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WHO AM I?

I have been a proactive citizen journalist for 13 years, dedicated to exposing
corruption and wrongdoing that’s harming our country and citizens, and
irrevocably changing all we have ever known.

Through my media platform The Irish Inquiry (and various other platforms), I
have extensively highlighted issues such as those outlined here, as well as
those relating to government overreach, NGO influence, undemocratic legislative
changes, the captured media, and more.

 



I have campaigned extensively on various issues; I lobbied Mayo County Council
to improve our drinking water quality and was also involved in the water charges
protests. I have highlighted the unregulated nature and impact of vulture fund
investment groups and volunteered my time to support those faced with losing
their family home or farm through bank repossessions.

Addressing the Critical Challenges Facing Our Community


MAIN ISSUES OF CONCERN


Immigration & Emigration

It is truly clear our borders need to be controlled for everyone’s sake.
Officially 22% of Ireland’s population are foreign born. That’s edging toward 1
in 4. By 2050 the Irish people are on course to become a minority in their own
country, and this prediction was made long before the influx of the past few
years (“Irish Could Be an Ethnic Minority By 2050”, March 19th, 2005, The Irish
Times). Last year 270, 081 PPS numbers were issued in Ireland. Only 64, 613 were
issued to Irish people (Department of Social Protection Statistics). The
government is facilitating illegal immigration and is not deporting disingenuous
asylum applicants, even when they commit serious crime. A secret Department of
justice briefing paper warned the state to resume deportations urgently because
most international asylum applicants were economic migrants (deportations had
stopped during covid lockdowns). The memo (“Secret Meno Released: The Advice the
Government Tried to Hide About Deporting Migrants”, Extra.ie, April 7th 2024)
was released after the Information Commissioner overruled the Department of
Justice’s decision to withhold the details contained within it.

The memo also warned that if the system for immigration was not robust the state
had little ability to deter “inappropriate applications.” The full memo, which
was deliberately withheld from the public, stated that “The sense is that the
majority of these are economic migrants as opposed to those seeking protection
from their home states.” The department of justice was FOI’d regarding the
document but redacted it in an attempt to hide the details. They stated the
reason for doing so was to protect (mostly illegal) migrants from the public.

This is outrageous. The Department of Justice has prioritised protecting illegal
migrants (some of whom could be criminals, and some of whom have already
committed crimes since their arrival) over protecting the public. One job of the
Justice Minister is to keep the integrity of our borders intact. This means
ensuring criminal background checks are done and people only enter through legal
channels (see below regarding background checks). 87% of people destroy their
documents prior to arriving in Ireland (either on the plane or just before
border checks). Destroying a passport with intent to deceive border officials is
an offence. NGO’s constantly refer to migrants’ legal rights and help them mount
costly endless legal appeals (and other such cases) at a cost to the tax paper,
but almost 9 out of ten people entering Ireland have done so by wilfully and
knowingly contravening laws.

The secret memo document advised that people can be deported if they breach
rules around entry (committing a crime), if they evaded port and entrance
officials by using fake documents, and when a person had gone through their
asylum application but had been unsuccessful in their claim. In 2021 only 151
people were deported. Most people are ordered to “self deport” and no one checks
to see if they have done so. Even those who have committed the most serious
level offences have not been deported. For example, Jozeph Puska, killer of
Ashling Murphy was not deported, and had a previous conviction for statutory
rape prior to entering the country. He had also been a suspect in sexual assault
cases in two other countries outside him home country. He could have been denied
entry on grounds of a criminal record. He is set to appeal his conviction at a
cost to the taxpayer. Over seven hundred thousand euro was paid to his top legal
team through free legal aid.

Numbers won’t be capped despite The Department of Justice admitting that up to
91% of the total number of people arriving are now coming from the UK and are
economic migrants (not fleeing war or persecution).

These are people who have more often than not lived in the UK for a time
(sometimes for many years) and have had their asylum applications rejected or
feel the benefits in Ireland are more appealing. They cannot be returned to the
UK because a high court ruling has deemed the UK to be an “unsafe” country. Many
people have originally come from other safe countries such as Nigeria, Albania
or Georgia. In 2021 Minister Roderic O’Gorman put out a tweet in several
different languages (including Eritrean, Urdu, Arabic and Somali) inviting
people to come to Ireland and promising people would have their own door
accommodation within 16 weeks of arrival. These tweets have accounted for much
of the influx we have seen since. With the impending Migration Pact Ireland will
be obliged to take in quotas of migrants, which will further increase the
numbers coming to our shores. The UK Rwanda Bill has meant there is now a
massive influx of migrants into Ireland, on top of the numbers already arriving
here (which has increased by 200% since Covid). For many years we have been told
we have legal obligations, however Ireland, being such a small country that can
be easily overwhelmed, has had a legal opt out clause on matters of immigration
and justice.

