Here's the single objective that characterises every Irish Government: Don't ever make an unpopular decision. And if you do so by mistake or through some fleeting and ill-advised commitment to the long-term good immediately concede and withdraw. Above all never ever upset the chattering classes in the media or the 'international bodies' like the UN or the EU. Paddy must always be seen as a good World Citizen. Understanding this helps explain why the streets of Ireland today resemble a cross between Karachi and Lagos.
So you can understand my surprise when I read this.
"For a country that once boasted the '100,000 welcomes' to visitors, Ireland has become the least welcoming country in western Europe for refugees. Latest figures from the EU agency, Eurostat, shows Ireland at the bottom of the league for accepting refugees. Ireland may also have the highest level of refusals for asylum seekers in the EU, turning down more than 90pc of those who arrived here seeking refuge, the figures show.
In the 12 months to the end of June this year, Ireland received less than 10pc of asylum applicants to similar-sized EU states. Denmark, with a population of 5.4m, accepted 21,000 asylum applicants; Norway, with a population of 5m, accepted 28,000 applicants. Ireland is recorded by Eurostat as receiving only 2,780 applicants during the 12-month period to June this year.
Figures from the Department of Justice revealed that of a total of 1,552 applications for asylum to the Office of Refugee Applications Commissioner (ORAC) in 2015, only 9.8pc were granted leave to remain. The Department of Justice is also steadily closing down appeal avenues for asylum seekers, increasingly preventing them from seeking judicial reviews of their refusals, sources say."
The report goes on to say that "new systems which are being put in place are making the process of applying for refugee status, and of appealing rejection, harder and harder." As a consequence "asylum seekers are now believed to be avoiding Ireland".
And it gets better. "Ireland would also appear to be, statistically, ahead of other EU countries when it comes to deporting illegal aliens. Last year the State deported 3,500 people with the figure for this year expected to increase to around 4,000, about double the 2012 figure for deportations, according to figures supplied to the Dail by Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald."
I must confess to being extremely surprised - and impressed - by this. By way of explanation I remember Rob McCarthy, a regular reader of this blog, pointing out some time ago that dedicated and patriotic civil servants were countering on the ground much of the damage caused by spineless politicians and traitors like (((Alan Shatter))). It looks like he might be right and could explain why an asylum centre in my town has been gradually emptied over the last few years. Maybe there is hope. However I should add that the correct rejection figure would be 100%. Because anyone fetching up here and claiming asylum must have travelled through other countries to get here. Ipso facto that makes them asylum tourists.
I close with a heart-warming story of two groups of 'vulnerable' parasites squabbling over taxpayer largess and celebrate the ensuing anguish of the SJWs as they grapple with the vagaries of the Victimhood Hierarchy. A group of Irish travellers/knackers/gypsies protested at the allocation of a public housing unit to a family of Syrian asylum tourists. Interestingly the comments for the article were closed off with an hour of its appearance.