7 Conversations and an Election
'Ireland faces an existential threat, arising not just from external forces utterly opposed to the interests of our People, but from our own political system, which has turned rogue on the Irish.'
Cancelled Columnist to Run for European Parliament Shock!
Due to the calamitous state of our country and its government, I have agreed to go forward as a candidate in the election for the EU Parliament, which takes place on June 7th. I’ll be running in Midlands North West, which is where I come from, although it extends across more than half the territory of the Republic from Malin Head on the Atlantic Ocean at the crown of Donegal, forming an L-shape via Connacht and then sweeping across the midlands, scooping up the southern counties of Ulster and most of Leinster en route, to culminate in Louth, where it is washed by the Irish Sea.
The constituency comprises the counties of: Cavan, Donegal, Galway, Kildare, Laois, Leitrim, Longford, Louth, Mayo, Meath, Monaghan, Offaly, Roscommon, Sligo and Westmeath. This territory, obviously, covers my own lifelong heartland, which I would identify as embracing the counties of Roscommon, Sligo, Mayo and Galway, but extending outwards from that area into zones of friendship in adjoining counties, and covering, in the final analysis, the greater part of the constituency. In the 2020 general election, I ran as a rather reluctant candidate in my adopted home of Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, where I received a little short of a thousand votes — a respectable village in Connacht. This time, I shall be running in my true homeland.
I do so with mixed feelings, on account of the cesspit that Irish public life has recently become. But I believe Ireland faces an existential threat, arising not just from external forces and actors dictating policies that are utterly counter to the interests of our people, but from the occupiers of our own political system, who in the past few years have turned rogue against the Irish People. Our ‘Government’ is no longer a ‘government,’ but at best an administration, managing Ireland’s decline and destruction on behalf of various categories of outsiders — whether it’s illegal aliens being permitted to leech off and exploit our country and its resources while our own people go without, or shadowy supranational forces with designs on our inheritance of beauty and plenty, and ultimately on our homeland itself. The time has come for the Irish People to cease being passive spectators on these events and to work together to stall the juggernaut of evil that now looms large over our beautiful island and its affairs. Moved by my own sense of these incomprehensible obscenities, I have put my name forward in the hope of alerting my People to the gravity of what is afoot and, with their help, take up my own burden of duty in these matters by bringing the truth of what is happening to the European stages of Brussels and Strasbourg, to tell these burgeoning tyrants that we have had enough.
I believe that the outcome of the recent referendums shows that, in Ireland — contrary to some of our/my worst fears — there is a brightening spark of defiance and potential resistance burning again in the Irish heart and hearth. These outcomes, I believe, have whetted our appetites in a manner we did not expect: something is moving underneath the surface of our culture, and we should be foolish to ignore it.
For 35 years, I was at the centre of Irish public debate, as an author, writer, journalist and commentator. I quit the Irish national media in disgust, nine years ago, no longer able to stomach its corruption, lying and bullying of those it was supposed to serve. Many times, on countless issues over the past 35 years, I have taken unfashionable positions in the face of extreme hostility from powerful interests. It is unlikely that everyone — or even anyone — would have been of the same mind as me on every issue, but I believe every Irish people would like to know that there exists in the public realm a voice capable of challenging the consensus currently strangling our children’s ability to build contented and prosperous lives in their own country.
Some of the most ominous of the many unwanted changes that have occurred in Ireland over the last two decades were effected without consultation with the Irish public, without a national conversation, indeed with extreme menaces being directed at those who dissented — all due to the purchasing of our media so as to set-aside truth, fact and reason, and turn Ireland into an island of lies.
The constituency of Midlands North West is a predominantly rural area, inhabited by people who work — with their hands, their muscles, their hearts and their minds — and they get up in the morning with the intention of building a better country for their children and the coming generations. Not only are they being treated with contempt by those to whom they entrusted their country, but the work they do is being undone, sabotaged, on behalf of external interests who have no love for Ireland or its People.
My love for Ireland is not my sole qualification to do the job now needing to be done, but it is by far the most critical in these days of treason and sell-out. I know I said that, after my experimental excursion in the 2020 general election in Dun Laoghaire, I would never run again, but the request to do so came from people I know to be the salt of the Irish earth — a coalition of farmers, turfcutters, and fishers of fish — the people who have fed and fuelled our people for all of my lifetime, but who now face a grave existential threat from shadowy forces working through the traitorous clowns to whom we foolishly entrusted our country. Like me, many our people have become deeply alarmed at what has been happening to Ireland and wish to confront it in a lawful, democratic and practical manner. Initially, I turned down their request, preferring a quieter life than being abused by the purchased puppets of the Irish State, but they have proved persistent, and the results of the referendums have made it harder to argue that there is not here some kind of opportunity — a hot iron that demands to be employed while there is still a degree of intensity in it. Hence, I am now, for the next 10 weeks or so anyway, a Citizen Politician. Whether I continue in that role or capacity beyond that is a matter for the voters of Midlands North West.
Some people have asked me: ‘Why Europe? Why not the general election?’ The answer is two-fold: Firstly, the EU elections come with a date, which is relatively imminent; the general election is likely to be anything between six months and a year down the road. This moment needs to be leveraged now, not in a year’s time. Moreover, there is no necessary exclusionary aspect to running in the EU elections. We need to place as many true Irish people in all of these bodies as we can manage.