In terms of background checks, the state does not conduct background checks.
This became apparent after Carol Nolan TD and Michael McNamara TD submitted a
parliamentary freedom of information request. The Department of Justice says
that because those seeking asylum sometimes claim they are fleeing government
persecution, the department cannot alert that person’s government that they are
in Ireland. They also do not check fingerprints against Eurodac and even if they
did, it is not a criminal database. They say they access the Schengen
Information System also; however, this too is not a comprehensive criminal
database, and neither is Europol, and even if they were, African and Middle
Eastern countries do not subscribe to these databases therefore it is impossible
to check anyone arriving from those countries.

The establishment has repeatedly weaponised the empathy of the people and guilt
tripped them, labelling ordinary mothers, fathers, and grandparents “far right”
and even “terrorists” and “extremists”. They have not sought the consent of the
people and they lie about “humanitarian duty.” If all of this is about
humanitarian duty, then why aren’t those coming in placed in more affluent
communities? If anyone is racist, then maybe it’s the politicians and NGO
figures who don’t place large volumes of undocumented men next to their own
homes or their children’s schools? Wealthy business accruing massive wealth to
accommodate migrants, at a great cost to our tourism industry and society. This
is a human trafficking scam, and this open border policy does not overall help
anyone and deprives the most needy of help.

All the while our young people are leaving their homeland because they can’t
find anywhere to live and can’t afford to buy. Families are left devastated. The
Council provides no incentives for young people to stay. 7 out of 10 young
people aged 18 to 25 are considering moving abroad (RED C Poll on behalf of the
National Youth Council of Ireland. Another poll found that 75% of young people
intend to leave (Extra.ie commissioned poll). We hear the government say we need
emigration because we have an aging population. So why are they allowing a
situation where our youngest and brightest are leaving, known as “brain drain”.

The Shocking Truth about “Humanitarian Duty"

IN THIS SECTION:

 * DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO
 * ALTRUISM OR A LUCRATIVE INDUSTRY?
 * AN AVOIDABLE TRAGEDY WAITING TO HAPPEN
 * LIFE IN ACCOMMODATION CENTRES (AND SOCIETAL FALLOUT)
 * MISSING CHILDREN, SEX (AND OTHER TRAFFICKING)
 * PEOPLE SMUGGLING AND RELATED DEATHS

 

DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO



For over two years we have heard politicians repeat the refrain “we must do our
humanitarian duty.” The truth is none of what is happening has anything to do
with altruistic compassion. Since when do career politicians and political
parties care about the suffering of ordinary people? There are always underlying
agendas. We must take the time to systematically dismantle this gaslighting lie.

If you are one of the people who has felt that humanitarian duty lies at the
heart of our local and national government’s intentions, then this section is
for you. There are shocking and sad truths regarding what the establishment is
facilitating with the current uncontrolled and, ostensibly, open borders system
under the guise of compassion.

Before we look at these truths, it is important to take note of another phrase:
“do as I say, not as I do.”

Have you noticed how large groups of migrants are not placed in very affluent
areas? Have you noticed that the government has done its best to keep removing
men from Mount Street and The Grand Canal? Have you also noticed that when
people from Dublin 4 object to the presence of these men they are framed as
“concerned locals” but when working class people object it is called “far right
extremism”? We must pay close attention when the establishment tells us we must
do something that they themselves are not willing to do. They are quite clearly
guilty of Nimbyism (not in my back yard).

They also consistently betray their unconscious bias by infantilising migrants,
presenting a picture of human beings who are incapable of looking after
themselves (particularly those from Africa and the Middle East) without the help
of white westerners. This white saviour complex is akin to a form of racism.
Furthermore, they are happy to have migrants placed in institutional,
overcrowded settings that they would never find acceptable to live in
themselves.

Lastly, many proponents of an open border system have far left leaning politics
and denounce what they call capitalist greed. Yet they say nothing about the
vast amounts of wealth being amassed by corporate hoteliers and others, who are
profiteering handsomely from mass immigration.

 

ALTRUISM OR A LUCRATIVE INDUSTRY?



