The week that was and is to come. Dr Eoin Lenihan and Hermann Kelly

 

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The Twitter Space The week that was and is to come. Dr Eoin Lenihan and Hermann Kelly hosted by IrexitFreedom. Delve into the realm of the Irish Freedom Party with Dr. Eoin Lenihan and Hermann Kelly as they shed light on the party’s core values, achievements, and future endeavors. Get a glimpse of the political strategies employed by the party, upcoming events, and the collaborative efforts of key figures within the Alpha Group niche. Stay informed about the Irish Freedom Party’s vision for the future and how they plan to expand their influence in Irish politics.

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Questions

 

Q: What are the key political strategies of the Irish Freedom Party?
A: The party focuses on advocating for freedom of speech, national sovereignty, and individual rights.

 

Q: What achievements has the Irish Freedom Party made so far?
A: The party has successfully raised awareness on key issues and garnered support for its principles.

 

Q: How do Dr. Eoin Lenihan and Hermann Kelly contribute to the party’s development?
A: Both individuals actively engage in promoting the party’s vision, planning events, and fostering growth.

 

Q: What future plans does the Irish Freedom Party have in place?
A: The party aims to expand its reach, increase membership, and further establish its presence in Irish politics.

 

Highlights

 

Time: 00:15:40
Political Strategies of the Irish Freedom Party Insightful discussion on the party’s approach towards key political issues.

 

Time: 00:25:17
Achievements and Projects Highlighting the successful endeavors and impactful projects undertaken by the party.

 

Time: 00:35:29
Upcoming Events and Party Developments Exciting updates on events planned by the Irish Freedom Party and future party initiatives.

 

Key Takeaways

 

• Insights on the Irish Freedom Party’s political stance and strategies.
• Discussion on the party’s vision, achievements, and projects.
• Updates on upcoming events and developments within the party.
• Collaboration between Dr. Eoin Lenihan and Hermann Kelly in advancing party goals.

 

Behind the Mic

 

Introduction and Context

 

Hello, everybody. Very, very welcome. We’re coming towards, sadly, the end of the holidays, but it’s going to get very active very soon. And further that we, the Irish Freedom Party, we had Ardesh there yesterday in a hotel in Dublin. Went off very smoothly. It’s well attended, great participation from those who were there. We’ve got lots of motions passed, significant stuff on policy, and it’s all getting ready for the general election, which we believe will be coming up pretty soon. And you see. Just get Doctor Owen here. Let me see. Okay. So, yeah, it’s. It was an eventful week. One significant article I read was about the whole issue of the health service. Doctor Owen, can you get in yet? We’ll just let people fill up the room a little bit low. Yeah, great.

 

Personal Experiences and Background

 

How you keeping yourself? good. Been busy. I’ve been doing a lot of writing and I, you know, it’s summer holidays here, so the kids are off, my wife is there, so I get to do a bit of work. It’s great. Yes. Oh, very good. You’ve been in Germany for a few years, haven’t you? I have. It’s. The time is flying by. I’ve been here now since I came over in 2008, fully. And I’m unusual in that I didn’t come over to. For work or anything like that. I came for love, I came for my wife. So it’s unusual in that sense. And. But I was also happy to leave at that time, you know, what Ireland was like during the boom years. I was pretty disenchanted and disgusted with the way the country was, so I was happy enough to leave too.

 

Challenges of Returning to Ireland

 

And I did try to come back then and I found myself interesting. You talk about the nurses there, teachers had it the very same. I found myself very much locked out of returning to Ireland. And that. That, you know, was a shame that I attempted to come back a couple of times. I actually did two interviews. One was for a vice principalship and one was for a lectureship. And the reality was Ireland being Ireland, the jobs were gone beforehand. And I know because I was told that. But yet they made me come back for Germany, to Egypt. You know, I don’t know why on earth they would. They would do that, but one of them was gone because it was. They hired a partner of the principal and the second one was gone because gender quotas. I missed out on a gender quota because they were. That was the time when they were really making them up.

 

Disappointment in Job Opportunities

 

After a court case was brought against NUI Galway and I was told by a woman, interestingly, an older woman, who had told me that it was the best interview of the day by far. I’m a strong interviewer, and I had the best record. That was because I was able to see on paper that. That I was the only one, you know, published and lecturing and blah, blah. And so it was a shoe in, you know, on paper. But I just got unlucky, you know? And so it is interesting there you’re bringing up people who are locked out now. They’d be locked out for different reasons, of course, but it’s a real problem, you know, it’s an awful problem. And we’re losing out an awful lot of talent in Ireland.

 

Education System and Teacher Shortage

 

Well, I believe just there this week, the paper headline was, I believe it’s 10,000 teachers, but the Irish Ireland is short 10,000 qualified teachers, and they’re taking in people who aren’t qualified at all. When I left, this is amazing. When I left, right, I was freshly minted teacher. You know, I had come back for a year just to tack on the teaching degree, kind of onto the masters or whatnot, so I’d be useful in the world. And when I left, it was, I believe, one full-time position in my entire field, in the entire of the country. That’s how tight things were back then. So for me, it’s blowing my mind to hear that they can’t fill spaces for teachers, but, like, of course, it’s for different reasons.

 

Living Costs and Job Market Challenges

 

What teacher on a teacher’s wage can now afford to live in Ireland, you know, who can afford to come back with their family? So let’s, like, if you think about, let’s say. If I says, let’s just say I’m going to uproot my life and come back there tomorrow, which I would love to do, but if I do, and I get a job in the midlands, you know, far away from family and whatnot, so I can’t, you know, put. We can’t go. Don’t have the safety net of going in with the family if we have to for a while, you know, my wife wouldn’t have a job, so she would have to go looking. We would be a one-income family. For how long, you know, where it’s an awful risk. Like, how are you going to afford. Will you find the rent? I heard Elaine Mulally say there, even in county leash, that there was something like under five or something rental properties available at the moment.

 

Housing Crisis and Economic Realities

 

So, actually, interestingly, when I left, there was a housing crisis, but the problem was that there was no teaching jobs and plenty of houses and now there’s no houses and plenty of teaching jobs. So, you know, it’s funny how things flip around, but it’s a disaster for, in terms of human. Human waste and in terms of the strain it puts on families through migration or an inability to reunite irish families, you know, it’s. You know, this is the real human cost of decades and generations and government after government of incompetence. Sad. Well, one of the aspects that came up was Ireland’s problem isn’t simply the numbers and mass immigration and the loss of security and irish streets being less safe and our villages and towns being less safe than they were previously because there’s too many unvetted males coming in.

 

Emigration Challenges for Young Irish People

 

But also the problem of emigration related to the fact that the jobs don’t pay enough, that people, young people, cannot afford to get a house or even on occasions, rent, find an apartment to rent out. Now you’re saying they’re unleashed. That’s a problem. I know in Donegal there’s very few to rent out between the whole mass immigration thing and also the mica houses. Massive problem there in Donegal that people cannot find a house to rent or they can afford to pay for it. So our young people are drifting off to Canada and Australia and UK in vast numbers. And you actually, it was yourself had you came across during a week experience of, was it meeting a builder or a plasterer, he was back in Ireland, wanted to get a job, stay here, work as a builder, but he simply couldn’t afford a house, so it went off to Australia.

 

Challenges of Irish Emigrants

 

That’s right. Yeah. Well, you see a lot of people too. Ireland is funny, our relationship with migration, because a lot of, you know, the reality is that when you leave, the door slams behind you, the government doesn’t give a damn about you. A lot of people still have this eighties idea of the irish centers all around the. All around the world, like, you know, that they’re rip roaring places of irish keola gets cracked. Largely, they don’t exist anymore. There’s no support. Yeah, you can go to the irish pub and everybody obviously does at the start when they’re finding their way abroad. But once you’re gone and the government is happy to have you gone.

 

Government’s Attitude Towards Emigration

 

It’s always been that way because for Ireland, immigration was always a release valve, you know, for a poor economy or for economic failures. So the thing about that is that once you’ve gone and set yourself up and managed to survive or manage to get by, and especially if you’re in a job where you’ve invested a lot of years studying and you think, oh man, I escaped nothing at home to go out here and build up a life for myself. Then when you come, you know, when you come back home, it’s a massive risk. And it’s not just a risk either, just in terms of will I find a place to rent? Will I have enough money? It’s a massive risk professionally, you know, if you don’t, if things don’t work out, you’re gonna, you have to have something set up first and foremost before you come back or you’re going to like, have a gap in your cv and in a lot of professions.

 

Consequences of Professional Gaps

 

That’s, that’s, you know, that’ll ruin you. You just can’t, you just can’t have it. But there is a fear. A lot of these people, you see, they’ve put in a lot of hard work. They’ve, you know, at university, then whatever work experience they’ve got. And, you know, it’s not. A lot of these jobs aren’t just kind of pickup jobs like often said, you know, there’s some. I would love to be something like a hairdresser. I’d love to have a practical skill like that because everyone needs their haircut everywhere in the world to some degree. Teaching is like that, you know, but, it’s always because they’re publicly paid to come in waves, they come in eras of famine and great, need, as we’re seeing in Ireland right now.

