In the days and weeks after Archbishop Dermot Farrell had been elected to his post as the Primate of Dublin, Ireland was rocked by a number of violent stabbing incidents, with a number of fatalities.
The once peaceful country has become a hove of drug violence, with youth gangs, human trafficking and violent assault becoming norms.
Ireland is currently the worst country in Western Europe for human trafficking and 1 in 10 young people are regular illegal drug users, to name just two of many indicting statistics. The Irish media work very hard to make sure that there is no focus upon the fact that the liberalisation of Irish society has contributed to this.
In a homily at his first public Mass since becoming Archbishop, Dermot Farrell stated that:
Carrying a knife does not ensure your security. You do not leave your home carrying a knife with you with the sole purpose of peeling an apple or an orange. Rather, when you carry a knife, you travel down a very dangerous road full of risk.
Sooner or later, it will be used in a malicious way which puts yourself and others in the way of injury and death. This is not the way to construct a world that is safe. Safe for ourselves. Safe for our children. Safe for the vulnerable, be they young or old, friend or stranger. Violence is not the way.
He also said:
communicate our vision of non-violence to a culture that advocates carrying knives and wielding them to intimidate people or, indeed, to settle disputes
Ireland’s violent crime epidemic has been fueled by a number of factors which are not allowed to be discussed because they threaten the liberal narrative which states that Ireland was a cruel religious place in the 20th Century and a perfect secular place in the 21st century. The haphazard migration policies of successive Globalist governments are by every objective measure a contributory factor, as is the fatherlessness of Ireland’s youth, as is the influence of British Culture in Ireland, with shows such as Topboy and music such as Irish Drill Rap videos glorifying this violence. The drug habits of Irish liberals are also contributory, with many secular politicians boasting of their past drug usage in the run up to elections. These drug habits have created a subclass of Irish young people for whom becoming drug mules is a natural path in life. Irish liberals, especially journalists, see no harm in talking about how children were treated in the past in ‘Catholic’ Ireland while paying good money to obtain drugs that they know exploited children in order to get into their hands.
Instead of discussions on these topics, all that we get are vacuous comments, such as this lame offering from one mundane Globalist politician today who stated ‘There should be no place in our city for those cowards who carry knives and have created an environment of fear’.
Ireland has become a very very violent place of late, with these stories gaining some traction because they happened so close together. But most of these stories remain ignored at other times, because peering under the surface would reveal that all is not well in perfect secular Ireland. Last year, a drug gang chopped up a young drug mule. Rather than be aghast, many secular Irish people excitedly shared alleged footage showing his murder, perhaps taking pride in the knowledge that their drug habits had contributed in some part to such a death. In another incident, a woman was decapitated in a tragic car accident on Ireland’s motorways and secular Irish people had to be begged by the Gardai not to share the video of her head lying on the road. They didn’t heed the call and many excitedly sent the multiple recordings of the person’s sad death in an unsolicited manner to work Whatsapp groups, sports group chats and to family and friends.
The easiest thing for the Archbishop, and for us, would be to say nothing. But the violence currently gripping Ireland is all the making of the secularists and their triumphalist ideology, which sees abortion and violent knife crime as a necessary path to becoming a successful modern country, ‘part and parcel of living in a modern city’, as Sadiq Khan put it. All of these crimes were preventable and the knife crimes that are to come are preventable, it is not in our hands to prevent them at the present time, but it as least in our hands to speak up until something is done about it.