Let us move on to “humanitarian duty.” As has just been mentioned, for a select
number of people, humanitarian duty is a very lucrative endeavour; at the
expense of the taxpayer, small towns and villages, working class communities and
indeed the human beings who reside in deeply unsuitable communal migrant
facilities and unregulated residential care settings (for migrant children). GAA
football manager Seamus McEnaney and his family have been paid 130 million to
house asylum seekers since 2020. So, it’s little surprise he publicly spoke out
about how terrible he thinks it is to lower social welfare rates for new
arrivals from Ukraine (Mr. McEnaney understands perfectly well that lower rates
of social welfare means Ireland is a less attractive option for those houses).

In 2023 CityWest Hotel Group was paid fifty-three million for its IPAS and hotel
and refugee reception centre in Dublin. It emerged (in a letter sent to Roderic
O’Gorman’s Department by the Irish Refugee Council) that vulnerable children at
CityWest were queuing up alone for showers and undressing/dressing in front of
adult males who are unknown and unrelated to them (because there are no separate
wash facilities for them). It would appear CityWest cares little about child
safeguarding and cares more about profits.

The truth is that many people are making eye watering profits off the back of
what is actually a migrant industry that is based around institutionalising
human beings who are being crammed into glorified concentration camps and
putting whole families into one room or portioned makeshift rooms is akin to
Ireland normalising tenement conditions. Over time these places will turn into
slums and the towns they are in will become ghettos. Most people will never ever
leave such centres. Do we really believe that the state will house everybody?
They cannot even be bothered to house our own, and these centres are goldmines
and will never close down (meanwhile our tourism industry and the businesses who
rely on it are floundering).

The expansive works conducted on non-hotel centres (unsuitable unsafe industrial
units and office blocks) indicate that the owners of these places are in it for
the long haul. In a number of hotels that house large numbers of migrants, the
owners have continued to attain liquor licences to serve alcohol on the
premises. Where is the duty of care to asylum seekers or refugees? Many
residents have complex issues relating to addiction and mental health struggles.
In addition, they often have little to do all day, meaning the availability of
alcohol on site is a temptation to alleviate boredom and stress. If hoteliers
truly had the best interests of their migrant residents at heart, they would not
prioritise profit through alcohol sales.

In December last year, we at The Irish Inquiry objected to the renewal of a
liquor licence at the Breaffy Woods Hotel/Ukrainian Refugee Centre. We won this
challenge when the Breaffy Woods legal team dropped their application for
renewal the day the case commenced (see The Irish Inquiry video gallery on You
Tube).

The media, county councils, national government, “opposition” parties and NGO
quangos will never highlight the cases such as these and they seemingly operate
a moratorium on highlighting what life is really like in such centres.

If they care so much how come, they never delve into just how many children are
officially going missing and being sold into sex slavery (as well as adults) in
Ireland as a result of our chaotic uncontrolled borders. They vanish these
children a second time as a consequence. They are advocates for human suffering
and misery and only serve their own interests. For example, many parasitic
well-funded NGOs would not exist if not for the current “immigration crisis,”
because there would be no need for them.

If any of the above-mentioned groups cared about human beings, they would call
out this migrant industry for what it is: glorified white collar human
trafficking that has been made palatable for the public to swallow by virtue of
renaming it “humanitarian duty.” The truth is human beings in our current
scenario are a currency and a source of profit, and the money being made is
accrued from a massive transfer of wealth from the taxpayer into the hands of
the greedy. Some of these profiteers do not even live in Ireland, never mind the
communities they are affecting. Cyril Duffy, owner of the Breaffy House Resort
and Moneen Business Park, Castlebar is being paid taxpayer money to house at
least 1000 migrants. He resides in Malaysia. Mr. Duffy and others like him are
in the business of making money, not in the business of “humanitarian duty.”

 

AN AVOIDABLE TRAGEDY WAITING TO HAPPEN



An unknown number of those who have come here have been given modular housing or
other homes. The state has announced an initiative to buy homes and rent
available residential properties for migrants (but not for our own people). Many
people have come to Ireland because they were promised their own door
accommodation within four months of arrival (in 2021 a tweet was sent out by
Roderic O’Gorman’s department in multiple languages to safe countries). As
previously stated, most of the people who arrive will be placed in accommodation
centres permanently (in your towns and villages).

