Ciarán Dunbar
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249 appearances
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first heard May 2026
last heard 1 Jul
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I think it's very important to say, I mean, we know that this individual, this person who has been charged, arrived into Dublin Airport via Paris.
So, I mean...
He didn't get on the plane in Paris without a passport, etc, etc.
We, just in case listeners mightn't realise, to my knowledge, we don't have any sort of small boat situation in Ireland.
The journey would be simply too treacherous.
Now, obviously, people...
will get into the state, into the Republic of Ireland and into Northern Ireland by illicit means.
I'm not saying that that doesn't happen, but it would be extremely difficult to do so because you're arriving by ferry, large ferries with ID checks and by air as well.
So...
That's a situation which we wouldn't have in Ireland.
And supporters of immigrants' rights would point that out.
They would say that in their view, because of that, then there is no one illegal in Ireland.
Whereas to counter the rhetoric where people simply use the word illegal as not an adjective, but a noun.
Yes, this area would be described as a working class area.
It has also been described to me, it is relatively new.
The majority of the people living there would be imagined as a nationalist Republican area in people's minds, in territorial minds, I suppose.
Now there are, as I said, it's...
would be considered to have quite a transient population and there were quite a few people who originated in other countries housed in that area and other people, I suppose, who would not be normally considered to be permanent residents.
So there are those issues.
Now,
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