Friends! I am running in the local elections on June 7th to win a seat for Howth/Malahide on Fingal County Council. If you live in the area, or you know people who live in the area, please share this video and help me get voted in! I am a person who strives for excellence, integrity and consciousness in all things, so if elected I will devote myself to raising the bar on local government and radically improving the well-being of the communities of Fingal. But beyond this, I seek to gain the position of Councillor so as to boost my voice and help me in my upcoming run for a seat in the Dáil, by adding legitimacy and opening doors to speak to people of influence in my quest to raise awareness and stimulate debate about the elephants in the Dáil: the imperative necessity of free speech, fair borders, full sovereignty. Locally, issues on my radar are: 1) preserving the traditional village feel of Howth, i.e. not turning every other building into a high-rise; 2) empowering locals by actively seeking out locals’ views and ensuring these are heard in the Council chamber; 3) making the transport experience more beautiful and organised (taking pressure off parking and traffic); 4) more supports for mothers (get creative to help boost creche availability, more mothers groups); 5) an awareness-raising campaign in schools to address the entrenched littering epidemic, and organising periodic nature walks to clean up such natural spaces as the Hill of Howth. If any or all of this sounds worth making a reality, please do whatever little or big part you can to get votes beside my name on June 7th! Go raibh míle maith agaibh, gach beannacht!

Migration is a normal part of plant, fungi, animal and human existence; however, in the human world, the flow of large populations between societies is often wrought with peril for one or the other group – or both. Thus it is extremely important that a calm, loving but clear-headed analysis is sought on how to balance immigration with native rights. This podcast looks primarily at the current situation in Ireland – where the government has been pushing mass immigration and allowing mass illegal abuse of the asylum system, against the wishes of the vast democratic majority of the indigenous Irish population. However, this discussion also touches on the fundamental issues and principles of migration in general and what is and is not reasonable and healthy. There can be many benefits to migration – for both the point of emigration and the point of immigration, as I know personally – but equally these can be harmful and even devastating in the wrong context. We owe it to ourselves and indeed to the world at large, that we clarify this matter and come to clear action steps. I believe modest and careful immigration can be a blessing, but uncontrolled mass influx of people is culturally destabilising, in Ireland’s case historically insensitive, economically pressurising, and at the end of the day often unfair to communities on both sides of the equation, as the Brain Drain prevents the poorer countries from growing, while rendering traditional ways of life in the wealthier country in many cases more difficult to be continued. Tune in to hear why I feel a reform of Irish border policy is urgently needed, but with love!

Ireland is beautiful! The grass is always greener and so Australia may seem like the wise move if you are a young Irish person looking around at the mess our government has got us into and the many pressures and limitations one must deal with on the Emerald Isle. However, this island and this nation are precious beyond imagining and in this episode I will offer you my perspective on why Éire is the place to be! Born and raised in Australia to Irish immigrant parents, then ‘reimmigrating’ to Ireland myself as an adult, I personally prefer to live in Ireland and hope to share among the disenchanted Irish an awareness of just how magical and special this country is. Australia is a lovely place and full of potential for a great life, and very likely some Irish people are just better suited to the sunny shores of Down-Under; but I believe the majority of us are instead naturally suited to and in love with our island home in the misty north, full of history, culture, craic, colour and humour. All we need is to nurture and devote ourselves to spiritual, intellectual and political revival and with even a fraction of the population all-in with this quest, Ireland will in a few short years look far more like Australia in the best of ways, but with that home-feeling that those who go to Australia suffer missing. And the truth is Ireland is in a sticky situation, attacked by powerful forces which – for whatever motivation – are seeking to utterly vanquish what made Ireland Ireland and what so many of us feel echoing sweetly in the halls of our souls. I ask any young Irishman or Irishwoman reading this: devote yourself to a life in Éire and in your own way help our soulful island heal and flourish like we haven’t in a millennium. This generation of the Irish have the opportunity to bring our ancestral story to a glorious triumphant crescendo, making all the sufferings and struggles of our forebears worth it. The most meaningful life is in pursuing the good not only of oneself but simultaneously a greater good beyond oneself; so we can have all we dream of and more, by shouldering the burdens of the imperfect Ireland of today and giving our powers to unleashing a spiritual and political revolution that will allow our natural wealth and well-being to flower, and so inspire the whole world. We can follow our mates over to the underside of the planet, or make Ireland so damn deadly that our mates move back with smiles the size of Australia.