A percentage of such places have no windows in most of the bedrooms (we have
video evidence of this from inside Breaffy Woods Complex Sports Arena). The
rooms are pitch black when the door is closed. There are no toilet or wash
facilities inside the rooms meaning if an adult or child needed the bathroom in
the middle of the night then all young child occupants in the room would need to
be woken to go to the bathroom. The only other option would be to leave children
unsupervised or to use a bucket or other receptacle as a toilet.

Even more alarmingly these rooms are a fire hazard. If a fire breaks out, how do
occupants escape? At The Irish Inquiry we have tried to highlight the fire
hazard and lack of proper fire certs in these buildings for the past two years.
We have challenged Tom Gilligan on this (see the Irish Inquiry video gallery on
YouTube). Mr. Gilligan is the Director of Housing at Mayo County Council. We
have also sought information regarding fire certificates and have discovered
most are awarded as conditional fire certs meaning that necessary works are
conducted after residents are placed in the buildings, on a “promise” basis, but
who is enforcing or checking that such works are completed?

The ESB office building in EastWall, Dublin is one such building. 480 people
were placed there without all fire safety works being completed. One person
associated with profiting from this building is Mel Sutcliffe, an extremely
well-connected wealthy man who we exposed last year. More recently ‘The Ditch’
exposed his involvement in a kidnapping and beating of a man who was shot dead
just 80 minutes after he was released by Sutcliffe and his gang. It is said
Sutcliffe was not connected to his death. The same man has countless properties
housing migrants around the country and has been receiving 100s of millions from
the taxpayer. 10.5 million per year alone for a housing estate with no planning
permission in County Wicklow (that also houses migrants). Wicklow County Council
has recently issued an order that the housing estate be demolished.

Last year we FOI’d The Central Bank to seek names of Goldstein Irish Capital
Assets Management Vehicle (of which Mr. Sutcliffe is the CEO). We were seeking
names of all investors and the board of management, and this was refused. Why is
this, and why are super wealthy investors and speculators make so much money
from unsafe buildings that put occupants at risk? Who will be held accountable
if a fire breaks out and people are burnt to death?

At The Irish Inquiry we produced a video last year talking about the fire at
Crowne Plaza apartments in Blanchardstown where a fire rapidly ripped throughout
seven floors (see The Irish Inquiry video gallery on YouTube). If a fire can
travel this fast through properly built apartments, imagine how quickly it can
travel through rooms partitioned with plywood? Or in rooms with several
mattresses and windows, in buildings that are overcrowded? It is a Grenfell
Tower type tragedy waiting to happen. Recently a fire broke out at an asylum
centre in Buncrana, Co. Donegal. Luckily, none of the asylum seekers were killed
but a number of residents had to be treated for smoke inhalation at Letterkenny
Hospital. This was a proper licenced premises, and the outcome may have been
radically different in an industrial unit with few or no windows.

There have been a number of arson attacks on empty buildings and the government
has focussed heavily upon this, but why are they facilitating people being
accommodated en masse in hazardous buildings?

 

LIFE IN ACCOMMODATION CENTRES AND SOCIETAL FALLOUT



Institutionalised life in accommodation centres (and in emergency accommodation
for Irish people too) is abnormal and this has consequences for individuals,
families, and society at large. When the government outsources the care of human
beings, profit is the primary goal, and so human rights take a back seat.
Overcrowding is rife in accommodation centres. Whole families share one room,
and individuals are sharing with several strangers at a time and have no control
over who they share with. Security and other staff can enter rooms at any time,
including during the night, and can search the belongings of residents without
consent. Increasingly Irish people experiencing homelessness are being placed in
these centres also.

Staff are often unvetted despite working with vulnerable children and adults.
Showering and bathroom facilities are communal (and often unhygienic and
contribute to the spread of infections and viruses. Head of the Irish Refugee
Council Nick Henderson wrote a letter to Minister Roderic O’ Gorman with
concerns that young unsupervised children are queuing up for showers and
dressing/undressing in front of adult males (unrelated to these children) in
CityWest International “Protection” centre (and yet Henderson supports open
borders).

Hostilities are rife in accommodation centres. Many individuals are suffering
from mental health difficulties and also people with diverse cultural and
religious backgrounds live in overcrowded conditions. Tensions frequently spill
over. Families sharing one room are under considerable strain. Parents have no
privacy, nor do children. This particularly affects children going through
puberty. One family who sought help (to publicise their story on The Irish
Inquiry) were sharing a room between two adults and three children (with another
baby on the way). A boy aged fourteen and a girl aged ten were having to sleep
together on a mattress on the floor. Parents and children going to bed at
different times leads to sleep issues for children and frustrations for adults.

