Chapter I - Before Hell Broke Loose

The year is 2043 and the past decades seem like some kind of bizarre fever dream. We understand how social forces coupled with corporate interests warped our perceptions of right and wrong, much like during the World Wars of our great grandfathers - but it still strikes us as cartoonish. We were on a guaranteed course of self-destruction, and what was no less strange was our sudden and radical departure from that trajectory. A disparate collection of our people, crossing regional and partisan lines, suddenly copped on back in late 2019 - the forefathers of our new island nation. They recognised the preciousness of what our ancestors left for us, how timeless it is compared to newer ideas and preoccupations.

Armed with the Soviet KGB knowledge that a nation is either programmed or de-programmed in the time it takes for one generation to mature (roughly 25 years), they set about building a future for us.

A society's health can be determined by how it treats its most vulnerable. Early 21st Century Ireland treated... or rather mistreated, or ignored, its most vulnerable. Our parents' and grandparents' generations were more interested in how the economy was doing and how to fit into a rapidly changing world. Some say that it's not so much they didn't care, but that there was just so much going on all at once. No sooner did we get our own independent state after centuries of repression and genocide, we were flooded with fiat money, and then had it yanked away by the same people who gave it to us. Maybe they're right. How could you tell your left from your right when you're basically programmed to simply survive in the face of economic oppression?

The youth of our nation suffered unfit education, chemical lobotomies in the form of psychiatric drugs for the slightest misbehaviour, and were largely left to figure things out on their own.

The ailing of our nation were systematically ignored on the national agenda and on the ground level. The health and care professions became jobs rather than a calling, and the quality of those services reflected the attitude of the employees. Care was a service industry and the sick and old were the products. Those too poor to pay their own way suffered indignity and waited years on lists for vital procedures. Those who were wealthy paid extortionate rates to transnational companies. Those caught in the middle, not wealthy enough to go private, yet not poor enough for aid, paid ridiculous premiums to subsidize those malingering on insurance. Like everything else of consequence in the country, "the industry" had absolutely no overview, no prescribed role or aim - it was merely "managed".

The elders increasingly suffered indignity. Not only were they considered culturally irrelevant by their descendants, but were also being put in group care institutions when they became too much of a responsibility for their grown children. Like their United States counterparts, they were subjected to inhumane conditions and often physically and mentally abused. In the year leading up to our nation's rebirth, 4% of our elders were in such facilities with an equal number receiving in-home care by, usually compassionate, but temporary, carers.

Our nation's children were buggered in institutions alleging to care for, educate, and protect them. After several generations of buggery, few seemed to find this unusual and worth losing their fucking minds over. It was perfectly normal to hear about yet another case of paedophilia and then to watch the perpetrators walk out of corrupt courts with a slap on the wrist - and in cases of the influential, no court appearances at all. Of course later after the devolution of the Republic and worldwide arrests, the people entrusted by society to protect us against paedophiles, were exposed as paedophiles themselves - so in retrospect, holding a high standard of punishment for the crime would have been against their interests.

It wasn't just the former legal system to blame, but the people too. For some reason children being raped only became an issue in the wake of The Great Islamic Invasion of 2015. Seeing how weak our identity was, how oblivious we were to the nature of other cultures, and how lenient we were with our own rapists and paedophiles - they streamed in, wreaking havoc in a wave of sexual assaults. In his book "The Silent Tide", historian Fearghal Mac Diarmaid compared the event to the mass rape of German women by occupying Russian soldiers in the final days of World War II. Shocking and inexcusable events, but the hypocrisy became clearer - many only seemed to care when it was foreign men raping our women and children.

It was particularly the issues concerning children which caused a universal crisis of conscience in our people. In early 2018, thousands were shocked when a referendum to liberalise abortion was passed at the behest and support of Élan Pharmaceuticals, Evofem Biosciences, and other transnational interests. The seeming acquiescence of many to a plainly manipulated Democratic process caused rifts in both mainstream and alternative parties, alliances, and movements. Either it directly caused or coincided with a new political paradigm in Ireland. Instead of liberal and conservative, socialist or capitalist, the divide took the form of blind belief or zero confidence. Party defectors and sacked politicians struck out on their own, looking to the newly disenfranchised to support them. Ordinary citizens, who once hid behind monikers on The Internets out of fear, began raising their voices over the various issues and corruptions plaguing the country. Many went for refuge in Mother Church, but the Vatican's reputation didn't fare well amidst continuous revelations of scandals, the incumbent Pope's anti-European sentiments, and outright attacks from the Old Republic. Although this year saw a resurgence and politicization of Catholicism, many viewed the faithful as insane.

