In early February of 2023 we published one of our first pieces on the Republic of Ireland, and indeed one of our first piece overall, we mentioned how dire the situation had become with regard to migrant inflows. The irresponsible policies of the Indian prime minister of Ireland, Leo Varadkar, and the political giants of the nation, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, have resulted in an astonishing flood of persons into the country which is best illustrated by the jump from 8,000 arrivals in 2021 to well over 73,000 in the current over the course of 2022. The island was straining and the native Irish were beginning to notice.

Since this original piece (linked below) the Republic of Ireland has continued to see massive numbers of new arrivals which continue to strain the nation and test the patience of the Irish people. Between April of 2022 and April of 2023, more than 141,000 immigrants arrived in the Irish state, a state with a population of 3.9 million ethnic Irish, who comprise just 76.5% of the population in their own nation.

Much, if not all, of what is happening is a result of the policy decisions which the Irish state is making. Decisions that consciously target the native Irish and seek to politically disempower this people in their historic homeland.

Ireland’s Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), one of the top think tanks in the world according to IDEAS, has published the most useful and up-to-date review of the immigration situation in the country. A report from November of 2023 reveals that:

2023 will be the second highest year in terms of immigrant inflow on record. Immigration between April 2022 and April 2023 increased by 31% to over 141,600 people. Net immigration increased to 77,600, a 50% increase in a single year.

50% of this immigration is from non-EU/UK countries. This is, by far, the highest non-EU migrant share ever recorded. As people flow into the country the Irish are leaving en masse. Some 64,000 people left Ireland between April 2022 and April 2023. 48% of these emigrants were ethnic Irishmen. This emigration of Irishmen increased 19% from the previous year.

17,000 more ethnic foreigners arrived in Ireland in this time period than Irish children were born in the country. 60,1575 children were born in the country over the same time period, and roughly 76% were born to Irish mothers. Ireland is experiencing a fertility rate decline, a new wave of emigration of ethnic Irishmen, and the massive inflow of ethnic foreigners.

And all of this is being enabled by the Irish state.

Policy change is the primary driver of these changes. A prime example comes from March of 2022 when the Irish Parliament approved the nation’s participation in the EU Regulation that established the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF). The Irish government voluntarily opted in to this EU refugee resettlement scheme which will see the EU and Irish state funding NGOs to resettle yet more migrants into Ireland.

But, massive numbers of so-called refugees are not the only driver of demographic change in Ireland. In total nearly 90,000 of the new residence have entered Ireland on residence permits. The Irish government went from issuing roughly 30,000 resident permits in a year between 2013-2020 to issuing nearly 100,000 post-2021. Work permits comprise roughly 30,000 additional migrants to the country, on top of the huge flows of so-called asylum seekers. And this does not take into account Ireland’s family reunification numbers.

Ireland’s government is enacting rapid policy changes which are radically altering the nation’s demographics and straining its public resources.

The Irish state is spending incredible amounts of Irish tax money in order to accommodate the waves of false refugees arriving to the country.

In 2016 the Irish state spent just 64 million Euros on non-Ukrainian refugees in the country. By 2020 the figure had increased to 129 million Euros in annual spending on refugees. And now the 2023 the figure is expected to have hit 500 million Euros for the care of new arrivals to the country.

Between 2020 and 2024 the budget for daily allowances (pocket money) for these false refugees increased from 13 million Euros to 40 million Euros. The Irish state is also spending roughly 42 million Euros to house all of these so-called asylum seekers, while the native Irish go without readily available housing.

All of this spending is occurring at a time when Ireland is experiencing the worst bout of homelessness in its modern history, and a housing crisis which is almost singularly responsible for the aforementioned emigration wave of native Irishmen to overseas destinations.

All of these compounding problems have led to the ethnic Irish share of the population of Ireland having fallen by 11% over the course of the last 16 years. The Western population of Ireland, which had been declining by about 2% every 5 years, is now declining much more rapidly, with the rate of Western population decline increasing five-fold from 2016 to 2022.

At the current pace, the ethnic Irish will fall to 56% of their own nation’s population within 20 years. And that assumes trends hold and get no worse. And the situation is only getting worse.

What is most noticeable about the Irish situation, however, is how blatantly anti-Irish it is.

Ireland had decent birthrates and strong economic growth until very recently. Ireland has strong pension funds and often runs budget surpluses. None of the usual excuses about needing immigrants to pay taxes or replace a shrinking working population applied to Ireland, yet the Irish elite undertook the multicultural project regardless.

Ireland does not need immigrants according to any of the usual excuses given by the modern neoliberal state. The demographic destruction of the Irish nation is transparently political and transparently anti-Irish.

This anti-Irish/anti-European elite sentiment is best illuminated when considering the reaction of the Irish state to the public outrage after an Algerian immigrant stabbed five people, including three children, outside of a school in Dublin.

Many young Irishmen took to the streets to express their anger and frustration with a government that was doing nothing to protect their women and children. The response from Ireland’s government, led by an ethnic foreigner of Indian heritage, was to declare that hate speech and other generalized “hate” laws would be tightened in order to punish the Irish people.

Many members of the Irish parliament regularly speak of “White privilege” applying to the Irish, and the government continues to pledge a “robust” response to anything it deems to be anti-immigrant hate.

The crucial aspect of all of this is that these are policy choices, and policy choices can be unmade. Ireland’s people could and can elect serious nationalists who would opt out of the various EU and international resettlement programs and who could close Ireland’s border, as the country is entitled to do as it is not a Schengen member.

Legal immigration can too be curtailed, as was done when the Irish state suspended the issuance of most visas in 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Irish elite have given in to neoliberal and generally globalist trends in social and societal organization, it is time for the Irish people to push back against this new plantation of their homeland.