Normal family activities like cooking and sitting down for family meals (as
opposed to communal meals) is impossible in most places. Families can be moved
at any time, without any say whatsoever, even when children have settled and
made friends. The stigma of living in accommodation centres is difficult for
children to navigate at school. Bullying can occur and low self-esteem, anxiety
and depression is common in children who live in these centres. Children may
also live far away from school, and this can lead to in attendance and can
affect educational performance.

Tensions between parents who are trying to cope can spill over into domestic
violence, which children witness and are affected by. A normal childhood and
childhood development is virtually impossible in these conditions. The impact is
devastating, and the effects are lifelong. Emotional and physical health suffer,
and trauma is an inevitable side effect of industrialised living conditions. As
previously stated, communal hygiene facilities are the norm, and, aside from a
resulting lack of privacy, children are being put at risk (also see section
Missing Children, Sex (and Other) Trafficking.

In such settings people are subjected to constant rules, regulations, and
surveillance. They have little autonomy. Signing in and out, curfews, CCTV and
strict mealtimes are all part of life. Generally, visitors are not allowed, and
pets aren’t either (except in Ukrainian accommodation). All residents have to
follow a 53-page manual provided by the Department of Children, Equality,
Disability, Integration and Youth called House Rules and Procedures for
Reception and Accommodation Centres. If a centre seems individuals or families
to have broken any rules they can remove residents. These residents can end up
anywhere in the country, away from established school and friends.

This happened to the family who contacted us from Breaffy House. The father had
threatened another resident after the man he threatened has allegedly threatened
to rape his children. The father was ordered to leave along with his heavily
pregnant wife and three children. The father had subsequent depression and
suicidal thoughts and went missing. When located, we live streamed his family’s
story (as requested by him) and we approached the centre on his behalf to appeal
the decision. We also wrote an extensive letter on his behalf to the department
but were met with no empathy for the family in question. They simply doubled
down on uprooting them to a different county with no period of notice (the
livestreams on this family can be found on The Irish Inquiry You Tube channel
under “Live Streams”).

What is also prevalent in these crammed institutional settings is sickness and
disease. When people enter Ireland, they do not have to submit to medical tests
to check for contagious illness, and any are coming from countries where
infections like tuberculosis is common. Deaths occur in such places also. In
2022 The Irish Examiner reported that eighty-eight people have died in direct
provision since its inception. A total of fifteen of these were children under
the age of three. A further three children aged three to twelve have died, and
seven people aged seventeen to twenty-five. The number of deaths from accidents,
poisoning or violence was thirteen. Five children died due to SIDS (sudden
infant death syndrome) and five were recorded as still births. Quite
astonishingly, there is NO legal obligation on any centre to report deaths to
the International Protection Applicants Office of deaths and this means the
number of deaths reported could be a gross underestimate. Presumably, those who
hold tenders will be in no rush to report deaths to IPAS in case it harms their
chances of renewing a contract.

From what we now know, we can see that having these types of centres all over
Ireland is not conducive to ensuring people (in particular children) have safe,
healthy, normal lives, and the fallout for society is one aspect never spoken
about. At the end of the day these residents have to interact with the world
around them (and integration is not encouraged or adequately financially
provided for by the State). Many of whom have lived in such institutionalised
settings for so long will be traumatised and psychologically affected by their
experiences. Interpersonal and intrapersonal difficulties and mental health
issues result. In time we will see a significant fallout for society. The Small
towns and villages who are living alongside these centres are forced to cope.
Furthermore, competition for services resources can lead to lack of social
cohesion and a “behavioural sink type” scenario. This is a term invented by
ethnologist John B. Calhoun in which he posited that a severe collapse in
societal behaviour can occur that can result from overpopulation (and the
associated problems of overpopulation).

 

MISSING CHILDREN, SEX (AND OTHER SLAVERY)



Uncontrolled open borders encourage child trafficking. Did you know twenty-two
migrant children went missing alone from unregulated State care in January 2024
(Tusla: 22 children Went Missing from State Care in January Alone, The Irish
Examiner, February 14th, 2024). That is almost one child per day for a month.
The state is entrusting unregulated private care companies to care for
vulnerable Irish and Migrant children. Underfunding by Roderic O’Gorman’s
department means these companies are often unregulated. One such company, Ideal
Care, was awarded 9.5 million, and it later emerged the owner of this company
(Pastor Jossy Akwuobi, 45, from Tyrellstown) was falsifying the criminal
background checks of staff he was employing to care for extremely vulnerable
children (many of whom are already victims of abuse or trauma). It also recently
also became known that children under two years of age are being placed into
emergency “care” in Air B and B’s with unvetted staff (Babies in State Care
Placed in Private Unregulated Settings, RTE, May 9th, 2024).

