National Republican Conference July 19th 2025

The most important meeting of Irish people that will happen in our lifetimes, perhaps.

Jun 13, 2025

On July 19th this year, Republican groups from all over Ireland will convene and discuss the future of the movement. This meeting is likely being convened by people who are reacting to the rise of nationalism once again in this country and with an aim to seeking cooperation against us in some sort of united front. I say this as it seems to follow on from two Lasair Dhearg press conferences that revealed how ideologically emaciated the Republican movement has become. Adult men in their fifties and student union third wave feminists talking about Irelands disaffected working class boys as if they were Hitler Youths, hoping that it would make targets of them in the eyes of young republicans is sinister at best. They actually talked about organised attacks against young nationalists as if that was something to be proud of as if that was a Republican virtue. They also went on to admit to wanting to work with progressive Unionism to combat “far right” ideology. This is a literal admission to opposing the nationalist position. In those two videos, they brought the entire Republican tradition into disrepute.

Needless to say, it has opened the eyes of many within the republican movement. They no longer want to be a part of the US orchestrated Antifa open borders charade. The culture war is objectively antithetical to the Irish spirit. That much is clear to us all. The conversations that are happening right now between Nationalists and Republicans are mind blowing. There is now cordial debate and chatter. The breaking down of the preordained social circles is leading to cross pollination which the globalist elements of the Republican sphere are desperate to prevent. This is what I am hoping will come to end at this meeting and I believe it will come to an end because if republicans do not clip the wings of these globalist elements, they will be relegated to the substitute benches as people like Malachy Steenson, who you would do well to invite, redefine Ireland’s way forward.

Why am I writing this then? Couldn’t I just enjoy being part of the popular movement and just let the torch bearers of Republicanism atrophy and decompose a once great cause? Why do I care? I care because unlike what all of these groups have been brainwashed to believe about us, we love the Republic. I love the people who gave it to me. All of them, not just the ones who were near perfect in word and deed but the imperfect ones too. All the republicans who transcended philosophy and creed and simply acted upon tribalistic inclination. You, the republican movement, are my people. Thats why I care. As it stands you currently exist in an even more fractured state than the nationalists of the south and this meeting will be an effort to address your own disorganisation. I can tell you now if all you succeed in doing is reassembling the Republican structure and philosophy of the last two decades or so you will achieve nothing going forward. The Irish people are allergic to self hatred and political correctness. They are acutely aware of the globalist attempt to erase nationhood too. The undertone of this meeting should be that the people who you are now scrambling to react to are not your enemies. We are merely a natural explosion of neglected populist initiative that expanded outwards in a vacuum created by Republican agnosticism. The story of the Irish race will exist within or without the republican movement. That much is now very clear.

Who are we? What brought us about? The impression left deep within those of us that grew up in the 26 counties during and after the troubles period is that we adore and cherish those who took a stand. It has formed an integral part of our mindset as we have assembled this new wave of nationalism. We have built this movement from within the decayed corpse of a Free State that prevented us for three generations from rising. We have risen with the values of a 32 county republic intact and have also fended off attempts of sabotage and cooption. Our emergence and staying power should be the subject of awe and camaraderie, not ostracisation. It is republicanism, the romantic view of our national rebel spirit, that drives us but the absence of it officially from the debate on migration, lockdowns and other imperialist mandates meant that we had to stand up in an “as is” fashion and work with what we had. We have exceeded our own expectations and indeed yours. The energy of the people is with us. Our propaganda machine is devouring the State piecemeal. There is no reason to continue this liberal elitism or entertain the NGO speak in your ears about us. We are the real deal and we are ready to cooperate to save this republic. This should be a central theme of this conference.

A member of Fronta Poblachtach addresses the migration question

Your meeting will be attended by some people who favour involvement with us on the migration issue or at a minimum want to offer an alternative to what our movement offers. It is essential that you listen to them. One group in particular that will be attending is Fronta Poblachtach who have declared their intentions to address the mass immigration issue along traditional principles such as border control, profiteering, labour market abuses and cultural integrity. Members have specifically outlined ending the use of Ireland as an economic vassal state. This position strikes perfectly at the root of the mass migration crisis and has resonated with me and many others. This group, as well as others like them, are the future of the Republican movement and will, I am hoping, be well received at the event on July 19th or at the very least deliver impactful course correcting contributions. They are representing people like me who feel abandoned by a movement I grew up in admiration of. They realise I and many others like me exist.

