goes down.

  • Thank you. It's not often you see someone who though disagreeing with the film, still recognises its merit as a film. I salute you for that. I also understand the feeling of cultural swamping. It's a valid reason for concern but as history has proven, if a culture feels under threat it actually excels and flourishes. We Irish are the custodians of our own culture. This does not mean we should be closed to other cultures or others to ours. The Irish in US were favoured with Morrison visas etc.

  • Do guests not have to be issued with an invitation?Who issued the Nigerians with theirs?

  • Probably the same people who let the Irish, Polish, Russians etc and many other nationalities into America. For your information they are refereed to as guests because they are not allowed to work while seeking asylum and are given 15 euro a week to survive. Hope that clears things up for you. Thanks for taking the time to watch my film.

    Ronan

  • 15 euros to survive?So they feed,clothe,and house themselves on that little?WOW Biffo should stand down and these people should run the finance ministry!The 15 euro is the basic allowancethey get,there are some extras to.Most of them are economic asylum seekers trying to get as much as possible.Or do you think they are all telling the truth?

  • I agree most are economic refugees. Just like the hundreds of thousands of Irish that fled to Europe and America during the last 100 years up to very recently. Rem the Morrison visa appeal to legitimize them and the current campaign to legalize the thousands of our countrymen in US? Perhaps like many of our Celtic tiger cubs you have forgotten that. As to the extras they get please inform me as to what they are. Again many thanks for engaging with me on this issue.

    Kind regards

    Ronan

  • 15 euros to survive?So they feed,clothe,and house themselves on that little?WOW Biffo should stand down and these people should run the finance ministry!The 15 euro is the basic allowancethey get,there are some extras to.Most of them are economic asylum seekers trying to get as much as possible.Or do you think they are all telling the truth?

  • Getting Biffo to stand down in favour of an asylum seeker might not be a bad idea. Perhaps someone less fortunate than Biffo might spare a thought for the hundreds of our citizens who have to suffer or even die on hospital trolleys in cold corridors for lack of funding. You could be on to something there.

    Regards

    Ronan

  • Again I dont think "bloody foreigners" can destroy a culture.Most people who complain about their culture being eroded are the ones sitting at home on their Aldi furniture,eating a chinese takeaway while drinking german beer and watching the english premiership on their Sony tele while screaming at there booooooird to get ouuta de way-in english!!!!!Btw the name polska scum is tongue in cheek to wind up my missus who is czech/polish.I will change my username for a proper debate soon.

    Regards

  • Im sure the native americans "let" the irish in???I dont want africans in Ireland.

  • Actually for your information the Native Americans were one of the few peoples who sent a large sum of money to Ireland during the famine which saw one million of our people die of starvation due to inaction and hoarding of food by our white neighbours the British in 1847.

  • And how much money have we sent Africa?You cant help the 3rd world with asylum,you are putting a band aid on a shotgun wound!

  • Precisely! Which is why this film addresses the push factors in the asylum seeker and economic refugee issues. Instead of whining about the numbers coming to our shores perhaps we would be better served if we tried to bring about reform in both world trade rules and in the UN and begin to rebuild and strengthen both the economic and democratic structures in these countries, structures needed to sustain a fair and just society.

    Ronan

  • I dont know the exact numbers spent in asylum cases,but I would hazzard a guess that it could be better spent?Of course we should over the 3rd world a better deal,next time you bring the missus out for a night out think of how much it could do in these places!Slap up meal,cinema,few round of beves,club entrance fee,and then the taxi home!We owe africa nothing but a moral obligation to help not a political obligation.Ministers use these people as a political football,its not right.

  • Actually we Europeans owe the Africans a huge debt. We owe them for the billions of dollars of natural resources we stole from them during our imperial rampages through their countries. We owe them their lives for trading them as slaves to America and other countries, we owe them our existence as we are descended from them. It was in Africa where the first bipedal human walked on Earth. But most of all we owe them because the sustainability of our humanity and our future, depends on it.

    Ronan

  • I dont know the exact numbers spent in asylum cases,but I would hazzard a guess that it could be better spent?Of course we should over the 3rd world a better deal,next time you bring the missus out for a night out think of how much it could do in these places!Slap up meal,cinema,few round of beves,club entrance fee,and then the taxi home!We owe africa nothing but a moral obligation to help not a political obligation.Ministers use these people as a political football,its not right.

  • No need to curse at me. I thought that civil servants were supposed to be, well..."CIVIL"

  • Fantastic movie. It's VERY thought provoking. A lot of Irish people are surprisingly ignorant to what is happening in the world. I think that sometimes we are parranoid that foreigners are trying to pull the wool over our eyes, or get one over us (maybe it's a vestigial characteristic of being oppressed in our history by a colonial power). But we shouldnt judge others by our own infamous standards.

  • Many thanks for your comments and support Guinak.

    RonanG