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Islam is poised to overtake Protestantism as Ireland’s second-largest religion by 2043. Driven by mass immigration and higher birth rates. Between 2016 and 2021, Ireland’s Muslim population surged 53% to 79,000 nearly tripling since 2006. Meanwhile, Protestant numbers have declined 10% in the same period. Muslim women average 3.5 children per family, while Protestants average 1.9. This demographic shift is compounded by Ireland’s open door immigration policy, which prioritizes asylum seekers from Islamic countries. The Central Statistics Office projects that by 2043, Muslims will reach 12% of the population, surpassing Protestants at 9%. Dublin’s mosques are already bursting Friday prayers spill onto streets. The Islamic Cultural Centre in Clonskeagh now serves as a hub for 20,000 Muslims, offering Arabic classes and halal services. Protestant churches, meanwhile, struggle to fill pews. The Church of Ireland sold off 100 properties between 2015 and 2020 to cover maintenance costs. In contrast, a new €40 million mosque complex opened in Blanchardstown in 2022. By 2043, Islam is projected to become Ireland’s second religion, marking a seismic shift in the nation’s religious landscape.

Ireland deserves to escape EU tyranny on Fishing! Ireland’s fishing industry is right to demand the same Common Fisheries Policy opt-out Brussels was ready to offer Iceland. If the EU can bend the rules for one island nation to protect its fleets and coastal towns, it can stop treating Irish waters as a shared resource for everyone else. In June 2026 the Irish Fish Producers Organisation renewed that call after reports that Fisheries and Oceans Commissioner Costas Kadis had told the Financial Times an Icelandic accession deal could include fisheries and aquaculture exemptions. Analysts suggested that might mean an administrative zone around Iceland where the CFP would not apply. Iceland later rejected a return to membership talks, but the episode still exposed the double standard. IFPO chief executive Aodh O’Donnell said his organisation would not oppose special treatment for Iceland but only if Ireland got the same. A carve-out for Reykjavík would be a tacit admission that the CFP cannot serve island nations with major marine resources. Ireland is one of those nations. It sits on some of Europe’s richest fishing grounds, yet Irish opportunities have shrunk for decades while other member states keep access to Irish waters. O’Donnell’s case is straightforward. Geography, dependence on fishing and unique marine resources were enough for Brussels to find flexibility for a country not even in the EU. The same arguments apply to Ireland. Fishermen here have been told for years that the policy is fixed and quota shares cannot move through Brexit losses, further cuts, fleet decommissioning and the failure to deliver the long-standing Hague Preferences. Ireland also bore a disproportionate share of the Brexit settlement, contributing about 40 percent of the value of fish transferred to the UK under the Trade and Cooperation Agreement. There cannot be one set of rules for Iceland and another for Ireland. The government should use this precedent and demand equivalent derogations: a review of Ireland’s place in the CFP, a fairer share of the wealth taken from Irish waters, and real national control over fisheries so coastal communities are no longer run from Brussels. If the CFP does not fit Iceland, it has already failed Irish fishing.

The Government’s new Irish Investment Account will not open until 1 July 2027. Simon Harris says it will make investing simpler. But will they? There is no minimum payment and no lock-in. People can move the account between banks, investment firms and insurers without a tax charge. Gains sit inside a €50,000 tax-free threshold. Above that, a flat 1% tax applies to the value of the account, not just the profit. The most anyone can put in is €12,000 a year. Shares, bonds and ordinary funds are allowed. Crypto and complex products are not. Revenue stays out of the day-to-day paperwork. This is being sold as a breakthrough for ordinary savers. But in reality is a narrow perk for people who already have spare cash. Most households do not have spate cash. Irish families are sitting on more than €160 billion in bank deposits because rent, mortgages and bills come first, not because the tax form is too hard. A €12,000 annual cap does nothing for someone who cannot find €12,000. Harris himself says deposits and State Savings will still be the right choice for many. The tax design is odd too. A 1% charge on the value above €50,000 can hit an account even in a bad year, when nothing has been sold. And “simpler” still means paying a bank or insurer to run it. Fees can swallow a tax break that, on the minister’s own figures, may not even bite for the first few years. It opens in mid-2027. Until then it is an announcement, with the results remaining to be seen. We won't hold our breath.

The Government has finally admitted what households already know, that the carbon tax on home heating hits ordinary people hard. Simon Harris is cutting the rate on kerosene and natural gas from €63.50 a tonne to €48.50. He is also cancelling two further rises that were due by May 2027. He says heating bills are already too high, partly because of the Middle East conflict, and many families have no easy way off oil or gas. That is the quiet confession. The tax always landed hardest on people in older houses who cannot afford a full retrofit. The relief is only partial. The tax is still there. The same Budget still puts €654.5 million into home and community “energy upgrade” schemes, inside a €1.3 billion climate, energy and environment budget, plus more for other green projects. For years the rises were sold as settled and necessary. When the bills hurt, the increases were dropped. The people paying were never the ones setting these obscure targets.

Native Irish bee's rescued from old restored house. 35kg honey rendered from them!

Irish girl shares her experience pf dealing with migrant men in Wicklow.

