Flags erected in Limerick 'to try and create division in our community', councillor claims

SOCIAL Democrats councillor Elisa O’Donovan has asked council to remove a number of flags advertising the National Party from lamp posts in Dooradoyle.

She said a number of these banners had been erected across the suburb, alongside the Irish Tricolour flag.

In a video posted to the social media network, Instagram, the City West councillor said: “They are putting up these flags to try and create division within our community.”

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Cllr O’Donovan said one of the reasons she loves representing City West, and Dooradoyle, is due to its culturally diverse population.

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“We have people from so many different nationalities. However, it is disappointing to see there has been an increasing element within our community to try and put blame on immigrants and migrants for some of the issues we are facing,” she said.

She added the reason for these challenges are “due to decades, if not a century of very poor planning and policy decisions by Government and by elected representatives.”

Cllr O’Donovan added: “I think it is really important to stress that if tomorrow we had no immigrants coming into this country, and particularly into Dooradoyle, things would not get better in this country. In fact, they would get worse.”

A National Party spokesperson confirmed that its Limerick cumann had erected the Tricolour flag in Dooradoyle.

"While government and other parties such as SocDems [Social Democrats], Greens and the rabble of far left opposition may feel embarrassed or ashamed at the display of Irish flags in Ireland, the National Party remains committed to the national idea," they stated.

"The promotion of Irish interests in Ireland—in housing, immigration and social policy—are priorities for the National Party. Unless reversed through Remigration, the current plantation of Ireland by mass immigration will see the Irish rendered an ethnic minority on our own land. The National Party continues the centuries long struggle for an Irish Ireland, not free merely, but Gaelic as well; not Gaelic merely, but free as well," the group concluded.