 

Perceptions of Irish Emigrants

 

What I’m saying is that there’s a sense that everyone emigrates and they fecked off for a better life. That’s not true. You know, and there’s a sense that, look, they only, they’ll only come back if we. Give me. That’s not true either. There’s a few. A lot of these people that have gone abroad, stay a long time, have a family, and there is a lot to risk. Think about. It’s very difficult to come back. And that’s what really we must examine. It’s not just about, yeah. Encouraging and helping young people who want to come home, like there’s problems. Even if they want to insure a cardinal, the insurance that they’ve done abroad won’t be recognized in Ireland.

 

Healthcare System and Insurance Issues

 

So you come back home, you haven’t had insurance in Ireland for a decade and you’re paying massive insurance premiums. But the whole thing even about. There’s. I was looking, there was a very good article on grip. There during the week about the health service, because we often hear the argument for immigration, that if it wasn’t for immigration into Ireland, the irish health HSC would collapse. But the problem is that is completely untrue because we have so many healthcare workers, doctors and nurses and midwives working abroad, like, would you believe? I looked at some of the figures, I did more research there during the week.

 

Irish Healthcare Workers Abroad

 

I found out half of registered nurses in Ireland, I are educated abroad now, while at the same time, 14,000 irish qualified nurses and midwives left Ireland for health services abroad. And now, the last time I looked at the figures, there’s 4000 doctors working abroad, and yet non irish doctors made up 42% of all doctors in Ireland now. And that was in 2017, which is quite a. Quite a long time ago. When you look at nurses, the majority of new nurse registrants, there’s 600. Sorry, 6257. Only one and a half thousand of those were qualified in Ireland, where four and a half thousand of them were qualified outside the EU, mainly india.

 

Standard of Education for Healthcare Workers

 

So when you just go through the numbers, it’s basically what has happened is an exodus of irish qualified healthcare workers off to these foreign countries. A lot in Australia, now in Canada, in the UK, and then we take in these people and actually, the standard of education for irish healthcare workers, doctors and nurses, is extremely high. And in their turn, we’re taking a lot of nurses from these Pakistan and Seria from all these countries, which the standard education and medical matters is much lower. Absolutely. You know, and then there’s the safety concerns of, well, is this doctor, is he qualified? And are his qualifications as good as an irish qualified doctor? In many cases, that’s not the case.

 

Recruitment Strategies for Healthcare Workers

 

So would you believe. Would you believe there’s 12,000 nurses recruited abroad between 2001 and 2010 at a cost of 90 million euro? So 12,000 nurses recruited abroad to come to Ireland. And the thing that really gets the goat of a lot of people when they hear this is that the HSE in Ireland are currently recruiting nurses from abroad at the moment. At the same time as there’s a recruitment freeze in Ireland, I. Okay, so irish workers will not. Irish workers cannot get a contract. Yeah, that’s. Not only that, I forget the figures, but basically there’s a relocation package that these non irish health care workers get for coming to Ireland.

 

Government Policies on Healthcare Staffing

 

But I don’t know. Do the irish people working abroad, I don’t know if they get that relocation package. But the big problem is, in Ireland, in the HSC, is the problem of career progression and contractual stability. So you see, the HSE, they’re happy to give out short term contracts at the minute, but they don’t want to give out long term permanent contracts to staff because it costs them more money. And pensions. Yeah, sorry, go finish your talk. Well, I’ll do another thing about housing and pensions later, but I. What do you think of the numbers that we’re talking about? It seems to be that irish workers are being squeezed.

 

Healthcare Staffing Concerns

 

You were talking about, and two things hit me. I was shocked because, first of all, you know the line. I know the line. Everyone listening knows the line. Without our doctors and nurses from overseas, our health system would collapse. But this data would seem to indicate otherwise. The one that really whacked me in the face, was there a. Let me see where it is. Yeah, there. Nia va Brienne. We should shout out. She wrote this article for gripped, but here she said that in 2022, 442 irish doctors were issued with temporary work visas for Australia. This is a significant number of doctors compared with the total that Ireland trains each year, which is 725.

 

Current Trends in Medical Workforce Migration

 

So we’re sending off more than half of our doctors in 2022, even though we have how many overseas? And, as you said, still being recruited overseas doctors. How does this make any sense? You get talking to the doctors who’ve gone abroad. They certainly simply say, look, the contracts are much better over here. The money’s better, the hours are better, have a better lifestyle, and go to Australia with a very outdoor life. We can go and have a swim in the ocean before I go to work. And like a lot of these young doctors and nurses abroad, they would love to come home to Ireland.

 

Desire to Return Home

 

They would love to live beside their family, bring up their families in Ireland, but they simply can’t afford it. They don’t have that. That progression. Those permanent contracts, which are well enough paid to justify them staying in here and kind of temporary contracts, low pay, long hours, they can get a much better lifestyle and opportunity abroad. And yet, at the same time, we’re bringing, in some instances, at least, sub qualified healthcare workers to work in Ireland under temporary contracts. And the absolute goal of the state to continue to recruit foreign educated nurses and doctors from abroad at the same time, while there’s a recruitment freeze in Ireland is beyond belief.

 

Policy Recommendations

 

Like, you know. So we got to say that a large part of the party. Sorry, part of our policy coming into the next election is to bring our children home. Everybody remembers the photographs. I think it was about 250 nurses over there in Sydney. We had a photograph in various cities there in Australia. Give us a reason to come home give us. All they want is an opportunity to have a permanent job, a contract in the job in which they’re qualified, of course, that they’re committed to, that they want to do, but all they want is an opportunity to get a well paid job with a decent contract.

 

Support from Irish Citizens Abroad

 

They can get a house, they can raise their family and be happy. And we could see there during the COVID lockdown, which was enforced stupidly, crazily by the government, that many irish healthcare workers working abroad volunteered to come back and help out in Ireland. And I think there’s thousands volunteered to come back and many did come back to help out. But as far as I remember, off Tommy, it is only about 50 people were actually taken on to help out in this time of national healthcare crisis, which is amazing.

 

Unmet Need for Healthcare Workers

 

So the will was there and. Yeah, and the desire was there, but they just weren’t given the reason. I think. See, I’m more than humble enough to admit that, you know, they get far, you know, for me, look, I’m an immigrant. There’s lots of immigrants. But when you talk about immigrants, like, you’re talking, we’re talking doctors here, we’re talking. These are the top. To my. In my eyes, you know, they’re the top of the top. They save lives. These are crucial people. A country that can’t keep its doctors, but more importantly, won’t offer them the incentives to return home, you know, is very questionable.

 

Government Accountability

 

It’s just crazy that the government would act in such a way and you would wonder, what is it the government was trying to get rid of people? Because they certainly act in that way. You know what an other incredible fact, which I brought up in a mate reference to it in the speech in the Ardash, I said with our. So just get through this dog. See, I have these dogs here is the whole thing of. We’re talking about the house crisis you brought up. It was yourself brought up during the week about you came across a builder, I believe was a. It was a plaster made reference to him earlier that he simply could not afford to remain in Ireland to help build houses.

 

Recruitment Crisis in Construction

 

Well, of course there’s a massive need for house built for house builders, but this guy can afford a house himself, so he’s off to Australia. Now, when you look at, there’s things that you need, if you like, we hear the government saying, Ireland needs 50,000 houses a year. We hear Sinn Fein making outlandish claims about they’re going to build so many houses and public land, etcetera. But the thing is, they build houses, you need money, you need materials, you need workers, you need land. Right now, at the moment, the last time I looked, irish public debt was over 230 billion euro.

 

Financing and Housing Market Challenges

 

That’s 42,000 euro per man, per head, per man, woman and child in the country. So Ireland believes the third most heavily in publicly indebted country in the world. So all this stuff about Ireland’s got this high gdp and we’re wealthy, super wealthy, I believe is baloney, which is pumped out by Finna fall, Fina, Gael and of course all the left wing parties, they all want to, they basically, they rely on promising people free stuff. Free money. Yeah, put it on the credit card, it’s all going to fall from the monetary tree.

 

Public Pension Liability and Future Economy

 

No one has to work, it’s all fine. But I met someone there during the weekend and they were telling me that, would you believe the public pension liability of the state, right, which is not included in that, in those accounts, right? Because it’s a pay as you go pension. It’s our children who will be paying off this debt, not ourselves. Right? Guess. Have a. Well, maybe I shouldn’t do this. And I won’t say give us a guess because I actually did it during the hour. Paul, guess what the public pension liability of the state is?

 

Public Pension Liability Explored

 

Well, it’s 646 billion euro. Jesus. That’s not included in the counts, right? 646 billion euro. So what’s that? That’s almost. It’s almost three times what is included in the public debt. Right. And that has to come. So this idea that Ireland’s wealthy and we can afford to do, and I pointed it before in articles, that because of our membership of the Eudez, there’s. We are restricted by. We have signed up to certain restrictions.

 

EU Legislation and Financial Limitations

 

One is the growth and stability pact. You can’t have debt more than 3% GDP per year. Then they have state rules which restrict the freedom of countries to spend money to take on public debt and spending as they may wish. So the countries are restricted, they are restricted and there’s a ceiling on public debt. Probably a good thing in my eyes, in the long term, but the consequences is that Ireland will not have the money or cannot afford, and because of EU legislation, will not be allowed to have a massive building program that they’re all promising.

