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Replying To Pikeman96:  "Ah now, Barney. Your claim was: "a third of prison population is non national".

So, here's "hard evidence" from the Irish Prison Service, who should know best about this sort of thing. It's the most recent of the monthly publications they produce with figures for this sort of thing, covering February of this year:
https://www.irishprisons.ie/wp-content/uploads/documents_pdf/FEBRUARY-2026.pdf

Page 2 shows average daily prison population was 5,785.
Page 4 shows that 1,078 of them were non-nationals.
Simple maths shows that's 18.6%, not 33%.

Only mention of 33% I can find comes from gript.ie, which is not exactly renowned for accuracy, where the writer includes a significant estimate (rounding up from just under 25% to 33%), and where he refers to a figure for number of people committed to prison, which is a different thing from actual prison population."
The source you refer to links to official reports. If they were wrong they would have been challenged probably to Press Council.

Non national is only around 75 - 80% of those born overseas. An African born Irish passport holder was still.born in Africa..

BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 4218 - 20/04/2026 17:30:45    2667557

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Of the non nationals how many are Ukrainian? I would assume that caused a big sudden jump in figures? People on here claiming 1 in 3 people here are immigrants? Have a lie down lads.

TheFlaker (Mayo) - Posts: 8813 - 20/04/2026 18:18:37    2667570

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Replying To TheFlaker:  "Of the non nationals how many are Ukrainian? I would assume that caused a big sudden jump in figures? People on here claiming 1 in 3 people here are immigrants? Have a lie down lads."
There are a lot of different stats being floated from all sides, I'm not 100% on the actual correct stats (Maybe someone can share the correct stats). but regardless, anything over 5% influx of immigrants within a 20 year period could pose serious issues down the road and by the sounds of it, we are well past that threshold.

Commodore (Donegal) - Posts: 1762 - 20/04/2026 20:58:55    2667602

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