Irish economy in sharp contraction - 26 Mar 09

[MegaSlayerr]

We dont mind anyone coming too ireland as long as they dont try too cheat our system by being greedy like alot of polish/blacks/whites (not being racist its just the facts of the matter) do as they take there free money and go back too poland and the likes and ofc ppl are going too be angry over that we are good enuff too try help them when theyve no money and they repay us by being greedy and cheating our system (no insult intented just my 2 cents)

[ArubaIsland1]

@OBAMAisHalfCaste you're so limited comparing Polish to Africans ! Lets be clear POLISH SINGLES are fucken smelly drunk kunts! The only bring us to shame like you knackers you! yeah the supposed go home , I'm with you and I'm Polish. And yet IE cannot take more asylum seekers, maybe is time to change you politics isn't it ? The small country cannot afford giving out all the social houses to Africans while Irish have to queue for ages ! Lets organize against black and call it Europe 4 Europe!

[DiamondGeezer84]

Many consumers in Ireland have been mis-sold, misadvised and misinformed by the lending institutions. If you are a victim you could be entitled to compensation.

financeclaims.ie

[vinnyhoags]

"If you ride on the back of a Tiger, you will wind up inside the Tiger."

[graham640]

ireland is on the bones of it arse and is lookiing at a 10 to 15 year ressesion and 33 years trying to pay its debts

[lexyota]

place looks depressing.

[OBAMAisHalfCaste]

All fucking Immigrant scum out now no fucking Nigerian Blacks no Americans no Romanian bums no Eastern-European Polish fucks and Chinese cheap labour and definitley no fucking cunting English bastards. We dont you here in our great-nation you only bring high crime rate and reccestion to our shores leave and fuck off out scum.

[legalsomali]

@OBAMAisHalfCaste ur mother is halfcast pice of shit

[OBAMAisHalfCaste]

@legalsomali You're the load that your filthy dirty stinking Whore mother should have swallowed Immigrant scum.

[legalsomali]

@OBAMAisHalfCaste fucking irish shit ...no wonder ur so mad ...did the english rape ur mama? hehe go fuck ur self no one wants to be in ur filthy country

[OBAMAisHalfCaste]

@legalsomali Yes nobody but you filthy dirty immgrant scum.

[legalsomali]

@OBAMAisHalfCaste i dont live in ireland thank god

[OBAMAisHalfCaste]

@legalsomali Yeah because you're a fucking Denmark prick get out this Irish Immigration page.

[curlysue27]

@OBAMAisHalfCaste seriously , you are a miserable sad idiot. I am ashamed of you.

[OBAMAisHalfCaste]

@curlysue27 I dont care what you think of me im a true Irish man standing up for my Irish rights these Immigrant pricks are trying to move our people out of our own country to Immigrant out fuck them all them filthy dirty stinking Polish cunts and Nigerians Immigrant money-hungry cunts.

[curlysue27]

@OBAMAisHalfCaste you are a disgrace and I repeat, you do not represent the feelings of the vast majority of Irish people. Have you any idea of history? Where does your hatred and venom come from? Stop spouting such poison and start reading history - for your own sake. People on here are just laughing at you. But I am not. You can't speak about other people like this.

[OBAMAisHalfCaste]

@curlysue27 Yes it is true 2 Polish cunts already got stabbed to death in Drimnag this is just showing thm cunts that they cant fuck with the irish and get away with it I.R.A we will not tollerate it anymore . And the immigrants bring crime- to our shores we the Irish people do not want them here.

[curlysue27]

@OBAMAisHalfCaste Do you listen to the news? Do you read proper newspapers that actually explain why this country has gone so bad? Have you ever voted in your life? That is where to start looking for the answers. 

[OBAMAisHalfCaste]

@curlysue27 I always vote so stop talking shit.

[willywonka12345678]

aww poor you, you sad cunt

[TheLongfords]

Irish people are to found of the drink and singing the fields of attenrie and jeering other people when things were good.

