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Martin’s flag lecture at Arbour Hill — and the Proclamation he won’t quote.

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TL;DR
  • At Arbour Hill — where the executed revolutionaries of 1916 lie buried, close to Collins Barracks — Micheál Martin says the flag should not be used to “divide or exclude” and should stand for a “modern and outward-looking” idea for Ireland and an open, inclusive sense of Irishness; anyone who knows its history, Dooley counters, knows the tricolour was about uniting the Catholic and Protestant traditions — Wolfe Tone, the Protestant United Irishman, wanted exactly that.
  • The Proclamation Pearse read on the GPO steps declares the people’s right to the ownership of Ireland “sovereign and indefeasible” — a line Martin won’t mention, Dooley argues, because sovereignty is a “backward-looking idea” to a “European Union branch manager” running a state with no control over its monetary or fiscal policy, reduced to writing to the European Commission over fuel-tax changes.
  • The same Martin who faced a motion of no confidence in his government last week insists he’s “very connected to the people” and will lead Fianna Fáil into the next election — while Dublin City Council discusses stripping tricolours from lamp posts in working-class communities as “marking territory”, and last week’s nationwide fuel-price protests were carried, Dooley says, by ordinary working-class Dubliners, with few of the “new Irish” turning out.
  • Where the EU splits GDP at roughly 52–53% profits to 48–49% wages, Ireland runs about 68% profits to 32% wages, Dooley says, with one in five workers on low pay — these are the values Martin actually represents, he argues, invoking James Connolly’s Workers’ Republic and its contempt for the “rack renting” slum landlord: not inclusion, just one ruling class replaced by another.
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00:00

Hello everyone

Hello everyone. Micheal Martin has nothing but contempt and disdain for the people of Ireland and his latest comments came at Arbour Hill at the commemoration for the revolutionaries 1916 who were executed, who were buried in Arbour Hill Cemetery quite close to Collins Barracks on the north side of Dublin City. Now he spoke about the Irish flag. Remember Martin already in recent times has said that the Irish are not homogeneous. There's been recent discussions in Dublin City Council.

Around removing Irish flags from lamp posts in working class communities and we can see them still all around working class communities in Dublin. Because this is about marking territory or so they are claiming when we should be proud of our Irishness. But this is part of the globalist agenda, isn't it? Not to make you proud of your community, your identity, your history, your heritage. But let's get on to a few of the comments that Martin spoke about. Martin.

Said that the Irish flag should not be used to divide or exclude. Well, anybody knows our history of the Irish flag knows that it's actually the bringing communities together in terms of the Catholic and Protestant traditions in Ireland. Um remember Wolfe Tone, one of the United Irishmen, was a Protestant and wanted to bring people together also. But we won't speak about what Martin was trying to mention about the divide or exclude. He said it should be a modern and.

Outward looking idea for Ireland. And he also said it should be an open sense of what Irishness is and it should be about inclusion. So uh yeah, let me know in the comments what you think about Martin's comments before I go on to explain really what he meant behind this over the next number of minutes. He said at the same time that he will will be running in the next election or leading Fianna Fáil into the next.

General election and he said he wants to fulfill his mandate. And he said he's very connected to the people. This is the same Micheal Martin that uh faced motion of no confidence in his government last week and I'm sure there'll be more pressures coming on in the not too distant future with the cost of living disaster in Ireland. Now in the proclamation of the Republic that was read by Patrick Pearse on the steps of the GPO on Easter Monday in.

1916, it states, "The right of the people to ownership of Ireland and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies is sovereign and indefeasible." Martin won't mention that because um sovereignty is a backward looking idea or he wants nothing to do with a backward looking idea of sovereignty. But sovereignty is okay when it's pursued by the European Union masters such as what's taking place in Ukraine. When Martin performs his job as European Union branch manager here in Ireland,.

02:58

We've no control over our monetary policy, our fiscal

We've no control over our monetary policy, our fiscal policy in terms of writing to the European Commission about tax changes for fuel. This is the type of nonsense we're dealing with in Ireland. But of course, at the same time we've had the Irish political establishment who have fully signed up to this neoliberal agenda. And it also went on to say that the proclamation, "We should be oblivious of all differences carefully fostered by an alien government which.

Has divided a minority from a majority." Ordinary working people have always been pitted against each other and that's fundamentally a part of keeping the system going. My most recent video I spoke about Leo Varadkar making comments about rural versus urban and rather than ordinary working people stand together, they always make these cynical divides to try and keep their power and privilege and keep people at each other's throats rather than people uniting. Uh it also spoke about suffrage.