 

Conclusion: The Need for Policy Change

 

So as I said, there’s not the money because we have such high public debt, we cannot spend this money because of EU restrictions, even if we had it in the ticket, honest debt. And two, we have a problem with recruiting workers, irish workers, to build these houses. Because, hey, they can’t afford a house themselves as that is going on where the irish government, like Roderick O’Gorman a few years ago, we all know the famous tweet in seven languages, come all ye from all over. So all these refugees, asylum seekers, etcetera, they all have a right to free accommodation, free welfare, free medical care, free legal aid, and yet every irish person has to be means tested for every one of those.

 

Financial Figures and Impacts

 

He pulled out a great figure for me during the week, but here’s just some of the figures extra to what we’re talking about here. What would cost for the housing, blah, blah. The. The government spent, what was it? 2 billion in contracts to buy up accommodation, mainly hotels and whatnot, in 2023. Just 2023, we lost 1 billion in tourism because of that. On the other end, 10,000 tourism jobs were displaced. Those people now have to go on the dole or whatnot. And importantly, this was the number. Paul did a great job rooting out just for Ukrainian social welfare payments because they gave them out at the job seekers rate of 232 euro per week when the rest of Europe was giving, you know, 38 euro, or what was along these lines. Well, that was another, I believe, was it called 600 million or something around there? Half a billion. So, you know, the figures that they’ve been throwing around here liberally are insane. To my mind. That’s just in 2023 alone, that’s what, two, three.

 

Economic Mismanagement in Ireland

 

Three and a half billion just on Ukrainians, essentially. Never mind. Now, this, the problems that we’re having to solve here as the numbers of iPass figures continue to grow, and the money too, that they’re throwing at this, some people will say, asher, that’s the 12.5% surplus that we’re taking in from the American multinationals. Well, why? You know, just if we were a responsible nation, first of all, there’s so many knock ons, as you said, first and foremost, the housing crisis, but also looking down the line at the pension crisis, you know, all of this money, this surplus, should be going in that direction. Imagine if you could put that two and a half billion towards that. You know, I know it sounds like a speck in the ocean, but guess what? It’s better than nothing, you know, so it’s just there’s financial mismanagement on levels here that just, if it was a business, everyone would be fired, the company would be shut down. Also, the problem is, like, with the amount of money we take in from corporation tax, basically, American multinationals that talk about putting all your eggs in the one basket, like Ireland, Minister of Finance has a duty to protect the country in all scenarios if Trump gets elected and he says, we must America first.

 

Future of Irish Economy and Support for Locals

 

Remember the doctrine America first and all the American multinationals must repatriate money back and keep the money in America. And I’m going to give you all a good deal and I’m going to make the corporation European, whatever, twelve and a half in Ireland. But if you bring it back and you put it in America, I’ll give you a special deal, 15% and I’ll forget about it. You won’t be fined. We will chase after you and the courts. We won’t put in regulations to make your life more difficult. We’ll make it simple. We’ll give you 15% corporation tax, all in. So imagine all the companies, the big American multinationals that we have in Ireland, all of a sudden repatriate their money to the head, to the real headquarters. Let’s not like, come on, it’s the full headquarters that we have here in Dublin. But let’s think if they repatriate their money to pay taxes back where they’re from, which is the headquarters in the states, that’s a massive loss of income to Ireland taxpayer. And then once again, we’re poking broke and given at the minute, where we’re actually flush with money, with very high corporation tax receipts.

 

Tourism vs Welfare Economy

 

We’re spending all this money on what, as you say, we’re destroying the hospitality industry. They are we replacing tourists with welfare tourists, the last time looked, over, a third of the accommodation beds in the country are taken up by asylum seekers at the cost of. So we’re destroying a productive sector of the economy to basically become instead a tax liability for everybody. Well, the issue too, like, is that, you know, we have so many different parallel societies at the moment here in Ireland, and the largest one being that, okay, in your scenario there, which is, in my opinion, just a matter of time before it happens, this collapse of the multinational. Sector, golden Goose, as you might call it. Yeah, we’re going to have a huge amount of people who are going to go on the live register there. It’s going to be overwhelmed, sure. But the problem is that a lot of the people who are, you know, the executives in these, the upper management and whatnot, sure, they can flee, they can go wherever, and a lot of them were brought in anyway from overseas, and they’ll just move on to the next big, next notch under CV.

 

Consequences of Asylum Seekers

 

But all of these guys that are Gorman’s bringing in these 13,000 per year, who they’re shoving into iPass, that none of that matters to them. None of it. None of it does not matter how broke this country is, because they don’t care and they don’t have to care because they’re protected. And as we saw there by this ruling in the high court, which protected their human rights, that it doesn’t matter how bad things get in Ireland, that Ireland is now stuck with these people. It’s one thing when you have the multinationals and a lot of workers coming in there, obviously too much because we’re at 22%, but a lot of them would leave in a worst case scenario. But governments, people aren’t going anywhere and it’s going to be a massive financial burden when things go south. Yeah. Because at the minute, they’re getting everything for free. And then, as you say, at a time of massive unemployment, it’s. So we are basically in a scenario at the minute where Irish people getting up to go to work, to pay taxes, to give the government.

 

Welfare Disparity

 

We hand this money over to services, public services for non Irish nationals. Foreigners, basically, as our children, who can’t afford a house, who don’t get good contracts, are basically emigrating abroad. And that’s just a double get a whammy kick in the teeth for Irish people. So I think, like, long term, look, we have to plan for the future. We have to plan for when times turn rough in economic and economic terms. And we have to look after, number one, we have to help in every way. The SME’s Irish indigenous industry. SME’s where people have a buy into Ireland at the minute, multinational corporations, when their profits go down on Ireland, for example, for change in tax rates or regulation or whatever, which can also be made by the EU as by the Irish government. Right.

 

Community and Economic Concerns

 

They will get up and leave overnight and go off to Indonesia or Poland or wherever they make more money, and they will happily leave Ireland destitute. Well, they do it to make profits and when they don’t make profits, they go elsewhere. That’s. That’s the law of life and the economic law of the jungle. That’s not spread off, I suppose. But we should do everything within our power to help, to encourage, to incentivize, to reward work and enterprise, and especially to encourage SME’s in Ireland that they have a buy in, they have a loyalty to Ireland, and even when the time gets tough, that they will remain in Ireland. The workforce, the headquarters, et cetera. And, you know, this whole thing about replacing tourists with welfare tourists, it’s just unbelievable.

 

Impact on Local Businesses

 

I think that I see the guy down in Kerry, was there 6600 restaurants? Yeah. That’s their estimated shot last month. Was it to do with the VAT door thing? Can’t we just be. I said in the speech there, in our destiny, that we’re not looking for the gilding of the lily. We’re not looking at Ireland some kind of utopia. We’re only looking for the very basics, very basics of a functioning state where our children have a decent chance of getting a job, being able to afford a house and living in an area and streets and villages and cities which are safe. They can walk around, they can go and do their sport and meet their friends, go to the pub, meet their friends, have a social life, have a chance of a job, a house, eventually getting married, having children and bringing up their.

 

Community Expectations and Responsibilities

 

Their children in Ireland. That’s what we’re working for. Every most functioning states around the world can do that. Why can’t we state exactly that? Ireland, the Irish state, is for the benefit of Irish people, and we’re not here to be the whole in the poll, but to provide free stuff for anybody who can afford a Ryanair fair to land in Dublin. Just because you’re talking there about going from tourism destinations to asylum destinations, basically, I came across something this week you just put in my mind there that was quite sad, if you ask me. And I think if most more Irish people realized that, they would be incredibly angry, was that first and foremost, most people welcomed Ukrainians with open arms.

 

Tourism Crisis and Social Implications

 

There was a time of crisis in 2022, say, you know, like Merkel versus Schaffen Das. Yeah, we can do it. All right. People were saying, we’ll put them up for a bit and then they’ll be going back home, be rosy. So. But the statistics were bleak because I looked down the west coast and two things. So they pushed out all the migrants to. These are tourism hotspots, you know, that, all the way down from Donegal down to Kerry. And it was quite shocking is that it only came out in 2024 when they did a review of 2023, that of how many jobs, tourism jobs were lost in case after case. When I was looking down the list, what was terrible to see, first of all, you see, all these hoteliers were made a new class overnight.

 

Economic Displacement and Inequality

 

You know, they were paid way so far over the odds that, you know, they became millionaires while all of the. The ancillary businesses dried up, all the, you know, tours, all of the pubs, all of the restaurants, blah, blah. But what was very sad and very poignant to me was when I looked and it showed that in case after case, it was an almost exact match that the number of people that were put into the iPass hotels, all in these tourist destinations, in many cases, they matched exactly the amount of Irish people who were put out of tourism jobs. And it just struck me that, you know, that’s not correct. That’s not right. However, were told it was temporary, but what’s happened now, you see, is that they’ve now phased out the Ukrainians and they’ve phased in a Gorman’s people which will be never ending.

 

Social Concerns and Local Reactions

 

So what’s happening, you know, is that they’re pushing out and this is what happened in Dundrum for example, that they had in Tipperary where they had, what was it, 270 Ukrainians or something like that in the village of 250. And they started fate. They were told that you would be given back to the village after x amount of time and then only to be told after no, hey, switcheroo. And we’re going to put in, you know, the unvetted mail men and that’s what’s happening to all down along the west coast. So it’s a desperately. It’s a desperate betrayal first and foremost that these people who gave up so much willingly were then shafted.

