Where as Allied forces were treated a hell of a lot more leniently and as the war drew on many got released pretty soon after landing where as Germans were locked up for the duration
According to a recent article published here in Oz, relating to a TV programme I missed, some 534 allied airmen were detained in The Republic of Ireland,
most were released in May 1945. Some escaped to the North due to lax security and possible collusion as well as a friendly public.
The brutal way in which the De Valera administration dealt with soldiers and their families, who deserted the Irish Army to fight for the British doesn't blend easily, for me, with the notion that Irish neutrality was biased to wards the British.