|
Non-Gaa Forum - 4 Like(s)
Replying To Freethinker: "Come on Barney. This immigration seems to be a hobby horse of yours. Tell us your solution. Ban them all? Time to nail your colours to the mast. I was in for treatment yesterday. The ward I was in had probably 12 to 15 staff. Possibly 3 "native Irish" as the hard right would say. What kind of health service would we have without them. And these are just healthcare workers. Go look at the staffing numbers in the nursing homes. Other walks of life they are doing works that the hard right wouldn't dirty their hands with. That is if many of them work at all as the same people seem to be able to attend every dinner and dogfight of a parade going. Then, hey presto, the aristocratic Englishman who changed his name to a commoner seems to be able to turn up at a moments notice to fire things up. Not that I am aligning you with these people for a moment, far from it, as I reckon you are on the left of our politics, as indeed I was once, still am but probably more left of centre nowadays. But there is a fine line to be drawn." Do you personally think there is a immigration problem in Ireland and in Europe?
I'm not anti-Immigration, but seeing the problems caused by excessive immigration over the last 50 years in places like England, Europe and the US, I think there is strong evidence to support the need to control the annual Immigration flow in our Country and indeed other Countries.
Immigration numbers should not exceed 5% of the current total population in total over 20 years, so our population is ~5.3 million at the moment, 5% of that would allow 265,000 people in over 20 years. This would allow the Irish state time to absorb them and adapt infrastructure to accommodate them, also enable incoming people to integrate to their new communities too.
Otherwise you end up with divided Countries and divided Cities like Leicester in England.
Commodore (National) - 18/04/2026 22:14:59
|
|
Galway Hurling thread - 2 Like(s)
What a win lads. I didn't see something like that coming in the first round of the championship. Fair play
Doylerwex (National) - 18/04/2026 19:06:20
|
|
Westmeath Football thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To iarmhiabu: "I am not pointing the blame at Kinnegad, they have one of best Club facilities in the County. The pitch in Kinnegad is bound to be cut up, catering for their own teams in addition to hosting County Minor and U20 matches. It is bad enough having to look after your own without baling out the County Board. If it was not for Kinnegad and St Loman's (presumably the only viable floodlit venues to host a Inter County Championship game), the County Minor and U20 teams would have no home games? The referee made the correct call on the night, he did his job. It is not negligence in that moment but over time from the County Board. If a County has no floodlit pitches for the purpose of County teams, relies on Club pitches that are already being used 6 or 7 nights a week and still has no Centre of Excellence or long term facility plan, then the County Board has failed in its duty to provide proper infrastructure for its teams. It is like this, if your only car breaks down, it is not your fault that journey fails. But it is your responsibility if you never invested in another car." Can someone please tell me why other floodlit venues cannot host games? Is it that we choose not too or is there a regulation that is holding back these other grounds?
OverTheHill85 (National) - 18/04/2026 19:24:10
|
|
Galway Hurling thread - 2 Like(s)
Tiernan Killeen appreciation post
Didn't always rate him but he was excellent yesterday, always took the right option and linked play, covered gaps and used the ball superbly. A big factor in us decimating Kilkenny in the middle third yesterday.
Stool Pigeon (National) - 19/04/2026 12:15:12
|
|
Non-Gaa Forum - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Tadhg2020: "So we are sticking with simplistic MAGA style politics. Fair enough." We have between 10,000 - 17,000 Irish people who are homeless, can't get suitable housing in their home Country, and the Irish Government formed by the majority of elected TDs to govern our Country, is allowing in between 80,000 and 100,000 refugees and immigrants and telling the electorate "We can't prioritize Irish people for housing because of our Equality legislation".
We have hospital services crippled across the Country, because they don't have the infrastructure or resources to deal with the mass influx of extra people, as a result we have people sitting in hallways for days sometimes and medical staff run off their feet in A&E.
That is alarming to me, it should be a major concern for all Irish people.
Commodore (National) - 18/04/2026 21:53:44
|
|
Galway Football thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To S1234: "Ye won by 1 point would not get carried away and hardly makes up for the beating we gave ye at under 20s. .." Ah what are you talking about buddy?
Do you see anyone getting carried away?
Cos I don't. That's an average Mayo team so well hardly be getting carried away with a narrow win over them
galwayman2 (National) - 18/04/2026 18:20:18
|
|
Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Commodore: "Do you personally think there is a immigration problem in Ireland and in Europe?