For men and women which is well ahead of its time and to cherish all the children of the nation equally. So Martin essentially has no right to speak about what the Irish flag stands for. He also spoke to say that Irish were not homogeneous and his government were looking at plans to try and remove Irish flags and tricolors from lamp posts all around working class communities in Dublin and many poor more parts of Ireland where people.

“So Martin essentially has no right to speak about what the Irish flag stands for”

Have a sense of pride, sense of community, sense of standing together against the globalist agenda and standing up for our history and our heritage and our culture and our traditions. But Martin has no interest in this as he pursues the globalist agenda which wants you to be tied to absolutely nothing so that it's easier to control. If you look at a case in point over the last week with the fuel protests that went nationwide, how many of the.

New Irish for instance have come in and supported those protests? Not many. They would claim in the last number of weeks. It was generally ordinary working class Dublin people that came out and supported working class people from many parts of the country. So when you have no attachment to community or history or heritage, it's easier to control which is part of the globalist agenda, isn't it? Where it's all about profits being siphoned upwards while ordinary people suffer.

05:33

And it's interesting when James Connolly spoke about sense

And it's interesting when James Connolly spoke about sense of Irishness, he said that he would have no time for the rack renting slum owning landlord when he wrote in the Workers' Republic which is quite right. We have many Irish people who are absolutely destroying the lives of other Irish people. And not the sweating profit grinding capitalist, not the sleek and oily lawyer and not the prostitute pressman, the hired lawyers of the enemy according to James Connolly.

But this is what's taking place in Irish society in terms of just replacing one ruling class with another. So it's really about the unfettered and total controls of the resources to be provided to and for the people. That's what the Irish constitution even states and says the state of the policy of the state should derive from the people. But when was the last time any of us were asked about any policy that affected our daily lives or.

What vision we would have for Ireland? Look at the housing and homeless disaster. Look at the health chaos. Look at the mass immigration chaos. And look most recently in terms of the vast majority of people supporting those who were out protesting because the extortion increases in fuel prices. But this is part of the agenda by the Irish government to make you essentially ashamed of your community. Famously, Thatcher said there was no such thing as community.

And um David Cameron, another Tory, who also went on to say that he believed in a big society where everybody played their part which was essentially trying to run down public services and lack of investment in basic facilities for ordinary working class people. This is at the same time in Irish society where you have the profits and wages probably at the most starkest revelation of what's really taking place in society, the relationship between them. Because in the European Union,.

The correlation between profits and wages are fairly equal around 52-53% for profits versus 48-49% for wages. In Ireland, it's massively less. Is that really surprising? Ireland's about 32% wages versus 68% profits of the GDP. We all know this is pushed upon by the multinationals and the globalist capitalists in Irish society and right across the world that are making massive massive windfalls from what's taking place currently in Ireland.

08:14

These are the values that Micheal Martin represents and

These are the values that Micheal Martin represents and these at the same time are the values that he's trying to promote through his discussion about the Irish flag being open and inclusive. But pursuing the mass immigration agenda for his globalist masters for the reasons of outlined but also in terms of the cheap labor and the race to the bottom where one of five workers are on low pay and the benefits to profits to those at the very top of society will impact the.

Working class most of all. So this is what's taking place in Irish society and at the same time we're having this constant gaslighting by Micheal Martin. Last year he also made similar comments in a speech to um speak about people who were who were protesting against the government to say they were negative and they weren't seeing the bigger picture and all this type of nonsense. But Martin is a signed up globalist, a signed up man for the billionaires, a.

Signed up man for the rack renting landlords that James Connolly spoke about, a signed up landlord for those in Irish society who are making massive windfalls from the misery of others through the mass immigration agenda. And also in terms of those accommodation providers making massive massive profits. Many Irish too. So maybe when they have a discussion about the flag and who it represents, let's make a representation for the ordinary working people of Ireland where there's far more of us.

Than of those who are profiting from misery and the divisions and inequalities get deeper and while they'll continue to try and pit people against each other. But it's the way this system works in Ireland. And um thanks so much for supporting my videos. Really appreciate them and please subscribe also. So Dublin today, Slunga Falt. Bye-bye.

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20 Apr 2026 · Sovereignty · 9:54

Martin’s flag lecture at Arbour Hill — and the Proclamation he won’t quote.

