When the EU says jump the Irish government asks how high. This time it's the triple lock, so airheads in Brussels can continue to posture towards Russia.

The irony in all of this is I am a Republican. The National Party are a Republican party. But Republicanism stands on it's own, it doesn't innately integrate socialism into it, as many Sinn Féin and other break off Republican groups have. For that reason they have, and not by accident, made Republicanism almost synonymous with socialism. Furthermore they've tied it to globalist activism, like Palestine and anti racism as a veil to justify another plantation of Ireland. If anything, and I honestly believe this, they have hampered the cause of Irish reunification by attaching an economic model nobody wants to the idea of a united Ireland. This drives away people who otherwise might have supported SF and finally pushed them into government in the south. There are only really two SF breakaway paths; even harder socialism in smaller parties, or Aontu, who are too weak to be effective but tick the globalist, anybody can become Irish, boxes. The largest Republican party decided it didn't know the difference between a man and a woman anymore. They can't tell you what an Irish person is anymore. So when you say Republican you get lumped in with these headbangers. This is why many of us took to calling ourselves nationalists. Realistically we shouldn't let socialists hijack the term Republican, it certainly doesn't belong to them. They're essentially piggybacking Irish history to try to insert their preferred economic model. There's nothing genuine about that, which is only further displayed by their enthusiastic opposition to ant other nationalism which refuses to declare outright socialism as its entire economic plan.