[BetamaxLives03]

Seriously chief... what the story with you?

Have you got some kind of virulent brain eating bacteria?

[waaeaa]

NIGERIAN 'JUJU' GANGS FORCE WOMEN INTO PROSTITUTION

Foreign gangs are using Nigerian black magic 'juju' to force African women and girls as young as 15 to work in brothels.

They lure victims into rituals mixing samples of their blood, teeth, hair etc with other ingredients.

Victims are told the rituals will protect them on their way to a better life in Europe. They are later forced into prostitution and told the spells will kill them if they try to escape.

source:Sunday Times 21/6/09

[dekindin]

@waaeaa See the video: Dutch girls groomed by 'loverboys' and forced into prostitution". There you can see the situation in Netherland. Mostly of the loverboys are foreighners. In Germany many of the prostitutes are from the east european countries. They are brought in the country with the promise to hv a normal job. When they are in the country, their passports are stollen and they are forced to prostitution. Many of the pimps are foreighners, but no all.

[waaeaa]

25% OF RAPE SUSPECTS IN IRELAND ARE IMMIGRANTS

Files with the Director of Public Prosecutions show 25% of suspects are immigrants.

African men are 10 times more likely to be accused of Rape. East Europeans are 7 times more likely.

A disporportionate amount of Africans and East European men are accused of rape.

1 in every 10 rape allegations were made against a combination of these 2 groups.

Foreign nationals are also more likely to be prosecuted by the DPP.

source: Irish Examiner 08/12/09

[Martian74]

Leprechauns have pots of gold. Ireland should be rich, you just need to go and catch some leprechauns and get their gold. Problem solved.

[willywonka12345678]

Thats true, im thinking of heading to aussi land, and meet all those cockney sounding criminals and learn how to do the long jump, after all theres lots of kangaroos down under.

Did you know that oz, boz, snoz, snot, shitland or what ever u call it is down under ireland, even deeper down than irelands sewers

[Martian74]

@willywonka12345678 As long as you have your 4 leaf clover you will be lucky, fiddle de dee.

Keep drinking the Guinness and things will seem fine in Ireland.

[gfc56]

I wish blacks would stop emigrating to Europe. Europe is for whites.

[willywonka12345678]

Yeah I agree, after all most europeans left african long ago after they had their little holiday and botched up the odd land there, hold on they botched all of africa up.

I just wish the nigerians would get their radar fixed and invade france, uk, portugal and spain. Not Ireland or Sweden, for christ sake we never went on holidays to those places ;)

[curlysue27]

@willywonka12345678 horrible comment. Do you people have no soul or heart?

[legalsomali]

@gfc56 then leave africa ..and america , south america autralia new zealand ...all of those lands dont belong to white people u stupid fuck ...racist mo'fucker

[curlysue27]

@gfc56 yeah but wasn't Africa for the blacks? Why don't you apply your logic to history a bit? You might think before you write such crap.

[martinbelmont]

Dont worry Ireland. Bono will save you. LOL.

[djguy100]

Im irish myself and i can say the level of greed and arrogance that developed in Ireland from the mid 90's to until recently made me feel disgusted with my own people. Now a lot of them have had a good kick up the arse and they are back down to earth and reality with a bang. I havent lived at home in years and dont intend to return.

[BetamaxLives03]

Harsh but fair...

[jamesyireland]

Celtic tiger actually died around 2000. We spent 8 years after living in a self congratulating fantasy land!

[waaeaa]

IRISH PEOPLE PAY THE COST

The state is spending more than 91.5million euro a year to accommodate 7000 asylum seekers, due to 7yr backlog. There are 14,131 'leave to remain' applicants whom the Justice Dept. describes as having 'unfounded' claims for asylum.

source: Irish Examiner 23/7/09

Meanwhile our health, education systems are breaking down and Irish people are being told to emigrate.....goodbye Ireland, goodbye the celts.

