In March 2024, the Irish establishment suffered its biggest ever humiliation.
The Irish people shocked the world by overwhelmingly rejecting efforts to remove the Constitution’s right for a mother to remain at home to work with her family. It also rejected a radical redefinition of the meaning of family, which was in part designed to speed up Ireland’s already catastrophic migration levels.
The fall out was so dramatic that Leo Varadkar resigned as Taoiseach less than two weeks later.
Fast forward almost two and a half years and no lessons have been learned.
Minister for Children Norma Foley, the first heterosexual to hold the post in a decade, has decided to spend a fortune on countering the rising popularity of ‘tradwives’ and the ‘manosphere’.
The three year action plan sees Irish women working at home with their own children as counter productive to ‘gender equality’.
The action plan states:
Other online influencers, colloquially referred to as ‘tradwife’ influencers, many of whom are women, seek to promote restrictive, stereotypical roles for women and girls. Patriarchal gender norms are also particularly harmful for LGBTIQ+ people and anyone who is non-binary or gender non-conforming in any way. The influence of harmful gender norms often intersects with other restrictive norms, such as for example those limiting disabled women’s access to employment.
The document’s purported opposition to the ‘manosphere’ seems ironic given the state’s friendly relationship with Alyo Holdings, the world’s largest pornography dealer, which operates from Dublin. The company has been involved in numerous cases about human trafficking and images of child abuse, how does that contribute to ‘gender equality’?
The document also states:
Despite being over 50% of the population, women are under-represented in senior decision-making roles across society, including elected public office.
It should be pointed out that no Irish political party has ever chosen a woman to be Taoiseach when they have gotten in to power. Perhaps they should practise what they preach instead of attacking those who wish to work at home with their children.
Ireland has had the most dramatic collapse in birth rates and home ownership of any EU country over the past 15 years, in large part because of the policies of successive governments.
