Border no barrier to Chinese illegal immigrants

IN her news analysis feature headlined ‘Barriers to Fortune’ (November 28), Áilín Quinlan caused many of us surprise by claiming the Chinese population in Ireland now is approximately 50,000.

Thu, 13 Dec, 2007 - 00:00

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Most informed estimates for some time have put it at 100,000 or more.

I take it as a given that the Government has not issued 100,000 visas to the Chinese.

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