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...look like much of a threat. But the slender former bank clerk is a leading light of a community that some view with fear. Like more than 150,000 Poles, she now lives - and works - in Ireland. In January, more than 1,000 of her compatriots converged on Dublin's Temple Bar district to attend an annual fund raiser for children's hospitals in Poland. The event took place at one of Ireland's best-known concert venues, adorned with posters of Van Morrison and U2. Polish and Irish performers shared the stage as young Poles swilled Guinness and inducted...
...hotels and restaurants, construction and agriculture - well below their skill levels. (Plumbers are coming too, but immigration officials do not keep track of how many.) Such an influx has not just ensured a better class of bathroom. Over the past two years, according to one estimate by the Dublin-based Economic and Social Research Institute, migrant workers have added two percentage points to Ireland's gnp. And in December, citing increased migration to the U.K., the British treasury raised its gdp growth estimate for the next five years from 2.5% to 2.75%. "It's been a fantastic success story," said...
Still, for all its success, the new migration did not start out all that well. In fact, had London and Dublin realized from the start just how many Poles and other East Europeans intended to migrate, they might not have opened their markets in the first place. Government economists in Britain had expected no more than 15,000 migrant laborers each year from the new E.U. countries; in Ireland 10,000 were predicted. In fact, 579,000 came to Britain in the first two years, more than one-half of them from Poland, and over 300,000 from Eastern Europe...
...fastest period of population growth since the current system for measuring migrant flows was introduced in 1987. "What happened here in two years is what happened in other countries in a generation," says Sean Murray, head of economic migration for the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment in Dublin...
...Chudzicka's TV show, Ireland alone boasts six Polish newspapers, two radio programs and at least a dozen Polish websites. Poles can hear Mass in their native tongue in 100 places of worship across Ireland; the community was just granted its own cathedral, a stone's throw from Dublin Castle, which has around 2,000 worshippers every Sunday...