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Catherine Connolly, the president of Ireland, turned her message for Saint Patrick’s Day into an extended advertisement for mass migration and the dilution and destruction of the Irish cultural and national identity.
Given Connolly’s stellar career both before and since she became Ireland’s president in November 2025, this comes as no surprise, as absurd and annoying as it is. If Catherine Connolly is known for anything, it is for being extremely far to the left. Connolly is, in fact, so far to the left that Uncle Joe Stalin and Chairman Mao would take her aside and quietly urge her to be a bit less all-in for total government control of every aspect of citizen’s lives, the Palestinian jihad against Israel, and the destruction of as many babies in the womb as possible, but she would wave away their concerns as patriarchal interference in her rights as a woman and bourgeois attachment to colonialism and white supremacism.
The malodorous wokeness of Connolly’s St. Paddy’s Day statement was obvious right from the beginning. “Whether we are Irish by birth or indeed by choice,” she declared, “today is an occasion when Irish communities around the world celebrate their shared love of all things Irish – our culture, heritage, identity and of course our beautiful language, Gaeilge.”
Wait a minute. “Irish by birth or indeed by choice”? This reflects a central leftist assumption: that anyone can transform his or her ethnic identity simply by changing his or her address. The leftist idea is that if someone moves to Ireland and settles there, he is magically as Irish as corned beef and cabbage, and even as Irish as James Cagney and Maureen O’Hara, or more so, as they were Irish Americans.
In reality, the newcomer may become a citizen of the Republic of Ireland, or a British citizen and resident of Northern Ireland, but ethnically, he is still whatever he was before he ever thought of moving to the Emerald Isle. Yet the establishment media and politicians at all points on the political spectrum routinely refer to Afghans or Syrians or Pakistanis as “Irish” or “English” or “French” or “German” depending on where they have acquired citizenship, without any regard for the cultural, religious, and linguistic chasm between the newly arrived migrants and the natives.
Connolly, like all leftist politicians all over the West, wants to obliterate the idea that there is any such chasm and to force her people to assume that the newcomers are just as Irish as they are. Interestingly, however, she contradicts herself by saying that Saint Patrick’s Day “is embraced by an Irish global family of over 70 million people, many of whom have found new homes abroad and built communities over many years.” So Irish people who have left Ireland and settled elsewhere are still Irish; they haven’t taken on the ethnicity of their new homes. But the migrants streaming into Ireland are Irish “by choice.”
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More than one threat says
Yet another example of the evil of the Left Wing and Muslim alliance that poses a threat to every Western country.
Tony says
This is another day with Leftists and Muslims. ISLAM IS THE DAILY PRACTICE OR EXPRESSION OF ISLAMIC LAW, A MURDEROUS WAY OF LIFE AND A CANCEROUS REIGN OF TERROR BY 50+ ISLAMIC COUNTRIES(Qur’an 1:5; 3:51,101; 5:48, etc.). From within a society, Islam and its Muslims use a Muslim Death-Cult Caliphate Army of Jihadist Believers to engage in a spiritually cancerous war to Islamize, impose Islam and Islamic Law, and to ultimately conquer Non-Muslims with help from 100+ years of IDEOLOGICAL SUBVERSION through Cultural Marxism and Islamization. Also, Islamization nurtures political activities like tribal or clan voting, sectarian or religious voting, family voting, censorship like any totalitarian system in the West.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Would one be right in assuming that Ireland is finished? I see no sign of Conor McGregor being elected as its leader
One more question. The US doesn’t observe St George’s Day for England, St David’s Day for Wales or St Andrew’s Day for Scotland – at least not w/ the great fanfare that St Patrick’s Day is observed. What’s so special about Ireland, and why do we bother? If Irish-Americans want to celebrate it, great, but why is this such a high profile day that a lot of, if not all Americans feel it necessary to wear some type of green to observe it?
Wellington says
I think it’s due to Leprechaun influence. That’s my take and I’m stickin’ to it.
somehistory says
Perhaps because the Irish had to do a lot of fighting in the U.S. to be accepted by others. Perhaps because the Irish ‘fought’ to have it that way. Perhaps because so many of the Irish have kept their accent alive even after many decades of being American.
Perhaps because the day is often celebrated by drinking some beer….many non-Irish have their beer by the tankful.
There are fewer true redheads than any other color of hair. Perhaps that makes many jealous of the true redhead and they celebrate the day in order to feel like a redheaded person.
Perhaps it’s just that green is a lovely and popular color.
40 rounds says
Same with Cinco de Mayo. Why do we celebrate a victory of Mexico over the French at the battle of puebla? You would think Gettysburg, Midway or Saratoga would be more fitting, but alas, you can’t sell tacos and tequila because of those victories.
