Archiving the “strange death of Europe,” as Douglas Murray put it, and the West more broadly, at the hands of the neoliberal technocracy.
Et tu, Sinn Féin?
Under the wildly abused public welfare system for “asylum seekers” called “Direct Provision,” “asylum seekers” squatting in Ireland reap all manner of goodies from the state: housing, medical care, education (including university), and even pocket money called “Daily Expense Allowance.”
Not only are they not statutorily required to work during their Direct Provision status, but they are legally precluded from working until the government has adjudicated their status.
Via Wikipedia (emphasis added):
“Direct provision is functionally the system of accommodation for asylum-seekers in the Republic of Ireland. The usage of the term stems from the fact that asylum-seekers are "directly provided for" by the State. It was established in accordance with Ireland's obligations under the E.U. Charter of Fundamental Rights…
Those within direct provision are given a weekly allowance; called a Daily Expense Allowance. As all necessities are intended to be provided for by the State, this allowance is considered complimentary instead of supplementary. The allowance is considered income and is taxed. As of April 2025 the post-tax rate of allowance is €38.80 per week for an adult and €29.80 per week for a child. An increased rate of €113.80 per week for an adult applies where a person is unaccommodated and is on a waiting list for IPAS accommodation.
International protection applicants in direct provision are entitled to medical care, access to such service requires a medical card which all asylum-seekers can apply for. Such cards are available to Irish citizens as well based on need. The medical card system is operated by HSE.
All children within direct provision have full access to the education system. All children living in Ireland must attend school until they at least turn 16. With adults being provided literacy and language courses. Both adults and children have the opportunity for university grants.
Asylum-seekers in direct provision are not allowed to work until after they have been waiting for 6 months for the IPO to issue its first decision regarding their Asylum status. Once granted permission to work, they do not have to pay international fees to do a Post Leaving Certificate (PLC) course.”
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While the “Direct Provision” designation was originally intended to be used for relatively short durations — not exceeding six months — economic migrants who have been taught how to tell sad tall tales by NGOs in order to obtain “asylum seeker” status now stay on the public dole for up to twelve years, while private, for-profit “Direct Provision centres” soak up public funds to house, feed, and educate them, thereby creating an obvious market incentive to keep the migrants in limbo and on the government teat in perpetuity.
Via spunout (emphasis added)
Direct Provision centres are also known as accommodation or reception centres. They were originally designed as a short-term solution to provide accommodation for up to six months to people while they waited for an outcome on their asylum applications.
There are currently 47 centres in total in Ireland, most of which are run by for-profit by private contractors…
The average length of stay in Direct Provision is 24 months, with some residents having spent up to 10 or 12 years living in these conditions.
Unsatisfied with their government accommodations and mountains of free stuff courtesy of the Irish taxpayer, a migrant rights group called “Abolish Direct Provision Ireland” is now demanding fast-tracked amnesty and citizenship for thousands of migrants currently under the program.
Via RTE (emphasis added):
A group of asylum seekers has set up an encampment next to the Department of Agriculture in Dublin, as they seek an amnesty to regularise their status in Ireland.
The group are members of Abolish Direct Provision Ireland, which is calling for another amnesty for international protection applicants…
The group says the direct provision system is broken with people "detained" for years without timelines or certainty.
Spokesperson Angelia Russell said they are not looking for a blanket amnesty as was granted in 2021.
“How about expelling the migrants and regularising their status as foreigners?” one might propose as a solution, in light of the fact that they were almost all fake asylum seekers — in actuality, mere economic migrants — in the first place, rendering the whole exercise a charade.
“Regularising” their status by showing them the door would seem to be the nationalist position, one that Sinn Féin, the fabled champion of Irish republicanism that launched the 1916 Easter Rising to expel the British and establish Irish sovereignty shortly after its founding in 1905, might presumably support.
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Alas, Sinn Féin councillor Gerry McMonagle has taken a different tack, decidedly not in keeping with that spirit of revolutionary independence: joining with the Green Party to demand amnesty for the migrants under Ireland's Direct Provision system.
BREAKING!
— MichaeloKeeffe (@MickOKeeffe) January 24, 2026
Sinn Féin has followed the Green Party by signing an amnesty for migrants with outstanding deportation orders.
Cllr Gerry McMonagle of Donegal made it official.
This is what SF stands for in 2026, open borders and inviting the 3rd world into Ireland.
Disgraceful. pic.twitter.com/KLyg01Dqfy
So dies the Irish nationalist dream an ignominious death — all without the firing of a single shot or a single act of resistance in the classic form.
