Merged: 'We don't feel that we are strangers here!'
Partyka and his family count themselves among the 122,585 Polish-born people living in Ireland – a figure almost 94 per cent greater than that revealed in the last census figures from 2006.
Well, well, well. Where are those whom poured scorn on me when I claimed the census figures of 2006 were wholly inaccurate?
The census will 16' will start to reflect the true numbers of Polish in Ireland.
I reckon there are 200-250,000.
Il be proved right, too.
it seems the majority arrived pre-2008.
So, why the increase in the number of Poles by some 94%.
Il tell you why. Immigrants are weary of government forms.
In 2006, most worked. Now, they realised that they are entitled to welfare payments. Most cannot believe their luck. No need to be scared of the government anymore, they house, feed, clothe and pay you to do sweet foook all.
As time grows, more Poles will deal with social welfare, loss the fear of government paperwork and will fill in the forms for the next census.
However, he has experienced some rare instances of xenophobia where people have said: “We don’t accept you, go back” – just a few situations.
This lads is a liar. An ungrateful one at that. Irish people us the word to accept tangible things and apologies. Nothing else. No Irish person would tell someone that they do not accept them. The might tell them to go home, to go away, to foook off, but not that they dont accept them.
So, he is a liar.
Due to health reasons and the economic downturn, however, neither he nor his wife are now working.
There is a shock. On the sick and in the country a wet day. Nice one.
“I had the opportunity to go back to college, which I wouldn’t have in Poland.
Great stuff. We got to put her through college too.
Maybe she was in the same college as her compatriot, Magda!
See, here; http://www.independent.ie/national-news/the-polish-dole-interview-do-i -have-a-problem-with-the-fact-that-i-claim-welfare-yes-3005781.html
However, he says immigrants are more positive about the economic situation than the Irish themselves.
Of course, fooking of course. If Irish people were in a foreign nation, earning multiples of what they would at home in Ireland, for sitting at home and doing courses, they too would be optimistic.
He notes some outward migration among Poles, but says the numbers are small.
Where is Torq? He told me the vast, vast majority of Poles would have left by now.
He says the census may not fully reflect the number of Polish people living here
No way? Shocker, that!
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0413/1224314682099.ht ml
Well, I guess I can say I have been proved right.
Full breakdown of numbers here,
119,526: Number of people who speak Polish at home; of that figure 10,573 were born in Ireland
94%: The increase in Polish-born people living in Ireland between the 2006 and 2011 censuses
55,584: Polish-born women living in Ireland – a 240 per cent increase on 2006
Number of Polish nationals grew by 94%
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