Subhead:Ezra Levant reports on what he saw at a protest against mass immigration in Cork, the second largest city in the Republic of Ireland, which saw the mainstream Irish media downplay the demonstration while highlighting a small counter-protest.#
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On Saturday, I went to Cork, the second-largest city in Ireland, to observe a march against mass immigration.
In late April, approximately 50,000 Irish people marched in Dublin, the capital city. The grassroots rebellion is spreading across the country.
My videographer Syd and I flew overnight from Canada and arrived a bit early at the Grand Parade in the heart of the city, where we saw that about 200 counter-protesters had come early to occupy the turf.
They were flying Palestinian flags, transgender flags, and flags of a large government trade union. Many had pro-Hamas messages on signs and their speeches were shockingly violent — that was the counter-protest.
The pro-Ireland group, by contrast, carried the Irish flag — by the thousands — and their language was peaceful and patriotic. I think that tells you a lot right there, doesn’t it? Police made a kind of “DMZ” between the two camps, splitting the sea like Moses.
And, after some back-and-forth taunts between the two groups, the pro-Irish group began to march away.
Rebel News deployed our drone, and I’d estimate that there were probably 5,000 people on the pro-Irish/anti-immigration side; a police officer I asked put his estimate at 3,000. Let’s split the difference and call it 4,000.
Here, check out our drone footage for yourself:
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But here’s the crazy thing. I’m back in Canada now and I saw that the Irish Examiner — a mainstream media news source — had covered the same set of rallies I did. But one of us must have been hallucinating!
