Ireland Today: Far left meets far right

There was one thing about Catherine Connolly's heartwarming St Patrick's Day speech we all missed. She broke the longstanding tradition of visiting the US President on St Patrick's Day and the mainstream media didn't say a word about it. 

Last year the former president of Ireland upheld that long-standing tradition and visited Donald Trump on St Patrick's Day. He faced a lot of backlash at home for doing so because of Trump's support for the Gaza genocide. 

This year Catherine Connolly didn't go and not a word was said about it. If that happened in his first term when he was public enemy number one, the media would have been all over it. Now all of a sudden it's radio silence.

In Trump's first term he was rocking the boat. In his second term he's sailing it full steam ahead. All the devote Trump supporters have been ostracized and all the never Trumpers like Lindsay Graham are endorsing him. It's pretty obvious what happened. Trump sold out. Now Back to the holy land - Ireland.

Over the last few years, Ireland has been facing huge anti immigration protests. Ireland has been hit extremely hard with excessive immigration. That's caused a knee jerk reaction. 

Catherine Connolly's St Patrick Day's speech was meant to address that. She pointed out that millions of Irish have left Ireland during famines and conflict to immigrate elsewhere. 

She said if anyone should be sympathetic to the immigrants cause it should be the Irish. She had a point but she failed to address the very real concerns of excessive immigration for political purposes. 

One sign said Say NO to the new Plantation of Ireland. The first plantation was when England gave land to British foreigners loyal to the crown. That's resulted in the Northern Ireland conflict. The people in the north fighting a united Ireland are descendants of people England planted there. 

So now we are all witnessing a new plantation driven by the World Economic Forum and their manufactured wars. All of a sudden your vote doesn't carry as much weight as it used to because of all the other votes planted there. 

This is a very real concern and I don't see it going away. As always I like to balance the extremes. I don't support excessive immigration. I don't support ICE Agents hunting down illegals either. Canada has gone through a similar wave of immigrant anger. I have to admit with the reduced immigration, rent and housing isn't exploding anymore. It's still way out of reach but it's not growing at an unsustainable rate any more. Yet there's also less jobs so do the math. 

Canada and America are completely different than Ireland and Europe. Everyone here are immigrants. Even the Aboriginals came from somewhere else. Some say the Alaska land bridge. Others say boats. The point is and we are trying to create a new society inclusive of everyone. 

I can however, completely understand how the Irish want to retain their heritage and identity as do the French and everyone else on the planet. I saw one picture from a pro immigration rally in Ireland and one of the signs said "I'm brown. I'm Irish. I will not be denied." Denied what? Social housing? 

This is where we cross the line and see belligerent demands feed entitlement. If I'm white and I move to India, I'd never be Indian. I'd just be an ex pat. As a Canadian, when I travel I'm a guest in that country. It would be completely inappropriate for me to start making demands when I'm there. 

Demanding a foreign government give me free food and housing would be absurd. Letting immigrants come to Canada and work is awesome. Paying them not to work is completely insane. That is not sustainable. That's why the WEF is pushing it. They want to bankrupt every nation under the sun so they can come in and take over. O be wise. What can I say more.