That Summer saw the formation of new political parties, alliances, and organisations, primarily concerned with the protection of unborn children, the preservation of Irish genetic integrity and nature, and withdrawal from the European Megastate. One such unofficial party was The Brehon League, founded August 13th of that year. Although little is known of their early activities, they would go on to play a pivotal role in our new history. Urban legend recorded that the formation of the group was declared by Oisín O'Connell and Fionnuala Ní Ríain, at a semi-private Lughnasa festival earlier in the month. That's one of the more credible folktales as Old Republic records tell of arrests near The Burren mountains in reaction of 40-60 inebriated people who lit bonfires in that particularly dry Summer.

The late Summer saw these groups muster their forces for the Presidential race of that year. The incumbent President, Comrade Higgins, chose to run for a second 7-year term despite his senior years at the time. It's generally accepted that Uncle Higgins felt the revolution was in jeopardy as contenders for the throne in this election were decidedly conservative or just not the right kind of Socialist. Contenders on the ballot included Senator Pádraig Ó Céidigh, conservative and mental health activists Joan Freeman, and artist Kevin Sharkey. The sectarian MI6 party Sinn Féin nominated a candidate, but was preoccupied with a paedophile scandal at the time. Nobody remembers the name of this candidate.

This race was, for the first time, an "issues" race. Many segments of the country had their own "issues", and many were willing to appeal to those demands.

Comrade Higgins didn't bother doing anything during the race, running on the reasonable assumption that the electorate were apathetic and liked him enough, likely due to his resemblance to a member of the mid-20th Century kids TV show, The Muppets.

Artist Kevin Sharkey ran his campaign on the issue of the radically changing face of Ireland, and the insanity of trading off our hard-won civil liberties to go back to living in a massive ghetto.

Joan Freeman ran her campaign mainly on the issue of our changing social climate causing mental illness problems. She only mentioned abortion once during her run on a little-known Internets radio program, The Anti-Broadcast, but was enough to indict her in the eyes of the electorate. Her Catholic faith and non-existent connection with the Iona Institute was also held against her.

Senator Pádraig Ó Céidigh ran on the Irish Donald Trump ticket, stating that Ireland could use a non-partisan businessman in a role primarily concerned with diplomatic matters. He also the first Irishman to notice, and point out on national television, that Comrade Higgins looks like a Muppet and a little bit like contemporary U.S. Senator, Bernie Sanders, adding "...isn't it bad enough that we have one of them."

The race was heated. Ó Céidigh was accused of Dog Whistling to the Alt Right over his anti-Semitic remark about U.S. Senator Sanders, which he claims was taken out of context and went on to name several Jewish friends. He finished the race with 2% of the vote.

Joan Freeman never recovered from discussing abortion on the Internets radio show nobody heard of before it destroyed her political career, although she held a steady following with the faithful and a large contingent of Conservative Ireland. She came in at an impressive 32%.

By approximately 3pm, Saturday, the 22nd of September, with half of the constituencies counted, it was clear the race came down to Comrade Higgins and Kevin Sharkey. Higgins remained quiet for the whole of the race except his appearance on Raidió Teilifís Éireann's Prime Time in which he gave his signature impassioned speech about the working man and austerity. When asked by an audience member what exactly he or his former Labour Party had actually done for the working man since the recession, the fire alarm and sprinkler system went off before Uncle Higgins could answer the question. RTÉ filed for insolvency in early 2019 when a man sued, having broken his ankle in the rush.

