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{{Infobox Ethnic group
|group    = Filipinos in [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]] <br>Filipínis i Éirinn<br> Ang mga Pilipino sa Irlanda
|image    =  
|pop  =  19,846 (2022 Census)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://data.cso.ie/table/FY016|title=FY016: Population Usually Resident and Present in the State - Sex - Age - Group - Birthplace - Census Year 2022|website=CSO}}</ref>
|popplace = [[Limerick]], [[Dublin]]
|langs    = [[Tagalog language|Tagalog]], [[Cebuano language|Bisayâ]], [[English language|English]], [[Irish language|Irish]], [[Philippine languages]], 
|rels     = Majority [[Roman Catholicism]]
|related  = [[Filipino people]], [[Overseas Filipino]]s
}}

'''Filipinos in Ireland''' consist largely of [[migrant worker]]s in the [[health care]] sector, though others work in [[tourism in Ireland|tourism]] and [[information technology]]. From just 500 individuals in 1999, the first group of nurses arrived in April 2001 at the time six recruitments companies had been involved with the large influx of Filipino coming into Ireland they had grown to a population of 11,500 by 2007, a 2200% expansion in just eight years. 

In June 2009, the [[Embassy of the Philippines, Dublin|first Philippine embassy in Ireland]] opened its doors to the Filipino community it was long overdue according to the Filipino council of leaders. In August 2009 the Filipino community network was sworn in by the new ambassador Ariel Abadilia in the blessed sacrament church the following people where representatives of various communities in Ireland.<ref name="Embassy">{{citation|url=http://www.philembassy-uk.org/default.asp?iId=KHEHL |title=Profile of the Filipino community in Ireland |publisher=Philippine Embassy |publication-place=London |access-date=2008-10-12 |date=2007 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113204420/http://www.philembassy-uk.org/default.asp?iId=KHEHL |archive-date=2009-01-13 }}</ref> 

In 2023, an estimated 6,000 Filipino nurses were employed in the Irish healthcare system, which at 7% of the workforce<ref>{{Cite news |date=7 February 2023|url=https://www.independent.ie/regionals/dublin/over-1000-philippines-citizens-renew-their-passport-in-dublin-since-opening-of-new-centre/42331504.html|title=Over 1,000 Philippines citizens renew their passport in Dublin since opening of new centre|newspaper= Irish Independent|access-date=20 August 2024 }}</ref> formed the largest category of non-[[European Union]] workers in Ireland.<ref name="IT">{{citation |url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2002/0415/1017357765593.html |title=Filipino workers here seek visa reform |newspaper=The Irish Times |date=15 April 2002 |access-date=2008-10-12}}</ref> According to Census 2016, there were 4,214 people of Filipino origin living in the state, a 67.1% drop from the 2011 figure of 12,791.<ref>{{citation |publisher=Central Statistics Office|title=Census 2016 Summary Results - Part 1|work=Census 2016|at=Figure 5.6|url=https://www.cso.ie/en/media/csoie/newsevents/documents/census2016summaryresultspart1/Census2016SummaryPart1.pdf|accessdate=2023-09-15}}</ref><ref>{{citation|publisher=Central Statistics Office|title=Census 2016 Summary Results - Part 1|work=Census 2016|at=Table EY024|url=http://www.cso.ie/px/pxeirestat/Statire/SelectVarVal/Define.asp?maintable=EY024&PLanguage=0|accessdate=2023-09-15}}</ref> However, by Census 2022 the number of respondents who listed The Philippines as their place of birth had risen to 19,846.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://data.cso.ie/table/FY016|title=FY016: Population Usually Resident and Present in the State - Sex - Age - Group - Birthplace - Census Year 2022|website=CSO}}</ref>

==Migration history==
In 1990, the [[United Nations]] estimated that there were 774 Filipinos living in Ireland. Ireland began targeting the Philippines for recruitment of nurses in the late 1990s. From 2000 onwards, the Philippines was targeted as a major reservoir of nursing labour, and Ireland quickly became a major destination for Filipino nurses. By 2002 Ireland was the third largest importer of Filipino nurses, after Saudi Arabia and the UK.<ref>{{citation |last=Yeates |first=Nicola |title=Changing Places: Ireland in the International Division of Reproductive Labour |url=http://www.dcu.ie/imrstr/firstissue/yeats.shtml |journal=Translocations: The Irish Migration, Race and Social Transformation Review |volume=1 |issue=1 |date=Autumn 2006}}.</ref> By 2006, 3,831 Filipinos worked as nurses in Ireland, making them the largest group of foreign nurses, roughly one-fifth larger than [[India]]ns, the next largest group. Because of the high cost of obtaining a [[work permit]], Filipino nurses earned a net of 30% less than market-rate wages (after paying for the permit) during their first year on the job.<ref name="Yeates">{{citation|last=Yeates|first=Nicola|chapter=Here to Stay? Migrant Health Care Workers in Ireland|pages=66–73|title=The International Migration of Health Care Workers|editor-last=O'Connell|editor-first=John|publisher=Routledge|date=2008|isbn=978-0-415-95623-9}}</ref>

