[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by JoshBB

My bad.

If I remember rightly from history though, a lot of the children back then were evacuated.. many to other countries. Thank god they didn't decide their economies were too weak and they had 'a housing crisis'.

yep and as an Irish person, I'm disgusted by the attitudes I'm hearing from fellow Irish people over here when Ireland had a similar situation during the Potato famine in the 19th century when Irish people tried to escape to other countries in order to survive, on ships that were known as Coffin Ships ..........I'm sure you can guess why they were called that

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

yep and as an Irish person, I'm disgusted by the attitudes I'm hearing from fellow Irish people over here when Ireland had a similar situation during the Potato famine in the 19th century when Irish people tried to escape to other countries in order to survive, on ships that were known as Coffin Ships ..........I'm sure you can guess why they were called that

I find Some Irish people to be extremely racist and xenophobic

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Cherie

I find Some Irish people to be extremely racist and xenophobic

Looks like we're going to be increasing the number of refugees we're taking in x 3 times now, still not loads but any increase is positive