government's dispersal of asylum seekers , and dispersal of asylum seekers, and there have been attacks in kildaregives you a flavour for of irish public opinion on the issue of immigration and you know, these are these attacks are, you know, incredibly reckless, incredibly dangerous. people could have been killed , people could have been killed, workmen could have been killed, you know, you know, this this you know, you know, this is this is a very difficult and is this is a very difficult and very dangerous. uh situation at the moment. but it's driven by two things. one is ireland's, um , precedented rates of immigration that the country is taking on at the moment. 1 in 5 of the resident population of the republic of ireland is now foreign born. it's taking in, uh, a rate of immigration at around 100,000 people a year. and by the 2040s, by 2050, it's perfectly conceivable , at that perfectly conceivable, at that rate, that every other person in the republic of ireland will have been non—irish to begin with. so it's a very it's a very emotive issue. um, culturally for a lot of irish people. but t