 

Local Perspectives from International Experiences

 

But it is. I have a great example of that in Cairo. You said about the west of Ireland there. I was in Cairo, spoke there during the European election. There’s guy PJ Flaherty. O’Flaherty. And our Irish Freedom Party candidate Dawn McMahon was there as well. What happened was that Irish people were renting apartments there up from a school there in Kara Row and that they were told to leave because the Irish people who were renting these apartments beside this old hotel which was defunct and closed down, the Irish people renting the apartments were told to leave because they were going to be sold, right? So that’s the legal position. The landlord has the right to sell the apartments.

 

Housing Challenges and Local Reaction

 

They’ve been sold, see, so they were ejected from these apartments and what happened is this, the hotel which up until that point had been done up, as you say, that the hoteliers were offered huge amounts of money. This thing was actually defunct, was redone up to take in Ukrainians. Ukrainians were moved into the apartments where Irish people had been previously. And then the kind of rundown hotel which had taken in the Ukrainians at the top of the hill then that was iPass, right? That’s what’s happened. That’s what happened. And you can imagine that the local people are very angry.

 

Community Safety Concerns

 

And then not only that, the long term consequences and a place like Cairo and both of my daughters were at Irish College in Cairo so I’ve actually been there numerous times before. Picking them up, leading them down to Cairo. Was that people, could you really, if you’re a kind of concerned parent looking at concern for the safety of your children, you not only take them down to a small village where like you have hundreds of young men walking around with nothing to do or drinking all day and in the middle, you know, in the middle of summer, people are. People would be afraid of doing that. And they themselves, like, there’s.

 

Quest for Balance in Tourism

 

Because, as I said, replacing tourists with welfare tourists, yes, these people, like, there’s a lack of bed space in there. So parents even want the. As I remember my parents doing, coming down, visiting, staying there. I used to go to Donegal and Garda Hawk and my parents, many parents will come, well, from Belfast, and so they come and stay for the weekend, say, see their kiddies. And so it contributes in two ways. One, but the children paying their. The banner tea, getting so much money per kid per week or whatever, and the parents coming down every few weeks to see. To see their wee Johnny, and that’s all dried upwards.

 

Consequences for Local Infrastructure

 

It’s going to take a. It’s going to take a bit of a hammering. So. So there’s the immediate consequence and then there’s a long term consequence. And everyone seems to be harmful for Irish people and it seems to be the welfare and the benefit of other people from abroad seems to be the priority once again of the Irish state. And that’s not right. It isn’t. And again, and, you know, another figure that popped into my head there while you were just talking about it is that, you know, when they did the figures last year, they found that what was at the top half of the top, more than half of all of the top iPass centers, some of these guys were making, you know, more than 40 million for just.

 

Wealth Disparity in Community Services

 

For last year alone. They’re overseas. So a lot of this money, too, was going out of the country. A lot of these were have, you know, they have, what you call that, offshore accounts and whatnot. I was looking at Santry, where there was two big centers gone in, bought them Goldstein and something else. Anyway, they were both offshore accounts. So a huge amount of this money has been taken out of the economy again, almost like the absentee landlord style. So it’s. It’s financial mismanagement on many levels. The political consequence of that is, I wouldn’t be surprised.

 

Political Influence through Wealth

 

Let’s take, for example, Banti McEnany, the former Monahan manager there. Him and his family, I think it’s 14 members of the family have made 130 million euro between them. Right. They’ve been given in contracts. And like, do you think that buys political influence? Like just asking that. It’s more a rhetorical question at this stage. Do you think you can have political influence with 130 million? Of course you can. You’re making you. Well, I won’t say I spoke in Ballybay in county modern. There was it last summer. Of course it was. Comments from.

 

Concerns Over Local Governance

 

The comments came from head of. I believe it was Calvin County Council. Some of these fine gale politicians believe. Made comments about Herman Kelly. Blah, blah. Irish Freedom Party. It wouldn’t surprise me one iota if there was a kind of speculating there was a beneficial relationship between high value millionaires and local politicians. It’s hardly beyond the realms of possibility here. Probably if you’ve just been met a millionaire overnight on this insane lottery of what’s going on with these hotels, at the very least, who are you likely to vote for in the next election?

 

Advocacy and Forgotten Voices

 

I saw that down in County Claire. You know, with the. The guys who are the most vocal advocates of. And they can spin any migration. First was Ukrainians. And now I pass they’re spinning. White is his name. He owns the hydro and he owns the imperial. And he owns the Burren Castle hotel. Three hotels. And in Lisium Varna, sorry, leased every. All of them out to the state. Obscene money. And he’s only one of a couple because they’re all gone down there, all the hotels.

 

Media Representation and Local Reality

 

And again, you know, he’s out and putting forward his best foot propaganda wise. You know, he’s in. He’s in the clear. Champion and whatnot. Every other week. Championing the government’s migration policies. But, you know, because the prop. The media being what they are, they’ll only go to him. But who they don’t go to are the guy who runs the pub. Who’s had to pretty much shut this. This entire holiday season. They’re not talking to the guys who do the burn tours. They’re not talking to the guys who.

 

Challenges Across the Tourism Sector

 

There was one company, a ferry company. They do all of these tours up along the coast, even up to Donegal. They’ve virtually gone bust this year. Because again, when these guys. White and these hoteliers are making their millions and millions, they’re become there. You know, the flip side of that is that you have everybody else in tourism industry going out of business, going broke and getting poorer. So you’ve created overnight this astonishing class system where you have, again, it’s almost feudal.

 

Community Divide and Economic Imbalance

 

You have this one, maybe two, three people who’ve gotten phenomenally wealthy overnight. Like they were all just happened to be in the tourism business. One of them drove the bus. One of them had the hotel. One of them had the restaurant. Well, the guy who had the restaurant and the bus are broke. And the guy who just happened to have the hotel, he’s a multimillionaire. You know, that’s going to drive wedges in local communities. It’s going to create a lot of tension and bitterness, but more importantly, it’s going to create a great degree of depression.

 

Wealth Disparity and Local Tensions

 

And so this guy who’s phenomenally wealthy, of course they’re going to wheel him out for when they need a good propaganda piece. But importantly, the guys that are going to shove into these hotels, they’re not adding anything to the community. The buzz of the tourists is gone, but importantly, it’s leading to a decline in economic standards for everyone but the wealthy hotelier and it’s going to lead to very depressing areas all down along the west coast, which used to be amongst the world’s premier tourism destinations.

 

Local Example of Economic Impact

 

Well, I can give you an example. Here in Carrick Macross. There was a. I think it was about four years ago, because there was a friend of mine, basically it was a young local teacher, was raped by a. One of these asylum seekers who was put up in a hostel run by Andy McEnany. And there was quite a local protest. This world went round about what had happened. It was quite a protest. And a very good friend of mine, a member of the Irish Freedom Party, spoke there, Sean Kelly.

 

Public Protest and Community Response

 

No member who was there yesterday, actually. Mark McCooey, former MA, spoke publicly and they tried to arrange a public meeting in a hotel and they could not, of course, when the guy himself has so many hotels taken up, being given over for economic migrant stroke asylum seekers, self-identified asylum seekers, they’ve nowhere to speak. But they got one. They got one hotel. We’re taking them. I think it was a few miles outside Carrick and basically a rep from Sinn Fein rang up the hotel and told them, no, it would be a very bad idea for them to allow a public meeting to go ahead and the whole thing was stopped.

 

Taxpayer Impact and Welfare Concerns

 

So you can see that a large number of, wait, I’m Irish. People are going out to work to pay taxes, to fund their own demise, for the government to kick them in the face. And the only, the fat cats, I said before, the whole immigration. And you know what? The left, the self-loathing left, they are the useful idiots for the vulture phones and these big multinational corporations who want cheap labor and fill in like they are, like the advance guard or the like for, like they say that they’re socialists and they’re for the workers, but really they’re for the bandy maganinis and the vulture fund who just want, you know, want more bodies, tax funded bodies coming in to fat, like, literally the fat cats.

 

Future Considerations and Actions

 

That’s who benefits and ordinary Irish people who go to work, we’re the losers. And the whole thing, that whole economic cycle has to be completely reversed. Yeah. Is anybody listening? Anybody like to come in? Give us a few thoughts on any. Any issues where we’re talking about. Don’t be shy. Well, while people are lining up there, I would like to. Herman, what do you think of this? In Canada, where they’ve brought in, I believe now, unless I’m totally wrong, I’m sure someone will correct me, but they brought in a policy or thinking of bringing a policy to give Canadians first preference over house ownership or buying houses.

 

Meritocracy Considerations

 

I look at that. I think that, you know, because, sure, we want. And I look at how that could be expanded to jobs as well. Of course we want a meritocracy, but I think, for example, that you get a meritocracy within your own nation, meaning the meritocracy is a meritocracy amongst Irish. Like. So, for example, thinking of what you were talking about earlier, should. Should a government have an Irish first preference that extends to the Irish overseas for any job, for any house, etc.

 

Irish State Responsibility

 

Etc. Well, I’ve been thinking about this for some time, and. And basically things have gone so far that now, by official figures, non nationals are 22% in Ireland south. Now, I’m sure it’s much higher than that. The CSO’s do not reflect people with no. Who do not benefit from putting in a census farm simply won’t do it. Right. Especially if you come from Eastern Europe and you have a culture which is to distrust the government anyway.

 

Policy Framing and Citizenship

 

Like, if you think of, why shouldn’t we make it that Irish? Like, this is Ireland. Ireland’s for the Irish people. The Irish state should be for the benefit of Irish people. It’s not our job to fund our free stuff to the rest of the world. Our policy would be to. I think we have to look at a policy of that Irish taxpayers money should only. Should only go to Irish citizens.