Though workers from non-[[European Union]] countries could bring their spouses with them into Ireland, the spouses were barred from taking up employment. Filipinos, in conjunction with a variety of NGOs, began efforts to have this policy changed as early as 2002. The government altered the policy in February 2004&mdash;largely with the intent of retaining Filipino nurses, whom it was feared would otherwise migrate to other countries, such as the [[United Kingdom]] or [[Australia]], which allowed spouses to work.<ref name="IT"/><ref name="Yeates"/> However, that same year, an amendment to  [[Constitution of Ireland|the constitution]] limited the scope of ''[[jus soli]]'', thus excluding the children of migrant workers from automatic citizenship; the League of Filipino Nurses took its first public political position in response to the amendment, calling it "discriminatory and racist" in an 8 June 2004 statement.<ref name="Yeates"/>

In addition to nurses, roughly 2,000 Filipinos worked as [[caregiver]]s in [[elderly care]] homes as of 2006; the Irish government offers training programmes enabling them to become nurses.<ref>{{citation |title=Ireland pushes new policies to benefit Filipino caregivers |periodical=Philippine Headline News |url=http://www.newsflash.org/2004/02/hl/hl104096.htm |date=7 May 2006 |access-date=2008-10-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090203071041/http://newsflash.org/2004/02/hl/hl104096.htm |archive-date=3 February 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The Philippines opened an embassy in [[Dublin]] in July 2009, but closed it three years later.<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.philembassydublin.ie/Presentation_of_Credentials.htm |title=First Philippine resident ambassador to Ireland presents credentials to President Mary McAleese |date=2009-06-29 |access-date=2010-05-14 |publisher=Embassy of the Philippines |publication-place=Ireland }}{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130617074151/http://philembassydublin.ie/ Notice re Embassy closure beginning 16 July 2012] (archived from [http://www.philembassydublin.ie/ the original] on 2013-06-17).</ref> Subsequent to the closure, the Philippines appointed Mark Congdon as Honorary Consul.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://philippineconsulate.ie/?page_id=4992|title=Raymond Chritopher Garrett,Honorary Consul Of the Republic of the Philippines for Ireland.}}</ref>

==Demographics by city and county==
{{Unreferencedsect|date=September 2024}}
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! City or town or  !! County !! Approximate Filipino Population 2016
|-
| [[Dublin]] (and Suburbs) || [[County Dublin|Dublin]] || 8,242
|-
| [[Cork City]] (and Suburbs) || [[County Cork|Cork]] || 975
|-
| [[Limerick City]] (and suburbs) || [[County Limerick|Limerick]] || 383
|-
| [[Galway City]] (and suburbs) || [[County Galway|Galway]] || 454
|-
| [[Drogheda]] || [[County Louth|Louth]] || 265
|-
| [[Waterford City]] (and suburbs) || [[County Waterford|Waterford]] || 152
|-
| [[Sligo]] (and suburbs) || [[County Sligo|Sligo]] || 150
|-
| [[Kilkenny|Kilkenny City]] || [[County Kilkenny|Kilkenny]] || 173
|}

==See also==
{{Portal|Philippines|Ireland}}
*[[Ireland–Philippines relations]]
*[[Filipinos in the United Kingdom]]

==References==

{{Reflist|2}}

==External links==
*[http://www.metroeireann.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=11&Itemid=33 Filipinos in Ireland], a series of articles from ''[[Metro Éireann]]''
*[http://www.philippineconsulate.ie Philippine Honorary Consul, Ireland]

{{Immigration to the Republic of Ireland}}
{{Overseas Filipinos}}

[[Category:Ethnic groups in Ireland]]
[[Category:Filipino diaspora by country|Ireland]]
[[Category:Irish people of Filipino descent| ]]