'Ireland is full! Anti-immigration backlash in Ireland | Documentary

Ireland’s anti-immigration backlash has spiralled into country-wide unrest in recent months after a sharp rise in the number of foreigners arriving onto its shores. Protests, arson attacks and hardening anti-immigration views have transfused Irish politics with a fervour not seen since the Troubles.

Freelance journalist Michael Murphy went to Ireland for the Telegraph to find out what Irish people make of the growing strife.

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[declanstewart]

At least the Irish are fighting back rather than just whinging about it.

[adipoem]

It's become clear to me that governments do not act in the interest of their people.

[rooftile]

No shame to be anti immigration - it's YOUR country, culture, heritage.

[LovelyBinaryCode-vdxp]

Every country needs to take care of their citizens first.

[NRGhealer]

It's no accident that this is happening all over the western world.

[grossguy]

It's not anti-immigration. It's, pro-let's take care of our own poor, our own homeless and our own problems, before we start helping others.

[Wench]

Deport not support. Well done Ireland 🇮🇪 for speaking out.

[oliverpuselja]

Irish people continue fighting to protect your culture, traditions, history.

[w]

The Irish people here are absolutely 100% accurate. Total truth spoken here.

[YMINEM]

The fact that someone can say, "I'm afraid Ireland is becoming the new Sweden" and have everyone immediately understand that means more theft, more rape, more burglaries, more garbage, more no-go zones, etc, is precisely what's wrong with Europe.

[youstew]

Something is definitely not adding up. I'm in Vancouver Canada and it's 100X worse than Ireland. We've never built more than 200K homes in a year and yet we have an immigration mandate of 500K new immigrants per year. It's caused a decay within our society with outrageous housing costs, higher addiction rates, more crime, greater mental health problems, and more random acts of violence. Immigration only works when it benefits the country, not destroys it.

[skdragon]

Indigenous people have first rights on their homeland, and have full rights to preserve their cultural roots, I am a Muslim and I respect that,

[FlashdogFul]

That politician doesn't give a rats arse about the Irish people concerns.

[catherinem]

So, obliged to house refugees, asylum seekers but where is the obligation to house Irish people ?

[annaelisavettavonnedozza]

No country should be bending over backwards for immigrants until every single last citizen is housed & fed.

[elizabethmiles]

Using the term “ far right” to describe these protests is a pathetic attempt to dismiss real concerns. These people are not far right, they are not fascists, they simply care about their country, their family’s and their culture. Ireland should not model themselves on Northern European countries, they are getting it very wrong also. I’m English and we have very similar problems, I support Irish people who simply want to protect themselves and their community.

[iehmcwb]

Protect your country Ireland. Don’t let it become a migrant camp, like we have in England.

[mrsmith]

The whole of Europe is like this, i question what are the leaders getting out of this mass immigration.

[patrickcollins]

People have a right to defend their land, this isn't racism.

[mischa]

It's time to STOP calling these people "far right". They are indigenous Irish people. Ireland is their home.