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By no means suggesting they’re a majority or even close but there are an interesting number of English ex-pats in the crowd. #Irexit
@hermannkelly, organiser of #Irexit event compares Brexit referendum to 1916 Rising. “They struck for their freedom... it’s everything we fought for 100 years ago.”pic.twitter.com/h48RUlUKVB
.@LisaHannigan and The Chieftains music used in a scenic video about Ireland. #Irexitpic.twitter.com/OAYug34q9b
Kelly: “who wants to be free?”
Loud cheers and “yeeeows”.
Kelly finishes with desire for a new political party. #Irexit
I note presence of members of the self-styled National Party in the hall. #Irexit
Anthony Coughlan, Arch-Irish Eurosceptic, says Nigel Farage is a hero. Applause. #Irexit. About 400 in the hallpic.twitter.com/FHrcWDAg3r
Also in my chat to crowd: “I’m a Brit. I can’t believe that 100 years after you left Britain you attached yourselves to a far less democratic union.” #Irexit
Coughlan says EU is a Franco-German “racket” started in Berlin to “dominate” Europe having “failed to do so in WW1 and WW2”. Loud applause. #Irexit
General buzz from the crowd is “immigration”, “fishing”, “sovereignty”, “take back control”. #Irexit
Anthony Coughlan’s speech has gone down a storm. “We should align ourselves with our countrymen and women in the North of Ireland in leaving EU.”
The talk is on fisheries being “raped” now. There is a lot of anger towards Eu from fishermen but Killybegs trawlermen will tell you they need UK waters for nephrops and mackerel. #Irexit
Nigel is on Marian now by the way so he’s due here shortly where he’ll be interviewed on stage by John Waters.
Literature. Sign up for developments on creating #Irexit “movement” and booklet by Anthony Coughlan which finishes with Amhrán na bhFiann. #Irexitpic.twitter.com/iPQ6O2s4WU
Tried to chat to a group of 20-something guys and women in rugby scarves at the back of the hall. “Do not dare put us on radio.” #Irexit
Karen Devine hits out at “silent Irish media” aiding and abetting domninance of Ireland by colonial power Europe and hall erupts. #Irexit
Here’s Johnny! Hall love him. Says people here are “the sovereign people.” The media “are a wrecking ball”. #Irexitpic.twitter.com/9eIOoY7Idc
John Waters says Ireland is not a nation, republic or democracy. #Irexitpic.twitter.com/O4hQMbR62C
“We have to remove the media because they don’t permit us to have the conversation.”
And the crowd goes WILD. #Irexit
John Waters into the “multiculturalism” bit now. Immigrants “have no affinity or allegiance to the countries they end up in” HEAR HEAR
“This is our fault because we don’t demand it”. Applause. More applause. #Irexit
Crowd getting up. Waters rolling against “Mass migration”. “Europeans no longer have a place to call home.” This seems quite unlike any other political speech I’ve witnessed in Ireland. #Irexit
Waters says Europe’s Christianity being ebbed away by a “metastatic cancer”. Mass applause. “Natives.” “All this is happening when we’re forbidden from saying such things.”
Some lad in the crowd just tried to sneakily take a photo of me (don’t know why). His flash went off and now he’s mortified and covering his face.
“Family. Church. Nation.” Says Waters.
Standing ovation for Waters. Says we need to build an economy on “tradition, culture and our beliefs”pic.twitter.com/2d7IfihzgO
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