Eastern European Ethno-Nepotism

Ah haha, thank you.

That's true, Maolsheachlann. The problem is it would be very difficult to prove and would most likely be met with accusations of racism or some such.

Of course I understand the mindset behind it; it just feels very wrong to basically be screwed over in your own country because of something like that. I know people say Eastern Europeans are hard workers, and I honestly don't doubt that, but it does beg the question how much of that claim is inflated when you see things like this; especially when we're being told Eastern Europeans are willing to do the jobs that others (supposedly) are not. Is it that Irish people aren't willing? Or aren't always getting the chance? Maybe a mix of both.

Maybe its why various American cities had largely Irish (and corrupt) police forces after the Great Famine. Similarly Irish labourers made up a large strata of the workers who rebuilt war damaged Britain. I suspect new emigrants from the Carribean faced discrimination and or strong competition from the Irish.

Proving nepotism is hard to do. It is a natural phenomena to support your own and people may not even be aware they are doing anything wrong.


I have a friend involved in hotel management who tells me Irish people will not do basic hotel work or work unsocial hours. Were it not for east Europeans he would have closed down. He is a very patriotic man and is conscious of the need to get local Irish people but young people in particular do not want those jobs.

A very large percentage of jobs for people aged 25 -45,(around 40% I recall) created since the crash in Ireland have been taken up by non Irish people.

This is the millenial 'entitlement' that the boomers constantly refer to, when in reality it is better described as Millenial disgust. These young people were raised to go for university degrees to make an easier life, its what their parents wanted them to do because back when they were young, a degree meaning automatic success in life was true. The difference between 'our' boomer generation and the boomer generation in the rest of the west is that our old dolls and fellas had to work hard when they were going through life, and din't have the parasitical attitude to the young that American boomers had because in Ireland at least 'looking after your own' was the norm so of course you'd look after your parents in their old age and surround them with grandchildren, because that had always been the case until the mid-20th century in Ireland. So our millenials, and I am at the tail end of that, went into university in the noughties with wild dreams, and then promptly had their dreams violated and murdered in front of their eyes, had their social care slashed and told to basically F*** off by the republic which is why we had an entire generation flee to Australia for work (including my brother, my eldest brother was lucky enough to graduate before the crash and get a job in construction that he's managed to keep), so a lot of millenals being unwilling to do menial work because they resent it is understandable. We still need to make them do it eventually but their fury is understandable, other generations saw their dreams gradually die as the decades rolled past, the millenials got traumatised, and generation Z watched their older brothers and sisters get crushed by the harsh reality of it all and will grow up without such illusions. I wonder what they'll make of the place....