Ireland’s small size is ripe for a demographic disaster.
The increase of Ireland’s non-white population is due in part to the laws which had governed Irish citizenship since the creation of the Republic of Ireland in 1922. In similar fashion to the United States ‘anchor babies’ from Mexico, these laws, which granted citizenship jus soli, allowed a great number of people (especially black Africans, Southeast Asians and some white Eastern Europeans) to remain in the state based on their Irish-born citizen children.
Unfortunately, in Ireland as in the United States and Britain, ‘diversity’ is more often than not described in oblique terms and not for what it really means: less caucasian people.