This conference is a train leaving the station moment where the course of both movements will be decided in finality. We cannot afford to have Ireland’s nationalist, and republican thinkers divided and this is our chance to give the people something uniquely Irish and worthy of the peoples support. Divided, we present the globalist machine with the ideal conditions to keep the people down and the country in the hands of empire. We will be forever trapped in the economic vassal state model and be forced to lose our country one work visa at a time. We will see the nationalists become ever more susceptible to foreign political input. We already have seen MAGA politics overcome the minds of some of the new nationalists and let me tell you, it has been a hard slog for people like me to keep the republican cause alive within this environment. The hostility towards my efforts coming from foreign actors and our own is relentless but persist I will. If it wasn’t for a small disparate group of us taking action there would be an untreatable wound in Irish society. Instead we now have this inflection point to capitalise upon but it requires Irish republicanism to intervene in itself.

In the Republican camp we see globalist brain rot and the UN bleeding heart diversity cult dominate the mindset. They are consumed by critical race theory to the point of hibernophobia and taught to increasingly hate and reject the great leaders and values of our past. The recent “mongrel” comments from Michael Martin are indistinguishable from the rhetoric coming from some of these Antifa types who now masquerade as the heirs of James Connolly. They all have more in common with Peter Sutherland than any real Republican as they march in Blackrock funded Pride parades against the sanctity of the family unit. This is what Republicanism has been reduced to in 2025. Trotskyite agitation against every vein and sinew of our national identity. The absolute inverse of the vision of 1916. Further abstention by either nationalist or republican from cooperative relations with the other will doom our people to the same social, political and economic conditions found in North America today. This conference is a chance to revive Traditional Republicanism holistically through Irish society, not just on the left, but the right too and will help to remove that false dichotomy from our path to national liberation.

Recently I attended a protest against a NATO ship in Cobh/Cork harbour organised by Diarmaid Ó’Cadhla who is involved with the growing independent republican movement. He spoke fondly of this new network of Republicans that was forming and that I should attend the Wolfe Tone commemoration planned for Bodenstown on the 8th of June just gone. Due to work commitments I couldn’t attend but I am sorry I didn’t just go. It seems to have turned out to be a brilliant, well attended affair but I can’t help but wonder if the size of the turnout there wasn’t in part or whole a reactionary response to the sea of Tricolours we seen in Dublin on April 26th. I happen to have trawled through twitter and facebook to try get a sense of the crowd that attended. It was in fact a mixed bag with Erin Go Bragh nationalists marching alongside hardened socialists with many people making that very observation. A proper affair. I sincerely hope this isn’t just a load of noise to reclaim the publics attention in order to pacify them while the plantation rages on. “Be jaysus the boys are getting active again, I will just wait and see what they do next”.

I foresee the bad actors in both camps trying to push a keeping up with the Jones type situation going forward and a campaign of demonisation against people who attend one or the other groupings events. I have already been labelled as a “lefty” for attending the anti-Nato protest in Cork. I for one will not be bending to will of people who want to divide the Irish nation. In fact, as the days go by and the longer I think on this particular issue, the less partisan I become. I will be attending both going forward and working towards the restoration of nationalism AND republicanism in this country. With that in mind I want to wish all the attendees the very best of luck. I hope it is productive.

This is an exciting time. Commemoration societies and other reenactment and historical groups keep the stories of our past alive. But our story can no longer be the endless retelling of these stories. Revolutionary socialist groups have mastered the pageantry and optics of republicanism but carry none of its desire for nationhood, even going so far as to oppose it. This is a non runner. We have to forge tales anew. Those who are speaking will hopefully tell the attendees that fifty thousand Tricolours in Dublin is not a crisis, it is a time for camaraderie. They must be told to remember, as Connolly famously did, that they are indeed, Irishmen and Irish women.