FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
08 AUGUST 2024
We, figures in the Irish nationalist movement, must dispel some of the shoddy and misleading claims in the article due to be released in The Phoenix magazine on August 9th.
The article implies that there was widespread support in the Irish nationalist movement for the march in Belfast last Saturday where Tricolors were waved alongside marching loyalists.
This is obviously untrue.
- Malachy Steenson, pictured in the piece, released a statement disassociating his campaign with any collaboration with loyalists, emphasising the campaign’s Republican stance
- Different groups associated with the Coolock protest also released statements distancing their protest with loyalists.
- National Party councillor Patrick Quinlan released a video outlining the National Party’s longstanding commitment to a United Ireland and the impossibility of collaborating with loyalists
- Ireland First leader Derek Blighe posted on X distancing himself from working with loyalists
- Councillor Gavin Pepper released a statement on X distancing himself for collaboration with loyalists
- Irish People candidate Stephen Delaney expressed his disapproval of working with loyalists
- Irish Freedom Party candidate and organiser Diarmuid Ó Conaráin expressed his disapproval of the same on X
- Many more Irish nationalists have voiced their opposition to loyalism
- No significant nationalist figure attended the march in Belfast
The Phoenix deliberately ignored these obvious facts in pursuit of their bogus narrative.
Irish nationalists work for the liberation of our nation from globalist and British influence. Our voter base has no interest in rehabilitating loyalism, and unlike the writers in The Phoenix, the Irish nationalist movement is not interested in selling out these decent Irish people. Ordinary British people, like those innocent girls in Southport, are victims of the ideology pushed by The Phoenix. That is where our common cause ends however; Irish nationalists are focussed on the upcoming General Election and hobnobbing with loyalists, as well as being repulsive, is also pragmatically irrelevant to our goals.
Perhaps the writers at The Phoenix should “investigate” the links between Leftists/Liberals in Ireland and the British establishment:
- Sinn Féin leaders posing with British royals and loyalists
- Fianna Fáil leader Mícheál Martin describing Irish sovereignty as “backward”
- Mick Lynch helping Jeremy Corbyn to pull Northern nationalists into the orbit of English trade unionism
- What The Phoenix described on 02/05/2019 as the Socialist Party’s “unionist outlook dressed in socialist rhetoric”
- Everything about Fine Gael, a party steeped in West Brit ideology
- The fact that an ex-RUC man is the Garda Commissioner
- The roots of half the Irish Left (People Before Profit, the Socialist Workers’ Party etc) in British trotskyite offshoots
Signed:
