Ezra Levant reports from Dublin’s May 7 anti-immigration protest, the largest in Irish history, where 100,000 Ukrainian refugees and military-aged men from Muslim-majority nations were placed in small towns like Newtown Mount Kennedy (2,800 locals), sparking riots. Protesters chant "Irish Lives Matter" while criticizing elite-driven policies, citing child assaults by migrants and cultural shifts like non-English school readings. Independent candidates like Suzanne Delaney (Susie D) and Stephen Kerr, backed by citizen journalism platforms, challenge open-border agendas tied to globalist forces, framing it as a fight to preserve Ireland’s identity amid what they call a "scandemic" precursor. [Automatically generated summary]
Tonight I'm in Dublin for the largest anti-immigration march I've ever seen.
It's May 7th and this is the Ezra Levant show.
Shame on you, you censorious bug.
I'm standing on the street next to the river that courses through Dublin, Ireland.
This majestic building behind me was the center of the largest anti-immigration march I've ever seen.
I want to take you through some of the interesting things we saw today, the interesting places that we went, the interesting people we spoke to.
At least I think they're interesting.
And we're going to put this show outside the paywall because it was crowdfunded in part by viewers who wanted to see what was going on because they knew the mainstream media would not cover it.
If you want to go to that website, it's called migrantreports.com.
You can chip in a few quid or here they use Euros.
So for the course of the next half hour, enjoy what we saw today in Ireland.
Ezra Levant here for Rebel News.
I've touched down in Dublin, Ireland for a whistle-stop trip to see what's going on with their migrant crisis.
We've been told that later today the largest anti-immigration march in Ireland's history will be happening.
We want to see what all the fuss is about.
We want to see if indeed it is as large as its proponents say it will be.
And if so, who's there?
What are they saying?
And how are they responded to by the pro-immigration factions, globalists, left-wingers, and the immigration industry, which is doing very well these days.
I have in my hand a copy of the Irish Independent.
Look at the above-the-fold story, demand for answers as new immigrant tent city grows.
I'm standing in front of one of those tent cities.
Dublin's a beautiful city.
They call Ireland the Emerald Isle, and you can see why lush green lily pads, refurbished old schools, now four-star hotels.
There's modern things too, like over there, the electric company office.
But there's squalor because in the last couple of years, Ireland has become the drop zone for a massive wave of migration.
I learned from the Irish Independent that 100,000 of those migrants are from Ukraine, which shouldn't be surprising.
Millions of Ukrainians have been displaced because of the war.
But think about it.
Ireland barely has 5 million people.
It's smaller in population than the greater Toronto area.
And imagine taking 100,000 migrants, many of whom don't speak the language, and plunking them down here.
In Canadian terms, Canada's eight times larger.
That would be like nearly 1 million Ukrainians.
There's simply not enough space for them.
Not in big cities like Dublin, and certainly not in smaller towns.
A few weeks ago, one such town called Newtown Mount Kennedy, excuse me, was told that this town of 2,800 people was going to be given a gift of hundreds of migrants.
No one was asked.
They were just told.
Locals were shocked by the idea and they rioted.
There was even arson.
There have been cases of buildings that are scheduled to take migrants being torched by the locals to try and stop it.
Obviously, we don't support violence, but the fact that people are driven to such ends suggests to me that the political system is not listening.
I should tell you that just a month ago, the globalist prime minister of Ireland at the time, Leo Varadkar, he has since resigned, put forward two referendums that were so shockingly out of touch with the Irish people.
I'll give you the example.
One of them was to take the concept of motherhood out of the Irish Constitution.
Don't know if you know, but Ireland has a beautiful constitution that specifically talks about women and protecting women and their role as mothers.
It's actually incredible and very beautiful.
I've never seen a constitution like it.
Leo Varadkar and the entire establishment voted to remove that while the people had other things in mind.
Three-quarters of Irishmen voted against that.
I tell you that because although it sounds unrelated to the migrant crisis, it's actually not.
It's the difference between a globalist elite that likes to hang out at the Davos World Economic Forum meetings and swan around with the likes of Justin Trudeau, an out-of-touch elite versus ordinary Irish people who were never asked.
I'm going to see if any of the people in this tent city want to talk.
It doesn't look like many of them are up, but I'm curious, where did they come from?
How did they wind up here?
What do they do for basic services?
Where do they wash?
Where do they go to the bathroom?
How do they eat?
What are their prospects?
I suppose it's better to be here sitting in a tent next to a canal than being back in Ukraine on the front lines.
I don't doubt that.
But what is their future here in Ireland?
And will Ireland continue to be the drop zone for the globalist immigration schemes?
It's one of the things we'll ask and try and find out in our whistle-stop tour of Ireland.
You know, it's still early in the morning.
We got here on the overnight flight from Canada.
We just threw our stuff down at the hotel and then we came straight here.
It was sort of interesting that this was on the front page of the Irish Independent.
I just bumped into a cameraman from the state broadcaster here called RTE.
As you can imagine, being the state broadcaster in a left-wing government, they are like Canada's CBC, but they know this is a news story.
It's still early and everyone here seems to be sleeping in, but I see someone, looks like he's just getting up now.
I don't want to interrupt people.
I don't want to wake people up, but if people are up and at them and getting started with their day and want to talk to us, I'm happy to talk to them.
Would you like to talk on camera or you're still, you don't speak English?
Where are you from?
You're from Falestine?
When did you get here?
No, no, no, speak English.
He says he's from Palestine or Falestine, and he says he doesn't speak English.
Let's continue walking.
By the way, I should say, I don't think there's any direct flights from the West Bank or Gaza to Ireland.
So obviously the folks here came through a second country.
And one of the rules about refugee status that the United Nations has resolved is that if you're a refugee, you have to present in the first safe country you arrive at.
