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    I've got the same error message.

    What exactly did the program say?
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    Ok guys,

    There appears to be some gremlins going on with that link I gave you. Here is the direct link to the page on the BBC website...you will find the audio link on that page.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/wor..._ireland.shtml[/u]

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    Ok I listened to most of it. Didn't hear anything new. Focused mainly on the school problem in Balbriggan. Didn't convince me there's a "huge problem" here.
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    ok so...in your opinion mass immigration isn't a bad thing. A situation where the likes of Balbriggan & Blanchardstown are packed to the rafters with immigrants...(and mostly of the type that flooded the country in the lead up to the referendum. As confirmed on that report "immigration rose faster here in the last 10 years than in did it Britain over the past half century....this is a crisis. With the downturn in the economy coming fast...we are screwed.

    BTW Baldur...at most you listened to 9 minutes of it (the report is nearly 20 minutes long) ....look at the timeline of my posts and yours.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rkeane
    ok so...in your opinion mass immigration isn't a bad thing. A situation where the likes of Balbriggan & Blanchardstown are packed to the rafters with immigrants...(and mostly of the type that flooded the country in the lead up to the referendum. As confirmed on that report "immigration rose faster here in the last 10 years than in did it Britain over the past half century....this is a crisis. With the downturn in the economy coming fast...we are screwed.

    BTW Baldur...at most you listened to 9 minutes of it (the report is nearly 20 minutes long) ....look at the timeline of my posts and yours.
    My jury is out on whether the type of population change that Ireland has undergone is a bad thing or a good thing. My inkling is that it will have a positive effect but only time will tell. Proper intergration will be the key. While the planning has been mediocre to this point, there is a lot more effort being put into this issue recently.

    I've heard enough of Fintan O'Toole for one life time and I've talked to Conor Lenihan about this issue. Neither were going to say anything new so I didn't see the need to listen to them.
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    nothing to do with corrupt planning ?
    What does the Irish President spend their time doing. Work in progress
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    Quote Originally Posted by lostexpectation
    nothing to do with corrupt planning ?
    What, you expected Liam Lawlor et al to foresee a national policy of importing hundreds of thousands of SLavs, Asiatics and Africans?

    Anyone who predicted such a policy ten or fifteen years ago would have been branded as insane.

    Of course, it's the ones who implemented that policy who are insane, but most of them have made money out of it, so maybe they're smarter than the rest of us!

    It's the Irish working class that suffers, and will suffer further.

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    whatever about the poles etc who largely came here to work, we have tens of thousands of Nigerians and thousands of Roma gypsies in this country. We have taken in more immigrants (per population) in 10 years than Britain took in half a century...this is a problem.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rkeane
    We have taken in more immigrants (per population) in 10 years than Britain took in half a century...this is a problem.
    Thank God Britain took in all the Irish that had to leave Ireland in the 1950's & 60's as there was no future for them here thanks to de Valeras disastrous policies.
    One of the moderators on here really wrecks my head with his/her power mad ego
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    The programme is no longer linked to by that.

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