Those who are opposed to Ireland’s current immigration policy are “winning”, a concerned TD has warned.
Speaking in the Dáil on Thursday this week, Labour Party TD and MEP candidate for Dublin Aodhán Ó Ríordáin said that those who are critical of Ireland’s current immigration regime are gaining ground politically, as demonstrated by Sinn Féin “running to the Right” on immigration.
ACCUSED SINN FÉIN OF “RUNNING TO THE RIGHT” ON IMMIGRATION
“I really do wonder where Sinn Féin is going, why it is running to the right, why it is pitting vulnerable people against one another,” he said.
This remark was immediately interrupted by Sinn Féin TD Thomas Gould, who insisted that his party was “not going to the Right at all.” This was echoed by Sinn Féin TD John Brady, who said “Sinn Féin is not going to the Right on immigration.”
However, Ó Ríordáin continued, saying that he had noticed that Sinn Féin had “marched in behind” Government plans to cut social welfare payments for Ukrainian asylum seekers.
“THE [IMMIGRATION] PROTESTORS ARE WINNING…IT’S WORKING”
“I was wondering what was going on, and now it makes sense to me,” the Dublin Bay North TD said.
“The protestors are winning, the roadblockers are winning, the arsonists are winning, because Sinn Féin is going to the Right on immigration. It’s working.”
REFERRED BACK TO HIS IMMIGRATION POLICY IN 2014
Ó Ríordáin further went on to say that a decade ago, under the Labour-Fine Gael coalition government of 2014, he himself had found himself in a similar position to Equality Minister Roderic O’Gorman. At that time, Ó Ríordáin served as Minister of State with responsibility for New Communities, Culture and Equality at the Department of Justice and Equality.
In a now-viral resurfaced clip from that time, Ó Ríordáin took a significantly more critical stance on Ireland’s immigration policy, telling the Dáil that Ireland “[does] not have limitless resources,” and that “we simply cannot” expect to “provide for the vast number of economic migrants who seek a better life.”
“It would be wrong for us to pretend otherwise,” he added at the time.
In September 2014, referring to immigration, Aodhán Ó Ríordáin said "we do not have limitless resources," and that "we simply cannot" expect to "provide for the vast number of economic migrants who seek a better life."
"It would be wrong for us to pretend otherwise," he added. pic.twitter.com/JaVXqGRIOj
— Ben Scallan 🇮🇪 (@Ben_Scallan) December 12, 2023
“I was in a position like that of [Minister Roderic O’Gorman] ten years ago,” he said this Thursday, referring back to this period, adding: “I did not have to deal with what the Minister has to deal with now.”
“We did not have the same numbers [of asylum seekers],” he continued.
“We did not have racists in the Dáil in the same number, as the Minister has to deal with, or in the Seanad. But I did have a partner in government that was unsympathetic, which is what the Minister has.”
THE CIVIL SERVICE IS “INSTITUTIONALLY RACIST”
He further went on to claim that during his tenure as Minister, his civil service was “institutionally racist,” and claimed that there is a section of the civil service that “wants to see” asylum seekers in tents, because it “suits the agenda of ‘Do not come here’.”
“I also had to deal with – I have to say this – a permanent government that is institutionally racist,” he said.
“What I used to hear when I was in the Department at the time – not the same Department as the Minister’s but the Department that was dealing with this issue – was pull factor, pull factor, pull factor. I feel there is a percentage of thought within the permanent government that wants to see images of people in tents in Mount Street because it suits the agenda of ‘Do not come here’.”
SINN FÉIN UNDER FIRE FOR PRO-IMMIGRATION STANCE
Sinn Féin has been the target of some criticism in recent months due to their pro-migration stance, with party leader Mary Lou McDonald previously insisting that Ireland “can’t limit numbers” of asylum seekers the country lets in, adding: “We all know that.”
