National Party (Ireland)
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National Party
An Páirtí Náisiúnta |
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| President | Justin Barrett |
| Deputy President | James Reynolds |
| Founded | 16 November 2016 |
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| Political position | Far-right |
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The National Party (Irish: An Páirtí Náisiúnta) is an unregistered far-right political party in the Republic of Ireland.
The party was founded in 2016 by Justin Barrett as party president and James Reynolds as party vice president. The National Party had planned to hold its press launch in the Merrion Hotel in Dublin but the event was cancelled by the hotel, which refused to say why.
Barrett, from Tipperary, has a background in pro-life and anti-immigration politics from leading Youth Defence and campaigning against the Treaty of Nice. Reynolds, from Longford, had previously been the Longford county chairman of the Irish Farmers Association, and is the current national treasurer of the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers Association. Reynolds was suspended from the IFA in 2012 for bringing the county executive into disrepute, and had been associated with the Libertas Ireland political party in 2009. He campaigned for a no vote in the Fiscal Compact referendum in 2012 as chairman of the small Farmers for No group.
Leader Justin Barrett has said that the National Party will only field candidates if it believes they have a realistic chance of winning.
The party's principles include opposing the legalisation of abortion and "endeavour[ing] to restore those freedoms which have already, unjustly, been given away" to the European Union. The party supports a points-based immigration system modelled on the Canadian system, and has called for a temporary ban on Muslims entering Ireland. It supports a renegotiation of Ireland's relationship with the EU, but not a withdrawal.
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