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John's avatar

A country is either sovereign or it is a vassal state.

There is no such thing as "a backward idea of sovereignty" you either have it or you don't and Ireland doesn't have it.

Ireland is a vassal state of the US and the destructive policies it is pushing at the end of empire as is every country in Western Europe, end of story.

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Aisling O'Loughlin's avatar

Think we need to look back on our backward idea of sovereignty and fast. Exiting the EU is looking like our best option.

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John's avatar

Well the UK is outside the EU but still had immigration levels of 606,000 last year.

The whole system is rigged against the indigenous peoples of Europe on multiple levels but I have an increasing feeling that the solution to this will come in a flash of light and Europeans will get their whole continent back.

It is out of our hands now.

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kt's avatar

Fantastic article. Thanks Ashling x

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RVJ Callanan's avatar

Brilliant article, Aisling, just like journalism used to be. One little error you might want to fix before Justin Barrett starts seeing monsters where there are none and Hermann Kelly develops a second personality: that should be ‘Hermann Kelly, leader of the Irish Freedom Party’, not the ‘National Party’

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Aisling O'Loughlin's avatar

I'm a publish first, edit later kinda girl. Thank you RVJ. Will correct. Should know too, since I interviewed Hermann Kelly. In too much of a rush. Merci.

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Keith Richard Staunton's avatar

Straight to the point M’lady. Smelling salts throughout for hopeful sensible heads to prevail. The onslaught of normalizing open borders nonsense is making me choke. “Stay sober”. Ty so much. There flooding into America too as never before. It’s not funny anymore. My relations were forced out of Ireland before the triumph of the Rising. My great grandmother never had the chance to return. Neither her daughter not her granddaughter, my mother, got to walk the blessed land. A true tragedy 🎭 of epic proportion.

Please stop.

Leave our culture and language, and borders as is.

This is not fear mongering. This is sensible checks and balances. There’s more to this than meets the eye 👁️. Ty for not drinking the koolaid.

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Tommy Lenehan's avatar

Our pathetic so called leaders in government and equally spineless opposition for want of a better word are pushing this agenda and sinn fein a so called republican party are anything but and are just as bad

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Tommy Lenehan's avatar

Excellent article aisling

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Kerry Dissenter's avatar

Superb Aisling. I wish we had the level of awareness we had now back in 2005 when the DCU President made those remarks and you were still with TV3 and would have hopefully gone to town on him. We were too seduced by our delusions of grandeur and false prosperity at the time!

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