You can't sort of go shopping around and island hopping, so to speak.
So that's a curious thing.
I wonder if these folks were invited here.
For example, back in Canada, Justin Trudeau has granted visas to over 7,000 people from Gaza.
A deliberate decision.
I wonder who these folks, how these folks made their way here.
Let's keep going.
I saw a fellow get out of his tent earlier.
Maybe we can talk to someone.
As I pass some of the tents, I can hear them talking either to someone else in the tent or they're on the phone.
So they are stirring.
I got to say, it's got to be uncomfortable.
I mean, it's springtime, so it's not very cold.
It is a little bit rainy.
It would not be pleasant staying in these tents here.
I hope I can talk to someone and ask them how long are they going to be here?
Who sent them here?
What are their prospects?
If you're from Ukraine, as some of these people I suspect are, or if you're from Palestine, as that one guy said he was, you would probably prefer to be here than back in your home country.
What do the Irish have to say?
I don't know if they'll speak candidly around here, but I suspect that the people at the anti-immigration march will have plenty to say.
That's why they're marching.
One more thought that comes to mind is we've only seen two people so far, and obviously they were both young, military-aged men.
I don't know if there are women in these tents as well.
And that would be something that's on my mind just from a safety point of view.
I don't want to peek into the tents against people.
People hear this is their home.
I don't want to peer inside.
Perhaps they're in a state of undress, so they just don't want to talk to someone.
So I'll wait for people to come out themselves.
But I wonder if there's just men here, if they're women too.
Can I talk to you on camera?
Can I talk to you for a minute?
Where are you from?
He's shy, fair enough.
It looks like he is going into one of the tents.
I don't know where he's from.
I have sympathy for the people in these tents, obviously.
I would not want to be in one of these tents.
One of the things I would ask them, if I encounter someone who's willing to talk and able to speak English, is what were you promised?
And how do you feel with your current situation?
And how do you feel about hundreds of thousands more migrants being brought in?
Hi, how are you guys?
Do you guys live around here?
Are you in these tents?
I'll ask you, please.
Don't film me, please.
Don't film me.
Excuse me, please.
Are you going to help these guys or no?
Well, I wanted...
What's the point of filming them, please?
I want to know who they are and what they're doing.
It's all your business, bro.
If you're going to give them some help, give them some help.
Don't film me, man.
I already told you that, yeah?
Don't film me, bro.
Don't film me.
Yeah, public place, but don't film me, man.
I'm telling you, yeah?
I'm telling you, yeah.
I'm telling you, yeah?
Don't fucking film me, yeah?
Fucking can't.
What's your name?
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I'm talking to this guy, yeah.
What's your name?
Where are you from?
It's all your fucking business, man.
Well, why do you come up and talk to us?
Well, you're filming people.
Are you going to give him help?
Are you going to help them, yeah?
Maybe.
Maybe, yeah, not maybe.
You're just making like what is it?
You just want to get your witness, man, you know?
And you filming, yeah?
We want to know what's going on.
Well, go get a burger, yeah?
Well, there's a fellow who wasn't happy with us here.
I, um.
I don't think I'm in a position to help these folks, and I don't think that's my job.
I think that's more the job of the Irish government.
There's an angry fellow who I don't know why he reacted that way.
Perhaps he doesn't want attention being put on these people, but surely he can't think that this is good.
In fact, I know he doesn't.
He said, are we going to help them?
I don't think that's for me to do.
I think that's for the Irish government to do, the Irish people to do.
Perhaps he thinks that we're going to be biased in some way.
I don't feel like I have a bias other than I suppose my instincts are there's only so much absorption that a country can have.
Ireland is obviously being taxed and I think Canada is too.
Canadian immigration numbers used to be 250,000 people per year.
Then Trudeau raised it to a third of a million per year and everyone thought that was shocking.
But we now know that in the last couple years it's actually hit more than 2 million, 900,000 of whom are students.
Now, there's not room for 900,000 college university students in Canada.
It's a sham.
It's an immigration sham that these diploma mills sell.
600,000 temporary foreign workers.
So there's actually 2.2 million people who have been brought to Canada in a single year.
We're having enormous absorption problems in Canada.
And indeed, we are starting to see tent cities like that in our country too.
We were just walking down here and a fellow was walking his dog and he said, hey, Rebel News.
He said he didn't want to appear on camera, so we turned it off, but it was interesting to chat with him.
First of all, it's exciting to be recognized in a faraway place like Dublin.
Second of all, I mean, he says something that I think I feel too, which is you can't really blame the people who are here if they were invited here, especially if they were made promises here, and then the government didn't have a place to put them.
I don't know how easy it is to get to Ireland without the government's permission.
What I mean by that is it's an island far away from the Middle East, far away from Ukraine, far away from Gaza, if that fellow was telling the truth earlier.
So if you are here on this canal, which he says it's a beautiful canal, which it certainly is, but he says he's reluctant to walk on it because the garbage and sometimes even human excrement, he says.
And I don't know.
He says that it's the government's fault as much as anyone on the street.
And I think he's right.
We're going to head back this way now.
I see a few more people are up.
I want to be careful that I don't get into any fisticuffs.
I'm not here to argue or quarrel.
I'm not here to lecture or condemn.
Sort of the opposite.
I'm here to ask questions.
Who are you?
Why are you here?
What's next for you?
What do you think of the situation?
It was sort of interesting to be accosted a few minutes ago by that one fellow with the scar on his face.
And he's obviously angry about something, but I don't think I gave him any cause to be.
Let's see if there's anyone else here who's more chatty and less angry.
Hi there.
Can we talk to you a little bit about what's going on around here?
No?
Where are you from?
Well, where are you from?
It's my fucking business.
Why is it not my business?
I'm from Dublin.
You're from Dublin?
Yeah.
Orland, is that good for you?
Sure.
Okay, f ⁇ .
Fuck off man, how you go?
Instead of filming people, go to jail man!
You know, you filming people go to jail, fuck off yeah?
Fuck off you mother fuck yeah?
We finished the circuit, and the guy we saw before with the scar on his face was not happy to see us.
Lots of swears, no real physical threats, but I think he was trying to be intimidating.
I didn't want to get into a fight.
That's not my job.
That's not my purpose, and I don't really believe in violence.
I talked to another fella who was happy to talk with us a little bit as long as the camera wasn't on.
He said he was from Pakistan.
He said he arrived only in the last couple of weeks and that he's claiming asylum.
I asked him on what basis he's fleeing Pakistan, and he said he wouldn't tell me.
I asked him what his prospects were, what he thought would happen.
He said that he imagined he would stay in a tent situation or something like that for four or five months before being given free housing.
I'm not sure who the fellow was who was swearing at us, but it appears to me that everyone in this encampment is from Pakistan or another Muslim country.
I didn't see any Ukrainians, even though according to the newspaper, there's been 100,000 Ukrainian refugees.
This appears to be an ethnically homogeneous group of Muslims.
And some of them were shy, some of them were, you know, just annoyed by us, and we didn't pester them.
But that one guy was very hostile.
And I got to say, if that's the face of immigration, of asylum seekers, it's easy to understand why Irish people get their dander up.
I don't think I was provoking anything sort of the opposite.
I think I was just asking questions.
What's your name?
Where are you from?
I didn't go much further with him.
But sort of the angry, the rage, and I'll say this.
Every single person in a tent that we saw, and we didn't see everybody, obviously a lot of the tents were closed.
They were all single, military-aged men.
That's just a fact.
So when you see some of the anti-immigration protesters say, this isn't immigration, this is an invasion, you can understand why.
There have been refugees throughout the course of time.
Refugees in my mind, the mental image I have of a refugee is a woman or a child, not particularly a military-aged man.
A refugee in my mind is someone who is desperate and absolutely grateful for the hospitality they receive, not someone who's making threats and swearing and being insulting the local population.
I don't know if you saw it, but as we were walking around, there were a lot of young Irish people out jogging, including a lot of young women.
The canal, which is basically a system of locks, is beautiful.
It's peaceful here.
I see a bunch of people going by on bicycles even right now.
And that's based on a high trust society.
That's based on safety and feeling confident that you're not going to be attacked.
I felt a little bit unsafe there, to be honest.
And I'm a guy with our cameraman who's also a guy.
If I was one of the young women who I've seen jogging or biking along here, I would certainly be careful.
And I certainly hope nothing happens to them.
However, we do know in recent months there have been cases of violence by migrants and it's one of the reasons why the anti-immigration mood is rising in this country.
I think we've seen everything there is to see here.
I don't particularly want to get into the tents and annoy anybody.
Again, that wasn't my purpose.
I think that one guy was furious for his own reasons.
But I think what we can safely say about this encampment here is it wasn't Ukrainians, it wasn't women and children.
It was military-aged men from Pakistan or other Muslim countries who, if they talked to us, were curt at best and threatening at worst.
Well, we're starting to march.
I had an interview cut short a little bit because I was holding things up.
Newtown Mount Kennedy is that small town I was referring to of about 2,800 people.
When the citizens tried to block it, the Gardeye, which is the name of the Irish police, came on heavy with pepper spray.
We were talking to a mum who said her daughter was brutally sprayed.
Are you from Newtown Mount Kennedy?
What's your name?
My name is Teresa Murphy.
And Newtown Mount Kennedy, a town with about 2,800 souls?
Yes, people.
And tell me, what's the latest there?
I heard that there was quite a showdown the other day.
My daughter that's standing here to the right of me, she was in the protest.
And I was always one for never wanting mobile phones in your face and everything.
But if the mobile phones hadn't been there, my daughter was in a tent.
She got sprayed.
Pepper sprayed?
Pepper sprayed.
By the police.
By the Gardee.
And she was in the tent trying to, somebody was trying to clean her eyes and her husband.
She had to, a good Samaritan came and took her through the back of the tent.
They kicked over the fire.
The Gardee kicked over the fire.
And her and her husband, and I'm not saying this like for a sensation.
I don't know about social media.
They had to run for their lives.
My father, when I was a little girl, told me about the Black and Tans.
I never thought.
What's the Black and Tans?
The Black and Tans were men that were took out of prisons in England to come to Ireland to fight the Irish.
And they were bad people.
And they would go.
My father's mother had a small farm.
They went to that farm and they could take the poultry.
They could take the eggs, take the milk.
They didn't have to answer to anybody.
you're comparing that to the guard eye oh well these ones that were in these so what's the latest yeah so what's the latest Do they still plan to proceed in Newtown Mount Kennedy?
Do we still proceed?
Do the government plans for the migrants.
people in there now at the minute so despite the public reaction I would like to say if I could now I would and this is from a mother and grandmother What are the government going to do for the people who are suffering with post-traumatic stress?
It's very interesting to me to hear the chants and the slogans.
Let me tell you what I mean.
Irish Lives Matter.
That's a riff on the American Black Lives Matter.
Do you hear this chant?
Whose streets, our streets?
That's a typical labor organizing chant that's being co-opted by these people too.
It's very interesting to me to see the classism.
We met a soldier today who said that this is about class as much as anything else.
And I believe it.
Ireland's an interesting place.
Of course, it's a place of rebellion.
It's a place, not long ago, the troubles.
These people are used to conflagrations.
And that fighting spirit, you hear now a football chant, a soccer chant.
It's an interesting amalgam of citizens.
There is a class element here.
You have the elite Davos class, the millionaire class, the Jetsat class, the UN class.
And then you have the working class.
Interesting to me whose side is whom.
One more piece of the puzzle, and I talked to that one gentleman about it, is, so what party is going to do anything about this?
Back home in Canada, for a generation there has been a uni party on the issue of immigration.
The Conservatives opened the doors just as much as the Liberals did.
You could say it's similar in other countries like the United Kingdom.
I think that there is perhaps a populist movement in Europe that has finally come to Ireland that's saying enough.
I want to make Ezra Levant from Rebelus in Canada.
What's your name?
Brian Garrigan, representing the Irish people and all good people all over the world.
This is a peaceful protest.
We're concerned citizens, concerned fathers and mothers about undocumented men coming into our country.
Yes, Ireland has to help genuine refugees and we do.
But we need to vet them.
We don't know what's coming into our country and we need to look after our own.
Now remember, the Irish went all over the world, everywhere and built it.
But the thing is we went and we slept on couches.
We got digs, we got jobs, we paid our way, we paid our own health care, we got none for free.
But we are for genuine, genuine refugees.
This is not an anti-refugee protest.
And are you from Newtown Mount Kennedy?
Where are you from?
Dublin.
And what's going on in some of the smaller places like Newtown Mount Kennedy?
They're getting planted with people who are undocumented in such a small town.
Kulak, we believe, is going to get between 1,000 to 1,500 undocumented men.
There's enough problems in Kuluk with drugs and with unemployment.
We don't need the house to enroll people who don't belong here.
There's no direct flight from here to Nigeria or from here to Pakistan.
Let me ask you two more questions.
The mainstream media denounces people here as far right or racist.
What's your response to the mainstream media?
Just because you stand up with a flag or you say you're concerned, citizens, straight away you're far right.
So I have nothing to say to the main media because they're never here.
They won't listen to us.
But we're here as a peaceful protest as concerned parents.
Remember, we have people like Paul McGrath, Phil Lynn who claim Irish hood, Mohammed Ali who claimed Irish hood.
We're not anti-anyone.
We just want to look after our own people and house our own force.
That's all.
Let me ask you, do you think anything will change?
Because I'm an outsider, but it seems to me that all the parties in Ireland are for open borders immigration.
Do you think that will change?
In June of next month, there's new local elections all over Ireland, okay?
So I'm running in the Dublin inner city vote, number one, Brian Garrigan, and we're going to make a change.
We're slowly waking the people up.
85% of people's concerns are about illegal immigration.
And remember, we have to help genuine immigrants.
Genuine.
Nice to meet you.
Thanks for your time.
I don't know what will become of this, but there's energy here and there's anger.
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There's a, to use an analogy, the parade is walking.
Which politician will come in front of it to lead it now that it's already going?
We'll find out, perhaps.
I didn't understand what was going on.
All of a sudden, the protest went silent as a mouse and everyone stopped.
The reason was this was a place where, if I'm not mistaken, a young child was stabbed.
If it's the incident I'm thinking about, three young children.
Tell me the details.
Three young children coming out of a crash along with their care worker were attacked by an Algerian migrant.
That was just in the last few months, wasn't it?
In January.
And is that what led to some of the riots?
Well, sorry, it was last.
When did that happen, Garden?
So three kids were stabbed.
The so-called riots.
Got it.
I'm just describing them bluntly.
So that was where it happened, which is why there was a moment of silence.
What's your name?
Malachi Steenson.
And are you from Dublin?
I am, yes.
I'm one of the key people involved in this.
I was just asking myself the question, what comes from this?
There's plenty of Irish who are upset by this, but where's the political party that would...
Well, there are no political parties that support our position.
Well, what...
Some of them are shifting to our position.
Like which ones?
There will be a number of independents standing in the European and local elections right across this country.
There are political parties like IFP and National Party who support us.
The mainstream political parties are totally out of touch with the ordinary people in this country.
That was shown very clearly in the two most recent referendums.
The European and local elections on the 7th of June here are a referendum on immigration.
Well, isn't that interesting?
Because you actually had a referendum recently and the ruling class got smashed.
I'm talking about the motherhood referendum and the care referendum.
And it was a rejection by the people of woke liberalism.
And it was, in fact, a referendum on immigration.
Now, I understand that the new Prime Minister actually comes from the county in which Newtown Mount Kennedy is.
Is that correct?
Yes.
What's his view on it?
Well, he fully supports open borders.
He fully supports the destruction of our state.
He has been somebody who's been in political office for the past 12 or 13 years.
He's somebody who never had a real job in his life.
I got one last question for you.
I think there's more Irish people around the world than there are in Ireland, including the President of the United States.
Does the Irish diaspora have an opinion on mass immigration?
I think Ireland's being transformed.
People who are abroad, many who are forced to go abroad by the same parties who are still in government because of economic necessity, fully support us.
And when they come back here on holidays, for instance, from the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, they see the destruction of our country.
And they see it's not the country that they left and it's a country in a far worse state.
Thanks for talking with me today.
Oh my goodness, thank you.
What's your name?
Joe.
Joe, good to meet you.
Are you from Dublin?
No, thank you for which county?
Kilkenny.
Kilkenny?
Well, it's nice to meet you and thank you for supporting.
You see the sign that says Kulak says no.
That's the neighborhood where we were, where that old paint warehouse is being proposed for a new migrant residence.
Kooloc, Newtown, Mount Kennedy, those are two of the flashpoints in the migration battle and they're right at the front.
This is a very interesting place.
I'm getting a vibe that I have in the UK with Tommy Robinson.
And what I mean by that is working class people who have been left out by the system.
I don't know enough about Ireland to make the comparison strongly, but the word class comes to mind.
I think that these people are not politically cool.
