IT’S the same story, just in a different country: The indigenous people of the Irish Republic have had enough of EU-imposed open-door immigration that is swamping their country with people who have no connection to the culture of the nation.
To make matters worse, the Irish have been hit hard by rising fuel costs, prompting farmers to come out on their tractors and blockade the Whitegate refinery, where they met brutal enforcement by the Gardai (police) who yanked them out of their tractors and physically assaulted them, observers said.
“This is no longer ‘policing’, this is outright war on the ordinary Irish working class people fighting for affordable fuel while the establishment keeps the tax gravy train rolling,” one protestor posted on X.
The protest is reported to be spreading across Britain with supporters in England, Scotland and Wales naming this Tuesday (April 14th) and the 15th and 6th as the days the fuel revolt crosses the sea.
The Irish Times reported “thousands of people” took part in the anti-immigration rally in Dublin city centre on Saturday, alongside a smaller counter-demonstration by the United Against Racism coalition including Sinn Féin, Labour, People Before Profit, the Social Democrats, the Socialist Party and the Green Party.
One report said Muslims in Ireland were outraged over an “Islamophobic act of protest” by Irish men on horseback chanting “this is our land” as the thousands of protestors hit the streets of Dublin, prompted by among other things, another attack by an asylum seeker on 10-year-old non-Muslim child.
The anti-immigration protest was dubbed by organisers as an “Easter Rising commemoration” to pay respect to “those who fought and gave their lives to preserve the Irish nation and create the Irish Republic”.
The anti-immigration speakers included Dublin City councillors Malachy Steenson, Gavin Pepper and Philip Sutcliffe and Fingal councillor Patrick Quinlan.
Steenson said the anti-immigration movement had “moved on hugely” and said Independent councillors such as himself, Pepper and Sutcliffe, who won seats on Dublin City Council last year, were using them to “push forward our message that this country should be run by its people for its people”.
