Jenny Maguire: Why we must be vocal and do our best to stand up to anti-immigrant extremists

“There absolutely is an immigration issue in Ireland” is an opening for almost any occasion. Whether you’re making a TikTok video or standing in the Oval Office, such a line should never inspire worry in the slightest. At least, that is, in the minds of comedian Garron Noone and a certain well-known loser of a civil rape trial.

Increasingly, it is voices like these alone that break through to a wider audience. Discussions rife with untruths have morphed our understanding of the status quo. When one side of the debate is too quiet to be heard, the result is a misconception that only one of them is talking at all.



Pro-immigrant voices must become not only louder, but unavoidable..