Ireland's Population by the Numbers: We talk a lot about mass migration in Ireland and the issues it causes. But how bad is it really? And what do the numbers say? 2016 Data: 13% of the population was non-Irish, 0.6m out of a total population of 4.7m. % per age group range between 9% and 26%, with the highest share 26% within the 25-34 years age group, and the lowest of 6% among those 65 years and over. (1/5)

@MichaelMurphyTD You abhor the view that Irish money should fix Irish problems first. That is not leadership. That is contempt for the people who elect you and pay your salary. A contempt that is rife amongst your ilk, amongst today's political class. Contempt for the people of this country! Watch it yourself: piped.video/o1aj3bFd8mo Look at the numbers. Ireland spent €1.88 billion on official development assistance in 2025. That is 0.44 % of GNI. The Irish Aid programme alone was €807 million last year and rises to €866.4 million in 2026. Meanwhile 17,885 people are in emergency accommodation right now. That includes 5,830 children. Homelessness is at a record high and still climbing. Hospital waiting lists sit at over one million patients. Tens of thousands wait more than a year for basic care. South Tipperary General Hospital regularly has dozens of patients on trolleys. Petrol averages around €1.87 a litre. Roughly half of that is tax. Diesel is higher again. Families are being squeezed every week. You call the idea of spending at home first something you "abhor". You treat the people of Tipperary South as if their housing crisis, their hospital waits and their fuel bills are a moral failure on their part. Your career: fifteen years on Tipperary County Council from 2009. Failed to win a Dáil seat in 2011. Finally elected in November 2024. Made Chair of the Transport Committee in 2025. You climbed the local ladder, took the salary, took the expenses, and now lecture the public that putting Ireland first is something to abhor. This rhetoric is the problem. It tells ordinary people their suffering is less important than virtue signalling abroad. It tells them their taxes are better spent in other countries while children sleep in hotels and patients lie on trolleys at home. Charity begins at home. The people of Tipperary and the rest of Ireland deserve representatives who understand that. You have shown you do not. Resign @MichaelMurphytd. You think Irish people should suffer. Get out of the Dáil and bring all the other disingenuous traitors like ya. #IrelandFirst ---

Great result from Reform Britain, nearly on the same level as the Lib Dems. The question, however, is whether your support is concentrated in specific areas like the Lib Dems? Even with low % they have they can win a lot of seats due to be concentrated, something Restore Britian could learn from.

I have a contact who works in Clogherhead harbour and also some contacts in the naval corps from RDF and they sent me this footage. Egyptian men fishing in Louth coastal waters very near Drogheda. The Naval corps just the other day boarded and inspected them. No documentation, boats in terrible condition, multiple safety protocols breached. This is awful. Who actually controls Ireland's waters? Not just on legal paper or on a map, but in actual practice. And when the rules are broken, who actually enforces them? Because in Clogherhead, local fishermen are watching their traditional fishing grounds and harbour change rapidly. Egypt is on the other side of the world and most certainly not in the EU...so how in God's name are they gettinh all the way inside Drogheda before being intercepted??? It is more than just about migration, it's about economic competition, regulation, enforcement and sovereignty. My contact's family has longstanding connections to Clogherhead's fishing community, involved in the local economy for generations, having built a fishing-related business from the ground up. Over the last couple years there has been a substantial increase in African illegally operated or vessels using Clogherhead. My Naval corps officer contact estimates that there are now more than twenty vessels associated with this activity. And people higher up are keeping it quiet. Why? The answer matters because Ireland does not simply have an unlimited national right to allocate its waters however it wishes. The EU controls all our own territory rights or action in quotas and monitoring. If an Irish fisherman breaks the rules, the state has an obligation to enforce them. If a foreign fisherman breaks the rules, the same obligation exists. But the people of Clogherhead are now wondering whether the reality matches the principle. These are serious environmental allegations. If illegal dumping is occurring, identify the vessel. If oil is being discharged illegally, investigate it. If fishing gear is being used unlawfully, inspect it. If quotas are being exceeded, establish it through the records. If vessels are improperly registered or operating without the required authorisation, enforce the law. The answer cannot simply be "We don't know." Because not knowing is precisely what monitoring systems are supposed to prevent. What happens when migration intersects with a finite economic resource? Ireland's fishing grounds are finite. Fish stocks are finite. Harbour space is finite. Fishing quotas are finite. And the number of people who can make a living from those resources is therefore finite too. Foreigners are taking our fish. Wha EU Commission rules specifically provide mechanisms for controlling third-country fishing vessels entering EU ports. The SFPA states that third-country vessels landing directly into Ireland are subject to inspection. But this is all just blustering for dismissive show. Where is the paper trail then? There should be licences audits, ownership information, catch documentation and inspection records profiling. And there should be an explanation of why those vessels are let it and be. That is basic regulatory accountability. AND THERE IS ALREADY A DOCUMENTED LOCAL STORY This controversy does not exist in a vacuum. In December 2023, an Egyptian national working from Clogherhead died after the fishing vessel Ben Thomas capsized and sank in Dundalk Bay. The Naval corps also responded to that, reporting grievous oversight in safeguarding and monitoring from coast guard. That distinction matters. Because this is not an argument against an ethnicity. It is an argument for one standard of law, with foreigners being shown preference over own. Because sovereignty isn't simply the ability to draw a line around a country. Sovereignty means having the capacity to enforce the rules inside that territory. This is where the Clogherhead story becomes much bigger than Clogherhead.

