Communities are being ruined by immigrants who are committing crime claims Mayo councillor

A MAYO councillor has called for unvetted immigrants who commit crime to be put on the boat back to the country they came from.

Independent councillor John O’Malley made the comment at the monthly meeting of the Westport/Belmullet Municipal District after revealing that an elderly man was mugged by a group of immigrants while walking home from a pub in a Mayo town.

The Carrowholly-based councillor claimed ‘the country is being ruined by unvetted immigrants’ who commit crime and called for stricter action to be taken.

“We have these gurriers in this country who should not be here. If these people are brought to justice they should be put on a boat and straight to where they come from. We need to get stricter.

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"This country is going down the tubes because of that ... it is time for the government to wake up and take care of the local people,” he said.

In outlining the incident with the man who was attacked walking home from the pub, Cllr O’Malley said this man had walked home for years from the pub but was now too afraid to do it again.

“This is what we are putting up with and is this what we want to have for our young people? These kind of people coming into our country, that a person cannot walk at night and go home alone,” he said.

Sympathy

CLLR O’Malley added that he has great sympathy for people who are escaping war torn countries and those who are decent and hard working but felt too many people were being allowed into the country.

“We have too many unvetted that are not good people and are ruining this country and our neighbourhoods.

“The safest place now for people in rural Ireland is the local pub because they know the people in it and if any strangers come in or a group of strangers they will be shown the door fast.

“This is happening in our county and this is the total disregard our government has for people in rural Ireland. They could change all those things if they wanted to but they don’t want to and don’t care,” he claimed.

Independent Ireland councillor Chris Maxwell also called on the Government to fund essential services in the west of Ireland and not send taxpayers money abroad in foreign aid.

“I heard that the Government is going to up their allocation of foreign aid up to €171 million. Now listen to that figure of €171 million of our taxpayers money which people get up and work for everyday going out to abroad and our kids they won’t build houses for.

“We are all in agreement with foreign aid, God love them in countries that have their problems. But for the size of our little country if we gave them €50 million and took the €121 million that is left and divided it between the counties in Connacht and gave ourselves these things we need ... toilets on our beaches, improve our roads, our car parks. We are just a small nation trying to operate like a superpower,” he said.