tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804250515516290244Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:52:57 +0000"The truth is rarely pure and never simple." -- Oscar Wildehttp://hiberniagirl.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Hibernia Girl)Blogger766125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804250515516290244.post-7869017119513622560Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:00:00 +00002008-08-15T10:00:00.435+01:00announcementsWell, folks, I hate to have to tell you this but I'm afraid I will be closing down the aul' blog. :-(I'm heading back to uni, you see -- as a (*ahem*) mature student (how mature I will be remains to be seen. ;-) ) -- so I plan to be very busy over the next couple of years.I started this blog nearly a year ago because I was frustrated at the lack of a debate about immigration here in this http://hiberniagirl.blogspot.com/2008/08/all-good-things-must-come-to-end.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Hibernia Girl)10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804250515516290244.post-6895544774316281515Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:58:00 +00002008-08-15T07:58:00.557+01:00immigration debateJust thought I'd remind everybody.This is not a hate sitehttp://hiberniagirl.blogspot.com/2008/08/59-of-irish-want-much-stricter-limits.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Hibernia Girl)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804250515516290244.post-4433893828769259248Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:00:00 +00002008-08-14T08:00:01.252+01:00geneticsMSMhuman biodiversityPCracismraceWell, at least according to all these journalists (see headlines below) that appears to be the case.JMJ, this is a LOT of sloppy writing/thinking about racism:1: a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race; 2: racial prejudice or discrimination. [link](Notice the key word there inhttp://hiberniagirl.blogspot.com/2008/08/so-english-are-separate-race-from-irish.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Hibernia Girl)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804250515516290244.post-5692809747373371280Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:00:00 +00002008-08-13T20:00:01.067+01:00multiculturalismdiversityNo wonder they don't get along! And here I thought the Balkans had a complicated ethnic composition.Wikimedia Commons image.This is not a hate sitehttp://hiberniagirl.blogspot.com/2008/08/diversity-caucasus-style.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Hibernia Girl)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804250515516290244.post-3564870690381924246Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:04:00 +00002008-08-13T08:04:00.657+01:00remittanceseconomicsPolandPolishThat's odd, wouldn't you say? How can that be??Thanks to Pete (cheers, Pete!) for tipping me to this story from this past Thursday's Indo:Poles will send home close to €2bnBy Jason O'BrienThursday August 07 2008POLISH workers here are expected to send more money home than ever this year despite the economic downturn, with some commentators believing it will top €2bn.Last year, Poles sent €1.33bnhttp://hiberniagirl.blogspot.com/2008/08/poles-expected-to-send-more-money-home.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Hibernia Girl)8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804250515516290244.post-2840463614357839927Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:02:00 +00002008-08-13T08:02:00.554+01:00educationreverse discriminationBecause those places are being sold to the highest non-EU bidders!!From Monday's Indo:Points race sparks top students brain drainBy John Walshe Education EditorMonday August 11 2008INTENSE competition for leading college courses has led to a "brain drain" which is driving a high proportion of students abroad.As many as one in 10 students is leaving to pursue a college career in Britain, new http://hiberniagirl.blogspot.com/2008/08/ten-per-cent-of-irish-college-students.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Hibernia Girl)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804250515516290244.post-6034112056423003391Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:00:00 +00002008-08-13T08:00:02.029+01:00educationreverse discriminationAs if it's not bad enough that places at Irish universities are being auctioned off to the highest non-EU bidders (legally according to the Irish High Court!), here's a case that the Irish Savant has drawn attention to in which an Irish person is in the scandalous position of having to pay overseas tuition fees:My parents were both born and got married in Ireland. I was born in Ireland and have http://hiberniagirl.blogspot.com/2008/08/another-scandalous-higher-education.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Hibernia Girl)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804250515516290244.post-4709472132096718320Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:00:00 +00002008-08-13T00:16:51.361+01:00announcementsSorry 'bout the light posting over the past couple of days, but I had to wait until my computer dried out -- after stopping it from floating away, that is!Have you ever seen so much rain?! :-oThis is not a hate sitehttp://hiberniagirl.blogspot.com/2008/08/zounds.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Hibernia Girl)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804250515516290244.post-6226517460531193444Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:44:00 +00002008-08-10T19:46:27.703+01:00Lisbon TreatyEU overlordsEU empireEU ConstitutionEUEU Constitution referendumGene Kerrigan on a roll in today's Sunday Independent!:Screw your No vote is the latest planThis is not a hate sitehttp://hiberniagirl.blogspot.com/2008/08/its-not-democratic-deficit-in-eu-elite.