Immigration is robbing our identity

Thursday October 04 2007

Kevin Myers' article on Immigration (September 5) should be read by every Irish person with any interest in the future of the Irish nation and its people.

The 2004 Citizenship referendum showed that 80pc of Irish people are opposed to mass, uncontrolled immigration. With a major monetary and economic crisis now underway, it is high time that the majority became more vocal in their opposition.

Anybody with a basic knowledge of Irish history knows of tragedies, struggles and hardships endured by the Irish people through centuries of oppression, during which the occupying power made every effort to erase all traces of a distinct Irish nation.

They would have succeeded in doing that had it not been for the many Irish men and women who worked in extreme adversity, and, in many cases, sacrificed life and liberty to ensure its survival.

The majority of Irish people have always been aware of how much we owe these patriots and held them in the highest esteem, while cherishing and upholding all that enables us to have the pride and self-respect that comes from belonging to a distinct and unique nation.

Nowadays, if we are to heed to the multicultural lobby, Irish nationality and identity are of such little consequence that an Asian, an African, and eastern European can be classed as 'new Irish' virtually as soon as they set foot on Irish soil.

With one stroke, what was won has been reduced to yellow-pack status -- low-grade, and available to all. Have the multiculturalists ever asked the immigrants if they want to be the 'new Irish'?

Since the Irish business establishment along with their political lackeys, mainly Fianna Fail, have decided that Ireland is now an economy rather than a nation, anything, including flooding the country with immigrants to undercut Irish workers, can be justified, in the name of 'the economy'.

The greatest examples of bigotry and intolerance in Ireland today are being displayed by the pro-immigration lobby towards Irish people who dare to be even mildly critical of what Myers correctly terms 'the tidal wave of immigrants'.

GERRY KINNEAVY
OUGHTERARD, CO GALWAY
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/lette ... 15391.html