Win or lose, there will still be options once the general election comes around, and one of my hopes is that I can be the canary in the coalmine for those who are in the early stages of contemplating entering the public arena. In any event, membership of the European Parliament would itself be a major boon, insofar as engaging with the perpetrators of the escalating European tyranny is concerned. Indeed, I would place the greater part of our misfortune at the door of the calamitous decision in 1972 to throw our lot in with what have long been a camouflaged bunch of totalitarians, and now have emerged with their fangs bared.
Personally, I believe the EU is all but finished, having delivered the coup de grace to itself with its insane sanctioning of Russia over the Ukraine war, which has ended up hurting not Russia, but the EU itself and the European people even more. It is highly probable that the union will disintegrate in the coming years, and that most of the countries of Europe will revert to being nation states, with their sovereignty and currencies rebooted — an eventuality greatly to be welcomed. Meanwhile, I strongly oppose any further integration of the EU, particularly in relation to military affairs. I believe strongly that international partnerships work best when partner countries are recognised as fully sovereign democracies coming voluntarily together to promote economic cooperation rather than to provide would-be despots with a row of stepping-stones to becoming the oligarchs of a federal Europe, a concept I firmly repudiate and reject.
Our emphasis in the coming time ought to be on as many forms of sovereignty as we can recover and reboot — in particular sovereignty under the headings of money, food and fuel.
Surely we understand that for our people to live and prosper, we need to produce more and better food for our children, rather than handing over our natural resources for slaps on the back — cooperating with high-heeled tyrants in creating ‘nature reserves’, restricting tillage, carving up our fishing waters to the benefit of foreigners, banning the production of indigenous fuels, and culling livestock herds? Surely we wish to put a stop to the madness of those claiming spuriously to lead us, when the only place they are leading to is Hell?
We need urgently to build a real economy, to dig deep into our creative resources so as to discover ways of sustaining our people into the future by our own lights and genius. We need to rid ourselves of the albatross of tax-evading corporations who came here on the pretence that they would employ Irish people, and instead swamped our country with indifferent outsiders, while our children applied for visas to Australia.
Though it is late in the day, we need to find the courage to speak. Our public utility systems are dysfunctional — hospital waiting lists, homelessness, traffic gridlock, schools bursting at the seams. The reason is rarely if ever discussed: our population is increasing at a rate unjustified by the growth of our infrastructure. Even if the new arrivals were people we could trust and live alongside, we simply do not have the capacity or means to accommodate them without depriving our own neighbours, and our own children. How can Ireland extend a welcome to the world when we are unable to look after our own, and while our own young people continue to haemorrhage from every harbour and airport?
A non-exhaustive list of my priorities when elected
If elected to the European Parliament, I pledge to work to promote the following priorities:
— Opposing the growing totalitarian tenor of the EU and seeking its reversion to a community of nations, seeking cooperation with one another;
— Ending the Europe-wide undeclared policy of open borders, orchestrated by stealth, without democratic mandate, by our treasonous political class. This means closing and defending the borders of Ireland, so that anyone who comes here does so lawfully and because we, the Irish People, desire them to;
— Defending the rights and personal choices of parents and families, so that children may grow up surrounded by those who love them most, and that the preeminence of parents in the rearing of their children is preserved;
— Offering parents decent and viable options to combine a role in the workplace with raising children free of economic pressure;
— Ensuring that children are enabled to maintain through their growing years the innocence that is their right, and to remain unmolested by perversion posing as education;
— Working to construct an independent, self-standing Irish economy based on elements native to our island and beneficial to humanity;
— Loosening the grip of multinational corporations on our culture and affairs;
— Implementing zero tolerance for the escalating culture of official criminality in our country;
— Restoring a pro-baby culture and renewal of respect for childhood and family life, and ipso facto promoting a healthy revival of our national demographics, so that in the future we will not easily fall for the notion that outsiders represent the salvation of Ireland;
— Building a healthy culture of fatherhood after decades of their demonisation and legal exclusion;
— Promoting a healthy media culture worthy of a modern democracy, and putting an end to the culture of death and lies now passing itself off as a democratic discourse;
— Protecting our people’s right to speak their minds, specifically by opposing the (EU-promoted) Digital Services Act and any attempt to introduce legislation that seeks to limit our people’s capacity to open their mouths in defence of their country and its way of life;
— Defending and restoring the Irish Constitution, Bunreacht ha hÉireann, so that it may resume its central function as the guarantor of our rights and freedoms;
— Continuing to push for the comprehensive investigation of the events that began in 2020 with the announcement of a ‘pandemic’, which has since resulted in some of the most disastrous outcomes our people have ever suffered at the hands of their own government.
— Campaigning for the prohibition of membership of — or any form of cooperation with — the World Economic Forum by any person representing any Irish electorate or going forward with the aspiration of doing so;
— Opposing any international treaty that seeks to devolve upwards what remains of the powers of nations to themselves decide how they will deal with emergencies and other crises, i.e. in accordance with their native constitutions, free of external pressure or manipulation. In the immediate short-term, this means resisting the WHO global treaty, ostensibly aimed at achieving a unified response to future pandemics.
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This reading of the 1916 Proclamation of the Irish Republic, read by Micheál Mac Liammóir, has just appeared on YouTube and is remarkably evocative and, for me, timely: Above all, I shall uphold the Irish Proclamation in the cold continental halls of the EU, and that of itself will be quite a novelty.
Mac Liammóir’s voice is tear-inducing — that mellifluous bróg which summons up a whole epoch now gone, in which Ireland was the greatest place on God’s Earth, and the pride we felt in our past, our ancestors and our freedom made us as proud as peacocks every livelong day.