A NEW PARTY representing extreme right-wing views is planning to launch itself tomorrow afternoon in Dublin.
The National Party, a new entity espousing the “true spirit of the Republic” has released details of its planned launch tomorrow at the Merrion Hotel, a five-star hotel in the south city centre.
The party’s release says that the key speakers at the launch will be its president Justin Barrett, a Tipperary man formerly of action groups Youth Defence and the Mother and Child Campaign, and James Reynolds, a former chairman of the Irish Farmers Association in Longford and current national treasurer of the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers Association (ICSA), and proclaimed deputy president of the new party.The party states that the aim of tomorrow’s event is to inform the public “of the purpose and aims of the National Party”.
The release says that “Ireland’s elites” continue to “‘value signal’ their masters in the increasingly dictatorial Federal European Union by an unrestricted policy of immigration to the point of population displacement”.
The release continues:
That one party, loyal to the Republic and a sovereign people, dedicated to unity by consent, that one party committed to real and sustainable economic growth, that one party which will speak for the great silent majority who have seen the beginnings of “multi-culturalism” with growing dismay, that one party who will represent that so basic of equalities, the equal right to be alive, that party is the National Party.
It is unclear whether or not the Merrion Hotel was aware of the nature of the event planned for tomorrow afternoon.
Situated almost directly across from Government Buildings, the hotel is more renowned for the quality of its service than for political controversy.
A spokesperson for the hotel this morning said that it would not be making any comment at this time, but that management was “in the process of dealing with the situation”.
TheJournal.ie has reached out to both James Reynolds and Justin Barrett for comment on the matter.
In an attempt to speak to Barrett a call was placed to pro-life organisation Youth Defence with whom he had previously worked. However the spokesperson who replied said they had never heard of Barrett, nor had had any dealings with him.
The National Party, while a heretofore unknown entity, is not the first such right-wing movement to emerge in Ireland in recent years.
Identity Ireland, a similar right-wing anti-immigration, was formed in 2015.
Allied with controversial European anti-Islam organisation Pegida, its co-founder and chairman Peter O’Loughlin has previously said he and his party “despise” Ireland’s political culture which sees “expert advisers and political gurus all paid handsome amounts of taxpayers money to tell politicians how to essentially lie to their own people”.
O’Loughlin ran as an independent candidate in last February’s general election in the Cork North Central constituency but was eliminated on the second count.