Government was spoofing, there will be no 'Culture Cards'. Chambers kills €100 Culture Card, then calls it fiscal prudence The Government has dropped a €100 Culture Card for 16-year-olds from Budget 2027, a scheme it had already put in the Programme for Government and that would have cost about €7–8 million. Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers said the Coalition could not “fund and deliver” the card next year. He cited “tightening fiscal parameters” and said the cultural money that did survive went to the basic income for the arts, the Arts Council and national cultural institutions. He declined to discuss the other proposals his colleagues had brought to the table. The gap between the rhetoric and the sums is hard to miss. The same minister who could not find a single-digit millions for cinema, theatre and music entry for teenagers also announced €5.9 billion in current spending, €1.1 billion in capital, and a €1.6 billion contingency he called “smart budgeting.” Day-to-day spending growth is being cut to 6 per cent. Against that, a card worth roughly the price of a few cinema trips looks less like an unaffordable item than a choice. Chambers had already signalled the outcome. Days before the Budget he was reported to have told Arts Minister Patrick O’Donovan that €100 was “too high,” after a row in which O’Donovan was said to have left the room. The card was then parked, not redesigned. Finance Minister Simon Harris tried to paper over the drop. He conceded there is no concrete commitment to give 16-year-olds a card in Budget 2027, then said the Government remains “committed” because the idea is in the Programme for Government. O’Donovan, he said, will now spend “the months ahead” talking to stakeholders about devising one. That is the familiar pattern: a pledge to “examine” a Culture Card for 16- and 17-year-olds, a public falling-out over a modest sum, and a Budget that delivers process instead of the card. Chambers can claim he moderated spending. What he actually delivered is another promise pushed past the next set of headlines.

African Muslims and their French girlfriends vandalize French Church on the name of Allah and sing praise of Bataclan concert killers!

While PBP try to fool the public that protests in France are a Socialist uprising. Videos showing rioters calling for death in the name of Allah prove otherwise!

Violent scenes in Andersontown Belfast

Idiot PBP Dublin City Councillor Connor Reddy cheers on the violence in France in which working class commuters and workers are being massively affected and teachers and civil servants hunter and attacked.

France 2026

*Warning Graphic Content* This is what women are subjected to in Afghanistan, Iraq and most Islam majority countries. Will Ruth Coppinger, Ivana Bacik or Ritchie Boyd Barrett call for a boycott of the Irish football teams playing their National sides?

African woman delighted with her free food on behalf of Irish Taxpayer.

Just some of the scenes of the race riots in France. Could Ireland be next?

Man confronts migrant men on Dart who deliberately sit beside young girl while rest of seats are empty

Dublin is safe? Stabbing within past hour on Dublins Marlborough Street.

Yves Sakila knocked down young woman aswell as elderly man during his shoplifting escape attempt! Gardaí investigating the death of Yves Sakila are urgently seeking a young woman he knocked to the ground on Dublin’s Henry Street. Detectives believe she may have vital information about the moments before Mr Sakila died on Friday, May 15. The incident unfolded on Henry Street between Moore Street and Coles Lane, outside Arnotts. The 35-year-old had been pursued by security personnel after an alleged shoplifting incident. As he tried to flee, he knocked two members of the public to the ground: an elderly man, who was injured, and a young woman. Mr Sakila, who had lived in Ireland since 2004 and grew up in Galway and west Dublin, was then detained by a number of security personnel and held on the ground. Footage recorded by a bystander and widely circulated online appears to show him restrained for several minutes. He appeared to be in distress before becoming motionless. When gardaí arrived he was unresponsive. CPR was carried out before he was taken by ambulance to the Mater Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. Investigators have received the completed post-mortem report. Its details are not being released for operational reasons. Gardaí have spoken to the elderly man Sakila knocked down, but have yet to speak to the woman. She is described as white, in her late teens or early 20s, with dark hair. At the time she was wearing a khaki waist-length coat, a black crop top, blue jeans cut at the knees and black Adidas runners. After Sakila knocked her down, she got up herself, remained in the area for several minutes, and then made her way towards O’Connell Street.

Ireland’s Rickshaw Crisis: A Deadly Black Market Dublin’s streets are overrun with rickshaws those seemingly harmless, human-powered taxis. But beneath the simplicity lies a toxic reality, many drivers are unvetted illegal immigrants and asylum seekers operating in a lawless black market. They pay zero taxes, ignore safety regulations, and often use their vehicles as drug-running fronts. The latest tragedy, a fatal accident in Dublin, makes one thing clear, these death traps must be banned immediately. The numbers are stark. An estimated 70% of rickshaw drivers lack proper documentation, exploiting Ireland’s lax enforcement. They flood city centers at night, weaving recklessly through pedestrian zones. But it’s not just safety, these vehicles have become mobile drug dens. Undercover Garda operations have caught drivers stashing cocaine and heroin in passenger compartments. The economic toll is just as dire. With no licenses, no insurance, and no taxes paid, legitimate taxi drivers are being bankrupted by this shadow economy. Meanwhile, Dubliners are footing the bill for emergency services responding to rickshaw-related incidents. The solution is obvious: total ban. No more dodging fines, no more exploiting loopholes, no more lives lost. Ireland must act now before another family mourns a preventable death. It’s time to take back our streets from this lawless, deadly trade.