[GreggJulian]

The only salvation is a well educated populace. Ireland, like many others, tried to take the shortcut to prosperity.  Ignorance breeds poverty.

[dc10fan]

Fuck off with this negative crap....i'm sick of it!.....I don't want to hear how bad things are....give us some positive news...PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!

[leoalbppri80]

@dc10fan thank u....fucking media!!! always shoeing the negative shit!!!

[ardeestephen100]

Those people were junkies...they didn't lose everything, they weren't working in offices beforehand.

I'm glad we know because of the reporter that we will go back to the way we were before and that it will be a slow painful return.

Hmm, he doesn't mention anything good about Ireland. The IT industry is booming and we need people from abroad to fill these jobs. We're looking into a massive wind energy program. Nobody really knows the future, least of all this reporter.

[eireboy17]

the last sentence is depressing.

[bountyc]

People make 200 a week on the dole minimun as they can avail of rent allowance, childbenefit, even get their bin tags paid for. While everyone says that we cant cut these benefits the government simple taxs more instead and leaves the poor works to keep the unemployed in their luxary lifestyles

[ardeestephen100]

We should cut these. If people only knew what it was like in other countries. it's 50 pounds a week up the north

[CelticTiger1993]

This is all thanks to Bertie and Brian!

We were far too ambitous over the years, there is now a huge hole in the public finances, about 5 billion...yeh pretty scary.

In terms of infrastucture, we are really lagging behind with the rest of western europe and usa.

For eg. motorways, we didnt have any during the 90s

Now we are heavily investing in them, which is great

[xThatEnglishGuyx]

I think you guys should have took it steady instead of rushing into things. I read online that people were recieveing 200 on the dole weekly? thats pretty scary, who needs to work when you get that? In UK its 100 every 2 weeks. Typical governments they try to appease their citizens then land them in a heap of shit. UK parliament the bastards got caught milking the system for flash cars and houses while we struggle with bills, they all need shooting in governments an get someone down to earth in.

[xThatEnglishGuyx]

Or at least someone who can do the job.

[1690motherwell]

This is what you get when you have an economy built up on EU handouts. Ireland historicly has never been a strong economy. The Irish got hooked on taking handouts, they thought a downturn would never happen, how wrong they were.

[OpeningSalvoe]

Another Daily Mail reading retard from the north in the form of "1690Motherwell". WTF are you talking about you northern spastic special needs case, the recession in Ireland has absolutely nothing to do with handouts from Brussels, where do you dickheads get your information from up there, you clearly have no understanding of global economics, it's called the GLOBAL recession, or hadn't you heard? If that were the case then what would be your excuse for the fact that your economy is in the...

[OpeningSalvoe]

...toilet up there, despite the fact that the Republic was pumping hundreds of millions of pounds into Northern Ireland during the Celtic Tiger, the "handouts" that Northern Ireland took from the Republic don't seem to have done it much good now do they? This coming from a guy who's country couldn't even exist without handouts, as NI has NEVER been economically viable. You may have motherwell in your name but i'm assuming that coz you have 1690 in it aswell, you must have some connection to NI..

[OpeningSalvoe]

...and even if you don't, Scotland is hardly fairing much better with the colapse of Royal and HBOS, who are now going cap in hand to Westminster, which has now put a dampner on talks about a referendum on independence, but I guess you scots have gotten used to doing that "bought and sold for English gold" as it were. lol

[bacabu30]

Are you dumb? It has nothing to do with 'handouts'. It's to do with over-reliance on construction, lack of regulation of banking and over-spending.

[sean007s]

we are so fucked.

[afthefragile]

Ireland is just following the footsteps of UK and USA and is destroying itself in the process!!!

People need to wake up and see the real truth. We are in shit and we can't just leave it onto our leaders to get us out of this cuz they're the ones that got us in this mess!

