Irish President Connolly: St. Patrick’s Story is ‘Reminder of the Resilience and Courage of Migrants’
“As we recall the life of Patrick, we invoke his spirit and acknowledge our shared responsibilities as global citizens.”
Happy St. Patrick’s Day, everyone.
Before you sit down for some corned beef and cabbage or a pint of Guinness, I wanted you to see how the new progressive President of Ireland is framing the story of her country’s patron saint.
According to Catherine Connolly, the story of St. Patrick is about how great migrants are. That’s news to me.
In my years of Catholic school, I learned that St. Patrick was a Roman living in Britain who was captured by raiders and brought to Ireland as a slave. After escaping Ireland, he returned to Britain, where he became a priest. According to legend, Patrick had a dream where the people of Ireland called to him to come back and save them. He then traveled back to Ireland and converted the Irish people from paganism to Christianity.
This transcript is directly from the Irish President’s website:
As we gather together to celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day, it is appropriate that we recall the foundational story upon which our national day is based.
Patrick was trafficked across the Irish Sea from Britain as a young man in the 5th century only to return to Ireland as a missionary, giving voice and his life to fostering an awareness of the consequences of slavery.
The story of Patrick’s life serves as a reminder of the resilience and courage of migrants, the invaluable contributions that they have made, and continue to make, to the countries they now call home, sometimes even in the face of great adversity.
Patrick’s story speaks not only to the Ireland of the 5th century, but to the millions still subjected to trafficking, forced labour and displacement today.
As we recall the life of Patrick, we invoke his spirit and acknowledge our shared responsibilities as global citizens. We stand in solidarity with those who find themselves in vulnerable and dangerous circumstances.
Patrick’s story invites us to respond with hospitality and kindness to those suffering the consequences of war and displacement, those fleeing their countries because of persecution or violence.
Nowhere in her speech does Connolly mention the core of St. Patrick’s story or what made him a saint. She even repeatedly refuses to use the word ‘saint,’ opting instead to just say ‘Patrick.’ Watch below:
NEW – Ireland's President urges "global citizens" to acknowledge their "shared responsibility" to invoke St. Patrick’s spirit, by standing in solidarity with migrants and to recognise "the invaluable contributions" they make.pic.twitter.com/Tk98m2eUiX
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This short video from the History Channel does a better job recounting the actual story of St. Patrick.
The left’s obsession with unfettered migration is baffling, but don’t let it ruin the holiday for you.
Sláinte!
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‘global citizens’. No such thing. Ireland is in a race with Britain to see who can go down the drain first.
St. Patrick chased out the snakes from Ireland, but Connolly seems intent on bringing them back…
Sure, there is. There’s a globe, and people who don’t want to come to this country legally can be citizens of that globe over there, not here.
Every race ever in Ireland has been chased out by successors.
A few of them got a myth out of it.
It’s the muslims turn now to do the chasing.
A race to see which country can be the most emasculated, cowed, meek, gullible and dhimmified, under the Islamofascist/Muslim supremacist bootheel and scimitar.
Just another in the long line of AWFL Girlbosses destroying everything they touch. I wonder when people will have had enough of this?
“. . . as a reminder of the resilience and courage of migrants” who only want to steal from you and what your ancestors have built, spurred on by an avaricious government bent on making you a second-class subject.
and who need new voters since they are beginning to think you are going to stop voting for them.
It takes a lot of courage to go to a foreign country and commit massive fraud, rape, theft and arson then demand the government turn a blind eye. Turn the tables, would anyone from Ireland illegally invade Algeria, Syria, Somalia etc and get away with similar actions? Nope.
sounds like the Irish have quit fighting invaders. The heroes of Easter 1916 would be ashamed.
Memories are short… dangerous in leaders.
Oh, she knows what she’s spouting is BS but memories are short and educations are substandard in the electorate, by design.
It’s why the education is sub-standard.
“Memories are short…”. Look at Noo Yawk voters. Twenty-five years to forget.
My Great Grandad who spent 4 years in France 1914-18 would be ashamed. Unbef*ckinglievable!
we love hard working pro american immigrants
unfortunately, the dems have made that a non starter and just use the wave of numbers as soldiers in the making and immediate voting partners
That’s a bit of a prog stretch there. LOL
Who?
Foreign AWFUL doubling down on stupid.
Considering how pro-Arab Ireland is and how they sat out WW2 they can’t be absorbed by their Muslim masses too soon.
Why not open up Ireland to one million migrants from Gaza?
Do I hear 2 million?!
I hear Iran might have a few ready to go.