🚨🇮🇪 Every year since 2022 we have laid off tech staff in Dublin while issuing 10–14k employment permits a year to Indian nationals — health, ICT, agri, the lot. India has been No.1 on the permit list for a decade. 2025 is the tell: ICT employment fell ~12,700 and we still stamped 9,947 Indian permits. Replacement isn’t a conspiracy theory. It’s the official statistics.

Hot take, how about no, and just let them go through and not make a big deal about it. At some point ye got to move on, at the very least, they are Irish, whether they like it or not, or you like it or not. You find the thing about digging up the past the whole time, is that you can't actually change it.

"The worst thing she can say is no." - Me, preparing for a job interview

And then the UK Police gave these people a huge escort with flashing lights as they are bused in from the port. Our governments are against us.

“Racism” is a made-up word used to prevent European nations from organising around their own identities and interests. It doesn’t work anymore, and @AyoCaesar and friends know it.

The reality of Ireland today for young Irish people. #Irishfreedom

The English are not a propositional nation, and we do not need to create logically consistent lines of argument to justify and validate our existence. As with any ethnicity, it is a felt experience of belonging to a tribe based in heredity, continuity, and togetherness.

Conor McGregor’s audacious bid for the Irish presidency stirred the public, challenged nomination rules that had long favoured insiders, and left the government fearing that a popular outsider might expose and break, the establishment’s grip on power. That is why he was targeted.

