Written by Gavin O’Reilly for SouthFront
On Saturday, tens of thousands took to the streets of Dublin in protest against the policies of the 26-county state.
Announced by veteran Irish Republican Malachy Steenson in early April, the protest was timed to coincide with the anniversary of the 1916 Rising, in which Irish rebels seized Dublin’s General Post Office and other key locations around the city. Initially unpopular with the Irish public at the time, the subsequent capture and execution of the leaders of the Rising stoked a nationalist sentiment that culminated in Sinn Féin – a far different organisation to the one that uses the same name today – recording a resounding victory in the December 1918 Irish general election. Refusing to take their seats in Westminster, the party established the revolutionary Dáil Éireann on the 19th of January 1919. The same day, the Irish Republican Army began a guerrilla war against Britain.
Saturday’s protest was called in opposition to a number of policies being pursued by Leinster House, including the erosion of the southern Irish state’s military neutrality and a push for NATO membership. Chief concern amongst those attending was current immigration policy.
In November 2022, upwards of 400 male migrants were moved into a disused office block in East Wall, a tight-knit working class community in inner city Dublin. Local residents immediately began weekly demonstrations against the move, citing the unsuitability of the chosen location, the lack of consultation held with community representatives beforehand, and the lack of transparency on whether the men placed in the building had been vetted or not.
Such protests would become a mainstay throughout Ireland in the months that followed, as the southern Irish state continued to place vast amounts of male migrants into wildly unsuitable locations. In January 2023, protests were held in Drimnagh, a working class Dublin suburb, after a number of men were housed in a local primary school.
Rather than engage in dialogue, the response of the southern Irish state to this emerging protest movement was to castigate its participants as ‘far-right’ and subject organisers to police surveillance. A strategy that served only to exacerbate tensions even further.
On the 23rd of November 2023, these tensions erupted in their most notable manner so far. Following the stabbing of three children and their teacher in central Dublin by an immigrant previously subjected to a deportation order, calls for a protest later that night rapidly spread throughout social media. Seemingly attracting an opportunistic element that engaged in looting and the burning of vehicles, riots swept the streets of the Irish capital, garnering worldwide attention.
In response, then security minister for the 26-county state Helen McEntee introduced new facial recognition technology laws. A move that revealed the true intent behind current immigration policy in Ireland.
As well as devaluing labour through market saturation, the mixing of vast amounts of people from different ethnic, religious and cultural backgrounds leads to tensions, which in tight-knit areas like working class suburbs or rural villages, will inevitably spill over. A pretext is then created for the introduction of authoritarian laws, thus consolidating the power of the government-corporate alliance.
Ireland’s two previous Taoisigh, Leo Varadkar and Simon Harris, were both Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum, a highly influential body that promotes the corporate sector having even greater influence over government policy worldwide. Facial recognition technology and digital ID are both key principles of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Davos’ vision of a digital surveillance state.
Last April, tensions once again erupted in the small rural village of Newtownmountkennedy, located in County Wicklow. Following weeks of peaceful protests against plans to house male migrants at a disused hospital in the locality, Irish riot police and masked security cleared an on-site protest camp in a heavy-handed early morning raid. The scenes that followed were akin to a military occupation. Martial law was imposed on the small sleepy village, local residents were brutalised, and a female journalist was pepper sprayed.
In July, similar scenes played out in Coolock, another working class Dublin suburb. Following months of protest by local residents against plans to house male migrants in a disused paint factory, riot police once again cleared an on-site protest camp in a heavy-handed manner. Work vehicles were set ablaze in response, leading to scenes reminiscent of the north of Ireland in the 60s and 70s. Women, children and the elderly were once again brutalised by a heavily-militarised police force, a popular video streamer was arrested, and a number of elected representatives who arrived on the scene in a bid to calm tensions, including Malachy Steenson, were pepper sprayed by police.
The latent discontent in Ireland at current immigration policy, led to record numbers attending Saturday’s demonstration in Dublin.
Starting at the city’s Garden of Remembrance, a monument to all those who died for Irish freedom, the march passed by the nearby Gaelscoil (Irish-language school) that was the scene of the 2023 knife attack on the three children and their teacher. It then moved onto O’Connell Street, Dublin’s main thoroughfare. Thousands upon thousands of protesters soon thronged the streets of the Irish capital. A counter-demonstration organised by the Irish NGO sector, which has close links to USAID, was dwarfed in comparison, attracting a meagre crowd which had to rely on police protection. The protest then finished on the city’s quays, where a number of speeches were made at the Custom House. The same building was burnt to the ground by the IRA in 1921 in order to disrupt the British administration in Ireland.
Prior to the demonstration beginning, former two-weight UFC champion Conor McGregor released an impassioned video from the Garden of Remembrance voicing his support for the protest. The MMA fighter has been a vocal critic of the southern Irish state’s immigration policy, having recently visited the White House on St. Patrick’s Day in a bid to highlight the radical demographic changes brought about by mass-immigration. A fortnight ago, McGregor was interviewed by US journalist Tucker Carlson, where he outlined his aspirations to run for President of the southern Irish state. McGregor’s boxing coach, Philip Sutcliffe, was elected as a Dublin city councillor last June alongside Malachy Steenson and a number of other candidates on a platform of opposition to current immigration policy.
Last November, McGregor was found liable for the rape of Dublin woman Nikita Hand in a high-profile civil case. The former UFC champion lost out on numerous business deals as a result. In particular, a number of Irish chains stated that they would no longer stock his Forged Stout brand. Judging by the thousands of people in attendance at Saturday’s protest however, personal disdain for McGregor certainly doesn’t seem to equate to disagreement with his views on mass-immigration.
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typical westerners…they blame immigrants for their troubles and not their zionist regimes
the two are connected.
just because there are other problems doesn’t mean having an ugly brown migrant brought into your neighborhood isn’t a problem, or that that brown thing doesn’t need to be fixed.
all problems need to be fixed.
hmpfh. they are indeed blaming their regimes. didn’t you listen to the videos?
the true face of democracy. no accountability. no transparency. just manipulation and if that fails, violence.
the royalist and elitist government thinks little of the irish. in globalist tradition they want to dehumanize and monetize the labor force in search of more profits and efficiency.
the irish need to start blowing up niqqers, muslims and above all jews. just like they did the brits.
it’s all they understand.
sooo, 1- two leaders came from wfe changed the immigration politics in ireland, before it was a sort of safe heaven from the immigration wave.
2- an immigrant stabbed 3 children.
3 – mass protests
4 – governement responded with facial reconition laws in order to suppress opposition.
5- of course, the most probable leader opposing to this shit is accused of sexual harassment.
the only thing i can thank ireland is to have recon palestine. nothing else.
the soros bastard, pro asylum and pro migration ngos, main stream media and the hasbara helped all together to destroy european nations and identities.
sadly they were wery effective till today, because the national resistance is still too weak and sadly still too many morons vote for such “liberal” gender woke lgbt parties.