Previously, in addition to this, Sinn Féin vocally pledged support for the “Justice For The Undocumented” campaign, urging a “regularisation scheme” for tens of thousands of migrants living illegally without permission in the Irish State and calling for them to be allowed to stay. This post has since been deleted from the Sinn Féin website, but was backed up and archived by an individual and still exists online.
“I think it is also important to draw attention to the plight of the estimated 26,000 undocumented migrants living and working in this State,” said Sinn Féin Housing Spokesman, Eoin Ó Broin TD at the time in the now-deleted statement.
“The Migrant Rights Centre Justice for the Undocumented campaign is calling for the introduction of a regularisation scheme to allow undocumented migrants the chance to come forward and regularise their situation.
“Sinn Féin supports this call. We need a process in place to regularise the status for migrants who have lived and worked here for a number of years.”
“EVERY POLITICAL PARTY IN THIS COUNTRY IS SUPPORTING MASS MIGRATION – EVERY ONE OF YOU”
The party has been receiving significant pushback on their immigration stance in certain areas, such as in the Dublin Central constituency of Mary Lou McDonald in East Wall, where one of the Sinn Féin leader’s posters was held up to boos and jeers by a crowd of protestors at one demonstration.
"Shot down, dismissed, shouted at": East Wall asylum protesters vow to "continue to hold momentum." https://t.co/eo9xphTxLM pic.twitter.com/5jldjGJGxf
— gript (@griptmedia) December 1, 2022
Similarly, in December of last year in Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal, a number of Sinn Féin TDs were confronted by irate locals.
“Every political party in this country is supporting mass migration – every one of you. And it is affecting our housing supply,” one local man said, adding: “…We’re sending a message to Dáil Éireann, to everyone of you parties in it: we will not accept any migrants in any premises in the surrounding area.”
A packed meeting in the Breesy centre in Ballyshannon last night heard heated exchanges and strong opposition from local people to reported plans to house 90 men claiming asylum in a guesthouse in the town.#gripthttps://t.co/boZR2Xk0wg
— gript (@griptmedia) December 15, 2023
Polling has consistently shown that Sinn Féin voters are some of the most likely voters in the country to oppose Ireland’s current immigration and asylum policy. Polling has also shown a dip in Sinn Féin’s support in recent months.
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O’Weirdan is out of touch, and completely oblivious to the legitimate concerns of the Irish folk. Racist mantra is losing its power. There is an awakening, finally.
Hopefully the electorate will see this twat on his way, come next election
I can’t understand how any Irish person could vote for him, unless there is a lot more loons around than I thought. He can only be trying to appeal to the migrant vote but from my experience migrants are not always keen on asylum seekers or extra competition on jobs. In England it didn’t take long for Indians to gravitate to the Conservative party once they did well for themselves.
Unfortunately there are a lot more loons around than you think.
The two traditional political divisions, Liberal and Conservative died with Covid19 and the Toxic Injection that was not a Vaccine.
Now there are just the Sane versus the Insane. The Sane have had enough of being pushed around by the Insane. The Insane don’t register much of what reality tries to tell them.
They have Insane ideas to comfort and protect them from reality. To call that body of ideas an “ideology” is too polite.The Insane call themselves “progressive,” to obfuscate their Insanity.
Progress to a supremacy of fiends, sadists, degenerates, and morons seizing riches and power by every dishonest means possible outside the rule of law and common decency with their control of the Judicial and Media processes.?
They don’t expect to put their shoulders to the wheel with their fellow man. They just want to grab your stuff and then kill you so they don’t have to hear any complaints.
The Insane do not believe any of the theoretical bullshit they want to force you to swallow.
They don’t care about climate change. It’s just a cudgel they use to beat everyone over the head so they can steal your stuff. They don’t care about “democracy.” It’s just a line of bullshit to cover up their election rigging. Do you suppose that Sane people would allowing illegals to vote in our Local Elections?
