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Jim Chimirie @JChimirie66677 - There is a sickness spreading across the West: nations turning against the very civilisation that raised them. Ireland has just taken a bold step into that abyss. It has elected Catherine Connolly – a hard-Left ideologue, an apologist for terrorists, and a mouthpiece for anti-Western grievance – as head of state.
A ceremonial figurehead? Spare me. The presidency of Ireland shapes the nation's character abroad. It speaks on behalf of Ireland to the world. And Connolly's voice is hostile to the very West that made Ireland free, prosperous, and modern.
The woman now elevated to Áras an Uachtaráin has blamed NATO for Putin's war. She calls Israel's fight for survival "genocide." She travelled to Assad's Syria and smiled with friends of a butcher. She describes Hamas – a death cult that rapes women and murders Jewish children – as "part of the fabric of the Palestinian people." She wants it governing Gaza.
This isn't neutrality. It's siding with the enemies of the free world.
Connolly is celebrated for juggling footballs before cameras and whispering the words "inclusive president." But she stands for a worldview that spits on the alliances that defend peace. She belongs to the political strain that calls America the problem, Europe the villain, and Islamists the victims. A strain that sees Western strength as original sin.
Worse still: she won on a wave of spite. Not love of Ireland – but hatred of the West.
Low turnout. Spoilt ballots. A rival hobbled by a petty scandal. An establishment asleep at the wheel. And into that vacuum marched the Sinn Féin machine – the most ruthless political operation in Ireland. They needed a puppet. They found one.
Do not underestimate the symbolism. When Ireland elevates someone who excuses the most savage anti-Jewish terror since the 1940s, it tells the world something grim: the moral compass is smashed. Memory has failed. The lessons of Europe's darkest century are being mocked by the very people who claim to speak in its name.
A united Ireland is her mission. Not unity through respect – but unity enforced by ideology. Nationalism turned inside-out: not pride in one's own people, but burning resentment of old allies and a hunger to rewrite borders.
For too long, Ireland has been drifting into a posture of theatrical moral superiority – boycotting Eurovision rather than confronting jihadism, lecturing NATO nations while relying on their shield. Masochism passed off as virtue. Preening dressed as principle. Now that posture has a president.
The West should pay attention. When a friendly democracy installs a figure who cheers for our foes, it shifts the balance. Not through tanks – through culture, legitimacy, diplomacy. Russia, Iran, and every Islamist faction can smell the weakness. They see opportunity.
Ireland has made a choice. It has decided the real threat is not the tyrants massing abroad, but the civilisation that defied them. That decision won't stay within Irish shores. Ideas cross borders faster than armies.
The tragedy is that the Irish people are being used. Used by a hard-Left clique that dreams of a world where the West apologises while its enemies conquer. Where free nations dismantle themselves one office, one law, one election at a time.
A president who sides with those who hate us is not harmless. She will not sit quietly. She will act. She will speak. She will undermine the alliances that keep Europe safe because she believes those alliances are the enemy.
We must tell the truth: this is not just an Irish mistake. It is a Western warning. If we keep electing leaders who despise the foundations of our freedom, we will lose that freedom – not in a clash of armies, but in a quiet vote cheered by people who think they are on the side of angels.
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