Additionally, a damning UCD study (funded by Community foundation Ireland)
revealed a “Rotherham style gang” operating in Ireland. The paedophile ring is
targeting Irish and migrant young girls in unregulated care settings (Rape of
Girls in Care in Ireland by Gangs: Parallels Drawn to Rotherham Sex Abuse
Horror, June 23rd, 2023). The study indicated that predatory groups of men were
hanging around hotels and care settings in order to sexually exploit children.
It was revealed in the study that girls are being targeted in small rural towns
as well as cities. It was cited that “sexual exploitation of children may be
widespread here but is not being talked about and is instead being kept under
the radar.” The study sparked calls for Tusla to be investigated by the Health
Information and Quality Authority (HIQA). There is an ongoing criminal
investigation into the scandal.

In May 2023, prior to it being revealed that unregulated settings were being
used, we at The Irish Inquiry wrote to Tusla to seek information on how many
care settings were unregulated and how much each company was being paid by the
state agency. We suspected that private companies were being contracted to look
after vulnerable children when it emerged that staff who were tasked with caring
for children in care were not reporting the sexual exploitation of their wards
in a timely manner. Despite the law requiring Tusla to respond to FOIs within 28
days, the agency did not reply to us for ten months (they responded two days
before the story broke about Pastor Abuoki). Tusla denied our request citing
that it would take too much time and resources to provide a list of companies
and contracts awarded.

Many of the children in these care settings are migrant children who have
travelled alone. One 14-year-old African child went missing from an unregulated
setting just one hour after she arrived. She was being tracked by a criminal
gang from the moment she stepped foot in Ireland. She was found one year later
in a brothel, having been forced into sex slavery (“is This Not a Resigning
Matter:” 14-Year-Old Girl Trafficked to Ireland Was Found Locked in a Brothel”,
March 1st, 2024). Her movements had been tracked by a criminal gang from the
moment she had landed in Ireland. How many more are in her situation?

When migrant children do go missing TUSLA hands their responsibility to Gardai
who are too under-resourced to find these children. In an FOI we did last year
at The Iris to TUSLA regarding missing children I was informed that TUSLA often
presumes these minors disappear wilfully. It appears that TUSLA rarely or never
presumes criminality at play. Despite the fact they understand child sex
trafficking is now sadly a serious issue within Ireland.

The Irish government knew this would become a problem, because migrant children
have been going missing in the UK for some time now, as confirmed by The Home
Office. In Brighton Hove, 137 migrant children went missing from one asylum
hotel alone.

Detective Chief Superintendent Colm Noonan, head of The Garda National
Protective Services Bureau, says evidence of human trafficking can be seen
everywhere in Ireland. He says “Human trafficking is big, big business and it’s
in every village, every town, every townland. It’s in your face. It’s a
horrendous existence.” He says this includes “organ harvesting, sexual and
labour exploitation” (Human Trafficking ‘in Every Village and Town’ says Cork
Head of Garda National Protective Services Bureau, October 7th, 2022).

Prostitution and Brothels are big business in Ireland as a result of
uncontrolled mass immigration and Noonan says migrant women are being moved
around towns and villages in Ireland (and the UK). Many come from Romania where
he says “80% of all girls and women” in some areas have been kidnapped to be
trafficked “for the purposes of sexual exploitation.”

The issue of missing migrant children, trafficking and the sex trade never
appears to be a talking point for those who champion open borders, but if they
care so much about these people then why is that?

 

PEOPLE SMUGGLING AND RELATED DEATHS



One issue that is sometimes raised by NGOs and media is people smuggling and
related deaths, but they never talk about their role in encouraging migrants to
undertake such dangerous journeys (this can be seen in the documentary
‘Borders’). More than 240 migrants have died in the past decade trying to cross
the English Channel, although it’s likely the true number of lives lost is
higher. The UN agency The International Organisation for Migration records data
on the number of deaths using a variety of methods, which collectively are not
necessarily painting an accurate picture. Why do they also never discuss how
smuggling related deaths could be avoided. Home Office figures indicate that
nearly 7,000 migrants have attempted to cross the English Channel this year
alone. From January to April 2024, 14 migrants died during these perilous sea
crossings, including a 7-year-old child (How Many Migrants Have Died While
Trying to Cross English Channel After Five Lives Are Lost in One Day,
Independent UK, Wednesday April 24th 2024). An increasing number of people
crossing the Channel ultimately wish to reach Ireland by gaining entry to the UK
first.