The insane do not care about public health. Everything that is known about the Covid-19 vaccinations tells you that they are unsafe and don’t prevent infection or transmission of a flu-like illness that might not even be what it was officially labeled as
. Our public health officials in the HSE, lie about everything they’re responsible for.
This week, the US CDC released a 148-page study on myocarditis reactions to mRNA shots. Every word on every page of the document was redacted. The CDC printed countless copies of the report with 148 utterly blank pages, and then proffered them to the news media. How is that not insane?
The insane do not care about the rule of law. The conduct of “Lawfare” is the subversion of the law by a Judiciary that is appointed by their political Masters in the Regime to give a political judgement in line with their policies. as with the recent verdict that the Uk is an unsafe country to deport welfare Scammers to.
Irelands Open Border policy is insane. No credible sovereign polity would allow it. It would be opposed with force, if necessary.
Turning children into transsexuals on a wholesale basis is Insane, and fiendishly so. Everybody knows that it is not good for the children or for our society as a whole. But fiends got to fiend, and if you try to deprive them of being fiends then you are guilty of “hate.”
The war in Ukraine is insane. It was never about spreading democracy and human rights but to subjugate and loot Russia. It has boomeranged and now Europe is destroying itself and will end up in a new 3rd world medievalism, ruled by savages. You’d have to be insane to arrange that for yourself.
What’s most obviously insane in Ireland is that the insane party of FG is to nominate the cognitively challenged unfit political hack Simon Harris as Leader of the Nation.
You would think that if this party wanted to retain power, they would run a candidate who, though insane, was not also visibly retarded. But the rank and file of FG are too insane to see that this will not work. They are pretending with all their might that this is okay, that the growing faction of the sane don’t notice.
Sensing the growing impatience with insanity among the Irish voters, the insane Regime has reached its point of terminal desperation. What next? Murder?
Why not? The COVID 19 Depopulation racket worked and the Euthanasia in the Care Homes and Abortion worked.
They are too far gone in their insanity to understand that winter is over. We’ve entered the season of rebirth and renewal, starting with the recent Referenda, a renewed appreciation for being sane and for that indispensable ingredient that makes liberty in a free society possible: good faith.
Really, the only question left is: how rough do they intend to play to prevent the return of sanity, reality and good faith?
Daniel, if you see your neighbours house on fire, you will help get your neighbours out, call the fire brigade and if able spray water on the flames. Ukraine is not an EU member but an EU neighbour. However, most members have simply poured petrol on the flames of war and made no effort to help douse the flames.
I find the actions or inaction of politicians, including Irish ones, despicable. Had they acted when the saw the first flames of war by seeking terms of peace, it would not have been necessary to relocate nearly half the population with so many to Ireland. Ukraine would have lost far less had they been pressed by the EU to peacefully resolve the conflict. I have seen estimates of between 600 000 and a million Ukrainian men killed.
Russia is also an EU neighbour. If in a United Ireland, the Irish government began a campaign of repression against the Anglo minority, who are mainly concentrated in the North, and also carried out attacks against them, all the while being supported by a distant super-power who were also involved in rigging elections (remember Victoria Nuland?), would the British be expected to sit idly by?
Irish politicians have zero influence in that conflict. I doubt many Ukrainians or Russians would have even been able to pin point Ireland on a map before all this started. Trump is probably the only hope for peace there.
Ukraine is a corrupt Nazi ridden hellhole.
The sooner it loses to Russia, the better.
Any Sikhs that I have worked have been hard working and good fun. It’s the followers of Mr Mohammed the camel trader that cause the problems for everyone.
>I can’t understand how any Irish person could vote for him
The media has tremendous power to form a consensus in the mind of the general public, especially when an issue is framed as a moral question — this is why the media tries to frame every important issue in moral terms: either you are a good person and think this way about an issue, or you are a racist or far-right if you think that way about the issue — also people naturally want to be be seen as part of the mainstream, especially women — they respond to peer pressure, even if it’s on a societal level.
Few people are aware of how media saturation and framing affects their own thinking and conclusions.
