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Follow-up on Irish election from Jewish Insider

October 25, 2025/4 Comments/in General/by Kevin MacDonald
Follow-up to Ganainm’s article: Two feminists fight for the Irish presidency

Ireland is set to elect a new president tomorrow. Like in Israel, the role of president is largely ceremonial, but unlike in Israel, where the Knesset elects the president and the choice is mostly the result of backroom political deals, the Irish president is directly elected by the people.

That means the choice reflects the mood of the Irish public — and after the news coming out of the Emerald Isle over the past two years, it may come as no surprise that the country appears to be on the verge of choosing a candidate with anti-Israel, antisemitic and even anti-Western views.

The current president, Michael D. Higgins, is no friend of Israel or the Jews, having called antisemitism accusations an Israeli “PR exercise.” When the Jewish community asked him not to attend a Holocaust remembrance ceremony out of a concern that he would politicize it, he went anyway and gave a speech comparing Israel’s actions in the war in Gaza to the Holocaust.

The country’s former justice minister, Alan Shatter, told Jewish Insider that the leading candidate for the presidency, Catherine Connolly, “if elected, will present as Michael D. Higgins on steroids.”

Connolly, a legislator representing Galway West since 2016, is a hard-left candidate running as an independent, and led a recent Irish Times poll by 18 points.

The front-runner’s anti-Israel history goes back to before the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel and the ensuing war in Gaza, and includes remarks that crossed the line into antisemitism. In 2021, Connolly wrote in a parliamentary question that Israel is “attempt[ing] to accomplish Jewish supremacy,” using language associated with centuries-old antisemitic conspiracy theories.

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4 replies
  1. Hairy Iranian Dude
    Hairy Iranian Dude says:
    October 25, 2025 at 11:01 pm

    But aren’t these hard-left types all for non-White immigration into Ireland? They are very antagonistic towards Israel, but very pro-colored, correct?

  2. ganainm
    ganainm says:
    October 26, 2025 at 11:57 am

    Unfortunately, it’s not just the left-wing politicians that want non-stop immigration, it is almost all of them. There was a huge number of spoiled votes and journalists seemed shocked by the venom and contempt voters showed for the political system. Reportedly, there were some swastikas and pro-Adolf slogans in Dublin, Lots of accusations that our police, politicians, journalists and judges are facilitating a Paki rape gang scenario here.

    The good news is that she has promised to listen to and represent even those people who spoiled their vote!

  3. Anon
    Anon says:
    October 27, 2025 at 5:19 am

    Some people in the East are saying that China’s new rare earth ban weapon combined with Russia’s new nuclear powered Burevestnik missile will once and for all collapse the International Jewish Empire:

    https://www.rt.com/russia/626971-nuclear-missile-test-russia-burevestnik/

    But, these people are highly mistaken. The empire has now just annexed India into the empire, so this adds a manpower of 1.5 billion people and the full economic and military might of India. Venezuela and Brazil will soon follow, then finally Iran. There will be no Chinese Century. Unz Review published an article showing that China is becoming less intelligent:

    https://www.unz.com/article/dysgenics-and-low-creativity-why-china-cant-save-civilization/

    So, not only is China demographically dying, they are also becoming less intelligent. On the other hand, Ashkenazi Hasidic / Heredi people are mass-producing eugenically enhanced offspring:

    http://www.whatwemaybe.org/txt/txt0001/Reichler.Max.1916.Jewish_Eugenics.htm

    https://archive.org/details/jewisheugenicsot00reicrich/page/n3/mode/2up

  4. Anon
    Anon says:
    October 27, 2025 at 9:21 pm

    Newsweek.c*m/end-china-great-power-population-collapse-opinion-2005236

    The End of China As a Great Power: Population Collapse | Opinion

    Published

    Dec 23, 2024 at 11:09 AM EST

    updated

    Dec 23, 2024 at 05:59 PM EST
    Gordon G. Chang
    By Gordon G. Chang

    Author, Commentator
    Newsweek is a Trust Project member

    China’s population, reported to be 1.41 billion, will drop to 330 million by the end of the century, predicts Yi Fuxian of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This startling conclusion is included in a paper to be published in the Winter 2024 issue of the Contemporary China Review. He’s not the only one concerned. “China has embarked on a road of demographic no-return,” writes Wang Feng of the University of California, Irvine. Yi puts it this way: “Left unaddressed, China’s demographic trap could precipitate a civilizational collapse.”

    Why do we care? Rapid demographic change can push an ambitious China to become even more militant and accelerate dangerous plans.

    The crisis is plain to see. Yi’s stunning 330 million figure assumes that China will be able to stabilize its total fertility rate—generally, the average number of children born to a woman over her lifetime—at 0.8. China’s TFR in 2023 was 1.0. and is dropping over time. A country generally needs a TFR of 2.1 to maintain a stable population.

    Yi believes that China’s TFR could even fall to 0.7, meaning China could have even fewer people by 2100.

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