I'm not anti-Immigration, but seeing the problems caused by excessive immigration over the last 50 years in places like England, Europe and the US, I think there is strong evidence to support the need to control the annual Immigration flow in our Country and indeed other Countries.
Immigration numbers should not exceed 5% of the current total population in total over 20 years, so our population is ~5.3 million at the moment, 5% of that would allow 265,000 people in over 20 years. This would allow the Irish state time to absorb them and adapt infrastructure to accommodate them, also enable incoming people to integrate to their new communities too.
Otherwise you end up with divided Countries and divided Cities like Leicester in England." That is a reasoned, well thought out synopsis of where we should stand. One problem is that, should every country in the developed world adopt that or a similar policy, that would not solve the problem of millions of people fleeing wars, created by tyrants, and despots all prioritising personal greed over ruling their countries for the betterment of their populations. Fleeing natural disasters brought on by global warming, which they had no hand in creating, Fleeing countries where religious maniacs have taken away basic human rights particularly from females - possibly a little like our own country in the thirties, forties , fifties and sixties when we flooded England with how many hundreds of thousands of immigrants, driven by our leaders vision of a closed, religious, Irish only state, though not quite as fundamental or radical as the Taliban or Pol
Pot. I am all for some kind of cap on immigration, particularly given the state of our housing situation, but I love would someone to come on here with thoughts on a solution to the above problem. Or do we all just do a Pontious Pilate on the thing, pull up the drawbridge and look the other way ??
Freethinker (National) - 18/04/2026 23:17:47
|
|
Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Another question. Interesting to see how many answers it gets. Define "Native Irish". How many generations do the self appointed heritage guardians judge as qualifying. I see many far right individuals when named with names that don't exactly go back to Brian Boru. In 50 yrs time, if these migrants are still here they may have grandchildren or great grandchildren. Would they be regarded as being Irish heritage that point. Look around at some of our seaboard counties and their inhabitants. Some would seem to figg to in quite well in Mediterranean countries. Wexford and some surrounding counties have many many Norman surnames. At what point were all these cultures absorbed into our "natural Irish heritage". Before someone gets on here, my parents both have surnames that go back beyond said Brian, with Mac Murrough Kavanagh and Cork Murphy's thrown in amongst many others.
Freethinker (National) - 19/04/2026 14:01:40
|
|
Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Stool Pigeon: "Tiernan Killeen appreciation post
Didn't always rate him but he was excellent yesterday, always took the right option and linked play, covered gaps and used the ball superbly. A big factor in us decimating Kilkenny in the middle third yesterday." Very true, he would have been my man of the match, one amongst many yesterday as it happens. The lads upfront had a great day out and all plaudits to them, yet yesterday the real strength I think in this new team is the quality of ball winning and distribution in the middle third, particularly Killeen, Daniels, the Mannions and Gavin Lee. A few things to sort out in the fullback line though and easy to overlook after a 15 point win but hopefully fixable.
Flaherty (National) - 19/04/2026 13:10:10
|
|
Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Can't see past wins for the big two next weekend unfortunately please. Thanks for this. Would be nice to have a Leitrim Roscommon final but not going to happen I feel. The big two, Galway and mayo to meet again for me. Thanks for agreeing.
bláthach (National) - 19/04/2026 12:34:12
|
|
Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To galway19: "Important now to get the win in Portlaoise in the u20 against Kilkenny on Wednesday evening. Get the direct route into the Leinster semi final and avoid having to play an extra game in a quarter final. Hopefully they might have Cullen Killeen and Colm Burke back as well as having Rabbitte and Niland available." It was notable to me that when Garrett came on he was kept well away from Rabbitte, who was still in at the time, you'd expect that he will be picking Rabbitte up on Wednesday with Verecker taking Niland so no point in denting his confidence coming on against a chap who was flying I suppose.
Kilkenny are at a low ebb these days and it's difficult to make a great case for them on Wednesday. But even if KK win, our 'extra game' would likely be against either Westmeath or Laois (open to correction on that) and if we couldn't win that it's all the one anyway. The only thing winning would really ensure is that we would play one of KK/WX in the Leinster SF: if we lose on Wednesday we could also face Dublin who look certain to top the other group.
Put it like this, KK clearly don't rate their U20 side highly as they haven't started any of them yesterday and only brought 2 of them on. And this is a KK senior team that shouldn't be too difficult to get on based on the league and yesterday.
So if they don't rate them highly why would we?
Stool Pigeon (National) - 19/04/2026 12:12:32
|
|
Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To BarneyGrant: "25% of population is born overseas. Do you think that none of them get sick, old, draw social welfare, get social housing, use buses, schools, and so on and so forth?
