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Thread ID: 10557 | Posts: 5 | Started: 2003-10-17
2003-10-17 15:01 | User Profile
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[img]http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39460000/jpg/_39460902_twins203.jpg[/img] [size=1]The new Irish? Parents hope their children can have Irish citizenship.[/size]
A doctor in Ireland says African women who travel to Dublin to give birth are putting their health at risk in order to give their babies Irish citizenship.
Declan Keane, head doctor at Dublin's National Maternity Hospital, says there have been a number of cases of women travelling while actually in labour.
Ireland is the only European Union country that grants automatic citizenship to babies born within its borders.
It has experienced a massive rise in the number of children born to foreign nationals in recent years.
In 1999, only 2% of babies were born to non-nationals. This year the figure will be almost 20%.
"Most of these women, 70%, are coming from sub-Saharan Africa and the majority of those from Nigeria," Dr Keane told Ireland's RTE radio.
He said a number of women were travelling while actually in labour and there was little time for screening and pre-natal care.
"There is a major disaster waiting there to happen," he said.
Court ruling
The problem was being experienced at all three of Dublin's maternity hospitals, he added.
Last year more than 4,000 non-EU immigrants - 3,000 of them asylum seekers - were granted residency because they were parents of babies born in Ireland.
In January, the Irish Supreme Court ruled that parents and siblings of such children do not automatically qualify for Irish citizenship.
But Dr Keane says mothers are still making the journey in the hope that their child will have the option of returning to live in Ireland when they are older.
"The Supreme Court judgement has done nothing to stop them coming in," he said.
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[img]http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1365000/images/_1369247_ubaby150.jpg[/img] [size=1]Father Brian Moore baptises a new Irish citizen[/size]
2003-10-17 15:57 | User Profile
I want to puke.
2003-10-17 16:12 | User Profile
A while back an Irish woman suffered a miscarriage because she was turned away from the nearest maternity hospital which was full (of nogs). The last I heard our GOB (Gobshite Occupied Government) was planning to spend millions creating a new maternity hospital exclusively for 'asylum seekers'.
Unfortunately the right to automatic citizenship for homo sapiens born in Ireland was enshrined in the constitution as part of the Good Friday Agreement. Women literally stagger off the boats and planes nine months into pregnancy.
2003-10-17 18:02 | User Profile
How sad I am at this news. How the poor Irish have suffered through the centuries from oppression, unemployment and famine and have been forced to leave their native land for often hostile countries.How much blood has been spilled (of Irishmen and Englishmen), in the name of the Irish Free State. And for what? so that the native sons of Eire can be replaced by Nigerian negroes (who are universally admitted by those who with knowledge of these things to be "the lowest of low".
2003-10-17 21:47 | User Profile
Women literally stagger off the boats and planes nine months into pregnancy.
Once the noglet has citizenship, do you then have chain immigration to "reunite families" or some other nonsense?
We have the same doggone thing here, thanks to a pernicious misreading of the 14th Amendment.