 

Reassessing Welfare Distribution

 

Like this idea of giving free welfare, medical care, legal aid, an accommodation to non-Irish citizens, I think has to stop. Like, we’re not here. We were not placed on earth to get free stuff for the chancellors. And people who have lied. Look, come on. 85% of people come in through Dublin airport have lied, claiming they lost their. Their passport, when we know that’s all completely untrue. But why do we. Why has the government allowed liars to make.

 

Government Accountability

 

The government have made fools of Irish people, actually because they’ve allowed it. And Ireland, as a consequence, has become much less safe. But yeah. So one of those points, should Irish people be first? Absolutely. Another aspect of that should non-Irish nationals and vulture funds, for example, I believe in the housing market, vulture funds should be taxed out of existence in Ireland, that these multinational vulture funds coming in, buying hundreds, in some cases thousands of houses, that they’re then taken off the market.

 

Housing Accessibility and Pricing

 

Irish people can’t buy them. They can only rent them out at extortionate rates. Any government which cared for its people would not allow that to happen.

 

Concerns Over Property Ownership

 

You end that. Vulture funds cannot buy and that legally they’re not allowed to do so. Or two, you tax them out of the market, that it’s unprofitable for them to do so. And basically what you do is you bring in a fiscal system where really they must start offloading their properties onto the property market so irish people would be afforded. And then it brings up the point about buying property of should irish land, for example, be. There was a case there about two years ago where there were Chinese companies, where negotiation. They even had talks there, I believe, with Dundalk County Council or, sorry, Louth County Council, about they were looking to buy a large swathe of land in north County Louth, that to build, like, a Chinese city in north Louth.

 

Non-Irish Nationals Buying Irish Land

 

That’s that. They even had this conversation. They met and had a conversation like, imagine getting a phone call. Imagine getting a phone call is loud. County council. Oh, we’d like to have a discussion about buying land because we like to buy. Start a Chinese city open lot and get, like, I won’t say it on this, right. But you’d know what, I’m sure you would suspect what the answer should be. But, and that brings up a whole thing about should non-Irish nationals be able to buy up land in Ireland. I think. But do you know what? I think we have more than enough non-Irish land owned by non-nationals. In fact, you know what? Maybe that we should really think about that. You know, put that on for maybe Irish land should be bought by Irish.

 

Housing and Land Access

 

And then also the whole thing about houses, Irish land and houses in Ireland. No, if they’re here working, they have a work permit, they’re here on a temporary basis and they have to rent the place, no problem at all. Rent away the arts conduct. But to buy a property basically ties them down to Ireland, doesn’t it? So maybe if we want to stop the slow, well, the actually precipitous fall of Ireland towards a situation in which Irish people becoming a minority in our own country, maybe we should look at prohibiting foreigners buying up houses in Ireland and buying land in Ireland. And certainly we’ve got to stop giving taxpayers money to non-Irish citizens because otherwise we’re just, you know, we’re paying for our own death wish.

 

Priority for Irish Nationals

 

Really? Absolutely. Anyone speak in there? I’m not on as cohost, so I can’t see you, unfortunately, and I can’t let anyone on, so you can be managing that there in the background. Hermandinal, I assume, Herman’s gun patching people. True. Personally, I think it’s. It’s a good idea for any government. I mean, it shouldn’t. This should go across any party lines, and this is something that it ideologically goes across all party lines, is that obviously you should take care of your own people first, and any surplus should be people you need to bring in should be rare, first and foremost, because bringing people in to fill jobs is either a sign of greed, that is, you’re trying to. You’re attracting overseas multinationals through tax breaks, or it’s a sign of incompetence.

 

Responsibility to the Local Economy

 

That means, meaning that you haven’t aligned your education system with the needs of the local economy. So obviously you should be putting, in my opinion, anyone who isn’t, you know, the meritocracy extends to the Irish, first and foremost, and then anyone outside back at a queue. And that should also be then, logically, the case for housing as well. I don’t see that as being an infringement on any open market, because the idea that it’s infringement on any open market is just that. If you’re looking at the. The. The open market being the world instead of being your nation. And of course, that’s part of what’s happening right now, is that deleting or they’re trying to erode national boundaries and give people the sense that, you know, an Irish person shouldn’t have this, the right of employment, housing, etcetera, ahead of somebody from outside.

 

Preserving Irish Identity

 

They’re meant to believe that somebody from Papua New Guinea applying for a teaching job alongside you is normal. It’s not normal. And obviously the Irish person should be given that, first and foremost. You gone feeding the dogs, Herman? No, no. Absolutely no. I’m still here. No, it’s true. This is Ireland. Ireland belongs to Irish people. Irish state should be for the benefit of the Irish people and that we have priority in jobs, in housing, and that we shouldn’t be forced to go to work to pay taxes, to give free stuff to foreigners. It’s not that we dislike people from Papa, as you comically put it, but, you know, they’ve got their country, why can’t we have our country?

 

Demographic Shifts and Concerns

 

This idea, and you’ve seen it on grip by Doctor Matt Tracy has done the research which shows the rate, as I’ve spoken before that, like, come on, five years ago at non-Irish nationals, 12%, now they’re 22%. There’s like, there’s a 10% difference in five years. Like at this rate, if the rate of immigration continues in Ireland and accompanied with emigration of our young people out of Ireland, we will be a minority in our own country by 2050. And sorry, I never consented this colonization, I certainly didn’t consent to some kind of minority status in my own home. And we’ve got to be conscious of this. This is Ireland. We got to think of Ireland as a homeland of Irish people. This is our home.

 

Irish Heritage and Identity

 

70 million Irish people or people with Irish parentage, grandparent age, great grand, like those with some Irish lineage living abroad, but this is Ireland and this is our home. And this Irish people, you know, we. Need to break, should be able to come home, we should, whoever we need. One of the big reasons we need to get rid of the mainstream parties that are there now is to break this addiction to, you know, the 12.5% multinationals, you know, because it’s insatiable, this chasing GDP at all costs. It’s, it’s like any addiction is destructive and it’s destructive here and that it’s just going to lead to.

 

Economic Sustainability and Social Priority

 

Yeah, inevitably and very shortly before 2050, Irish people being a minority in their own country, but who asked for it? Nobody wants that. You know, I do honestly believe that people would take certain, would cut back on certain luxuries if it were to, if it was put to them that, hey, you know, if we are going to shrink our economy to suit our own population growth, say, but it’s going to cost you a little bit here and there, I think most people would say, yeah, obviously, I really do. Well, yeah. And one of the things came up, actually yesterday was the front row.

 

Societal Impact of Policies

 

There was two sisters, one’s a doctor, the other one’s a tax consultant, both extremely highly qualified. But one of them brought up the issue of both are married, both have kids, both like, one of them brought up the issue of the EU pushed policy of tax individualization, which meant the discrimination of, against women who wanted to stay at home, look after their kids and basically penalized families in which only one spouse worked. So basically we currently have a birth rate of roughly 1.5 children per woman. It’s well below replacement level. We should be pro. Like a nationalist party should be pronatalists to help encourage young couples to get married.

 

Cultural Values and Family Structure

 

They have kids and give their children and their life blood and other education of the children in the culture of Ireland and an Ireland they can be proud of that we should help young families rather than one kind of push this LGBTIQ ideology down the throats, especially the trans stuff, which has to do that. Like, I know Sinn Fein seemed to be obsessed by kind of hormonal, kind of puberty blood for under 16s, which is absolutely crazy. At the same time as they’re shouting Sharia law or sorry, it’s all about. It’s all about Palestine.

 

Contradictory Ideologies

 

So how they can square the whole thing. We love Palestine, and that’s going give speeches at Crook park to Eid celebrations where it’s all Muslims and we talk about, oh, we. We want more Muslims in Ireland. Ireland. Islam is great for Ireland at the same time as there’s pushing LGBTIQ and kind of puberty blockers for under 16s. It’s just kind of madness. Doesn’t. Doesn’t work out. But I think. Yeah, yeah, we definitely have the Ku.

 

The Role of Nationalism

 

Holland. You want to come in there? Or maybe it’s koo. Can see the second part. Connell isn’t Connell. That’s it. Herman. No, just. Just to kind of follow on with what you’re saying. The Irish nation is our people. The island is the place we inhabit. You know, to be a nationalist party, we have to nurture our people and want to see that nation grow. We need to. It’s like the AdA, encouraging tech jobs just for GDP.

 

Employment Strategies and Local Impact

 

Bottom line, when all these tech jobs are geared towards Europe, Asia, and Middle east, support roles that are multilingual, that there isn’t any good for the normal citizenry of Ireland because they’re just important, the staff, to follow those roles. So that needs to stop straightaway. I’ve seen somebody tweeting about child psychologists, 50 of them, being opened up to employment agencies from Asia and Africa, even though there’s an employment embargo on the health service in Ireland. And like every one of these small things, you’re talking about the LGBTQ ideology and the puberty blockers for children, they’re little by little, eroding away at our nation, our people, and our ability to maintain that nation on our homeland.

