Ian O’Doherty: Ireland’s immigration powder keg

The Brendan O'Neill Show

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🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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The Brendan O’Neill Show is now available to watch on video. To make sure you never miss any of spiked’s videos, subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked Ian O’Doherty – columnist at the Irish Independent and host of The State of Us – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Ian and Brendan discuss how migrant hotels took over rural Ireland, Dublin’s contempt for the working class and the struggle for an Irish populism. Order Brendan O’Neill’s After the Pogrom now from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	When you stifled debate, and that has happened in Ireland, people become resentful, and they become more extreme with their opinions.
0:07.3	Come back their own country and go out.
0:09.3	Because if you keep on pushing somebody, eventually they've got to push back.
0:12.0	It's a recipe for disaster.
0:13.8	What we've seen is the farming out of refugees and asylum seekers.
0:19.5	There are rural towns in Ireland that have been overrun in one swoop,
0:22.6	that have become a minority in one swoop.
0:24.6	All that's done is just some distrust.
0:27.6	This is the issue through which they most keenly experience their dislocation
0:31.6	from political life and their dislocation from democratic life.
0:35.6	It's not very ugly at times, and it always has the potential to get even more of the...
0:41.3	I'm worried about the future of my country.
0:58.0	Hello, welcome back to the Brendan O'Neill show with me, Brendan O'Neill,
1:00.2	and my special guest this week, Ian O'Darty.
1:01.3	Ian, welcome to the show.
1:02.4	Thank you for having me on, Brennan.
1:04.0	Great to have you back on.
1:09.5	I feel like it hasn't been that long since our last chat, of course, which was about Ireland and all the stuff that's going on in Ireland,
1:11.5	but so much is happening there all the time. And the world is increasingly interested in what's
1:16.9	happening in Ireland as well. So I thought we should get you back on and find out what the hell
1:22.2	is going on in this country that you and I both love, but are very worried about. I think it's fair to say. So to kick
1:29.0	off, tell us, I guess, a broad question. What's the political temperature like in Ireland now?
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