Tag: Immigration
Irish Birth Rate Slumps 22% in 10 Years
Despite a slight 4% jump in births for 2021 the birth rate in the Irish Republic has witnessed a sharp 22% drop since 2011 according to newly released CSO statistics. With total live births at 58,433 and a natural increase...
2022 Irish Asylum Spike Just the Start
News of a spike in international protection claims signifies the pebbles before an avalanche of asylum applicants to the Irish state. Recorded by the International Protection Office, the Republic experienced more than an effective doubling in asylum claims from the...
In the Minds of Dalkey Residents, True Multiculturalism is Only for the Poor
Early last year Gearóid Murphy wrote a hilarious article for the Burkean titled “The Unbearable Whiteness of Dalkey”: The uber-wealthy town of Dalkey on the south coast of Dublin is whiter than the driven snow and it’s unbearable. The true...
Globo-Homo Dublin: An A-Z Guide
"The bus for town left days ago...Damn them that brought me here" —The For Carnation, A Tribute To Introduction Preliminary note: for those unacquainted with the Fair City, please watch this video as a primer. An aeon ago, as a...
Dublin’s Holiday Inn to be Converted into Major Asylum Centre
Ireland’s intake of refugees continues to gather steam as hotels ostensibly opened to service the ailing tourism industry have pivoted towards servicing the Great Plantation. The Holiday Inn at Dublin Airport, the fourth largest in the country costing €50 million...
Musgraves Leads Charges on Lobbying for non-EEA Migration
The diminishing ability of Eastern European labour pools to placate the needs of a post-covid Irish economy is being demonstrated with the increasing lobbying of major employers for non-EEA migration. As reported in the weekend edition of the Sunday Independent...
Selective Reporting and the Responsibility of the Press
It comes as no surprise that Jozef Puska has finally been named as the individual charged with the murder of Ashling Murphy — certainly not to us as the supposed purveyors of disinformation, and certainly not to regime-approved journalists who...
Zemmour: The French Republic’s Last Safety Valve
You don’t have to read the historical tea leaves much to comprehend we are in the final days of the French Fifth Republic. Vacillating between republican decadence and military strongmen the past quarter of a millenium, the present Élysée regime...
Who is Funding Ireland’s Black Queer Art Scene?
As purveyors of cynical right wing clickbait, The Burkean has taken excessive interest in the nation’s burgeoning black (queer) art scene. From a left-wing microgallery sucking up generous amounts of state funding, to BLM inspired art collectives allegedly playing fast...
Fine Gael’s Drive for non-EEA Immigration
The Republic’s already lackadaisy immigration regime was crowbarred open just that bit wider yesterday with the announcement by Minister for Enterprise Damien English to liberalise the permit scheme for non-EEA workers. Potentially one of the most meaningful decisions for migration...