In such an environment, one person, one vote democracy is little more than a sham — those who control the media can control the electorate.
America nationalist William Luther Pierce covered this phenomenon extensively in this weekly podcasts — you should search for an archive of his broadcasts, and listen to them.
Great post. I received a Masters in Media Power and Manipulation during the Covid scam. It was absolutely fascinating to witness the campaign on steroids in real time. I remember thinking that I knew ‘how’ the Nazis had been able to sway so many so easily, and people looked the other way when they knew where the trains were going and what was happening. I mean, I ‘knew’ as in I’d learned of what had happened but this isn’t the same as understanding something that you actually experience yourself.
In one sense I’m happy to have gone through it, despite the damage done to me, family, friends and so many innocent people as it truly awakened me. I used to passively consume news. Now, I always read between the lines (funny that I remember being taught that important lesson at school), consider the purpose and the source of any news information whatsoever and bear in mind that it’s quite possible, probably even, that I am being blatantly lied to. One good way of testing this is if you have specialist knowledge of a subject, either for work or a personal interest, is to to read news reports in the mainstream media on the subject. It’s shocking how mis-informing the content can be.
Also this is one reason the ‘powers that be’ (or shouldn’t be) try to control/censor, and today increasingly outright ban, alternative media sources — because these alternative sources help people to see political questions within a rational framework, rather than a moral framework — a rational framework appeals more to their innate sense of self-interest.
You are absolutely correct about the power of the media to form a consensus among the public. People look back at how nazi propaganda controlled Germany and think it couldn’t happen here. Well it is happening here as is obvious from the intolerance of any dissenting opinions and the fact that the MSM is now an echo chamber where everyone agrees with everyone else.
The unfortunate thing is that even if he does lose his seat he will be appointed to the senate unelected where he will continue his campaign unimpeded and have full access to msm particularly rte as a member of the Oireachtas all in the name of democracy of course.
refugee and the open inflow is over for EU , if blueshirts ff/fg don’t see that , independent s will win on record numbers at European and local elections and next general election,civil war never ended did it!!!
O Riordan has all the hallmarks of a dictator. A crazed left wing ideologue who would quite willingly incarcerate anyone who would have the temerity to argue with him. Anyone who believes we can support unlimited numbers of people coming here, I am talking millions, is a dangerous lunatic.
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, amadan. His hysterical bilious attacks are getting more frequent now he knows he’s near the end. Its the death rattle of his political career. But he’s right about the Sinners. A bunch a half baked woke chancers dressed up in rebel songs. We all know who to vote for in the future. Just remember the parties that canvassed for yes/yes vote and vote for anyone but them. Great piece Ben thanks again for shining a light on these hypocritical cabogs.
“Half baked woke chancers”
He’d know,!
The show goes on and the “Program For Govt” goes on.They carry on regardless of what the people want now & wanted at the 2020 GE.They grouped together despite their civil war “differences” to form a government. They boast that they’ve responsibility, obligations and most importantly a mandate.
Who in their right mind would vote for this lot if the mandate was to lump the world’s problems in on top of a proud native people of a Country that not alone for decades but centuries put up with misery and their own strife.
The audacity to bow down to foreign powers just to be in the good boys and girls club.
– Christ, what has happened at the so called top,the so called Leaders- no principles left, snivelling in around corridors with like minded vermin in an echo chamber/crab bucket in Brussels in a parliament that personally I don’t recognise.
I’ve never been politically active with any party in my life but I have always believed in the concept of Nationhood and this immigration agenda is the straw that broke it for me.
I would encourage every Irish person to get involved,join or donate and most importantly vote a Nationalist party (IFP, Ireland First,Síol nahEireann amongst many that are emerging).
This is an invasion, I thought I’d never utter them words.
It was brought upon the indigenous Irish people by many decades of personal greed of the established parties and this is the result – shamefully,the so called opposition will be worse (they’d want to bow in shame).
