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That's the second time you've suggested I'm defensive - but in fact I was puzzled, because I live here and what you posted simply didn't relate to the news I've been following on this subject for several days. I'd actually just read the RTÉ piece that I posted about an hour beforehand. It made a lot more sense when I worked out that the police thing was based on something that came from the Express, whose USP is misrepresenting anything to do with the UK's relationship with Europe. Mind you, the Afghan thing is still a mystery to me. Ireland has a peculiar migration policy, mainly because of the Common Travel Area. The CTA is important to us, as is the open border - it wasn't for nothing that we got the EU to make it a central negotiation principle in the exit deal with the British. That has consequences for us, because our immigration and visa policies are much closer to the UK's than to the EU's. Usually those consequences are a minor inconvenience, but because the Conservatives are so obsessed with making their Rwanda policy an apparent success it's currently more than minor. But these things go through cycles and it'll pass. On the question of hard borders Ireland is party to the EU's new Migration pact, which is supposed to tighten everybody's borders. But I'll believe that when I see it. Everyone wants to have the "right" kind of immigration while stopping the "wrong" kind. Meanwhile, desperate people will keep trying to get away from desperate lives and places.

Thought Beni also looked pretty dapper, albeit in an outfit which, without trying to raise racial stereotypes, only a black guy carries off. I thought the same maybe a decade ago at a similar event when Buaben and Gomis looked like the coolest dudes, yet I knew if I could go back to their age and attempt to wear what they were wearing, I'd look like a complete ***** white boy who was trying too hard but couldn't pull it off.

I was hoping for discussion rather than debate tbf. The point about Scotland was an after thought. I don't live in the UK, and take world news from most media points, and accept they aren't always credible. You my friend though, appear to have a thin skin, and assume from your user name that you are indeed Irish. Good luck with both.....👍

Delighted that they seem to be back on board the Full Monty, Can't wait for the Hibs post October slump and Monty getting sacked before Xmas next season. Please don't ever change Hibs.

Good man. What was the point you wanted to debate? The point about Scotland?

This is a piece from RTÉ today. There's a lot of guff in it, but I've pulled out the crucial bit. https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2024/0430/1446420-cabinet-migration-legislation/

We'll see......👍

Yip. Absolutely brain dead thinking otherwise.

Interesting point Foley makes in that interview about Lorient, albeit it's from May 2023 before Hibs and Standard Liege became part of his "stable" of feeder clubs... “It’s a place where we can put players and buy players. The multi-club model is the second part of the story. If I’m going to acquire players, why don’t I acquire them from myself? It’s a lot less expensive. The only downside is if you have two or three really good teams, only one can play in Europe.” Although he indicates that he would want to see Lorient in Europe, and that he wouldn’t necessarily want them to sell their best players, but he does want to place Bournemouth as a priority destination To my first highlighted point, he doesn't have 2 or 3 really good teams, he now has 4 bang average to crap teams, so for the time being, the dilemma of only one of them being able to play in Europe is not a pressing issue. However, to my second highlighted point, it's very clear where his priorities would lie if he ever found himself in such a dilemma.

Ah, thanks for the edit. They aren't. It's the Express. Problem solved.

Yeah I agree, Unless he has an outstanding euros and fires in a few goals for scotland then i honestly can't see anyone paying what hearts would want for him in the summer, especially when they could pick him up on a pre contract for nothing a few months later, unless it's silly money from a Saudi club or a premier league team, He will be going nowhere imo. The good thing is that he definitely won't be going to Rangers in the Summer, that's a certainty.

I live here. Do you? You asked if anyone cared to comment, so I did. I would have preferred to take what you said and worked with it, but there were two very big problems with what you said, so I couldn't. You posted something that made no sense to me, and wouldn't mean anything to anyone living here. In one of your posts, you posted a headline about police being sent to the Border, so I'm now guessing that's where you got the idea from - but if you got it somewhere else please feel free to say where. But in any case there are no police being sent to the Border, so the headline makes no sense. Even if you wanted to police the frontier (and it is Irish government policy not to want that), sending 100 cops to police more than 200 crossings along 499 kilometres of border would be a limited and ineffective way to go about it. Also, you posted something about your memory of something involving Afghans living here and seeking to leave because of racial abuse. If they were abused that wouldn't surprise me, because there are racist filth living here just like there are everywhere else. However, if anyone asked to leave I don't recall hearing anything about it. Leave and go where, anyway? Kabul? I did ask for a source for that story; perhaps that slipped your mind. Ireland already has hard borders, just like other countries do. Just not with the UK. There are probably some good questions to be debated about how migration affects Scotland, both in the present UK context and in terms of how things might work if Scotland were independent. But starting from a position of inaccurate information about migration elsewhere won't help the quality of that discussion.

You sound very defensive and accusing me of "conjurring" up. As I said, this will be interesting how things pan out.... if police are being deployed, presumably to prevent free entry then surely it's a hard border. https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1894069/ireland-hard-border-brexit-rishi-sunak

A worrying trend, hopefully they don't follow that with a record number of consecutive defeats next season.

I think the nominations are fair. Killie getting 4th and European football is a big achievement given their resources and where they were when McInnes got the job. Dundee getting top 6 after being promoted is also a good achievement, given that they would have been expected to be in a relegation battle based on recent seasons in the top flight. McGlynn on the verge of an invincible season with Falkirk is also a worthy nominee. Naisy has done a great job, particularly as he's a rookie manager, but getting 3rd with a team who finished 4th and 3rd in our previous 2 seasons and with our budget is not particularly remarkable. None of the OF managers were nominated, so it is actually refreshing to see that the PFA is putting more emphasis on managers who have exceeded expectations at their clubs. I'd far rather see one of the 3 nominees get the award than Brendan get it for winning the title yet again with the wealthiest club in the league (assuming they do go on to win it).

Ah wait, there might be something - though I've no idea where it's from. There's a "headline" in Section Q's post about police being deployed to the Border. Whatever the source is, that's not true.

^^^^ Yes. And? You still haven't explained what you meant when you said Ireland is considering a hard border. What does that even mean?

None of that says Ireland is considering a hard border though.

Brexit deal betrayed as Ireland deploys 100 police on UK border to stop migrants The UK has said it has "no legal obligation" to accept the return of asylum seekers from Ireland in a huge migrant row.

Yes please

Yes. I have absolutely no idea what you mean by "Ireland now considering their own hard border". None. Also, have you got a source for this below? I'm struggling to remember anything of this nature, and I can't track anything down about it.

I don't understand your question. Did you read my full post ?

What's that got to do with this?

So there's no anti immigration protests currently in Ireland.....?