Story of St Patrick 'a reminder of the courage of migrants', says Catherine Connolly

Irish Mirror ^ | 03 16 2026 | Grainne Ni Aodha

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President Catherine Connolly has said the story of Saint Patrick symbolises the "resilience and courage" of migrants.

Ms Connolly used her first St Patrick's Day message to celebrate migrants and warn against the "normalisation of war" ahead of Taoiseach Micheal Martin's meeting with Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Tuesday.

A week ago she criticised the "deliberate assaults on international law" in the Middle East and said the UN charter "cannot be ignored".

While not naming the US or Israel explicitly, this was seen as a rebuke of the Irish government after ministers avoided stating that the bombing campaign on Iran broke international law.

In her St Patrick's Day message on Monday, Ms Connolly said the young man who would become Saint Patrick was trafficked across the Irish Sea from Britain in the fifth century.

She said he later returned to Ireland as a missionary, "giving voice and his life to fostering an awareness of the consequences of slavery".

"The story of Patrick's life serves as a reminder of the resilience and courage of migrants, the invaluable contributions that they have made, and continue to make, to the countries they now call home, sometimes even in the face of great adversity," she said.

"Patrick's story speaks not only to the Ireland of the 5th century, but to the millions still subjected to trafficking, forced labour and displacement today.

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[yesthatjallen]

Ireland's President urges "global citizens" to acknowledge their "shared responsibility" to invoke St. Patrick’s spirit, by standing in solidarity with migrants and to recognize "the invaluable contributions" they make.(X video)

[Varda]

So slaves and captives are migrants now?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

She said he later returned to Ireland as a missionary, "giving voice and his life to fostering an awareness of the consequences of slavery".

I beg your finest pardon madam?

The Irish continued slave raiding up until at least the fourteenth century.

England was a favorite target.

[fruser1]

What do they think of the English “migrating” into Ireland around the 1100-1300 time frame?

[MotorCityBuck]

“The Irish continued slave raiding up until at least the fourteenth century.

England was a favorite target.”

In the words of Great Thunberg...”How Dare You!”

Everyone know the English are the Bad Guys!
Ireland NEVER did anything wrong in history. LOL!

[BipolarBob]

I’ll always remember him as the guy who invented green beer.

[goodnesswins]

LEGAL Migrants???

[Albion Wilde]

This woman is a renegade from Irish history and an apostate to the religion Patrick brought to a nation then run by feudal warlords.

[Jeff Chandler]

Wow. Harkening back to a time long ago when the Irish were Catholic.

[Myrddin]

[ladyjane]

White people were slaves? Who knew?

Did they demand reparations?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

You spend a couple of hours listening to them describing themselves as MOPEs (Most Oppressed People Ever) and your gorge rises. Yes, that is an actual title they have bestowed upon themselves. The Dacians were unavailable for comment.

They are completely oblivious of history. Their OWN history. I do not expect them to know anyone else's history, that is not fair, but you should know your own history.

I should not know more about your history than you. I am just a strange person who reads books.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

James I couldn’t agree with this article more. That’s why he created a Northern Ireland migration policy in the 1600s.

[PROCON]

I had my first ever green beer in a bar when I turned 21 in 1972!

[Migraine]

“”The story of Patrick’s life serves as a reminder of the resilience and courage of migrants”

Nice try. The story of Patrick’s life has nothing to do with migrants. It has everything to do with the power of the Holy Spirit to evangelize using people. People who are brave and obedient enough to do it.
Of course, this Connolly is not about to go there.

[Paladin2]

Who elected her?

[Paladin2]

I love the second definition of “drive”.

LOL

[Celtic Conservative]

Patrick wasn’t a migrant. He was a slave. He was abducted in a slave raid on the west coast of what is now Wales. He was then forced for several years to mind herds of sheep until he escaped. I get very sick of commies twisting history into balloon animals.

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[Governor Dinwiddie]

God I hate these people. All the smart Irish left in the 19th century.

[Organic Panic]

Connolly specifically ran on erasing all things Irish and turning Ireland in to an Islamic African s hole. She HATES white Orosh and hates Ireland. AND THEY VOTED FOR HER.

It won’t be long until the history of Ireland is rewritten and St Patrick’s day becomes Imam Muhammed Bin Ali Ahmed day commemorating the day Muslim conquerors defended the island or Irelandistan from the invading white Christian hordes. Every church will be converted to a mosque. Every history book burned. And every red haired Irish enslaved or deported.

I wis( that was a joke. It is happening right now.