The office of
President of Ireland
used to be ceremonial.
A figure like the Queen of England.
Representing Ireland and Irish culture.
Not annoying people with divisive politics.
That all changed when
Mary Robinson was elected President
in 1990.
Since then
the position of President
has become increasingly politicised.
Presidents started delivering little politicised speeches on what was on their mind,
with no interest in the citizens that disagreed.
Invariably
these homilies tend to be centre-left conventional wisdom,
or even toxic, radical left extremism.
This escalated massively under
Michael D. Higgins,
who started running his own foreign policy,
based on hatred of Israel and love for dictatorships like Iran, China and Cuba.
The Irish Presidency is a pointless office that exists to annoy people with different politics to the President.
But she achieved little at the
United Nations because she was not willing to fundamentally stand for reform, and stand with the democracies
against the non-democracies.
Mary Robinson after 9/11
was quick to attack America with wild claims.
In Sept 2001 in New York she said she was
"shocked at the extent of the strong feeling of hatred and aggression
towards those who look Arab or Asian".
Mary Robinson, Nov 2005, displays her moral equivalence between democracies and dictators:
"The Iraq war has weakened the moral authority of the United States and its allies to tackle the likes of China and Russia over their poor records on civil liberties, .. Mary Robinson said
...
"It's much harder now for President Bush in China to talk to China about human rights ... "Where's his credibility?""
Um, maybe because he runs a democracy with human rights, and China doesn't?
On the liberation of Iraq from Saddam, she said:
"the poor, beleaguered people of Iraq are not better off.""It was not a legitimate war".
The racist UN conference in 2001
Mary Robinson presided over the international festival
of Israel-hatred, the
World Conference against Racism
in Durban, South Africa, in September 2001.
Mary Robinson ranting about the Gaza War on the Late Late Show, Sept 2025.
She is as mad as any conspiracy theorist.
She says Gaza is starving, Israel is deliberately causing a "famine",
aid cannot get in,
there is a "genocide",
Israel is prolonging the war for political conspiracy reasons,
and so on.
All of these points can be challenged, but the host makes no attempt to do that.
Instead he does his own intro saying Gazans are starving
and Israel is killing indiscriminately.
He agrees with all her conspiracy nonsense.
President Mary McAleese's
trip to the Islamofascist state of Saudi Arabia
(where the state executes gay men and women), Feb 2006,
is a classic example of the uselessness of "official Ireland".
McAleese is not particularly left-wing, and neither is the government that approves her words.
Yet in front of an audience representing one of the most brutal, backward, bigoted,
apartheid states in the world,
she chose to state that the people of Ireland
"abhorred the publication"
of the
Muhammed cartoons.
Thus siding us with the Saudi religious fanatics against the modern, tolerant Danish.
"Can you imagine a President of Ireland visiting South Africa during apartheid
and saying nothing about oppression and forced segregation being wrong? Or comparing her past slight disadvantages
to an audience in which token, handpicked blacks were behind screens? Or justifying giving blacks more opportunities
simply on economic and cultural grounds? Or commenting blithely that the "feisty, determined" blacks she met
were delighted she had come to the country?"
"Our President is anxious that Muslims should not be offended, but in the last couple of weeks
she has grievously offended unionists, as well as the many Irish citizens who think we should be standing up
for the Danes and free speech, rather than caving into Islamo-fascist intimidation by saying
we all "abhorred" the publication of the cartoons."