 

Threats to National Identity

 

And jeepers if it is racist to stand up and question that and question what they’re doing, because each one of those things is seeing our extension on a place that we have inhabited for millennia. We, the Irish people, our common history and our common language and our common cultures have inhabited this island for at least 5000 years and now we are at the closest that we’ve ever been to seeing that nation that we are as nationalists being the minority on our own homeland so that we need to stop every one of those little things that are seeing our birth rates drop our employment prospects dwindle away to other people.

 

Critical Discussion of Policies

 

And I seen to call it scaremongering isn’t reality because there’s a TD I can’t think of his name right now that was talking about the employment supports that are available to people that their priority given again to. I believe it was Mark McShaw. Was it employment supports or was it funding education grants given to a third level? Because I believe that Ukrainian nationals get basically a surplus grant which is not given to Irish third level students. I believe it. So basically there is a huge advantage.

 

Inequities in Support Systems

 

Yeah, I believe it’s them all Herman. From what I seen it was the back to work enterprise allowance, the back to education allowance and another raft of payments that are designed to give Irish people the hand up and the handout are now being prioritized to Ukrainian refugees and asylum seekers and we are quite literally under government policy been made second class citizens when it comes to that. And our own nation. Again, another example of us being pushed out.

 

Environmental Considerations

 

So that’s just my point. Sorry Herman. A good interesting point is you have the Greens, right, the Green Party talking about all the time about the importance of ecology and they will talk to the cows come home, kind of use an agricultural kind of analogy. They’re about the invasive species, right? So they will go on about the gray squirrel coming from America wherever it is, coming into Europe and coming in and displacing the native red squirrel, right? And go on about our species example and the importance of stopping the displacement of native species by invasive species.

 

Resource Management

 

Like I was as we talked about last week, me, I love going along the west of Ireland and fishing out in the middle of nowhere in the wilderness. But I noticed that even there in a river I was in Donegal down the banks, down this small enough spade river that down the banks there was what I call Japanese knotweed. So these kind of shrubs would only have enough shelter along the banks of this river. So that brings in the concept of limited resources. So there’s in an area of limited resources various species of shrub and plant along the banks.

 

Impact of Invasive Species

 

That’s the only place they have an opportunity to grow. So these Japanese knotweed were basically coming along the parts of the plant break off, they lodge into the bank and they basically take over because they grow very quickly and they displace the Irish native shrubbery that was there previously. So, Kookannell there is correct that we are being put as we are being put out, we’re being treated badly, our children are emigrating and other people are coming in our place.

 

The Greens and Ownership

 

And we’ve got to say about the greens, well, it’s my fault. Used to use the phrase every b says is blamed. And this is for Ireland. This is our country, this is our land and should be for Irish people for now and into the. Into the future. It’s not. I don’t think we’ve. I think we do have a responsibility to protect it for ourselves and our children and grandchildren and because this is the home of Irish people. Victoria, did you want to come in there, please?

 

Personal Experiences and National Identity

 

Hi, Herriman, how are you? Very good. Thank you for letting me in. I’ll just get to the point quickly about a couple of matters that were talking about. I don’t know what exactly they mean by nationalists. I mean, if they mean a person who strongly identifies with their own nation and vigorously supports its interest and especially for their country, then I guess I’m a nationalist. Getting back to what you were saying about people that wanted to come back to Ireland from abroad, I really do think that is the good subject to talk about.

 

Healthcare Concerns

 

As for doctors and nurses in the hospital industry, of course, the cost of living and the housing crisis is a main factor to why many people are not coming back and can’t afford to come back to Ireland. One of these people, obviously even some family members that I have that are patriots and love their country and from the heart, speaking from the heart, cannot come back to Ireland because of the housing crisis, aka Cartel, because of these vulture funds, because of what’s going on, the corruption in Ireland.

 

Sovereignty and Social Issues

 

So I know we have to be politically correct, but we’re in our own country. This is our land, this is air, we are sovereign. And freedom of expression, freedom of speech is our fundamental right. So I’m not going to mince my words. There’s a housing crisis in Ireland. There’s obviously a health crisis. There’s a mental health crisis. We have hospitals, we have waiting people, old people, vulnerable people that are on trolleys for 10 hours, maybe more.

 

Sustainability of Open Borders

 

It’s not sustainable and it’s completely deluded to think that we can just have open borders to anyone. We have people coming in who voted for these clowns. We have to get them out. That’s the priority. We have to dissolve this government, and we have to close the borders. There’s no other way. And if that makes you a nationalist, a far right or no, it just makes you someone that’s concerned and support the interest of their country.

 

Humanitarian Issues and National Interest

 

I think someone with two brain cells. It’s people. Every person and every people across the world act on their own self interest because, like, nobody in their right mind wants to just be someone knocking at the door somewhere saying, sorry, your turn’s up, out you go. We’re putting in our family in here, and you’ve got to leave. It’s ridiculous that the idea of it. So, of course, everybody works in their own self interest. And why should I wish people be any different?

 

Welfare for Irish People

 

And why shouldn’t we have a state that looks after the welfare and work for the prosperity and freedom of Irish people? Exactly. I grew up in France. I left France when maybe I was ten years of age. I left Ireland on the Irish ferries and I went to school in France. And that would have been during the eighties. I know myself, what is the price that Europeans need to pay for this whole inclusive multiculturalism?

 

Personal Experiences Abroad

 

Or. I know what it was like over there. It was already hard enough being an Irish person in France, but I saw how it was. And the way it worked over there is if you had any other opinions that went against the narrative, meaning that you were basically a patriotic for La France, for Marine Le Pen, you were branded, my God, you had to stay. You had to keep your opinions silenced, especially in the areas where it was dominated by other populations other than French or anyone who had different ideas or wanted to.

 

Radical Ideologies and Their Impact

 

You know, it was. It was. I do not believe that a radical extremist ideology, whether that be woke, whether that be pushing any kind of sick narrative on children which shouldn’t be even thought when you’re four or five or six or seven years of age talking about transitioning into men or women, this is insane. Can you imagine, Herman, we would have been talking about this in the eighties or the nineties. I mean, it’s just insane.

 

Change in Narrative Over Time

 

Even five, six years ago, it would be unthinkable. You’re talking about like, pushing the transition of young. That’s not transition. The mutilation of children. Ultimately, that’s. That’s what it is. And you’re pushing a lifelong sterility of minors. And the minors have. Well, it’s. Parents have a duty to protect their children. There’s a legal duty until the age of 18. And I certainly have a moral duty as the parents of their children to prevent them at the very least, not only they help feed them, educate them, bring them up in a secure environment, make them happy, free, capable adults eventually.

 

Parental Responsibility

 

But the very minimum you can do as a parent is to prevent your children being either injured or purposely mutilated. That’s the very least you can do. And the idea of pushing it. And actually, did you have any experience of. Because I understand there’s about 5 million, as you were in France, but there’s roughly 5 million Muslim population, which is a population of 26 counties in France. And they, in some areas where they predominate in numbers, they have basically taken over.

 

Cultural Integration Challenges

 

And some parts that I have been in, for example, have been like, it’s like being in, I know, Morocco, even the whole thing about cafes woman, I know because I’ve read about quite a bit, but woman cannot go into certain cafes because it’s male only because that’s the culture in majority Muslim countries. Definitely, definitely. When, when I got there at a YdEz the young age of 1212 years of age, my mother had gone over when it was 1992, when Disneyland had opened over there in Paris.

 

Experiences in Diverse Environments

 

And even in, you know, I was in a very small kind of village and town of rural France, maybe a 20 minutes drive, half an hour drive from Paris. But even just going to suburbia and going to different areas where there was different quarters in France, I have to say that the safest quarters would be the Asian quarters. So we’d call it Chinatown in French. Very like a lot of Buddhist temples, very respectful people who have their own religion and beliefs, but really are integrate and work hard.

 

Contrasting Cultural Environments

 

When I would go to areas which would be Muslim areas or which I did have certain, there is certain Muslims that are good, hard working people and that are not extremists, are not radical. But when I did go to certain areas that as a woman, I would know the code. So the code would be, you know, wear a little bit of makeup, but not too much. Put my hair in a way where, you know, don’t be too, you know, just which we all should be decent, you know, really we should all be walking around.

 

Experiences of Discomfort

 

But this was a little bit more. This was going to certain areas where I would make sure that I was a little bit more covered than usual. And living over in France, as I did myself for maybe 25 years, I completely stopped wearing skirts, wearing dresses because otherwise I would be constantly followed. And. I remember, sorry to break in, Victoria was this happened in France. And also there was a French journalist, did a documentary simply walking around the streets of Brussels on her own with a camera fixed back in front.

 

Concerns of Safety in Urban Areas

 

And the number of cat calls and, like, abuse and being touched and stuff just walking along the street was unbelievable. I know there’s cases that, as I mentioned there, cafes with a lot of men from the Maghreb, Muslim men from Maghreb. Basically, women are excluded. And I think the Front Nationale or Marine Le Pen party was looking to introduce laws to. To stop that woman being excluded from areas like that.

 

Violence and Cultural Issues

 

But do you think there that where Muslim culture predominates, there has also been a rash over the last number of years of Islamic inspired attempts at murder. Or. Not just attempts, murders. They were like. I was there in Brussels, went under Brussels bombing. They had the badder clan. They had the nice, where the big lorry went along the. The.

 

Foreign Insurgence and Security

 

It’s not the. What it called. Not the beach for the beach front at Nice there. I think I remember that. Yeah. Yeah. And just there this week, we had. In Germany, for example, we had a Syrian guy shouting, Allah Akbar. So was an Islamic inspired. Syrian Islamic. Sorry, asylum seeker in Germany. They were celebrating the 650th anniversary of, I believe, Solinger town in Germany.