Boiling Point Reached: Official Poster Drop for Sunday’s National Fuel Meeting as Harris Pledges Budget Action A national meeting on Ireland’s fuel and cost-of-living crisis will take place this Sunday at The Well Hotel in Moate, as organisers say public frustration has reached boiling point after months of soaring prices. The gathering, advertised as a “National Fuel/Cost of Living Crisis Meeting,” is scheduled for 5:30pm on Sunday 27 September. Everyone is invited to have their say. Organisers say they want to hear directly from people about how the energy crisis is affecting their lives, from hauliers and farmers to households struggling with heating oil, petrol and diesel. Thousands are expected, with interest reported from across the country. The event follows earlier fuel protests this year that disrupted roads and ports. Diesel has moved well over €2 a litre in many places, petrol is not far behind, and home heating oil has also risen sharply. Tánaiste Simon Harris, speaking earlier today in the Ard Boyne Hotel in Navan, said he recognises that pressure. He noted in particular people who were paying around €600 for a fill of kerosene last year are now facing €1,500, €1,600 or even €1,700, and that is something that cannot go on. It needs to be addressed, he said, with proper measures put in place, and that the Government intends to do that in this year’s budget, along with other considerations around carbon taxes and reducing the overall cost of living. 'Hauliers, farmers and contractors have warned the current prices are completely unsustainable and that they are beyond boiling point'. The meeting will be live-streamed and co-hosted by SND Media who will work the floor with microphones so attendees can make a brief point or explain their concerns. The meeting will be live-streamed across all platforms, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube and X, so anyone who cannot make it on the night can still follow the discussion. Tánaiste Simon Harris, Helen McEntee and other Fine Gael members also sat down briefly with principal spokespersons James Geoghegan, John Dallon and Christopher Duffy to discuss the struggles facing people across Ireland and what the present Government can do to mitigate those costs. Figures were handed over and points were made in a set of introductory proposals. Feedback from the public and from all sectors is still being gathered, however, and Sunday’s meeting is expected to produce further concerns and proposals. A full proposal will then be put to the Government after that meeting. Country singer and truck driver Sarah Wiers, known as the trucker girl, will provide music and entertainment. Wiers, who took part in the spring protests, has spoken about the pressure on both her work and home life. Aontú TD Peadar Tóibín has said his party will attend to discuss next steps in how they can help to press the Government on the issues faced. Members of Independent Ireland, Sinn Féin and Fine Gael have also said they will be in attendance to engage with the public on their concerns. Organisers have stressed the meeting is open to all respectful folk who want to voice their concerns.

Simon Harris, who appointed himself Minister for Finance earlier this year, has never had a job of any kind outside of politics. He has zero academic qualifications beyond his leaving cert. He started two different college courses but dropped out twice. He has never been self-employed. Never started a business, never created a job, never had to worry about covering payroll or paid a penny in VAT. Now he runs our economy. But how does that happen? Simon is in the job he's in because he's exceptionally good at playing politics. He managed to climb the Fine Gael ladder all the way to the top. But it would leave you wondering - is there any other job in which a person's complete lack of any relevant education, skills, training, work experience or track record would be set aside? Simon was democratically elected so he is entitled to be where he is. But is Ireland really best served by giving top jobs to people with no knowledge of what they're doing? The upcoming budget will be a great example. Simon will use our money to buy votes for those from traditional Fine Gael income brackets - and absolutely stick the boot into those who come from areas, social backgrounds and age brackets from whom he has nothing to gain. Decisions won't be made on the basis of what's best for the people of Ireland. We've a pure politician in charge. Simon will make decisions on the basis of what's best for Simon.

He's right on that one though. Didn't Israel just ban Arab Party's from running or was that clickbait I seen? Australia, Canada and the US are not comparable to other nations in the sense that the overwhelming majority of their population/descendants settled the land. This is not the same as asking France, Italy or Ireland to allow Africans, Indians and Muslims to hold political office and erode Irish self determination. English settlers had no real right to tell Irish settlers they couldn't govern, that right lies with the native American, who became too small a minority to have any power... so maybe during mass immigration Keith, it might be evident what we're trying to avoid? It doesn't seem like the labour of rocket scientists to work that out

The UK Crown Prosecution Service decided it was in the PUBLIC INTEREST to charge Danny Tommo with "criminal damage" of a dinghy used by people smugglers to invader our country. Let that f*cking sink in.

Muslim Paedophile preying on little children in the park - GRANTED BAIL Danny Tommo slashes an empty migrant boat and hurts nobody - DENIED BAIL This isn't a justice system worth the name We have a two tier system that actively discriminates against us

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🚨BREAKING: Danny Tommo has been charged with criminal damage for slashing an empty migrant boat in the English Channel One day this Government will be prosecuted for what they have done Treasonous

That actually happened; the damage in our society runs deep.

Thousands of patriots now at Basingstoke police station as time heads towards the crucial 24hr holding. Free Danny Tommo!