In January 2024 a group of 14 migrants, including two children, were found in a
shipping container in Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford after they had made a
frantic phone-call to British police who then alerted the Irish authorities. The
occupants were forced to cut a hole in the container as they struggled to
breathe. Justice Minister Helen McEntee said at the time that she was “extremely
concerned to learn of the discovery of 14 people, including three women and two
children in a refrigerated lorry.” She went on to say “we know from past
experiences that similar situations have led to tragic fatalities. This was an
extremely hazardous undertaking, and it is only fortuitous that the same did not
happen yesterday” (Rosslare Migrants ‘Forced to Cut a Hole in Containers They
Struggled to Breathe: Human Trafficking Investigation Launched, The Irish
Independent, Wednesday January 10th, 2024). Just two days after their arrival
several of the migrants found in the container went missing from State care. JP
O’ Sullivan of anti-trafficking and child protection advocacy group MECPATHS
said “it is very concerning to hear they have gone missing – there would be
concerns about potential exploitation.” (Migrants found in Shipping Container in
Rosslare Have Gone Missing from State Care, The Irish Examiner, Friday 12th
January 2024).

What Ms. Mc Entee refuses to acknowledge is that exploitation and deaths (of
people who are possibly being trafficked in the first instance) could be avoided
if countries such as Ireland adopted a policy of adhering to enforcing
immigration laws and immediately returned all illegal immigrants to their
country of origin upon arrival. This would be a very effective deterrent to
illegal immigrants and would put people smugglers out of business. There would
simply be no incentive and so this approach would also save lives. Unscrupulous
people smugglers do not care about human life, they only care about maximum
profits, and charge each person thousands for fake documents and hazardous
journeys. Allowing illegal smuggling of human beings to continue does not only
mean more deaths but it encourages the trafficking of children and adults for
the purposes of sex, organ and labour trafficking. It is unknown if the two
children present in the container in Rosslare have been found.

What Miss McEntee also fails to acknowledge is that government quangos (NGOs)
also encourage people smuggling (and therefore ensure the business of people
smuggling is lucrative). The 2019 documentary ‘Borderless ’highlights how NGOs
themselves benefit from and encourage people smuggling. In an article on The
Irish Inquiry, we exposed how NGOs are a parasitic class who make money from
encouraging the flooding of our country with economic migrants (What is a
Parasitic Infection? by Susanne Delaney, June 16th, 2023, [Click to Read More]
). Over six billion is paid to Irish so-called Non-Governmental Organisations
each year in Ireland. That’s 10% of the annual budget or over six thousand euro
per household.

Another way to discourage illegal and dangerous immigration is to have
processing centres for migrants in their country of origin or another country,
instead of within the country they seek to enter. This is called externalised
migration. In 2021 Denmark passed legislation allowing it to relocate asylum
seekers to third countries outside the European Union while their applications
are reviewed.

Housing & Homelessness

Families are being forced into emergency accommodation away from their
community, leaving children isolated and far from school. The government has
announced it will buy up empty houses and rentals for asylum seekers. Why
prioritise young fit male economic migrants over vulnerable children?
Homelessness has a devastating impact on childhood, the effects of which are
lifelong. Even the well off cannot afford to buy or rent. Many are one paycheck
away from homelessness.

290 thousand people are couch surfing within Ireland (“hidden homeless”).
Hundreds of thousands more house-share. Adult children can’t leave the family
home. Ireland has 14 thousand plus homeless (not including “rough sleepers”).
Several thousand are children. Vulnerable individuals and families are being
left on housing lists for years.

Cost of Living and Poverty

Too many are below the breadline. “Cost of living” stresses mean its hard to
start or maintain a family. We’re overburdened with increasing tax demands too.
Financial strains have a detrimental impact on the health and well being of
individuals, families, and the community as a whole. Poverty is very
stigmatising for children. Increasingly more and more people are falling into an
existence of struggling to survive instead of really living.In Ireland we pay
45% more for goods and services than our EU counterparts. We pay 66% more on
electricity and Gas. Proposed price hikes at the petrol pumps will see prices of
goods and services increase further as the changes will impact production,
manufacturing and agricultural costs.