They're not the kind of people that the former Prime Minister Leo Varadkar would pose for in a photo.
These are people who are the bedrock of Ireland, who have been ignored in Ireland and who are speaking out for Ireland.
Will anyone listen?
There's the question.
Hi, what's this?
We're part of a newly formed party called the Irish People.
We're set up for independence.
My name is Andy Heisman and I'm running into Europeans across Dublin and I'm running into locals in Dublin and Blanterstown.
I'm a hudder.
So what's the platform of your party?
The platform.
Yeah, what do you stand for?
Oh, we stand for no open borders, education, not indoctrination.
We want to stand up for the farmers in Ireland.
And also my main mission in running into Europeans is getting us out of Europe and the US.
So it's like Brexit, but for Ireland.
Yeah, we want to invoke Article 50 just like the British did and get out of Europe.
And we want that to resound all over Europe because Europe has failed us.
Yeah, we just got in this morning.
Fantastic.
I love the work you did in Davos.
Oh, thank you so much.
Holding their feet to the fire.
They don't like it very much when you point the camera at them and ask them questions that they're not used to.
They're used to softball questions.
Yeah, or questions that are scripted.
But this is a very interesting event.
I see you're with the Irish People Party.
Right.
Are you running as a candidate too?
Yeah, running in for the locals and for the Europeans as well.
And there's a change out there.
I'm sure it's all over the world.
It's not just an Irish phenomenon.
It's happening in America.
It's happening everywhere.
Yeah, sorry, go ahead.
I was going to ask you, I see a lot of cameras like ours.
Basically a cell phone on a fancy stick.
How is the independent media seen in Ireland?
Well, I think we're growing more powerful now and the mainstream media is losing a lot of ground because of this reason.
There's a lot of stories that people want to hear and that they're being kind of pushed aside by the mainstream media.
For example, there was a 12-year-old boy raped by a Ukrainian in Cork just the other day and it's absolutely these crimes in Ireland we've never had these things happen.
We had babies stabbed in Dublin.
Have you heard about that?
Yeah we heard and that's where we stopped there right?
The damage in this country with cultural Marxism, the damage is unreal, right?
It's Islamic fascism is becoming very very strong now in our society and the Irish people are very naive to the fact that they don't even understand it.
It's one of those things that is a real problem, you know.
And we really, the Irish people have to take a stand because if they don't by the end of this year, we're going to be in very very serious problems.
Behind me the counter-protesters, a line of Gardai.
That's what they call their police.
You can see that they're quite worried about the two sides coming into contact.
There's one Gardeye officer filming things I think for souvenir purposes.
I think the numbers on the other side, if I had to estimate, I'd say there's about 110 people.
Nah, more than, I'd say, shy of 100.
I'd say there's about 90 people.
There's more police than counter-protesters.
Most of the signs on the other side are prefabricated signs, as opposed to many of the homemade signs on this side.
And I'll tell you one other thing I just noticed.
On this side, hundreds of Irish flags.
On that side, I don't see a single Irish flag.
I see three Palestinian flags, and I see a mysterious flag that I cannot identify, but there's not a single Irish flag on the other side.
And doesn't that tell you something?
I'm going to step about a foot away from these big cops because I don't need to get caught in the crossfire.
NGO scum!
NGO scum!
They're chanting NGO scum.
That's a very interesting thing to say.
The people in this anti-migration march think that their opponents are the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, NGOs, as much as any domestic political party.
And I think they're right.
How do you do?
Thank you very much.
Very friendly here.
Lots of rebel news fans, even here in Ireland.
I correct myself.
I see a single Irish flag on the other side on which is written Black Lives Matter.
As I mentioned before, this side has co-opted the phrase and says, Irish Lives Matter.
I think both lives matter.
Free tampons for men.
You must know Justin Trudeau.
I do!
I was going to join them motherfuckers over there, but I said, oh, what the fuck is saying, people?
And that's not saying what's for me, so Matthew Deesladix over there.
Fucking hell.
How you doing?
Who's this rebel?
We're from Canada, but I couldn't help but come up to you because I just thought that is real life in Canada.
Problem is, isn't it?
They really do have that in military bases in Canada for men.
This is a joke.
I gave him up with Nature.
There you have it.
He said he wanted to be with the protesters, but I tell you, that's that Irish sense of humor.
Let's keep going.
Hey, let me tell you something quickly that our videographer Efrain mentioned to me.
He looked at the crowd over there.
He looked at the crowd over here.
He looked at the police on both sides, and he made an observation.
None of them are wearing masks.
Now, our side, as in the freedom side, the conservative side, typically doesn't wear masks.
But in Canada and in the United States, the left side, the progressive side, certainly the pro-Hamas side, they wear masks.
It's very interesting and refreshing to me to be in a political culture where people own what they're saying.
I disagree with the ideas on the other side, but I respect them insofar as they're willing to stand by their point of view.
In North America, the left is too cowardly to own it, and they feel empowered when they're anonymous, and they actually commit vandalism, riot, and crime when they're hidden.
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I'll give him credit for that.
Well, nice to meet you, Patty.
How are you doing?
I'm great.
Tell me what brought you out here today.
What brings people out over the world to protest against this monstrosity that's been unleashed upon us?
You know, it's plantation, replantation.
What can I say?
It's obscene.
Well, I was thinking, I mean, I don't know that much about Ireland, I'll be candid with you, Patty.
But if I'm not mistaken, Ireland has never had an empire.
It's never colonized another country.
That's my point, exactly.
We've never gone, we've only done good in the world as far as I know by sending out missionaries and so forth.
Now, whether that's, you could say that maybe that's not too good at this.
You were not an imperial force.
You're the indigenous people of this island.
Yes, well, my family's been here about four generations, oh no, for about ten generations at least, you know.
