Posted on 06/16/2026 12:06:50 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Former president Mary McAleese has criticized the use of the Irish flag to intimidate and compared it with the experiences of some Irish people who emigrated to the US and the UK.
Mrs. McAleese was interviewed by human rights lawyer Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC at an event at Trinity College Dublin marking fifty years of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL).
She was asked about incidents of racism in Ireland, and said that while Ireland was “fortunate” with its political leadership, racism was being “promoted by people in serious leadership positions” in the world. […]
Mrs. McAleese compared people who use the Irish flag to intimidate and say “Ireland for the Irish”, to the “no Irish need apply” signs in the UK and the US.
“Do they know nothing about our history as immigrants? Do they know nothing about the impact of immigration-based racism on our people, have they no conscious about that? I never thought I’d live to see that day in Ireland where the Irish flag would be used by people like that, but it is all the more reason to say you will not colonize our thinking, you will not colonize our flag,” she said. …
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These people are so full of themselves. How about addressing the downside to mass immigration for a change? How about acknowledging that Ireland should remain Irish, & immigrants need to want to BE Irish to live there?
IRELAND FOR THE IRISH. ILLEGALS GO HOME.
Then you have these racist people who have this simple idea that they don't like having invaders who spread crime all over your country. Since the politicians arrest them for complaining what else are they to do?
How about criticizing the ‘newcomers’ intimidating the Irish by trying to behead them, Mary.
The elites want to atone for their sins by handing their countries over to invaders.
I said a long time ago: the ultimate goal of liberals is to commit suicide, but since they take themselves too seriously to do away with their own greatness, they settle for tricking their neighbors into committing suicide.
What the Irish people are making clear is that they won’t tolerate Third World savages living among them. Of course Ireland’s leaders long ago sold their souls to Davos Maoists in Brussels.
Yet she is willing to let Islamists colonize Ireland.
Go back to the hell that spawned you, hag. Oh, and leave the ‘Mc’ on your name before you leave...you don’t deserve it.
She need not worry about ever being raped.
I must have missed the part where Irish immigrants were beheading people in broad daylight in the streets of New York.
Mrs. McAleese has been taken off the shelf and dusted off. A gathering of shi^house rats is all she needs to run her myopic mouth off for a headline. No mention of the history of Ireland that will never belong to those forcing their way in to take a path that’s wrecking the country to delight people like Soros and UN parasites.
Honey, Ireland was already colonized by the British and I don’t think the Irish relished the experience. That anger and resistance is where your flag came from.
Right. Ireland is a prime example of the great replacement. Left wingers like this hag are selling Ireland down the river for Muslims.
Ireland was “colonized” by several groups. The (presumably) original Tuatha De Danann were “colonized” by the Celts; afterwards, the Vikings did their on again/off again “colonizations”. English rule was established by papal decree when Henry II gave aid to the king of Leinster in the form of Norman incursions. History was subsequently shaped by the Protestant breakaway and the sectarian clashes that followed.
My God, Lady. Do you know your own history? A lot of Irish spent centuries trying to drive the English from Ireland so that Ireland could be for the Irish. Now you want to open the borders to let anyone in. If they go kill Irish to turn Ireland into a caliphate, so be it.
The Irish Republican Brotherhood was not “mainstream” until 1916, when the executions of the leaders of the Rising made them able to turn public opinion away from home rule (the prevailing desire for centuries, in fact). Michael Collins achieved home rule, in reality; but the faction of Eamon de Valera caused a civil war that led to effective independence, although that lasted a mere 28 years when the same de Valera worked to have Ireland join the European Union (then known as the European Coal and Steel Community, European Economic Community and European Atomic Energy Community collectively).
So all that was achieved was a brief spate of independence from an empire that they actually had a real vote in, to submitting to an empire that they have absolutely no vote in.
But a fag flag would be absolutely OK to the ex-whatever.
The thought that a national flag is “intimidating” could only come from someone that really does NOT have anything else to bitch about, so, Mrs. whatever appears to be uttering fightin’ words from the bottom of a large and empty barrel.
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But they’re comrades with the other EuroSocialists and that’s what is important to them!
Nearly 25% of people in Ireland were not born in Ireland.
Nearly 48% of children 15 and under are not Irish
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