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[Louise McKenna @_louise__]

If the law were clear and consistent and actully fuckin worked we wouldn't be having this conversation.

Instead, we have layer upon layer of laws that often appear to contradict one another. The Constitution says one thing, EU law says another, and ordinary people are expected to somehow make sense of it all.

If people can't understand the system, they can't meaningfully hold it to account. A legal system that loses the public's trust has a serious problem.

ECJ SUPREMACY, DIGITAL ID AND ARTICLE 1 OF BUNREACHT NA hÉIREANN

Ireland has now begun the rollout of the EU Digital Identity Wallet under European Union legislation.

Whatever one's view of digital identity, its implementation raises an important constitutional question.

Article 1 of Bunreacht na hÉireann declares that the Irish Nation has the inalienable, indefeasible and sovereign right to determine its own form of government and to decide its relations with other nations.
The ordinary meaning of inalienable is that a right cannot be surrendered or transferred.
At the same time, Article 29 of the Constitution authorises Ireland's participation in the European Union following a series of constitutional amendments approved by referendum.

The Court of Justice of the European Union has consistently held, through decisions such as Costa v ENEL, Internationale Handelsgesellschaft and Simmenthal, that EU law has primacy over conflicting national law within areas governed by the EU Treaties.
That brings us to the constitutional question.
If the Digital Identity Wallet is being introduced because Ireland is implementing binding EU legislation, to what extent does the Oireachtas retain the freedom to refuse or substantially alter that legislation?

If sovereignty is truly inalienable under Article 1, how should that principle be reconciled with a legal order in which Ireland accepts that EU law prevails in areas of competence conferred by the Treaties?

Under the current constitutional framework, Ireland has accepted obligations arising from the EU Treaties through amendments to Article 29. As a matter of EU law, those obligations are binding. As a matter of constitutional interpretation, however, some argue that Article 1 raises deeper questions about the limits of transferring sovereign authority, even where constitutional amendments have been approved.

Whether one supports or opposes digital identity is not the central issue.
The real constitutional question is this:
Who has the final authority to decide?
If the answer is ultimately the institutions of the European Union in fields governed by the Treaties, then it is legitimate to ask how that sits alongside Article 1's declaration that the sovereign right of the Irish Nation is inalienable.

That is a constitutional question worthy of open public debate.

[Niall James Byrne @Niall_J_Byrne]

Update & Introduction # 1
Migration & Asylum Pact - Now in Court of Appeals
#politics #ireland #Migration #Asylum

[mattie c @Mackman087]

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[SIMON RAM @KULIRAM1976]

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[Katie Hopkins @KTHopkins]

A woke-tard landlord physically assaulted me and spat in my face “my wife is Palestinian”.

Darling, you gave my sympathy. But you do need to own your issues.

Tonight I will watch the game with REAL MEN

[Bobby D🎙 @robertdunlap947]

Oh my Lord😳, this IS AN EPIC BEAT DOWN🫨! Can you believe the Obumer team stiffed a bunch of black subcontractors (because he’s racist) and now THEY ARE FILLING BANKRUPTCY🤬! If you haven’t figured it out yet, Demonrats ARE PIECES OF 💩!

[Brandon Straka #WalkAway @BrandonStraka]

This video is going viral because this man celebrated when Charlie Kirk died- and then something happened that completely changed him forever.

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

The Irish establishment media has written a neat script about "Heroic" Helen Ogbu, the new Black mayor of Galway. The Nigerian born asylum seeker, direct provision survivor, foster carer, now mayor, its a perfect happy ending "immigrant success story". They're all celebrating it, all from exactly the same script.

But here’s what they've convieniently left out.

Back In 2001, at the peak of Ireland’s "anchor baby" scandal  thousands of heavily pregnant Nigerian women were flooding into the country to take advantage of the "Citizenship by birth" rule, In 2003 alone, 4,625 babies were born to "non-national" women in Dublin’s three main maternity hospitals aline, and 1,528 of those were born to Nigerian mothers. Politicians like then minister for justice Michael McDowell and  leader Bertie Ahern publicly condemned it. The issue became so inflammatory the Irish Government held a referendum in 2004 to amend the constitution and end the practice. The result? almost 80% of Ireland's people voted to close the loophole forever.

One of the Nigerian women who timed her trip perfectly was one Helen Ogbu. In 2001 she flew from Nigeria, which is over 5,200 kilometres from Dublin while heavily pregnant. There were no direct flights between the two states and she would have needed a visa,  she then had to  endure at least 11 to 13 hours of flying, with connections through Europe (usually London, Paris or Amsterdam)

This is a very long, expensive, and physically tough journey for anyone, never mind a woman in the late stages of an apparently complicated pregnancy, all supposedly just to "visit friends?"

Helen Ogbu subsequently gave birth to her daughter in Dublin, securing Irish citizenship for her child, and then promptly returned to Nigeria.

Despite this early "interaction" with the Irish state, her own website (and Labour Party material) completely and convieniently ignores this reality, they state -

“In 2006, my family and I moved to Ireland, seeking safety and a fresh start after the tragic loss of my husband.”

Despite this obviously intentional omission regarding her travel to Dublin while in the late stages of pregnancy,  there’s one other glaring problem, her husband, Sunny Orji Ogbu, wasn’t assassinated until October 2010. Four years later in Nigeria.

As the inconsistencies and selective narrative parroted by the idolising Irish media unravels, there are more questions which nobody in the Irish Times or RTE seems to want to ask.

Her husband was a successful businessman and politician in Nigeria, he had property holdings, several business and came from a large well know elite Nigerian family, Where did all his money go? In Nigeria it is exceptionally unusual that a wife would not inherit the deceased husbands estate, but Helen Ogbu says she arrived in Ireland "with nothing" and survived on "Direct Provision" from the Irish state?

Three big questions. Zero answers from the Irish client media. Just lectures about racism for anyone questioning the rise of a Nigerian immigrant to become the darling of pro migration elites?

Race shouldn't be a shield from enquiry and accountability.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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