 

Recent Incidents and Security Concerns

 

Three people were stabbed. And then now this person got into Germany claiming to be an asylum, but it was ISIS, basically, who claimed that he was a member acting on their behalf. And it really calls in the question, the kind of wisdom of taking large numbers of unvetted males into our country. We don’t know their name, their country of origin. Do they have a criminal record? Are they Islamic?

 

Cultural Compatibility and National Values

 

Are they from a culture which is compatible with Irish culture, Irish values, Irish way of life. And if they’re not. If it’s not safe, they simply shouldn’t be allowed to be here. What’s your views on that, exactly? Like, just to make it short, when I was in France, I have met some Muslims, I have met some Arabic or black people that were from that religion, that were Muslim but weren’t radical.

 

The Influence of Religion and Violence

 

Unfortunately, evil has infiltrated religions and different domains, but that doesn’t mean it’s all bad. But we, at least as Christians, we’re not going around suicide bombers and killing people and stabbing people on the streets of, we might try to read a little bit of the Bible or bring it back to Jesus, a little bit of gospel. But, hey, I’m not saying that they didn’t do any bad. Yes, the nuns did some bad. Yes, there was bad priests, but it doesn’t mean that because it was a couple of bad apples at the whole tree and the roots are bad. Anyway, bracket, thank you very much, Victoria. It’s very kind for your contribution. I really appreciate. And actually, I met you, when was it? Last week in Dundalk. You spoke very well. Very passionately, actually. And you spoke there very well in Dundalk last Sunday.

 

Concerns over Free Speech Legislation

 

Oh, the freedom of speech, definitely. Actually, there was good news. Did you see the Mail on Sunday today where basically it would appear that the anti free speech legislation, which Justice Minister Helen McEntee was hoping to introduce, has seemingly that it would appear from comments to the Mail on Sunday that legislation will be dropped. Because it was so deeply unpopular, there was such an uproar. Now, the Irish Freedom Party, were the first party to hold public rallies outside the doll against this anti free speech legislation which give a took stop the whole idea of equality of all citizens before the law and give certain privileges, identity group selected by the government, that it was so unpopular and it was actually so badly thought out, like it was talking about hate legislation where it wouldn’t, with the word hate wouldn’t even be defined. It was extremely dangerous. And hopefully, public unrest and protests about it has brought it to an end. So it’s very important that people like yourself brought up and stressed the importance of freedom of speech, because freedom of speech, right to private property, right, the association, etcetera, they’re all fundamentals of a free society.

 

The Reality of Islamic Extremism

 

Yeah, just. I’m not going to be here long. It’s just a follow up, what Victoria said there regarding islamic extremism. I was on spaces last night in a couple of leftist spaces for the past month and a half. And every time that I brought up islamic extremism, it seems like there’s a tendency amongst the left that not all, surprisingly enough, not all, but most leftists are very. They’re stuck in their own ways in terms of being polite towards people that promote Sharia law. I was on spaces yesterday and one of the irish leftists invited over someone from Luton who is a Muslim from Pakistan. Well, he was born here in London, Boston, what you call this, but he’s pakistani and obviously he’s a Muslim as well because of the walk ideology. They’re very careful on what they say. And this guy was just like preaching about sharia law and how good it is and everything. And then he tried to justify what you call this, you know, the fundamentals of Muhammad and what he done to his underage wife, pretty much a child.

 

Fear of Addressing Extremism

 

It’s a big problem. People are way too careful on how they call out islamic extremism. Again, to follow up, what Victoria said regarding there are normal muslims and then there are extremists, muslims they clumped them all in one basket the same way leftists clump, you know, illegal migrants who’s been in Ireland for more than 20 years in the same basket as the illegals and the asylum scammers. So, no, I think if I was to estimate and guess, you know, how many young people are entrenched to this leftist ideology of being polite and not purposely not calling out islamic extremism, you know, I won’t be surprised if what’s happening in London will be happening in Dublin specifically or Ireland soon. That’s all I’m going to say about that. But no, thank you for letting me speak. Harmon. Thank you very much, Rene, for the, for your contribution. You sound as if you have a bit of a cork accent there. Is that right?

 

Cultural Identity and Displacement

 

Yeah, I’ve been in your spaces before, but I grew up in Carcia since 2003. What you call this. I live in London at the moment. I’m one of the people. You guys were talking about people being pushed. I know I’m not ethnically irish, but I done a feta course where I’ve done the nursing studies through feta course along with other ethnically irish students. We were practicing, most of us, even though we got the grades from that feta course, we didn’t get any place in any irish university, so we had to settle for british university places. So seeing ukrainian, you still have the cork accent I give you. Yeah, just as good. Connell there has, you know, definitely he’s got the Donegal accent. You know, I have to change. I’m not going to sugarcoat myself.

 

Perceptions of Leftist Attitudes

 

My accent varies depending on who I’ve spoken to recently because I still speak the filipino mother tongue and we pronounce the aiou very differently. So no, in terms of behavior, Herman, from my observation, from being in leftist spaces, the over politeness and people are just stepping on eggshells to the point that we’re letting people lecturing us about sharia law. That should not happened. That should not happen. Reneker and it happened yesterday, my opinion. Yeah, I believe it’s not like the self loathing left. They don’t talk about foreign country or foreign cultures nicely and because they’re polite. No, they do it because they detest and hate a the root of the particularity of irish culture and european cultures in general.

 

Historical Context of Cultural Conflict

 

But irish culture in particular, they hit the basis of like the historical rootedness of irish culture in Christianity and its influence from the Catholic Church. Over a millennium and a half, the left hate the influence of Christianity on our culture. They wish to root it out. They detest the whole idea of irish nationhood. They are happy for ourselves to be a minority because. And the whole leftist thing about free stuff for everybody and stuff, they think it would be helpful for the cause. But ideologically they hate Christianity. They want to wipe it out. So because irish culture. I think there was a. I just saw an article there today. Oh, I think it was an RT about complaining about the is irish language.

 

Language and Heritage

 

Because we see, we say hello, george GSM. God be with you. God and maybe with you. Because even the language and the way we speak in Irish and oh, my God. Like we say, whatever the way we speak about all God’s help or whatever, that it’s so rooted in christian faith and culture, they detest it. So they want to wipe it out. And quite incredibly, they want to. Instead they want to help, give advantages, give privileges, for example, to Islam in Ireland at the same time as they kick the influence of Christianity and the catholic Church into the ground. So you have, for example, you have Mary Lou, who’s head of Sharia Fein, going to Croke park or going. Giving talks to large groups of Muslims and how wonderful Islam is.

 

The Historical and Political Implications

 

But you know what, the recent history. Well, not the recent history, the long history of Europe is formed by the conflict. And I suppose that identity of Europe as a christian country is formed by the conflict with Islam. And Islam itself is a violent political ideology with the veneer of religion which leads to violence everywhere. It has come into contact with other non islamic cultures. And in Europe over the last number of decades, even in Ireland, we’ve had. We can see the danger of importing this dangerous ideology. In the Ireland we’ve had in Sligo, Joseph planning, decapitating and castrating two gay men. In Sligo, we had the example up on, up in Dundalk, we’ve had numerous other examples of islamic terrorism.

 

Concerns Over Immigration Policies

 

We can see it virtually every day in Sweden and Germany, in Italy, France, etcetera. So we just have to say, do you know what? But it’s not a very, like, who’s going to open the door and let an alsation into the house? Which is hungry and aggressive. It’s not a very good idea. So I think we have to do the same when it comes to Islam as well. So there’s some. Is it Reaver? Is it Reaver? Leo, if we can come in. He’s gone. Renee, come ahead. And. Yeah, so just the last bit. So whatever you said there, Hermann, when it comes to some islamic extremist wants to reform western countries that they deem that they want to change.

 

Legal Enforcement Challenges

 

It’s already well documented here in the UK. Like, you know, there’s a lot of imams, specifically a very recent one, who’s been arrested for facilitating, you know, facilitating and instructing, you know, homegrown. I’m Jayad Choudhury. I think he’s not just arrested, but also he was jailed. Jailed for life. Yeah. 25 years. Yeah. Facilitated islamic terrorism for decades in the UK. And he was allowed to walk around and freely lecture these people for decades. Finally, at last, he’s been convicted. No, this is the thing. I’ve been speaking to my other muslim colleagues about this guy and one of my somalian muslim colleagues in hospital.

 

Cultural Conflicts Within Communities

 

She was talking about the time that she used to live in Luton. So again, this is coming back from what Victoria said. There are normal Muslims, there are extremists. She complained to me about when the time that she was in Luton, certain small group of certain pakistani groups does not even in the mosque outside a certain area in Lucian where, you know, muslim women are. They’re very protective. It’s almost like a, you know, protective of a certain area in Lucian where they. They are very exclusionary. You know, Pakistan is only. And when I tried to point this out to this, you know, Muslim Pakistani that I was in spaces with last night and the other times that I was in spaces, in leftist spaces, he just refuses to answer.