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Hibernia Girl)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804250515516290244.post-3943334371043827678Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:18:00 +00002008-08-10T19:37:50.978+01:00welfare fraudwelfareEURemember the clever plan announced a fortnight ago to try to lessen welfare (child benefit) fraud? -- i.e. to make claimants pick up their payments at their local Oifig an Phoist in order to ensure that non-nationals hadn't returned home to Poland or Lithuania or wherever, especially given the fact that 13.9pc of non-Irish nationals were involved in child benefits fraud in 2007 (as compared to http://hiberniagirl.blogspot.com/2008/08/eu-laws-are-just-shhhtupid.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Hibernia Girl)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804250515516290244.post-7229250703444896070Sun, 10 Aug 2008 07:04:00 +00002008-08-10T08:04:01.110+01:00expensesGarda SiochánalanguageThe expenses keep accruing. From the Sunday Business Post:Garda spent €3 million on interpreters last year10 August 2008By Susan MitchellThe Garda Siochána spent almost €3 million on interpreters last year, as the number of immigrants requiring translators continued to grow.The Garda deals with over 200 languages and dialects on a regular basis. Between 30 and 40 companies provided http://hiberniagirl.blogspot.com/2008/08/garda-spent-3-million-on-interpreters.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Hibernia Girl)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804250515516290244.post-7680979485288956921Sun, 10 Aug 2008 07:02:00 +00002008-08-10T08:02:01.610+01:00ICPNigeriansÁine Ní Chonaillasylum fraudasylum seekersFrom the Sunday Tribune:Exposed: The myth of Ireland's liberal asylum policyAugust 10, 2008Ken FoxeJust 0.01% of Nigerians granted asylum in the past two yearsNIGERIAN people arriving in Ireland have practically no chance of being granted asylum, according to figures obtained by the Sunday Tribune.The figures, which also indicate that asylum applications from Chinese people are almost always http://hiberniagirl.blogspot.com/2008/08/nigerian-embassy-in-dublin-says-that.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Hibernia Girl)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804250515516290244.post-3247308916353883560Sun, 10 Aug 2008 07:00:00 +00002008-08-10T08:00:01.222+01:00educationchildrenThis is kinda funny. One Educate Together school on Dublin's northside doesn't have any foreign national children enroled in junior infants this year. No wonder these schools are so popular! -- amongst the Educate Together fans that is. Other people, of course, have different preferences.Minister considers new law to prevent schools from 'cherrypicking'August 10, 2008June Edwards(...)In onehttp://hiberniagirl.blogspot.com/2008/08/educate-together-school-has-no-foreign.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Hibernia Girl)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804250515516290244.post-3884158703837738362Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:02:00 +00002008-08-08T08:02:12.867+01:00demographicsPolishEastern Europeansmass migrationThis Indo article is from last year, but I hadn't seen it before last night (was published before I started blogging, too):Half of Poles say they intend to settle here permanentlySaturday July 07 2007AS many as 100,000 of the Poles living in Ireland have no intention of returning home in the near future, writes Ailish O'Hara.But they still prefer Polish food and drink, and typically have two http://hiberniagirl.blogspot.com/2008/08/half-of-polish-migrants-say-they-intend.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Hibernia Girl)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804250515516290244.post-751858374195831080Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:00:00 +00002008-08-11T04:47:53.361+01:00population replacementmass migrationGermanyVia Gates of Vienna, from Wednesday's Deutsche-Welle:Every fourth German family has migration background06.08.2008Every fourth family in Germany has a migration background. That's according to latest figures published Tuesday by the Federal Statistics Office which found this to be the case for 27 percent of nearly 8.6 million families with children under the age of 18.... [link]So, that would be http://hiberniagirl.blogspot.com/2008/08/population-replacement-in-germany.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Hibernia Girl)11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804250515516290244.post-3375938816259948172Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:00:00 +00002008-08-07T08:00:15.125+01:00population replacementPolandmulticulturalismmass migrationIs it just me, or does it make no sense at all to move millions of Polish people to the British Isles only to wind up moving (presumably) millions of other peoples into Poland to replace them? What's the point??Report: Poland's future includes fewer Poles, more foreignersJul 28, 2008Warsaw - Poland's population will likely shrink by two million by 2035, but the country will have twice as many http://hiberniagirl.blogspot.com/2008/08/population-replacement-in-poland.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Hibernia Girl)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804250515516290244.post-1945213479838812561Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:37:00 +00002008-08-07T02:46:49.997+01:00literatureThis is now at the top of my book-shopping list!Cry Wolf: A Political FableAfter the owner of Green Pastures Farm dies, the domesticated animals on the farm learn to tend the home themselves. Their peace is built on the idea of equality of all, the value of domestic life and the principle of ""No Trespassing"" - protecting the farm from the animals who live beyond the fence. But when a wounded http://hiberniagirl.blogspot.com/2008/08/cry-wolf-political-fable.