There is an insidious narrative here that Irish people are in some way beholden to people from outside of the country - immigrants, EU, tach corporations, housing investment funds and should just sit in the corner and be eternally grateful." And of course those foreign people work and pay taxes, prsi etc .
Tech and multinationals employ 10s of thousands, of people,mainly due to us being in the EU (low tax of course helps).
Seanfan (National) - 19/04/2026 12:06:38
|
|
Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Seanfan: "Any time I go to a hospital or clinic I see loads of Irish patients being seen or teated by lots of foreign staff.
How would there be no long waits if those foreign staff weren't there?" My comment was on the need for "Controlled" immigration, not "Zero" immigration.
Is this a case of Scopto - Where your mind sees what it wants to see?
Commodore (National) - 19/04/2026 11:56:54
|
|
Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To BarneyGrant: "25% of population is born overseas. Do you think that none of them get sick, old, draw social welfare, get social housing, use buses, schools, and so on and so forth?
There is an insidious narrative here that Irish people are in some way beholden to people from outside of the country - immigrants, EU, tach corporations, housing investment funds and should just sit in the corner and be eternally grateful." Again, Barney, just a few solutions or suggestions. This insidious narrative you are referring to is actually fact. The country is evolving. What are the alternatives that you have in mind ??
Freethinker (National) - 19/04/2026 11:51:13
|
|
Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Seanfan: "Any time I go to a hospital or clinic I see loads of Irish patients being seen or teated by lots of foreign staff.
How would there be no long waits if those foreign staff weren't there?" 25% of population is born overseas. Do you think that none of them get sick, old, draw social welfare, get social housing, use buses, schools, and so on and so forth?
There is an insidious narrative here that Irish people are in some way beholden to people from outside of the country - immigrants, EU, tach corporations, housing investment funds and should just sit in the corner and be eternally grateful.
BarneyGrant (National) - 19/04/2026 11:11:36
|
|
Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Commodore: "We have between 10,000 - 17,000 Irish people who are homeless, can't get suitable housing in their home Country, and the Irish Government formed by the majority of elected TDs to govern our Country, is allowing in between 80,000 and 100,000 refugees and immigrants and telling the electorate "We can't prioritize Irish people for housing because of our Equality legislation".
We have hospital services crippled across the Country, because they don't have the infrastructure or resources to deal with the mass influx of extra people, as a result we have people sitting in hallways for days sometimes and medical staff run off their feet in A&E.
That is alarming to me, it should be a major concern for all Irish people." Any time I go to a hospital or clinic I see loads of Irish patients being seen or teated by lots of foreign staff.
How would there be no long waits if those foreign staff weren't there?
Seanfan (National) - 19/04/2026 09:51:58
|
|
Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Important now to get the win in Portlaoise in the u20 against Kilkenny on Wednesday evening. Get the direct route into the Leinster semi final and avoid having to play an extra game in a quarter final. Hopefully they might have Cullen Killeen and Colm Burke back as well as having Rabbitte and Niland available.
galway19 (National) - 19/04/2026 09:40:24
|
|
Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Tadhg2020: "I can assure you that there are not 10 to 17 thousand Irish people living on the streets in ireland." Homeless does not only mean living on the street, I'm referring to homeless in hotels or other forms of temporary accommodation, and I am not talking about luxurious hotel stays here by the way.
Do you think Ireland is managing well with the current levels of Immigration?
Do you think the levels of immigration that we have been seeing in Ireland is sustainable?
Commodore (National) - 19/04/2026 00:40:15
|
|
Sunday Game - 1 Like(s)
Replying To legendzxix: "The games should be available to watch back. Reasonable highlights of all games as well. Why the GAA channel isn't providing that service is wrong IMHO. That blame is with GAA HQ on this one." how many sports organisations do that
at what cost should that be?
KillingFields (National) - 18/04/2026 23:38:16
|
|
Westmeath Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Sloweddie: "Hard luck today you got off to a great start but lost your way in the end. Scoreline a bit harsh but you don't get away with silly mistakes at this level. Backs were very good today for the most part but you lacked a clinical forwards. Red and black cards on the harsh side and definitely didn't help Westmeath. We were delighted to get away with the victory Goals win games" You summed it up well a harsh lesson that we need to learn ftom very quickly. Against the wind going well and lets be honest silly mistakes. Also 14 points wont win against teams of this level.
jobber (National) - 18/04/2026 23:01:30
|