At the Arbour Hill commemoration for the executed revolutionaries of 1916, Micheál Martin says the Irish flag should not be used to “divide or exclude” and should stand for a “modern and outward-looking” idea for Ireland and an open, inclusive sense of Irishness. Dooley reads the speech against the Proclamation’s “sovereign and indefeasible” right of the people to the ownership of Ireland — the one line, he argues, that Ireland’s “European Union branch manager” can never bring himself to mention.

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TL;DR
01
At Arbour Hill — where the executed revolutionaries of 1916 lie buried, close to Collins Barracks — Micheál Martin says the flag should not be used to “divide or exclude” and should stand for a “modern and outward-looking” idea for Ireland and an open, inclusive sense of Irishness; anyone who knows its history, Dooley counters, knows the tricolour was about uniting the Catholic and Protestant traditions — Wolfe Tone, the Protestant United Irishman, wanted exactly that.
02
The Proclamation Pearse read on the GPO steps declares the people’s right to the ownership of Ireland “sovereign and indefeasible” — a line Martin won’t mention, Dooley argues, because sovereignty is a “backward-looking idea” to a “European Union branch manager” running a state with no control over its monetary or fiscal policy, reduced to writing to the European Commission over fuel-tax changes.
03
The same Martin who faced a motion of no confidence in his government last week insists he’s “very connected to the people” and will lead Fianna Fáil into the next election — while Dublin City Council discusses stripping tricolours from lamp posts in working-class communities as “marking territory”, and last week’s nationwide fuel-price protests were carried, Dooley says, by ordinary working-class Dubliners, with few of the “new Irish” turning out.
04
Where the EU splits GDP at roughly 52–53% profits to 48–49% wages, Ireland runs about 68% profits to 32% wages, Dooley says, with one in five workers on low pay — these are the values Martin actually represents, he argues, invoking James Connolly’s Workers’ Republic and its contempt for the “rack renting” slum landlord: not inclusion, just one ruling class replaced by another.
Prefer to watch? The full video is on YouTube →
9:54
Transcript · auto-captions, polish pending

Hello everyone

Hello everyone. Micheal Martin has nothing but contempt and disdain for the people of Ireland and his latest comments came at Arbour Hill at the commemoration for the revolutionaries 1916 who were executed, who were buried in Arbour Hill Cemetery quite close to Collins Barracks on the north side of Dublin City. Now he spoke about the Irish flag. Remember Martin already in recent times has said that the Irish are not homogeneous. There's been recent discussions in Dublin City Council.

Around removing Irish flags from lamp posts in working class communities and we can see them still all around working class communities in Dublin. Because this is about marking territory or so they are claiming when we should be proud of our Irishness. But this is part of the globalist agenda, isn't it? Not to make you proud of your community, your identity, your history, your heritage. But let's get on to a few of the comments that Martin spoke about. Martin.

Said that the Irish flag should not be used to divide or exclude. Well, anybody knows our history of the Irish flag knows that it's actually the bringing communities together in terms of the Catholic and Protestant traditions in Ireland. Um remember Wolfe Tone, one of the United Irishmen, was a Protestant and wanted to bring people together also. But we won't speak about what Martin was trying to mention about the divide or exclude. He said it should be a modern and.

Outward looking idea for Ireland. And he also said it should be an open sense of what Irishness is and it should be about inclusion. So uh yeah, let me know in the comments what you think about Martin's comments before I go on to explain really what he meant behind this over the next number of minutes. He said at the same time that he will will be running in the next election or leading Fianna Fáil into the next.

General election and he said he wants to fulfill his mandate. And he said he's very connected to the people. This is the same Micheal Martin that uh faced motion of no confidence in his government last week and I'm sure there'll be more pressures coming on in the not too distant future with the cost of living disaster in Ireland. Now in the proclamation of the Republic that was read by Patrick Pearse on the steps of the GPO on Easter Monday in.

1916, it states, "The right of the people to ownership of Ireland and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies is sovereign and indefeasible." Martin won't mention that because um sovereignty is a backward looking idea or he wants nothing to do with a backward looking idea of sovereignty. But sovereignty is okay when it's pursued by the European Union masters such as what's taking place in Ukraine. When Martin performs his job as European Union branch manager here in Ireland,.

We've no control over our monetary policy, our fiscal

We've no control over our monetary policy, our fiscal policy in terms of writing to the European Commission about tax changes for fuel. This is the type of nonsense we're dealing with in Ireland. But of course, at the same time we've had the Irish political establishment who have fully signed up to this neoliberal agenda. And it also went on to say that the proclamation, "We should be oblivious of all differences carefully fostered by an alien government which.