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Hibernia Girl)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804250515516290244.post-6352967635739561718Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:30:00 +00002008-08-07T03:34:18.628+01:00Ronit Lentingeneticshuman naturebasic biologyhuman biodiversitydiversityPCall immigrants are not equalRonit Lentin writes in Metro Eireann in response to Kevin Myers' controversial "aid-to-Africa" column:Is Kevin Myers inciting hatred?Written by Ronit LentinThursday, 24 July 2008(...)But it is Myers’s final sentence that reveals his true agenda – his persistent opposition to immigration into this country (omitting to mention, of course, that he himself is a migrant from Britain).... [link]Dr. http://hiberniagirl.blogspot.com/2008/08/ronit-lentin-doesnt-understand-that-all.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Hibernia Girl)13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804250515516290244.post-5371544857328621894Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:42:00 +00002008-08-05T18:22:17.482+01:00rental allowanceAfghanisPolishCubansUzbekisZimbabweansEstoniansRomaniansEritreansChechnyansUKwelfareBurmeseNigeriansimmigrantsUh -- remind me again -- what percentage of our population is immigrants? Oh that's right -- somewhere around 13-15%. Hmmmmmm. What's wrong with this picture?:'United Nations' of claimants costing State €150mBy Michael BrennanTuesday August 05 2008THE State is spending around €150m a year hosting a "United Nations" of nationalities in rented properties, according to new figures.People from 161http://hiberniagirl.blogspot.com/2008/08/39-per-cent-of-free-rental-allowance.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Hibernia Girl)11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804250515516290244.post-6020325263607716904Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:24:00 +00002008-08-05T17:34:39.278+01:00Eastern EuropeansunemploymentSo, why are these folks staying here? I thought all these builders would be off to London or wherever once the economy took a turn for the worse here? From today's Indo:One in six on dole from other statesBy Louise HoganTuesday August 05 2008ONE in six people signing on to the Live Register are originally from outside the State.Immigrants from the newest states to join the EU, mostly eastern http://hiberniagirl.blogspot.com/2008/08/16-per-cent-of-dole-claimants-in-july.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Hibernia Girl)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804250515516290244.post-5869095649062917442Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:23:00 +00002008-08-05T04:46:41.079+01:00immigration debatehuman natureWestern Civ Pridehuman biodiversityracismhate crimesI feel it's rather silly having to explain this, but some people out there seem a little confused about this, so let me state it as plainly as I can: This is not a hate site.I do not hate any person or persons or peoples. I do not advocate hating any person or persons or peoples. If you read this site and come away with that idea then you have completely misunderstood what I have to say and http://hiberniagirl.blogspot.com/2008/08/this-is-not-hate-site.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Hibernia Girl)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804250515516290244.post-1917841729242550821Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:45:00 +00002008-08-05T17:36:06.104+01:00basic biologyI just couldn't resist posting this. ;-)Tuesday, August 5, 2008Native hare threatened by invaderTHE ULSTER Wildlife Trust has warned that the Irish hare could face extinction unless action is taken to check the spread of an invader from Europe.The trust said new research showed that thousands of European hares - known locally as the brown hare - were now present in mid-Ulster and west Tyrone.Dr http://hiberniagirl.blogspot.com/2008/08/native-hare-threatened-by-invader.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Hibernia Girl)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804250515516290244.post-5303816040216884840Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:06:00 +00002008-08-05T17:37:27.582+01:00immigration debatemass migrationracismUpdate >> Thanks to anonymous (cheers, anon!) for pointing out that a blogger called Mr. Mysterious has written about this article which was, in fact, a letter to the Sunday Independent (which is why it is not online) from Denis Naughten, Immigration and Integration spokesman for Fine Gael.Mr. Mysterious sums up the situation very accurately:In his own words we "re-train Irish workers so that http://hiberniagirl.blogspot.com/2008/08/immigration-primed-powder-keg.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Hibernia Girl)9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804250515516290244.post-823725063149299564Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:04:00 +00002008-08-05T17:37:47.071+01:00womenhijabsintegrationLiam EganassimilationMuslimsUpdate >> Liam Egan says that he doesn't recall using the term "native Irish" when being interviewed by the Sunday Times, so it seems that that term was probably introduced by the journalist. It's the Sunday Times, then, that misunderstands how many "native Irish" are Muslims. I've tried twice to leave a comment @ the Times site, but neither of my comments have been posted.~~~~~From yesterday'shttp://hiberniagirl.blogspot.com/2008/08/liam-egan-and-sunday-times.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Hibernia Girl)13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804250515516290244.post-3235337010179964878Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:00:00 +00002008-08-05T17:38:05.525+01:00educationreverse discriminationThat's just outrageous! I had no idea the numbers were so unbalanced.Thanks to Rob (cheers, Rob!) who pointed out that Frank Predergast is going to appeal the court's decision that it's okay for Irish universities to sell medical places to the highest, non-EU bidders even though they have lower Leaving Cert (or equivalent) scores:Student to appeal 'no bias' rulingBy DANIEL McCONNELLSunday Augusthttp://hiberniagirl.blogspot.com/2008/08/60-per-cent-of-irelands-medicine-places.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Hibernia Girl)0