Its time people need to get smart and get responsible for themselves!

[theseanman]

Did the commentator record this with a blindfold on and a gun to his head?

[shepm2002]

If africans and polish go home who is going to rent the houses that are being built. They are actually doing good for the economy

[1690motherwell]

Thwy rekon immigants in the UK benifit the indiginous population by 62p per week. Not really worth it I dont think.

[Batistutastcool]

The UK got pooned by immigration policy, there's more Indians in London than English, and Dublin was heading that way with Nigerians, thank God for high unemployment here now - the funny part is that when there are no jobs suddenly the horrific imaginary genocide disappears in Nigeria.

[Batistutastcool]

This is GREAT, roll on Recession Ireland. In two years all the foreigners will have gone home, the Africans will be rounded up and sent back home, we'll all be able to get by on a decent enough wage without ripping each other off. And most of all we will have our Soul and Humour back. Welcoming Visitors with a smile instead of bending over for illegal immigrants to cry racism at every turn.

[oforak47]

maybe all ur grandfathers that went to england in 1950s or ur ppl in america who are aliens

[Batistutastcool]

Bad grammar, spelling, punctuation.....actually this isn't even a sentence...HMMM, are you from Nigeria???

Is there even a war in Nigeria? Asylum seekers are always welcome here, those who are truly in need of asylum, who live in fear or are persecuted deserve shelter here. Then there are those who lied to get into Ireland lazily shuffling up the dole queue in our hour of need and desperation.

[Savant28]

This will give us our souls back!

[Beadbud5000]

The U. K., like the US need to create a new economy. Lux items, like Waterford Cyrstal will be coming back, for now luxury items are a dead commodity

[flamered24]

Please the Celtic Tiger Economy was built on the back of 60% taxes paid by the workforce of the 60's 70's and 80's. American and English Roads railways and streets were built on the backs of Irish immigrant workers, legal and illegal. I'm from the first generation that didn't have to immigrate. I work in a government job and am being taxed increasingly even though I earn what used to be below the taxable cut off. Desist from your stereotypical old country attitude.

[hajishack79]

haha no shit. We Americans are the most material country on Earth.

[weelgun]

this sucks from me i was bron nad rised in ireland

[OmarThePug]

So does this mean McDonald's wont be selling Shamrock shakes anymore? (rimshot)

[resolutepeasant]

I'll agree with everything save the last part. Those who renounce the ways of this world and modernity and reconnect with the faith of their fathers are with a paddle. And thats the only way one can steer clear of disaster.. The only way to fight this evil system is to renounce it by no longer participating in it to the best of your abilities. And to cultivate some goodness in each of our individual lives...

[fluoridemakesudumb]

bankers control everything. create artificial depressions and bubbles.

[resolutepeasant]

I'll be the first to say we are way worse off. Americans sold their soul to the higgest bidder a long time ago.

[resolutepeasant]

Good...maybe the Irish will realize that real wealth and true happiness is found in immaterial things..Like the religion and culture they were so quick to toss out in chase of almighty mammon. They might have gained the world but it was at the cost of their soul. The world needs to turn its back on progress and embrace the great truths and beauties of the past...

[SadronAphaderuiondur]

Your words are wise. Do you believe in God? I do, and I think He wouldn't send such a great pain for nothing. Like you, I hope this crisis causes people to think about the way they are living and reconsider it. The modern world was going in a very high speed:soon or later there would be a crash. Good healing to everyone! May we come out of this better than we got in!

[jax1492]

I believe in God the real one .... and he is angry

[resolutepeasant]

Amen to that!

[eireboy17]

shove your religion up your hole.

[marzdude]

id love to shove somethng else up my hole!

[notscooter952]

I was just reading about this in The Economist. Sad stuff.

[matthewandrew]

the green tiger falls. =[

[rydar1978]

I didn't know there was a such thing as a green tiger