And they're just, what you see with all these young men coming of a military age, that is an army in waiting.
During the lockdowns, initial lockdowns, there was an Irish fellow on the WHO called Mike Ryan.
Mike Ryan told us that they would have to go into everybody's house and take, if people were sick, take them out.
And these people are here to do just that.
Well, how's it going to end, Patty?
The reason I ask that is, I mean, I'm not very familiar with the Irish political scene, but I understand that most of the parties representing most of the politicians are for open borders.
That there's no party that has said we're going to rein it in, even to moderate it.
And so if you have this political energy on the streets, where does it go other than just to dissipate?
Well, the problem is that everybody in power in Ireland at the moment came through the young future leaders, WHO, not WHO, WEF School.
And they were put in place strategically.
And like you have your Trudeau or Turdo as you call them, which I think is suitable.
Yeah, exactly.
And then they have Macron and every place, every country in the world has got their little New World Order or leader, let's say.
So it's very, very hard for us to fight against that because they're in every position of power.
And the scam, the scandemic that came out in 220 was a precursor.
It was a Trojan horse for all this to happen.
Soon, we won't have, we'll be a 50-50 in a few years' time.
There'll be nearly more foreigners than there are Irish.
We took a break from filming because we sent the drone up.
The reason we sent the drone up is we wanted to do a count.
The reason we wanted to do a count is because we wanted to see, did this march against immigration in Dublin, Ireland reflect a small niche, as the regime media would say, the far right?
Or was it broader than that?
Did it show a large cross-section of Irish, severely normal people, as I say, from different backgrounds.
And as you'll see from the drone footage, which we'll post shortly, this is enormous.
I'm not an expert at counting based on an eye in the sky video.
It just went on for blocks and blocks and blocks.
And I've got to tell you, I've seen Irish flags everywhere I've gone.
I didn't see any Irish flags with the counter-protesters.
And you know what?
For someone who's seen a lot of flags lately, I'm glad I haven't seen a lot of Hamas flags here.
Not one, in fact.
I think these are the best of the Irish.
And What's so fascinating and frustrating to me is I don't think these folks have a political outlet.
I mean, I'm not an expert in Ireland.
I've just come here.
This is the first time I've ever been here.
I'm going home quickly.
I wanted to see with my own eyes.
I don't know if you can hear the energy level.
These people, they're polite, but they're mad at the same time.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I'll stop walking backwards.
It's that crowded a place.
I want to go closer.
I want to hear what they're saying.
And I'm enjoying being surrounded by so many Irish flags.
Wouldn't you be?
Well, it's almost 5 p.m.
We've been at the march for about three hours.
A huge march.
When you're in the middle of a march, you have no idea if it's a thousand people or 15,000.
We took some drone footage.
I think it's definitely on the 15,000 side.
And then there were some amazing speeches on the steps of this dominant facade, very impressive place, a place of political action, I think.
Now we're just hearing some politicians round out the event, so people are leaving.
And I bumped into one of my favorite journalists in Ireland.
She works for Grips.ie.
You've seen her on my show.
Fatima Gunning, it's a pleasure to see you in the flat.
Thank you.
Welcome to Ireland.
It's been a very warm welcome.
I've never been to this country before, but so many people have welcomed us.
I guess they watch Rebel News, not particularly because they care about Canada, but they care about the themes we talk about.
I think immigration is hotter in Ireland than it is in Canada.
What do you think?
Well, I think, you know, if you look at the history of this nation, it isn't so long since we kicked out a colonial power in the form of the British.
And now I think that, you know, from what I hear from people, you know, the Irish are feeling as though they're not in control of their own, you know, the borders, certainly, but even politics more generally.
And I think that there is a huge appetite for political change in this country.
You know, I never thought of it that way, but I talked to a few folks here who use the language of the Irish being the indigenous people here.
That's a powerful language around the world to kick out colonizers.
But the Irish never colonized anyone.
This is their home.
And I think because the Irish are white, when they say things like Irish Lives Matter or Ireland is full, there's a progressive reflex to kick them and say you're racist.
But I don't think we would say that to any other indigenous person around the world.
We wouldn't say you're racist for wanting Italy to be Italian or France to be French or Russia to be Russian.
I think it's been marginalized, but I think people here just want their country.
And I don't even think that there's a zero immigration feeling here.
I think people just say it's out of control.
No one was asked.
The way they're going about it is extreme.
I don't know.
Help me understand.
I've only been in Ireland for half a day, so I don't want to pretend that I know everything.
But I'm trying to learn how, what do you think of what I've just said about the Indigenous people and trying to maintain control of a homeland?
I think you're mostly spot on in that Irish people do have a strong sense of identity, or at least we would have until quite recently, where now a lot of things like Athena Swan, all those kind of like American racism, what I suppose some people might call it race-baiting kind of stuff is coming in, which nothing got to do with the history of Ireland.
Like we never colonized anyone, as you said, never owned slaves, weren't involved in that whole debacle, and yet we're almost being treated as though we were.
And I do think that the Irish as a people are a bit of a thorn in the side of people who would like to push that ideology because we can say like, hey, we were never part of that.
Why are you kind of tarrying us with the same brush?
But be that as it may, yeah, I think that people are just, they're sick of hearing about, you know, thousands of people coming in with no identity documents.
I'm sure you had to have a passport to get into Ireland here this morning or whenever you came.
I have to have a passport if I want to go somewhere.
And I think that's all the Irish people are really asking for, is to know who is coming into the country.
You know, and even if Ireland had a history of slavery, and Ireland did have a history of slavery, there were slave ships that came to Ireland to raid.
I learned that the town of Baltimore, the entire town was scooped up on pirate ships and sold as slaves.
So the Irish have a history of being slaves.
