(Image: Courtesy of 'Auditing Ireland', Floods Cross, Kildare)
Niall Feiritear
A drone pilot has exposed the previously unseen size and scale of migrant camps currently being built in Ireland.
Described as 'Auditing Ireland - Journalism With A Difference,' the group has released previously unknown imagery which shows the size of the encampments which are springing up around the country.
"What's going on in the country is insane," said a Tipperary woman interviewed in the footage.
Clonmel encampment being built (Auditing Ireland)
The pilot of the drone carried out examinations at a number of sites including Athlone, Clonmel, Newtownmountkennedy, Thornton Hall, Kylemore, Coolock, Naas and elsewhere.
It is in Clonmel where a distressed local voiced her shock and dismay at what its taking place.
"Since the last drone went up, the change is mental," the woman states.
Clonmel encampment viewed from above (Auditing Ireland)
"I think there's 30 of them (units). I have a security guard looking in my window 24/7. You couldn't make it up.
"There's so many security cameras. It's nuts. The lights go up at night, all day and night, shining in on the houses.
Site entrance (Auditing Ireland)
"This is every night, it's like Croke Park. The council doesn't want to know, apparently it's for security.
"It's insane, we have no say."
The local woman points out that the security detail on site are from abroad, which has heightened tensions in the area.
"I knew the country was (in a bad way)...But the stuff going on is insane. It's all English security, insane, what they can get away with, a law onto their own.
Foundations going into Clonmel site (Auditing Ireland)
'We were told nothing. We saw testing and were like 'what is going on in there?'
"Only for Mattie McGrath, only for him, (we were told nothing.)," the woman concludes at the end of the video, which is available to view on the X platform.
"This should require a referendum, if Ireland was a real democracy," says another voice off camera.
Ireland has seen a large influx of Ukrainian refugees, along with great numbers of people arriving from Jordan, Nigeria and Pakistan.
Mosney accommodation centre
75pc of asylum seekers in Ireland are now in “emergency” housing compared with 56pc at the start of 2023, according to public data.
This has been hugely lucrative for the numerous private companies who have received more than €2 billion in state contracts since last year.
Athlone site under construction (Auditing Ireland)
Townbe, which operates both accommodation centers that provide longer-term housing, ranks among the biggest earner, according to latest stats.
The operation is run by Peter McGarry, a senior portfolio manager at Garda Capital Partners in Switzerland.
McGarry, 48, has built a huge business in Ireland housing asylum seekers on behalf of the government.
Site is viewed at night in Athlone (Auditing Ireland)
Townbe Unlimited Co., which McGarry owns with a group of investors, has received €28 million in contracts since last year.
Cape Wrath Hotel Unlimited Co., a company tied to Dublin-based property firm Tetrarch Capital, and Brimwood Unlimited Co., linked to the family of Irish businessman Seamus McEnaney, are the two biggest, reportedly.
Fortified site entrance at Thornton Hall, Dublin (Auditing Ireland)
In October this year, BNN Bloomberg reported that: 'Sellers of vacant properties across Ireland are increasingly hearing from bidders who want to turn buildings into refugee accommodation, according to people involved in such deals.
'In a December presentation aimed at the “savvy investor” who might want to buy an Irish hotel, global law firm DLA Piper cited asylum seekers as a reason for the sector’s “continued high demand and strong performance.”
In March 2000, the UN issues a report titled 'Replacement Migration: Is it a solution to ageing and declining populations?'
Large ring fenced site in Dublin
The publicly available document offers a detailed theory / plan about the requirements for various countries-EU included- in terms of large inward migration required in order to maintain economic growth.
It claims a working ratio of 4.1-4.4 is required in terms of tax payers that can support pensioners by the year 2050, with a variety of case studies.
City West Hotel will soon permanently accommodate migrants
Clonmel has an average age of 41 and the median age for Ireland as a whole in 2024 is 39.
The Government Ministers overseeing mass migration into Ireland have repeatedly said that the country is facing up to "international obligations," during a period of global upheaval.
Locals protest in Tipperaray
However, the Government's official 'Project Ireland 2040' plan states that the population of Ireland will be increased by 1, 666,000 people.
"By 2040 we expect that an additional one million people will live in Ireland, an additional two-thirds of a million people will work here," the document states.
Simon Coveney stated: "The 2040 plan will increase the population of Cork, Limerick, Waterford and Galway cities by 50 percent."
Critics of the large encampments have labelled them as 'plantations'.
Masked security at Wicklow site
The 17th Century Plantations of Ireland by English settlers is believed to have brought in anywhere between 80,000-150,000 settlers.
Some commentators have said the labelling of the sites as 'plantations' is an untrue conspiracy theory because 'no Irish are being kicked off their land.'
There have been masked security guards filmed at some of the sites around the country.
The Sunday Times, The Irish Times and other outlets have widely reported the Irish population's decline in 2024, with falling birth rates of 54,000 in 2023.
An engineering spokesman from the Association of Consulting Engineers of Ireland (ACEI) said at the weekend that "thousands" more migrants would now be required to come to Ireland in order to meet the Government's 'ambitious' housing plans.
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