The issue of mass immigration, something that was unasked for by the populations of either the Irish Republic or of Ulster, is not going away any time soon. Whilst there have been mass disturbances in Ulster following the horrific attack on an Ulsterman by a migrant a few months back and open hostility, some that is incredibly violent, more violent than the response to unwanted migration from people in Mainland Britain, the effects of anger at mass migration has in the Republic had a more political aspect to it rather than a violent one.
Sinn Fein the main leftist Irish republican party in the Republic which is dedicated to creating a united Ireland has been very heavily hit in polling because of Sinn Fein’s dedication to pro-migration policies. Sinn Fein have dropped from 37% approval down to 20% according to a piece in Britain’s Daily Telegraph published back in June of this year.
From what I can gather from both the Telegraph article and other sources including the very entertaining Derek Domino’s You Tube channel, it’s clear that Sinn Fein have followed a very similar pattern to that of the UK’s Labour Party. Sinn Fein, like Labour, climbed aboard the middle class Left train and embraced open borders, multiculturalism, Islamopandering, transgenderism and much much more. The result of this decision to embrace the mores of the Middle Class Left has been that Sinn Fein, again like Labour, has lost much of its working class voter base. Sinn Fein might once have been seen as champions of the working classes across the island of Ireland and in the Republic in particular, but they are not seen so as much now.
Sinn Fein have not helped themselves endear themselves with the Republic’s working classes who are suffering greatly from migration, migrant crime and a horrific housing shortage by cleaving to the current Irish political Establishment and their pro-migration policies. The Telegraph article mentioned that Sinn Fein joined other leftist and Establishment parties and the Irish police the Garda to condemn disturbances in Dublin that occurred after a migrant had carried out a knife attack against children there. This I believe may have given Ireland’s suffering working classes the impression that Sinn Fein were no better than the Establishment parties of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil that have run Ireland since Independence from Britain in the 1920’s. I must admit that for Sinn Fein to line up with a Garda that is allegedly oppressing Irish people who object to the Establishment’s mass migration policies and the main Establishment parties does remove much of Sinn Fein’s political distinctiveness. A lot more Irish people could now be seeing Sinn Fein as just another part of an increasingly hated political Establishment.
Bad things are happening in the Irish Republic and the place now seems to be completely dominated by Left wing NGO’s who have in my view from across the water a disproportionate influence in the politics of the Irish Republic. If Sinn Fein continue to be identified with this NGO political aristocracy then it could continue to hurt Sinn Fein politically. Sinn Fein could end up as being seen as the party of mass migration and the trouble it brings instead of defenders of the Irish people which would be an ignominious end for them.
It’s likely that in Ulster Sinn Fein might not suffer electorally as bad as they might in the Republic as sectarian voting is too strong a bond to easily break. I can’t see Nationalist voters in Ulster voting for Loyalist parties or vice versa even though there might be ground level agreement between the Protestant and Catholic communities about the problems that have been brought to the whole island of Ireland by unwanted migration. However in the Republic where there is increasing support for independent parties that are hostile to the NGO aristocracy and migration Sinn Fein might take a bigger hit.
I’m not an expert on Ireland and its politics, there are people like Dr Eoin Lenihan, the author of the book Vandalising Ireland, who are experts in this field, I’m just an ordinary Briton who is horrified at what the Left has done to the Irish people with its policies. Whether Irish politics will throw up a party like Reform which seems to be taking lots of former Labour and Conservative votes in Mainland Britain remains to be seen but it’s clear that not all is right in the politics of the Irish Republic. Parties like Sinn Fein that once promoted itself as the voice of ordinary Irish people are being hurt politically by being abandoned by its former voters and the fault of that lies not with the Irish people themselves but the parties, like Sinn Fein that they trusted but which have sorely let them down.
Ireland, both North and South, is heading for some ‘interesting times’ in my view. In the South there is a political Establishment that doesn’t seem to care that much for the Irish people themselves and has focused its largesse on migrants whilst in the North there are reportedly a growing number of violent incidents where migrants, especially criminal ones or ones suspected of criminality are being kinetically ‘encouraged’ to leave Ulster. How all this will eventually play out or whether the trouble that is happening in Ulster will spread to the Republic is hard to say but what is clear is that Sinn Fein have found themselves on the wrong side of the argument with regards issues such as migration and that’s going to hurt them politically in the South. It’s a basic political rule that you don’t espouse policies that will damage your key voting blocs such as the working classes but Sinn Fein have done just that.
Links
Dr Eoin Lenihan’s book on Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Vandalising-Ireland-Government-Engineering-Globalist/dp/1959666851
Telegraph article from June 2026 on Sinn Fein and the growing anger about migration in the Republic and in Ulster
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/11/mass-migration-exposed-lie-heart-sinn-fein/
Derek Domino’s You Tube page
https://www.youtube.com/@derekdomino1/videos
