Although we have always been more aware of people leaving, there have always been incomers to Ireland; Anglo-Normans came in the twelfth century, Scots and English in the seventeenth. European Huguenots and Palatines arrived in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Wealthy Jewish people from Germany and Jewish refugees from the

There are many arguments about the advantages and disadvantages of migration and how it has affected us locally. Positive Impacts on host countries • Job vacancies and skills gaps can be filled. • Economic growth can be sustained. • Services to an ageing population can be maintained when there are

Moving countries brings challenges. Migration deprives people of community until they build social links and find their place in their new surroundings. Migrant workers with secure jobs, steady incomes, and good command of English find it much easier to feel comfortable in local communities. They find it even easier if

Officials have the right to detain anyone suspected of committing an immigration offence, or if their removal or deportation is pending. There is a Common Travel Area and local people can usually cross the border without any formal checks, and European Union citizens, before Brexit, had freedom of movement for