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Soriek  1yr ago (text post)   1151 thread views

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Separately, is there any particular reason there's so much Brazilian immigration?

Seemingly they come here to work in the slaughterhouses/meat packing plants. At least, that's how it started. Ireland is an English-speaking country in the EU so it makes it easier to come here and then move to Europe if you want:

According to the Paulo Azevedo of the Brazilian embassy, there have been three waves of Brazilians moving to Ireland: factory workers during the Celtic Tiger years (late 1990s into the 2000s), students from the 2000s to the present, and then engineers and IT specialists.

It is said Jerry O'Callaghan was working in the meat industry in Goiás, Brazil when the company shut down. He organised for the Brazilians who had lost their jobs to move Ireland in 1999 where they found work at the Duffy Meat Plant in Gort, County Galway. By 2006, they made up a third of the population of Gort, which was dubbed Little Brazil.

Now, the vast majority of our Brazilian population is living in Dublin (like pretty much everyone else, to be honest).

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