But even if it were true, what does a historical action hundreds of years ago have to do with taking migrants in 2024 from Ukraine, from the Middle East, from whatever?
Like it just seems like it doesn't fit.
It's not an excuse.
I mean, I think, yeah, well, it's being used as an excuse whether it has anything got to do with a nation's history or not.
And, you know, I lived in Japan and Korea myself.
Those countries are very, they have a very strong sense of who they are.
I didn't feel that there was anything wrong with that when I was there.
And so it is quite puzzling why people get offended.
And people do get offended when Irish people hold their flag and say that they want to be Irish and that they're proud of it.
It seems like that's almost a dirty word these days and I don't really understand why.
You know, I'm not Irish.
I have no connection to Ireland in any way.
But I felt a wonderful feeling of solidarity and family just walking with so many Irish and so many Irish flags.
And I sort of missed that even though it wasn't mine.
I admired it.
Give me your thoughts on the whole day.
You've been very generous with your time.
You've briefed us via Skype before.
You told me last week that you thought this would be a very large event and it did turn out to be that.
Do you think this will make a dent?
Do you think this will move the needle?
Or do you think this will just be demonized by the media like RTE?
Do you think they'll demonize it as far right?
Like will anything change?
I'm impressed with what I saw, but will Ireland be any different after today?
It's hard to say.
I think that's up to the people.
I mean if the people are expressing that they want change and it seems that huge numbers are, it's up to them really, isn't it?
Like I can only really speak about what I've observed reporting on this over the last two years.
But there is huge anger out there.
People are extremely angry about being called names like far-right and racist when they want, as you said earlier that you don't think it's an anti-immigration sentiment.
It isn't really an anti-immigration sentiment.
It's a we are bursting at the scenes sentiment.
Yeah.
It really feels that way.
Well listen, I want to compliment you and the whole team at Grips, G-R-I-P-T.ie.
It's so refreshing.
And watching people here come up to you and express to you their gratitude tells me that you are filling a very important information void.
People trust you and I think you're building something very important.
I've been a fan from afar, so congratulations to you and your journalism.
Thank you very much.
Right on.
There you have it.
Let me say something about Remembrance, seeing as we met at the Garden of Remembrance today.
It's time to recall who we are.
And to hear the call of our ancestors, the powers that be, now we have a strong spiritual connection to them and it opens them.
Because our legends, poetry and song tell time and again how we rose up against oppressors who tried to vanish us.
We simply must win.
And if we don't, our children will fall just like the children on that statue of the Garden of Remembrance who are trapped there in stone making their downward descent towards the ground.
I wonder now would that statue even be here in 100 years?
And with that I ask, and ensure the survival of not just your children, but also Irishness, and all that it means to be so.
I'm candidate for the Tala community.
They have protests every Monday and Thursday outside St John's house between 6 and 8.
And the protest is actually tomorrow because of the protest today between 6 and 8 outside St John's house.
Thanks very much for listening.
I've been following politics for 35 years and I've listened to maybe a thousand speeches.
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I have to say your speech up there today was the most authentic, passionate, powerful and moving speech I can remember.
It was astonishing to me.
Who are you?
Who am I?
It's odd to be asked that question but I because I'm a very introverted sort of a person but because of what's happening in our country I've had to come out and stand up.
My name is Suzanne Delaney and otherwise known as Susie D online which makes me sound like a bad rap artist but the name was picked because there's you know there's a lot of targeting of you if you have the views I do in this country and I was trying to protect my child but I've decided to run for election so I've put my name out there.
Where are you from in Ireland?
I'm from Dublin, and I run the Irish Enquiry with my partner Stephen Kerr, and he's running for Castle Bar and Mayo.
We're running as independent candidates because we don't want to be having to talk.
Is this for town council or what level of politics?
So it's local council, it's only once every five years and then but our aim is to get into the doll into government.
So that's what you would call your parliament?
Yeah, when I take it into government we wouldn't be in as a party but we want to be in there because that's where you can make a bit of a difference.
And I wish you good luck.
I wish you all good luck because it was so powerful.
But let's talk about what you said.
You talked about your daughter who's obviously young and I think the most terrifying thing you said was that in a way you don't want her to grow up because you don't want her to go out because you're worried about her in the streets of Ireland.
Tell me that again.
Tell me more about that.
Yeah so when I grew up in I would have been when I was her age I that was the 80s and life was different here and I used to play outside all day long and if I grazed my knees and came back in my mother would wipe my knees and she'd send me back out the door and my daughter has never played outside alone.
Never.
And where I live, I'm not running where I live, because where I live is gone.
In what way?
And why doesn't she play?
Explain to me the missing piece of this story.
Why?
It's not safe.
Why is it not safe?
So this year, sorry, sorry, this week, a man, a foreign national who was led into the country without checks, tried to take a two-year-old child out of a buggy here just up the road.
And a 12-year-old boy in County Cork was in the toilets, and when he was coming back out, he was pushed back into a cubicle and he was sexually assaulted.
So that is what we're dealing with.
And three children were stabbed up the road here in Parnell Square.
I don't feel at all like my daughter is safe.
And when people ask for her to go and do things with them, like I have a friend who wanted to take her to a show, I say no because I'm so afraid that there might be a terror attack or something else.
So where I live is not safe.
And I've spoken before publicly about the fact that my daughter is the only Irish child in her class at school.
And I have nothing against these other children.
But that's not normal.
My daughter is the foreign national in her own country and she doesn't understand what her school friends say.
What language do they speak?
So they speak various languages, Slavic languages, you know, Pakistani, all sorts of languages.
And I've never had any, you know, they're just kids, you know.
But it is a sign of the times and it's concerning to me.
I want my daughter to go to school and be happy.
And she, you know, they had National Book Week here where they were encouraging children to read.
