I’ve always believed that the relationship between citizens and the State is built on trust. It’s not written down, but it’s understood: we work, pay taxes, follow the law, and contribute to society. In return, the State provides the essentials that make life possible: housing, healthcare, education, safety, and a fair system that protects its own people first. It's called the social contract.
That basic understanding has collapsed. The government continues to demand compliance from its citizens while failing to deliver even the minimum standards it owes in return. Housing is in crisis. Hospitals are overcrowded. Public order is breaking down. And while Irish families wait years for help, the State has opened its doors to unprecedented levels of immigration without any plan, capacity, or limit.
No country can function like that. Immigration policy, like every other policy, must operate within the limits of fairness, law, and common sense. It cannot be detached from reality or from the duty a government owes its own citizens. The social contract means little if those who built and fund the State are treated as an afterthought in their own country.
This isn’t about anger or division. It’s about responsibility. Every nation has the right, and the duty, to manage its borders, its housing, and its welfare system in a way that protects social stability and public trust. Ireland is failing to do that, and people can see it. They feel it every day in their rent, their hospital queues, their schools, and their towns.
I love this country. I’ve spent my life believing in what it could be. But what’s happening now isn’t sustainable. It’s not fair, and it’s not rational. Unless there’s a serious course correction, a government that rebalances this country’s priorities and restores the idea that Irish citizens come first in their own Republic, then the social contract is finished.
Ireland deserves better. Its people deserve better. And pretending everything is fine will not fix what’s broken.