For further context on this Presidential race we must look to the rest of Europe and the then-United States. The Summer of that year, Italy, Spain, Malta, and France joined their friends to the East - notably Hungary and Poland - in affirming the sovereignty of their borders, exonerating what was long considered a conspiracy theory: the highly-funded and organised Human trafficking of Africans and Mid-Asians into Europe in order to destabilize it. What was long considered the ravings of Neo-Nazis hiding in the dark corners of The Internets swiftly became common sense in the following months as so-called populist movements picked up momentum across mainland Europe. However, in 2032, leaked documents from the 2018 Bilderberg Conference in Turin, Italy, revealed the attending transnationalists and governmental bodies discussed the promotion of such movements because, to quote an anonymous meeting minute, "Shit, we need to live here too."

June of that year saw riots, starting in France, and spreading East-Ward. Migrants, unhappy with the student accommodation they were situated in and the pink covers that came with their free iPhones, left whole towns in burned out husks - except, mysteriously, for local bank branches and Lidl chain-store outlets. Radicalized German citizens clashed with each other on the streets, clashed with police and military, and clashed with Islamic invaders.

Simultaneously, Left Wing extremists in the then-United States clashed with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement in their bid to destroy the nation's sovereign borders. We would later learn through recovered documents that both these incidents and those in Germany were co-ordinated by George Soros' team. The incitements will long be remembered as the tipping point that would tear the United States and the European Megastate asunder in the Spring of 2019 through sustained civil war.

Two years prior, on June the 23rd 2016, the then-United Kingdom held a referendum in which it was decided by a margin the nation would secede from the European Megastate. Sadly, the referendum was called too early. Not enough pro-secession politicians were in a position to monitor the withdrawal process, leaving it in the hands of Megastate sympathizers. This began a three and a half year process of scaremongering and excuse-making, eventually ending in what was called a "soft BREXIT." In June of 2018 the then-United Kingdom submitted a proposal under which the nation would kinda sorta leave the Megastate, not to pay into the system, receive any benefits from it, but abide by all the legislation and dictates cooked up in autocratic Brussels. The Megastate would go on to accept this proposal in September of that year.
The then-United Kingdom was not without its troubles at this time. Heavy-handed censorship and police state tactics were employed to quieten issues arising over the Islamic invasion and frame the citizens as racists for outspoken opposition.

Even with that context given, the results of the election in Ireland came as much of a surprise to the world as the Brexit referendum and the election of God-Emperor Trump. Until then, the Irish people were perfectly happy to sign away their sovereignty in tiny parcels either with the threat of jobs being taken away or the reward of jobs being given. Thanks to public figures like Teachta Dála Carol Nolan who got sacked from Sinn Féin for her principals on abortion, Councillor Brian Murphy who was sacked from Fianna Fail for his principals on Irish sovereignty, and Kevin Sharkey for proving you don't need to be a white straight man to have questions about immigration, the Irish people realised they weren't in fact frozen in time since the 1980s.

Leaving mainstream pundits stammering and repeating the same shit over and over for the whole of Ireland to see, Kevin Sharkey played a blinder, earning him a leading 36% vote against Comrade Higgins.

It's of significance to note that the country suffered severe municipal water shortages and crop failures that Autumn due to a lack of rainfall in that year's recording-breaking warm Summer. This caused considerable social unrest, posing further challenges to the already-troubled Old Republic.

Sharkey's victory into the Old Republic's token position of Presidency - footnote: really, the position was meaningless and nobody cared about it. My own father once told me he thought Mary McAleese was the President forever until one day he realised she had been out of office for seven years. The one power the position did hold was to pardon those sentenced to death, but even that was made redundant when the Old Republic ended the death penalty in 1990 - was controversial. Some media pundits alleged that a third of Irish voters were racist for voting a black man into senior office, while groups and individuals aligned with Sharkey's patriotic message increased in popularity and courage - particularly a new party on the block, Éire í Féin, led by North Dublin Councillor Brian Murphy, which urged a closing of borders to non-Europeans and those with appropriate visas. They were also the first governmental party to suggest leaving the European Megastate. It forged alliances abroad, with parties such as Italy's Lega Nord and arranged to co-ordinate an Éirexit and Italexit - an effort that would never come to fruition, or be required, as history has told. The brief life of Éire í Féin and how it became the reconstituted Fine Gael, and leading party, in the New Republic is an interesting one deserving of its own treatment.

In early November of 2018 currency speculators, including George Soros, shorted the Euro causing a collapse, bringing devastation to an already devasted population.