And all of that week, every day they had someone come in and read a story.
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And every day the person who came in and read the story read it in a different language and not in English.
So that is where I'm living and that is why I'm not running in my area because the people there won't vote for me.
And why did this change happen to Ireland?
Well I believe it's not just Ireland.
It's a globalist agenda and the evidence is there if people care to look.
It's not a conspiracy theory.
It's a criminal conspiracy and mass immigration is a part of that flooding Ireland with like Irish people have a very very strong sense of themselves and their identity and you know we've 800 years of oppression behind us in this country and I think they've come down particularly hard on this little country because they know we're going to fight back.
We'll take so much until we won't.
Well let me ask you this.
I mean I've heard some slogans today, Ireland for the Irish, Irish Lives Matter.
But your political class, I mean there are some people who I guess you could call newcomers, but they're Irish.
The people who made these decisions, are they not Irish?
They are Irish.
But the Irish Republicans, sorry, the IRA, excuse me, or the, you know, excuse me, Sinn Féin.
Sorry, I'm from Canada, I don't know all these distinctions.
But these people who, in my shallow knowledge of Ireland, are passionate Irish, you could call them even Irish chauvinists, Irish nationalists, whatever phrase you want to use.
I mean, being Irish is the center of their identity.
The 800 years you talk about, it's about being Irish.
So how can people who fought to be Irish, who had a rebellion about being Irish, though I don't understand the troubles, but that was about Irishness.
How can people who cared so much about being Irish then give it away?
Because sure, I agree with you that there are globalist forces.
We're familiar with those.
But at the end of the day, it was Irish politicians who allowed it.
Am I wrong?
You're not wrong.
They're what we call a quizzling government.
They're under the control of these people in the EU and beyond.
The UN is another one.
And I think what happens is these people are, we say, selected, not elected.
We believe that our votes have been rigged here.
Or that people have gotten in, you know, on the 10th or the 11th count of a vote.
So they haven't been fairly elected.
And they're, in my opinion, people who would never get to the top if it wasn't for the fact that they're doing what they're told to do.
They're just self-serving people.
I have a slightly different theory.
I don't know about vote rigging in Ireland.
I just don't know anything about that.
I don't know about your voting systems.
It sounds like there's a multiple transferable ballot, the way you described it.
But my theory, and you tell me if I'm wrong, is that so far there's no party willing to embrace this issue.
And so even if people wanted to vote against this, they don't have an option.
All the parties that have a likelihood of election are unified in terms of open borders.
That's my theory.
So I wouldn't, again, I don't know about the vote rigging here, I just don't know.
But you don't need vote rigging if every party on the ballot has the same view on immigration.
Yeah, it's a uni-party system here.
There's the appearance of opposition, but even over the last few months, that appearance has slipped away.
You asked me about Sinn Féin, and that would have been the alternative party for people to vote for.
But people have lost their faith in Sinn Féin.
They're not the Republicans that they have built their reputation on, and they're completely for open borders.
So there isn't really, you're right, there isn't really another party to vote for, but there's new parties springing up and lots of independent candidates.
And I think if people actually, people are disillusioned, so a lot of people aren't even registered to vote, particularly in working class areas.
But the people in the working class areas need to get out and vote.
They really do, because they're not putting these unvetted, undocumented migrants into the affluent communities.
They're putting them into my community.
They say they care about migrants, but why don't they take them in?
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Two more questions.
Today's march was very large.
At least I was surprised.
And I would say it was a working class crowd, but there were people here from all walks of life.
I thought, I mean, there's that Irish proclivity to use colourful language, but I would call the crowd very well-behaved.
What will come of this large march?
Do you think anything will change because of it?
I mean, you know, it's great to see people out, but we do need, it was a huge march, and when RTE reports it on the news, they'll say there was 200 people here.
That's your state broadcaster.
Yeah.
And they will try to get their headlines.
The last time there was a march, there was absolutely no trouble, but a few protesters went off home and they were entrapped by the Gardeee or the police in order that they trapped them in a corner of the street and asked them to leave, but they couldn't leave, so they arrested them for that.
I saw no misbehaviour, and I mean, I've been looking for three hours, I haven't seen a single thing.
You'll see the misbehaviour from the radical leftists that were around the corner, a small number of them, but they were surrounded by police.
I don't know if you noticed that, but that's not because of us.
That's because of them.
We've had someone drive through a crowd here and hit people in a car and he was a radical leftist.
And nothing ever happens to them, you know, but we get called out for, we've been remarkably peaceful.
Last question.
You've mentioned RTE and I know the mainstream media or the regime media here is very, it's a clique and they share the same views.
That said, I probably saw 20 people live streaming or filming today.
And I don't mean just holding their cell phone up.
I mean having like a bit of a rig like a like a more than just a selfie stick.
Like they look like serious live streamers and I thought to myself it looks like there's a bit of an independent citizen journalist movement in Ireland.
I respect Gripped.ie.
They actually have some credentials and accreditation.
But I'm talking about there must have been at least 10.
I would call them serious live streamers here.
What is the independent citizen journalist scene like here in Ireland?
It's really after growing over the past couple of years.
I think you told me that you're in journalism as well.
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Yes, so with my partner Stephen Kerr and we have the platform the Irish Inquiry which would be quite well known here and there's lots of really good independent journalists like Philip Dwyer and other people like that.
It's really a growing movement I have to say.
The mainstream media would have been here today but they'll hide and then they will try to report something negative.
Well I want to say your speech today was amazing and we're going to put some excerpts of it up and I wish you good luck and I wish your daughter remains safe and I wish that Ireland remains free.
Thank you very much for your time.
Thank you.
Pleasure to meet you.
There you have it.
For more from our trip to Dublin, go to MigrantReports.com.