Has divided a minority from a majority." Ordinary working people have always been pitted against each other and that's fundamentally a part of keeping the system going. My most recent video I spoke about Leo Varadkar making comments about rural versus urban and rather than ordinary working people stand together, they always make these cynical divides to try and keep their power and privilege and keep people at each other's throats rather than people uniting. Uh it also spoke about suffrage.

For men and women which is well ahead of its time and to cherish all the children of the nation equally. So Martin essentially has no right to speak about what the Irish flag stands for. He also spoke to say that Irish were not homogeneous and his government were looking at plans to try and remove Irish flags and tricolors from lamp posts all around working class communities in Dublin and many poor more parts of Ireland where people.

“So Martin essentially has no right to speak about what the Irish flag stands for”

Have a sense of pride, sense of community, sense of standing together against the globalist agenda and standing up for our history and our heritage and our culture and our traditions. But Martin has no interest in this as he pursues the globalist agenda which wants you to be tied to absolutely nothing so that it's easier to control. If you look at a case in point over the last week with the fuel protests that went nationwide, how many of the.

New Irish for instance have come in and supported those protests? Not many. They would claim in the last number of weeks. It was generally ordinary working class Dublin people that came out and supported working class people from many parts of the country. So when you have no attachment to community or history or heritage, it's easier to control which is part of the globalist agenda, isn't it? Where it's all about profits being siphoned upwards while ordinary people suffer.

And it's interesting when James Connolly spoke about sense

And it's interesting when James Connolly spoke about sense of Irishness, he said that he would have no time for the rack renting slum owning landlord when he wrote in the Workers' Republic which is quite right. We have many Irish people who are absolutely destroying the lives of other Irish people. And not the sweating profit grinding capitalist, not the sleek and oily lawyer and not the prostitute pressman, the hired lawyers of the enemy according to James Connolly.

But this is what's taking place in Irish society in terms of just replacing one ruling class with another. So it's really about the unfettered and total controls of the resources to be provided to and for the people. That's what the Irish constitution even states and says the state of the policy of the state should derive from the people. But when was the last time any of us were asked about any policy that affected our daily lives or.

What vision we would have for Ireland? Look at the housing and homeless disaster. Look at the health chaos. Look at the mass immigration chaos. And look most recently in terms of the vast majority of people supporting those who were out protesting because the extortion increases in fuel prices. But this is part of the agenda by the Irish government to make you essentially ashamed of your community. Famously, Thatcher said there was no such thing as community.

And um David Cameron, another Tory, who also went on to say that he believed in a big society where everybody played their part which was essentially trying to run down public services and lack of investment in basic facilities for ordinary working class people. This is at the same time in Irish society where you have the profits and wages probably at the most starkest revelation of what's really taking place in society, the relationship between them. Because in the European Union,.

The correlation between profits and wages are fairly equal around 52-53% for profits versus 48-49% for wages. In Ireland, it's massively less. Is that really surprising? Ireland's about 32% wages versus 68% profits of the GDP. We all know this is pushed upon by the multinationals and the globalist capitalists in Irish society and right across the world that are making massive massive windfalls from what's taking place currently in Ireland.

These are the values that Micheal Martin represents and

These are the values that Micheal Martin represents and these at the same time are the values that he's trying to promote through his discussion about the Irish flag being open and inclusive. But pursuing the mass immigration agenda for his globalist masters for the reasons of outlined but also in terms of the cheap labor and the race to the bottom where one of five workers are on low pay and the benefits to profits to those at the very top of society will impact the.

Working class most of all. So this is what's taking place in Irish society and at the same time we're having this constant gaslighting by Micheal Martin. Last year he also made similar comments in a speech to um speak about people who were who were protesting against the government to say they were negative and they weren't seeing the bigger picture and all this type of nonsense. But Martin is a signed up globalist, a signed up man for the billionaires, a.

Signed up man for the rack renting landlords that James Connolly spoke about, a signed up landlord for those in Irish society who are making massive windfalls from the misery of others through the mass immigration agenda. And also in terms of those accommodation providers making massive massive profits. Many Irish too. So maybe when they have a discussion about the flag and who it represents, let's make a representation for the ordinary working people of Ireland where there's far more of us.

Than of those who are profiting from misery and the divisions and inequalities get deeper and while they'll continue to try and pit people against each other. But it's the way this system works in Ireland. And um thanks so much for supporting my videos. Really appreciate them and please subscribe also. So Dublin today, Slunga Falt. Bye-bye.

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