 

Unanswered Questions on Extremism

 

He just refuses to answer because even when I point out, I don’t exactly know, I don’t want to know about us, but I pointed it out that there are at least seven interpretations of Quran, and at least one of those interpretations lands on the extremist side. I tried to be reasonable with him and then I. He just won’t answer. It’s like I asked him, how could you prevent people from reading the Quran in that extremist, you know, interpretation. Amongst the seven interpretations, I don’t exactly know what it is, nor I want to, but I know the fact that there are multiple interpretations of it and people can guess, you know, can land on that interpretation. He won’t fucking answer me, excuse my language.

 

Concerns Over Acceptance of Sharia Law

 

And it’s really annoying. And, yeah, he started talking about propping up Sharia law like it’s a good thing. It’s not. It was spin last night, but that’s all I’m gonna say. I don’t want to take over the time, but no, thank you very much for letting me speak. Thank you very much, but no, thank you very much. I just want to inform people the over correct political correctness and politeness. It will be, it will be, you know, the detriment of, you know, people in Ireland, the UK and the rest of Europe, you know, and I just want, you know, people to let them know about that. This political correctness is not, it’s not good.

 

Political Correctness and its Consequences

 

It’s not good. Thank you very much, Rene. It’s very kind of you. And you know what? I don’t think it’s politeness. I think political correctness is woke ideology is basically based on the hatred of european culture and particularly on the hatred of Christianity. So it’s corrosive, it’s self destructive, and it’s basically all. It’s like, nothing in nature survives or thrives when it hits its own body. So it’s like nothing in nature. Like, first thing you do is you must love yourself if you’re going to be a happy person, if you’re going to feed yourself, get strong, you have to love yourself, you have to take care of yourself. Like, their whole ideology is based on a hatred.

 

Cultural Domination through Ideology

 

Christianity and european culture, and it’s very dangerous. And Islam itself is what means I to submit. It’s based on a desire to subjugate other cultures that Islam dominates. They do this by economic means, by military means, and by cultural means. And do you know what we have to make clear in Ireland? This is Ireland. Ireland belongs to the irish people. This is our culture. Don’t bring your foreign culture and try to impose it here. And do not try to demographically take over our country as you’re doing, because they’re coming in. They have a very high birth rate.

 

Demographic Changes and Safety Concerns

 

You can see it there in Dundalk, up by St. Nicholas Church there. You can see it. Lots of Somalians, woman in hijabs. We’ve had Lisa Smith there who’s been infected by this islamic ideology, has gone off to murder people or like, teach people, educate other islamic people to murder people in Syria. And you know what? It’s not safe, it’s not good, and we don’t need it. Brandon, if you’d like to come in there, give us your views. Hello from America. I’m one of these people that probably would like to come back someday to Ireland. But I don’t know, I see it getting so much worse.

 

Reflections on the State of Society

 

And, you know, we’re having the same problems here in Oregon. The state that I’m from, the government is giving foreigners, you know, asylum seekers, whatever you want to call them, $30,000 to buy a home. That that program’s not available to Americans. So, you know, it’s getting really bad. Like on the other side of the country in New York, in little Italy, they’ve got this beautiful garden, Elizabeth Street Garden and that. That little oasis with its stone statues and pots and all manner of greenery that’s going to be torn down for low income housing and low income housing is going to turn into migrant housing.

 

Comparative Concerns Across Regions

 

And I don’t know, I see it getting bad everywhere. I see it’s, you know, UK and France and over there in Ireland, it’s a little worse than it is here, but we’re on the same path. So I hope you can stamp it out there and I hope we can stamp it out here. And that’s. That’s about all I had to say. Very good friend. Thank you very much for that. Yeah. There’s a large, huge irish diaspora all across the world.

 

The Irish Diaspora and Cultural Identity

 

America, Australia, UK. Irish people are to be found in Africa and Latin America. Hurlingham Club in Buenos Aires, in Argentina. You know, they’re irish people. Great lovers. Great lovers of Ireland, great lovers of women, have many children. So we should. Yeah. Be conscious of. We have 70 million people of irish lineage living abroad. And you know what? This is their home. This is Ireland belongs to irish people.

 

Patriotism and National Responsibility

 

This is where irish people. We have. We belong here. It belongs to us and we should take care of it. Anybody else? The speakers like to come in again. Could I say about one thing there, Herman? Yeah, go ahead. Just from what Victoria and yourself were talking about earlier, something that’s notable about the attack here in Germany, this in Solingen there the last few days where this syrian migrant killed three and five seriously wounded.

 

The German Context of Migration and Violence

 

He came into the country in 2022. But the interesting thing that’s emerging now is that he was served deportation papers two years ago, but he was to go to Bulgaria because Bulgaria was his first point of entry into the Eudez that, you know, you’ll know and most people here will think of Michael McNamara’s famous clash with McEntee there back in April or so where he asked her of all of. So he pointed out that there was something like 300 something take back requests approved with other EU nations last year and that three were.

 

Deportation Policies and Their Effectiveness

 

Three were sent back. So these were cases where I, the other nation had agreed to take back the failed asylum applicant because he came up on Eurodac is being registered another nation or something like that. And in three cases they sent back. And what we see here in Germany and this doesn’t get out of the german language bubble and out of the news here a lot, but it’s extremely common that you see, particularly islamic, well, islamic migrants, often extremists who have been rejected their asylum application.

 

The Consequences of Inaction

 

Go on. These stabbing sprees. In two cases near where I am here, there was two. Two young lads killed in a pharmacy. A young girl attacked as well, badly. Schoolgirl on her way to school, badly attacked. And in these cases, they were guys who had been served their deportation orders. So Ireland is opening itself up for an extraordinary amount of danger that’s completely unnecessary by nothing. Enforcing. The way it should be done is you get your deportation today and you’re on a plane tomorrow.

 

Call for Urgent Action

 

Like, there should be. It should be that quick because the evidence is now coming in. And this is just, like I say, one of many cases here in Germany of a failed asylum seeker who was served deportation papers. Lazy, fair, laissez faire attitude. Victoria will correct my pronunciation. And he was allowed to stay in the nation and carried out this horrific attack. Thank you very much, Victoria. Do you want to come back? Hi, Herman.

 

The Need for Open Discussion

 

Well, I think basically we’ve all covered it. You know, I really don’t think that we should beat around the bush or be worried to speak our truth. This is our country. This is our truth. And, you know, we are in. You know, there is an issue with ideologies at the moment. We do have the radical Islam, we do have the far left wokeness and ideologies which are pushing their agenda and their narrative on people. And it just seems that anyone who speaks out against this is branded. We all know what it is, what we’re branded. And. And we just have to keep speaking up against this.

 

Unity for the Future of Ireland

 

We just have to keep. We need to come together. We need to stick together, because we all want what’s best for Ireland. We’re all patriots. We all want what’s best for Ireland. And then obviously other european countries want what’s best for them. I do remember one muslim person telling me, you know, a lot of them, you know, there is, you know, like, in every religion, there’s mental health issues. I do remember in France, while I was there, a younger person telling me, in our religion, what we think of other people who are not Muslim is that you are inferior.

 

Prevalent Attitudes Towards Non-Muslims

 

And I said to him, but I don’t understand. I’m christian. You just said that you believe in Isa, which is Jesus. And he said, yes, but I. That anyone who’s not Muslim is going to hell and will burn in hell and is inferior. Like, you know, basically, like. Like dogs. We all have seen what they’ve done to dogs. Those countries. So basically, people who would say, oh, stop. Fear, you know, fear mongering and spreading that kind of fear and stuff, well, when people are being stabbed while walking on the street, when people are being killed, when women, you know, when.

 

Rising Violence and Cultural Conflicts

 

When we see all what is going on, you know, we can continue to delude ourselves and say, well, it’s not happening, but it is happening. It is happening. Yeah, it’s happened, as I’m saying, not just across the european continent, but also in Ireland itself. And actually, and this aspect of Islam, the imposition, the constant attempt to impose sharia law, the constant call to jihad that is evident in Islam, that this goes back to the very origins of Muhammad and his followers and Islam.

 

Understanding the Origins of Conflict

 

And I actually put reference there to a very easy to understand series of videos by very well educated man, Doctor Bill Warner. And it’s called political Islam. And there’s a large series of videos where it goes through the history of Islam, where it comes into contact with other non islamic cultures and the constant conflict and violence which flows from that. And we would be naive and we would be remiss and negligent to not be aware of this and not to act on it to protect our culture and to protect the safety of our family and friends against this idea, a political ideology with the veneer of religion which demands 109 times in the Quran, there’s demands for violence against non Muslims.

 

Taking a Stand Against Ideological Threats

 

So I think we have to act on that. Doctor Owen, is there any other topics like to go on tonight or. Definitely. I agree with you there. Definitely. We’re coming up on the two hour mark. Herman, I’d say we won’t wear people out, will we? Yeah, I think you’re right. So, everybody, I’d like to thank you very much for coming in, for listening to me and Owen and to all those guest speakers who came on as well.

 

A Call to Action for the Future

 

Everybody spoke very well. I’d like to thank you for that. And especially, as I said, we had the ardash of the Irish Freedom Party there yesterday in Dublin. It went very well. I’d like to thank all those who came to our des, participated well. And as I said, it made a call to arms for those to activate the Commons that people will come out and help us campaign during the quickly coming general election that we say about we need to replace them, the politicians in the doll. Replace them before they replace us. Our country is coming to a very dangerous crossroads and we have to act quickly in a coordinated manner.

 

Urgent Action Required for National Safety

 

And we have to get good patriotic TD’s in the draw who love Ireland.