This Nation was won over a 100 years ago and it can be won back but this time with the right people at the helm.
The fight against colonialism must begin again in this country.
Does anyone know what electoral cachet he actually thinks he represents?
The absolute repudiation of the referendums doesn’t seem to have registered with him.
Labour are in electoral extinction territory.
It’s a given that he’s a smug condescending hypocrite given his previous comments mentioned above.
But his determination to go over the cliff of electoral oblivion!
Look at this arrogant little man. He has no regard for the wishes of the people he claims to represent. I guess that it is true that people get the leaders that they deserve.
“Democracy is the fallacy that most of the people know what’s best most of the time”.
Translated as the Irish 🇮🇪 people are winning which goes against his Marxist belief system. I definitely think he deserves to settle in the Congo, full of diversity there and because he feels so entitled, he can give away all his property and wealth to some illegal in the slums. In the USA the illegals are claiming squatters rights on property that’s empty or if the person just goes away. The cops do nothing. But by God, Aidan is some piece of garbage.
Remove all the illegal unvetted migrants from Ireland.
One of the worst TDs in Dáil Éireann….. and he has some competition.
McDonald refuses to recognize the basic fact, that most are economical migrants and they need to be kicked out ultra quickly! Not given permanent homes.
We live in interesting times. As the next election season draws ever closer the extremists start to lay out their stalls and in this case , bicker amongst themselves. A labour candidate Amadan o something is now saying that sinn Fein are far right. You couldn’t make it up , except they have. . I’m getting the popcorn machine out.
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And a six pack!
“I think it is also important to draw attention to the plight of the estimated 26,000 undocumented migrants living and working in this State,” said Sinn Féin Housing Spokesman, Eoin Ó Broin TD at the time in the now-deleted statement.
It’s so weird listening to politicians speak like that. Up until about 20 years ago any politician who said what O’Broin has said here would be considered a maverick. That applies across the world too!
Everybody believed illegal migrants should be deported up until about 20 years ago!
Now people elected to the Dail talk about ‘drawing attention to their plight’ as opposed to their deportation
For many of the illegal migrants , there is no plight, they came from safe countries
Love to see a study on how successful are the various “ethnic groups” in “modern multicultural Ireland” . Parking for petrol (20euro only..I’m on CEscheme)in my 06Seat, the 2023 VW SUV beside me had an African lady (dripping in gold, not kidding you…thy don’t do trinkets) and well dressed (COULD BE A DOCTOR or ENGINEER !!! or ngo CEO????) It makes me ponder the array of fine cars outside the local plantation centre every day…Africans have bigger cars than other “people of colour” etc. Way more successful after 20yrs of African Migration into Eireann than 400+yrs of blacks in the Americas !!!
Indeed, which makes the comments from so many TDs on this really quite weird. Obviously people are often focused on how it’s unfair on the Irish tax payer to pay for so many migrants in hotels and questions around safety and people ha e not had criminal back grounds checks on them.
But for me one striking thing about it all is how weird it is that opinions thst were considered mainstream even just 20 years ago now get a person labelled racist.
Ar26, it started in the universities with “Culture Theorists” stating AS IF factual, that certain minorities should be treated as more important than the majority. Their theories included a new version of feminism (where biological women are being written out), Post-Colonial Studies, Critical Race Theory, Gender and Sexual Theories: all with a Marxist twist, and ostensibly aimed at bringing down “the patriarchy”, tradition and conservatism. I write “ostensibly” because, as this publication has often written about, it’s really about buying up or kicking out those with power and influence, and elevating its supporters to the gravy train, as overpaid workers in politics, NGOs, and endless “schemes” etc. I happened to be in 3rd level in the noughties when it was just getting up a head of steam. The speed at which it became “mainstream” is startling, but it appears to have been backed by some very rich people and institutions. I hope the signs that it’s reaching its limits and going into reverse are real.