James Lincoln says
Infidel,
For most people, it’s “special” because you get to drink lots and lots of beer.
And wear a funny green hat.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
One needs an occasion for that?
somehistory says
It’s part of the human condition that makes a person want to belong….it’s what makes young kids join a gang; why children like to play with others in the sandbox; why adults get together to play cards or monopoly.
Wearing a funny hat on that day won’t get ridicule.
40 rounds says
By the way, I wore orange
somehistory says
I’m part Irish, but not thinking about being dressed up, I had on tangerine and yellow.
Goldberg says
You gonna do something about it?
Hoi Polloi says
The money must be phenomenal as I understand Sinn Fein is also a complete sellout to muslim invaders.
Taffy says
Come on Robert, EVERYONE is Irish on St. Paddy’s day!!!
Wellington says
Leftists are idiots and if possessed of power also destructive.
Rarely says
Using your logic the only “Americans” are the indigenous people. All others retain the ethnicity of their ancient ancestors. However even their ancient ancestors were immigrants.
Was Victor Borge Danish or Jewish or both?
Was Einstein American, German or Jewish or a combination?
Are Chinese-Americans who came over to build the railways 150 years ago as American as the English-American whose family came over after WW ll ? Even those who don’t like baseball?
I think it might depend on what one sees oneself as being. Its personal and generalizations are inappropriate if not out and out bigotry.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Rarely
She, or anyone else, can pick one:
⮞ Either call new immigrants to Ireland Irish, alongside natives who haven’t left
⮞ Or just call ethnic Irish people, be they in Ireland or elsewhere, Irish, but don’t call foreigners who’ve settled there, that
There is even a third, narrower option: only call ethnic Irish who are still citizens of Ireland and haven’t left the country
While the US is unique in being a melting pot formed over the last 250 years, trying to assign that to other countries, and that too going to the extent where the local people are quickly and easily outnumbered, has not resulted in those countries becoming like the US: if anything, it’s just resulted in those countries being even worse than the countries they originally came from. Like in London, there was the story of the Sikh restaurant owner who got bullied for not selling halal. Things that don’t happen even in Middle Eastern countries
One part of this that bugs me is that the Christian underpinnings of St Patrick’s day is being ignored. This is something I’ve often noticed in a lot of places: people pretend that St Patrick’s day is an all-Irish festival rather than one for Irish Catholics; they pretend that Diwali is an Indian, rather than a Hindu festival and they pretend that Nowroz and Chaharshanbe Suri are Persian, rather than Zoroastrian. Essentially an attempt to hijack popular religious festivals, and grant ownership of them to non-believers
Dr K says
What a fucking moron this woman is .
Traitor to Ireland get rid of her !
More than one threat says
Looks like St Patrick didn’t rid Ireland of all it’s snakes.
James Lincoln says
Catherine Connolly:
The not-so good luck of the Irish.
somehistory says
“Conor McGregor has branded President Catherine Connolly ‘godless’ in his latest rant on social media.
The former MMA fighter was angered after he said the President referred to the country’s patron saint as Patrick in her St Patrick’s Day address to the nation.
In a wide-ranging post, McGregor railed against a proposal to fast-track citizenship for foreign nationals who serve in the Irish Defence Forces.
‘A somber day for real Ireland,’ McGregor’s X post began.
‘As our military barracks are used to house economic migrants, with a promise of fast-tracked citizenship if they enlist in our army. “Money, board, passport, weapons. What could go wrong!?’
But he directed much of his anger at the President, who had compared St Patrick, an immigrant who was trafficked to Ireland, to the migrants of today.
On Connolly, he wrote: ‘As our Godless president disrespects our religion again and lies on the story of St. Patrick to suit her twisted globalist agenda’” ”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/conor-mcgregor-brands-president-connolly-a-godless-person-in-scathing-rant/ar-AA1YUDqH?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=69bb3079444a4f06aa048036fd406fc0&ei=33
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Hank says
Stupid idiot destroying a beautiful country and not understanding that she is dealing with an alien satanic cult. She probably never looked into what is written in the cults book the Quran & Hadiths. But Alas!, citizens keep voting for these people who will dig their graves deep and wide. No survey of it yet, but it would be interesting to know if the electorate really want an Islamic future, as they keep voting the way they do.
OLD GUY says
Oh she knows what Islam is, Saudi Arabia and Qatar show her love and MONEY in her bank account.
gravenimage says
Ireland’s President Couldn’t Just Wish Everyone a Happy St. Patrick’s Day. Oh No.
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The idea that invading Jihad supremacists want to be Irish is ludicous.
She has also lauded Hamas as “part of the fabric of the Palestinian people”, and condemned Israel as “terrorist” for trying to defend herself. She said she was “reluctant to unequivocally condemn 7 October”. Ugly, ugly stuff.