i remember back in the 90s the premier league started buying foreign players and it used to be only the best players they would get from europe at the start. people were worried about what it would do to home grown players. don't worry they said - it's just the cantonas, the solsjkaers, the zidanes, who had outgrown their own leagues, let's allow them to come to england.    25 years later - entire league filled with foreigners.  it's obviously very different, the foreign players aren't african or asian slaves desperate to escape poverty and working for peanuts, but it just goes to show the slippery slope. how things end up.
Ireland