There are lots of Poles in Ireland too, I think approaching 200,000 at this stage. There's a Polish-language newspaper supplement and about a dozen Polish shops in Dublin, plus cafés, etc. They are good workers, honest and intelligent. They appear to be more conservative than the locals and fill the Catholic churches, that had been emptying over the past few years, to capacity. Occasionally a few dropped into our Tuesday-night session which is next door to their main church, but I think they got put off by our extremely fast rate of beer consumption!