Health and Special Needs Services

Our vital services are under strain. There are not enough schools, doctors,
health services or nursing homes. At least 50 nursing homes have closed country
wide since 2019, many to be used for fit male migrants. Displacing elderly
people involves them being far away from families. They are often out into
hospitals and this drastically reduces both their quality of life and their life
span. In 2024 top hospital consultants reported grave concerns that, with
600,000 on hospital waiting lists, it will take a decade to clear. There are
over 4,000 children on mental health waiting lists. People are dying as a result
of the endless trolley crisis and hospital appointment and surgery waiting
times. Access to homecare, special needs (and respite), mental health and
addiction services are increasingly scarce. Family carers, those with
disabilities and children with Autism and other such conditions are neglected by
the state. Families are in crisis, many cannot access education for children who
with special needs.

Crime and Social Cohesion

The large volumes of people being placed in communities aren’t adequately
integrated. In 2023 independent TD’s submitted an FOI to the Dept Of Justice
regarding vetting of migrants. Full background checks are not carried out (see
Immigration and Emigration). Garda numbers are dropping while crime and
population and serious crime is increasing.

Antisocial behaviour and crime is already prevalent in our communities and
cities.

Tourism, Local Business, and Employment

In 2022, Mayo’s tourism sector incurred losses amounting to €10 million due to
the reduction in hotel beds caused by the immigration crisis. Local businesses
are suffering due to less visitor footfall, and they struggle to stay afloat
because of exorbitant council rates. With almost 100% employment, we have no
jobs for those being placed in Castlebar and surrounding communities. As
businesses shut dwown, the increasing number of vacant buildings raises the
likelihood of them being occupied by IPAS applicants and refugees.

Council Overspend (using your money)

The Co Council used to directly build and provide housing but now line pockets
of private landlords and pay NGO’s a lot to deliver little. The council also
waste money outsourcing the provision of services to private (sometimes
unregulated) businesses. Our children’s school meals are being sourced from
Industrial Chinese farms. Our most vulnerable are being used to make profits.

Human Rights and Child Welfare

The elderly, family carers,  vulnerable children, mental and physical health
issues and substance abuse issues and their families are being forgotten.

Current councillors stand over placing vulnerable children in highly unsuitable
accommodation in profit making migrant centres and have not done anything to
highlight or address how many Tallaght children are living in similar
accommodation.

TUSLA and other state bodies have a shocking track record and our children are
increasingly targeted with unsuitable “sex education”, diversity and critical
race theory agendas.

Green Policies, Agriculture & Natural Resources

We rely on our farmers, and our farmers rely on Common Agriculture Policy
payment subsidies (CAP), but how much they receive is dependent on compliance
with ever-increasing, impossible “green” policies that make farming
unsustainable and an increasingly unprofitable enterprise. Co. Mayo has a high
number of beef farmers, but this could change if CAP payments are cut. Farmers
are increasingly pressured to cull cattle, yet we are importing higher
emissions, lower-grade beef under the EU Mercosur deal. Between January and June
2023, 70,000 tonnes of beef were imported into Ireland.

Fishing, Oil & Gas, Forestry



HOW CAN I HELP YOU?

 And how can you take back control?

Castlebar and Mayo have changed and face many serious issues. It's time to elect
those who aren't the stereotypical politician type who have failed us in the
past.

 

The time is over for those who seek re-election on promises to maintain
hedgerows, fix roads, playgrounds, or be part of the tidy towns committee. These
are the most basic requirements for elected councillors to adhere to and should
not form part of a candidate’s manifesto. What good is fixing the playground if
you don’t feel safe bringing your child there? What good are tidy towns if your
community is floundering under the weight of unsustainable immigration?

 

Many of our councillors are part of the Joint Policing Committee, yet what have
they done to increase Garda presence in our towns or tackle crime (including
trafficking, prostitution, violent crime and burglaries)?

 

If you seek a knowledgeable representative who will ask hard questions and
demand truthful answers with courage and integrity, vote for me. I have a proven
track record and will endeavour to advocate on behalf of you and your family.

 

Please make sure to register at ‘checktheregister.ie and give me your number one
preference on voting day.

 

Stephen Kerr

Stand with Me for Change


VOTE NO.1 INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE

Stephen Kerr



Let’s rebuild our community—your vote is your voice.

Castlebar, Co. Mayo

info@stephenkerr.ie

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