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Declining birth rate could mean 'vicious downward cycle' for population [Ireland]
RTÉ News ^ | Monday, 29 Dec 2025 12:38 | Ryan Clarke

Posted on 12/29/2025 10:54:25 AM PST by Olog-hai

An advisory body has warned that Ireland’s population is at risk of what it called a “vicious downward cycle” due to a declining birth rate.

The statement is contained in a report by the National Economic and Social Council (NESC), which researched recent demographic shifts across the country. It calls on the Government to begin planning for any negative impacts from a downward cycle before it becomes too difficult to reverse.

The report says that Ireland’s demographic profile is undergoing rapid and profound change as the birth rate falls and the population ages.

It means an aging and declining population will put increasing pressure on a society, with fewer workers and tax revenues that are needed to support investment in infrastructure and services. […]

NESC Director Dr. Larry O’Connell said the patterns that Ireland is experiencing are being seen across Europe. […]

“With a positive and ambitious approach, Ireland can ensure that demographic change becomes a springboard for a more cohesive and inclusive society.” …

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TOPICS: Local News; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: abortion; demographics; europe; eussr; fartyshadesofgreen; fartyshadesofjihad; fourthreich; ireland; rop

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1 posted on 12/29/2025 10:54:25 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

No problem. Import more third-worlders.


2 posted on 12/29/2025 10:57:34 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Olog-hai

We’ve got millions of illegal alien anchor babies we can sell to them. Human trafficking is rapidly become this country’s largest industry since Biden’s 20 million illegal aliens showed up.


3 posted on 12/29/2025 10:58:06 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (MAGAism is the greatest CURE for DemonRAT "Demockrazy". )
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To: Olog-hai

As predicted... the vaxx prevents pregnancy by destroying the placenta just after it’s formed


4 posted on 12/29/2025 10:58:50 AM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Olog-hai

When you discourage women from having babies, insisting that they need to go out into the workforce, do not be surprised when they stop having babies.


5 posted on 12/29/2025 11:00:58 AM PST by Petrosius
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To: Steely Tom

When elites in government, corporations, and media start their Chicken Little routine about “declining birth rates”, it’s really just propaganda for more mass immigration of cheap Third World Labor. A case in point is Elon Musk and the rest of the Silicon Valley oligarchy, who talk non-stop about shrinking populations while lobbying for more H1B coolies to come to the US so they can work for half the salary of their American counterparts.


6 posted on 12/29/2025 11:02:00 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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To: Olog-hai

They should change the name of Ireland to “ooga-Booga,” or maybe they could call it a series of clicks.


7 posted on 12/29/2025 11:03:29 AM PST by MarlonRando
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To: Olog-hai

“With a positive and ambitious approach, Ireland can ensure that demographic change becomes a springboard for a more cohesive and inclusive society.”

Now I’m some guy in the ghetto who’s not an “expert” nor an “authority” but anyone who thinks bringing in hoards of “migrants” who will lead Ireland to a “more cohesive and inclusive society” is either stupid, evil or both.

This flies in the face of at least two billion years of evolution in which kin altruism has been the rule. This will not change in five minutes because someone wants it to.


8 posted on 12/29/2025 11:03:53 AM PST by packagingguy
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To: Olog-hai

Ship our socialists to Ireland to keep Rosie company.


9 posted on 12/29/2025 11:05:28 AM PST by DFG
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To: Olog-hai

The birth rate has been in decline ever since lesbian Rosie O’Donnell arrived there.


10 posted on 12/29/2025 11:08:32 AM PST by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>) )
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To: Olog-hai

The west really did off the deep end when they decided that there were too many people on the planet and decided to stop breeding. Too bad the rest of the world didn’t get the message because they are still breeding like rabbits!


11 posted on 12/29/2025 11:13:26 AM PST by Jean2
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To: Olog-hai

Here’s the standard, Davos-globalist-marxist talking point: “how will we keep GDP up if you people don’t reproduce? For your own good, we will import labor, to serve you of course.”

When in fact what it is

“We will create the conditions of inflation, debt and low-wages that will reduce you to serf status. We’ll give you hedonism and license, but not freedom, so you can continuously chase your tail searching for meaning. And to help this cycle of debt and low wages, we will import the 3rd world, to make sure you have no culture, remain divided, and are completely disconnected from society at large.”


12 posted on 12/29/2025 11:21:48 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Jean2
"Progressive" leftists only complain about the alleged threat of overpopulation when white people have children, even though there isn't and never was an overpopulation issue in any Western nation.

In contrast, Progressives couldn't be happier that Third World people breed prolifically, (despite the fact that overpopulation and famine really are problems in Africa etc), as it means more of them invading Europe and the US.

13 posted on 12/29/2025 11:23:41 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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To: PGR88
“For your own good, we will import labor, to serve you of course.” …
Yep; to “serve” in the sense of the Twilight Zone episode, To Serve Man.
14 posted on 12/29/2025 11:24:20 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is goings to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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Better open those borders than I guess!


15 posted on 12/29/2025 11:31:13 AM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: Olog-hai

Well maybe Irish men need to stop chasing each others’ lucky charms — and see if there are any Irish women left who are not dykes.


16 posted on 12/29/2025 11:34:36 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Olog-hai

When did Ireland stop being a Catholic country?


17 posted on 12/29/2025 11:43:34 AM PST by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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Probably some time after 1972, when they joined the EUSSR.


18 posted on 12/29/2025 11:44:41 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is goings to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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“With a positive and ambitious approach, Ireland can ensure that demographic change becomes a springboard for a more cohesive and inclusive society.” …

The people you're importing do not wish an inclusive or cohesive society.

19 posted on 12/29/2025 11:44:49 AM PST by Rummyfan (Ok In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support lthe civilized man.👨 so t tv)
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To: Olog-hai

The Irish already have more people outside of Ireland than in it... So they’ll never really disappear... But the country they formerly called home will likely be full of foreigners and Travelers.


20 posted on 12/29/2025 11:47:56 AM PST by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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