Your average leftie believes:
___ fill in the blank___ is a reminder of the resilience and courage of migrants.”
a) lines at the food bank
b) the incredible number of autism centers in LA supporting our children
c) the dinosaur extinction
d) hawaiian pizza
e) clouds in the sky
f) all of the above
Chased out the snakes (druids), converted them to Catholics, made them easy prey for the Protestant English. The rest is tragedy
Shut up, commie!
The way Ireland is going is embarrassing to this Irish American!
Indeed. She’s malarkey on stilts.
We should never forget the wise words of Milton Friedman:
“You can have a welfare state. Or you can have an open border. But you can’t have both.”
“St. Patrick’s Story is ‘Reminder of the Resilience and Courage of Migrants’”
After they succeed in driving all the Catholics out of Ireland, you’ll finally understand (too late) how apt your analogy was, you brain-addled AWFL.
Oh, an’ it’s St Paddy’s Day, top o’ the adnan to yer, me lads. Ever one knows that we’re all Islam on St Paddy’s Day
Allahu akbar go bragh.
Celebrating an Irish holiday is good, but how many Irish celebrate Ramadan, Cinco de Mayo, Lunar New Year, Oktoberfest, Columbus Day, Mardi Gras and Hanukkah with the same gusto as St Patrick’s Day?
St. Patrick’s Day is no more or less a “migrant holiday” than any of the others. They all serve as anchors for immigrant communities to maintain their heritage while, hopefully, integrating into American life. Many of them, I fear, never will.
You can separate the above into two categories…. 1) celebrated with alcohol and 2) those that don’t. The fun ones are #1 and the others …well…no fun.
And Santa Claus is an illiterate Indian with a phony sleigh license.
That’s because the previous guy fell off the roof.
Well, St Patrick WAS an immigrant. Twice.
First he was taken by Irish pirates who sold him as a slave to fellow Irishmen. (Remember that when they talk about slavery being American).
Then, after escaping back to freedom in England (which he couldn’t do now), he went back.
Now, ponder that what he did was bring in a different culture and assimilated the locals to it, instead of the other way around. And how did that immigration trend turn out, oh ye open-borders types? It took druids about 1,500 years to come back.
To those of you talking Roman Catholic/Protestant – Patrick had nothing to do with that. The Reformation didn’t happen for another 1,000 years.
We’re all immigrants” is such a tiring and misdirecting mantra
so what….we’re all immigrants
how is that fact supposedly justification for the politicking that makes e pluribus unum null and void!!????
its just more lefty rhetoric ,,like….blkc cant be racist b/c they arent in power etc
or
when whts get together its like the kkk but when non whts get together its acceptable ..its a brother/sista hood
they say it
they teach it
they brainwash the kids
the adults fear going against it
and we/society falls into line
you better start learning your salats
“We are all immigrants” is a pathetic half truth. Maybe some of us are but not the vast majority. My great-great-grand parents were immigrants who came here to ****work hard and earn a living**** for their families. The Bride and I are native born. So stop the “we are all immigrants” garbage.
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My 100% Irish Catholic grandmother is turning in her grave
Ireland has turned to sh!t
Allah O’ Akbar and may the machete rise up to meet you
so lets go back to the lefts cry of mus under attacks:
the well hidden ( as much as possible ) perp was
At a later point, the suspect was identified as Riad Bouchaker, originally from Algeria;
and while his id is as hidden as the blmplo criminals in america and/or “juvenile” criminals ,,,,its the wht people who rioted against the governments coverup and protections and immigration polices that are demonized
its the left that creates and fosters the hurts that society is then forced to deal with b/c the courts will not
either through their..he is unfit to stand trial, doctrines
or the
open border policies that they support
https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/crime/alleged-parnell-square-attacker-unfit-36425474
Just shoot him! This is ridiculous
Let’s stipulate EVERYTHING the defense says:
This guy should be locked up in a home for the criminally insane for the rest of his life.
This woman is an idiot. Pure and simple, a moron.
I suppose it’s only a matter of time before the emasculated, cowed, gullible, stupid, Jew-hating, Israel-hating Irish leftist dhimmis re-name St. Patrick “Patrick al-Hibernia.”
The Irish long ago found common friends with Islamic extremism; after all the Irish were very good terrorism themselves and the IRA trained with the PLO. They both hate Jews with a burning passion and enjoy blaming others for all their problems. Yes the oh so intolerant Irish ; I have no love loss there.
As bad as the Irish are the Boston Irish are worse. Not all of them of course but many, And the Irish do look down on their Boston cousins much as Africans look askance at many Black Americans.
The fact she refuses to address the heart of Saint Patrick’s purpose reflects the fact that she supports a non-Christian Ireland, be that Atheist theocracy or Islamic caliphate.