Taoiseach Martin was extremely, shall we say “disingenuous”, during the above meeting and at least 80% of the Irish jaws must have fallen in shock as they viewed the interaction and Martin’s utterings. The facts are quite to the opposite, and Pres Trump has a handle on the reality.
A few days ago and after the St Patrick’s day event the Eurobarometer metrics came out. These are metrics often cooked by the EU Commission to support their narrative. Even they can’t massage the figures any longer. Eurobarometer (EU survey) / Irish Independent Feb 5th 2026 " The latest European Parliament Eurobarometer survey shows 75pc of those surveyed in Ireland said they were “highly worried” about uncontrolled migration flows. This compares with 65pc of those surveyed for the study across the EU. https://europa.eu/eurobarometer/api/deliverable/download/file?deliverableId=103292
A total of 13pc of Irish respondents were “moderately worried”, while 12pc said they were “not or slightly worried”." So basically nearly everyone in Ireland. PressReader.com - Digital Newspaper & Magazine Subscriptions
Concerns arise from several issues of but more overtly observed in housing and crime. For example, Ireland’s recorded sexual offence rate is now 43% higher than the EU average, according to the Law Society’s Justice Indicators Report(page 9) as cited by the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1214700450873993&set=a.260366739640707
https://www.lawsociety.ie/policy-and-law-reform/justice-indicators-report/
The Rape Crisis Network study Rape and Justice Ireland Report 2009, found African men accused of rape in ratio of 10 times greater than would have been expected for their per centage of the population, Eastern Europeans 7 times more than expected. Note also that the Rape Crisis Network is a left leaning Irish NGO.
Irish ethnic national survivors of rape represented 88% of all survivors.
https://x.com/NiallMcConnell5/status/2034784870187065601?s=20
Statistics of ethnicity have not been studied or published since 2009 even though these are held by the justice, police and prison services who each maintain ethnicity records cases, prosecutions and prison population by crime. But sexual and other cirmes are prevalent and being ignored or hidden as a problem.