The only part I’d challenge in what you said is calling this Marxism. These people may perceive themselves as Marxist but they are not.
I’ve read das capital and there’s nothing in there about 15 genders or ludicrous ideas that if you replace men with women In powerful jobs all will be right with the world thereafter.
Fundamentally what has developed in 3rd level education is a lot of people employed as academics who should not be employed in said profession and quite frankly a lot of kids entering university who would be better in car mechanics or even barber college.
Absolutely correct. Our third level education system should be equipping young people with skills and trades that enable them to make a valuable contribution to our society. Instead an ever increasing amount of the third level budget is being squandered on what I call ‘candy floss education’ I.e. courses like women’s studies, gender studies, queer studies, black studies etc.
it would be interesting to get figures on the percentage of graduates who had real degrees in e.g. medicine, engineering , architecture, etc forty years ago compared to today and also the percentage of the Universities budgets spent on real education as opposed to ‘candy floss education’ forty years ago compared to today.
I emigrated to Canada in 1967 by the front door. I never thought of walking into another country and demanding entry. Who changed the rules?
I actually don’t know who changed the rules 🤷
It’s a bizarre situation where th law makers all over Europe and the USA are choosing to ignore the rules; the laws.
They appear on TV telling us all these foreign nationals are asylum seekers when that is simply not true. Most are economic migrants.
So it’s a bizarre situation where the law still states somebody arriving from Nigeria to Ireland is breaking the law, or a Colombian arriving into texas is breaking the law, yet the government does zero to implement its laws
It’s unprecedented actually
Nothing like this has ever happened before
Ok, back to basics: what’s wrong is wrong; what’s right is right!
Left? Right? Far left? Far right? Mid to far right, etc. – give it a rest! Please!
The protesters are right – because they are fighting the wrong. Struggling communities already stripped of health and social services and amenities do not need infiltration by hundreds of foreign men who are in need of same.
It is wrong to enforce such situations; it is right to improve conditions for local communities.
Our Government have been doing wrong.
We need to put it right!
It’s election time!!!
How are they winning exactly? The country is being planted with no ones consent. His goal is no limits to these people coming
Many Irish simply want a common sense and practical immigration policy but not one dictated by an unrealistic political ideology. I hope common sense wins because there seems to be a serious lack of it among our politicians.
I’d be interested to know what that would look like. Does it simply mean a return to pre-2020 levels of immigration? Or pre-bussing of asylum seekers into rural villages and towns?
There are parts of inner city Dublin, Belfast and Cork with well over 50% foreign born/descent and approaching 80% in some areas. Is it acceptable for the those areas? If so, why not in Dalkey, Kinsale and other places that haven’t been enriched by diversity to any degree?
Pre- ’97 levels. Which was under 1%.
I’d be on board with that in terms of levels. But would want safeguards put in place and a mindset shift with regards to immigrants. Have commented today on another article with what I mean, but basically, foreigners coming on an expatriate basis, no citizenship, voting rights, no involvement in our politics and no bringing their political squabbles into our country nor their cultural practices that clash with ours. They don’t have to eat pork, but there’ll not be any ritual slaughtering of animals in our country to appease their religion.
We’ve justly had the ridiculous situation of a referendum to alter our Constitution, and foreigners have been been involved in the campaign to to do that. Absolutely crazy that Irish that have been forced abroad are disenfranchised and unable to vote while foreigners can subvert our country from within and do so totally legally. Irish first for jobs, accommodation etc. I.e. Only when an Irish person cannot fill a role, cannot be trained to do a job and there’s no alternative, then a specific skilled foreigner may be allowed. Though not at the expense of Irish people. Irish first for accommodation, healthcare and so on. If the foreigner who has been given a wonderful opportunity to come into our country, and benefit from all we have and what our ancestors have built, then if they so much as drop a fag butt on the street then they are gone out of the country. No more abuse of our ways, our welcome, our hospitality and our good nature.
