Words cannot describe the feelings of shame and embarrassment I have that Ireland, the land of my father’s family would do a thing like this.
As a member of Michael Collins’ family this is extremely painful to hear.
Ireland is dead to me.
Virtually all of the population growth in Ireland now comes from non-Irish. Native Irish will lose population over the next two generations as Irish fertility rate is no 1.7 children per woman. Meanwhile, Ireland took in over 81,000 non-Irish in 2023 That's 1.57% of the population of Ireland in one year. To put it another way, in 2023-2024, Ireland has already gone from being 78% native to 76% native.