Illegal immigrants held Thailand style before eventually being fined, expelled and banned.
Ó Ríordáin is dangerous and extreme with his rhetoric! He’s a f*cking dirtbag!
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Alas, if only Sinn Fein were moving to the right.
They’re trying to pretend they are. Don’t believe a bit of it. Half of them are bona fide Marxists and the party as a whole is very much pro- mass-immigration and has been for the past two and a half decades. Their TDs and councillors in west Dublin have shunted immigrants up the housing list to buy their votes. Mary-lou slandered the protesters in her own constituency.
It shows you the contempt they hold for the people who voted for them that they think they are so stupid they they can fool them by just keeping quiet on immigration all of a sudden.
Sinn Féin scum need to be wiped out at election time.
Irish nationalism nearly died, looks like. After all those songs.
Self-righteous like Ó Ríordáin should go and help everyone in the Third World…. suppose that’s not to EUs advantage…..
Yes we are winning because we can spot the injustices being pushed on inecent people across the country. How the hell are these tiny little towns meant to cope with the numbers being pushed into them. Paddy has had enough and any of the do-gooder that think there’s plenty of room for everyone is in for a shock when they go to get a doctors appointment or dentist appointment. Some have the option of going private but that just makes the situation worse for the people that can’t. This situation has been created by a very small group of people,very wealthy people and getting wealthier all the time while inflicting this bullshit on the people who’s taxes are making them rich.
Too much cocaine in Dail Eireann ???? like a rave party without the music(noise?) and dancing(gyrating?) just raving mad.
the illegal migration from the UK needs to stop its making matters even worse https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/asylum-seekerson-dublins-streets-bitterly-28873430 “One was a man who was originally from Morocco who said he had been in England but decided to fly to Ireland because he heard “it was good here”. There was a consistent stream of taxis collecting and dropping off asylum seekers.” why is this being allowed and expectable ? the UK is classed as a safe country even if the Moroccan man was fleeing from danger he landed in the UK away from danger or persecution he should not be approved on the grounds of coming from the UK on the basis he heard “it was good here” this is complete abuse of the system and fully admitting it seriously this whole Sharad needs to stop
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin twin of Sam eagle from the muppets. It’s uncanny. Sorry Sam eagle you are an honorable honest humble eagle but Aodhan is just a muppet and holds none of your strengths.
It is high time that the middle class that vote for him to stop trying to salve their consciences and indulging themselves by voting for this person. Don’t for a minute think that your community will be exempt from the consequences of this . This man cannot cure the problems of the world. He has no God like power and it is a sin to think he has. To set yourself on fire to keep other people warm is madness.
“The protestors are winning, the roadblockers are winning, the arsonists are winning, because Sinn Féin is going to the Right on immigration.”
What a cabbage; has this thick, Marxist moron ever had the right take on anything (since his 2014 rant about Ireland being unable to support limitless numbers of immigrants)?
“Sinn Féin is going to the Right on immigration because the protestors are winning, the roadblockers are winning, the arsonists are winning.”
Fixed.
Sinn Féin are pretending. Don’t believe them for a nanosecond.
SF being savaged by AOR?
I don’t know which way to laugh.
He knows labour are thoroughly screwed – a good chance of them losing all their seats after the G.E., certainly be less than half of what they have now – and is trying to win support from any left loons defecting from voting sf.
Game of survival at any cost at this stage. He knows he won’t be governing. The party is so small all their tds have been guaranteed a go of the Commander beret and get to be party leader. Maybe increases their dáil pension too ?
He’s desperate and is just hoping that they can hang on to one or two seats. If not, the party could very well become a thing of history, permanently, just surviving in a ghostly, nocturnal existence like the Workers and Irish Communist parties.
The only thing that is keeping Labour solvent is the funding from the unions, and that’s resented by members (as are the politics of the union leaders, who use their position to soapbox on irrelevant foreign causes, or national ones their members don’t agree with them on) so could easily go.