Jake Fitzsimons

I am one of the candidates for Student Union President of DKIT this year As we enter a most exciting new chapter of our campus' history, the students union will as always, of course play a vital part in participating. It is important for us to have a passionate and capable representative to lead and give students in the great town of Dundalk a greater voice than ever. We should have a President that FITZ DKIT! 💚🇮🇪☘️. #fyp #foryoupage #college #dundalk #dkit

I am proud to announce that I will be joining a heavy-weight panel of MEPs & experts to speak at the @ecrgroup's "Civil War? Europe at Risk" event at the EU next Wednesday. I will speak about social unrest in Ireland. It will be livestreamed & I will share my talk here. 👇👇👇

Parents, Wake Up: Are We Seeing the Beginning of a Grooming Gangs Explosion Here in Ireland? The conviction of Ziaullhaq Safi, a 36-year-old Afghan national working at a takeaway in Sligo, should give every parent serious concerns. On April 23, 2023, Safi approached two teenage girls outside his premises on Wine Street. He lured them into the adjacent alleyway with the promise of a free pizza, locked the gate behind them, trapping them, and sexually assaulted the 16-year-old. He kissed both girls, repeatedly tried to lift one’s top, exposed himself, and was later convicted not only of sexual assault but specifically of offering remuneration, that free pizza, to a child under 18 for sexual exploitation. The jury delivered its verdicts in mid-March 2026 with sentencing is due on March 26 before Judge Maguire at Sligo Circuit Court. This was no random act of street crime. It was deliberate: isolating vulnerable, intoxicated teens with a small bribe, exploiting a clear power imbalance. The tactics echo the grim history of group-based child sexual exploitation in Britain. Here again an Afghan man operated alone, yet it unfolds in a country already grappling with high rates of reported sexual offences and troubling reports of organised predation against girls in state care. Ireland’s sexual offence rate remains well above the European average, even with better reporting. Research has exposed “co-ordinated gangs” preying on vulnerable girls in residential placements, girls who abscond, are collected, gang-raped, or exploited repeatedly in hotels. These are children the state must protect. The Safi case becomes explosive because of the migrant element as Safi is not Irish-born. Ireland has seen swift demographic shifts through large-scale asylum and immigration. Yet official statistics rarely break down offenders by nationality, a transparency shortfall uncommon in similar European nations and one that the newly founded, 'women's coalition on immigration' is strongly advocating for. Authorities maintain there is “no credible evidence” linking immigration to crime. Without data, that may be technically true, but it often feels like avoidance when the evidence is very clear from other European nations. Public trust is eroding fast, protests at asylum centres, viral clips of incidents, and the perception that discussing a perpetrator’s background is off-limits have left a vacuum filled with frustration. When a foreign national is convicted of exploiting Irish teenage girls using familiar grooming methods, people ask: how many similar cases go untracked? Could Ireland be heading toward the institutional blindness that plagued Rotherham and Rochdale? Ireland’s context differs; care-home reports do not highlight ethnic patterns publicly, and crime trends are mixed. Still, the warning signs are clear. Large-scale, rapid immigration without strong vetting, or transparent offender data, is a gamble when children’s safety is at stake. A justice system that convicts men like Safi yet rarely deports non-nationals sends mixed messages. A child-protection framework unable to halt organised exploitation demands urgent overhaul, not denial. We owe Irish girls far more than well-meaning but hollow compassion that leaves them vulnerable in alleyways and hotel rooms. The Safi verdict is not closure; it is a stark reflection. Ireland stands at a choice: embrace transparent, evidence-based policy, deport convicted foreign offenders swiftly, tighten asylum screening, and place women and childrens safety first, or cling to the refrain that “there is no link” until the evidence becomes undeniable. Is this the beginning of something darker still to be proven? All the ingredients are certainly in place: vulnerable targets, cultural incompatibility and failed integration, are already on the table. March 26 will bring Safi’s sentence. The real sentencing Ireland faces is whether it learns quickly before the question ceases to be rhetorical.

BRITISH SECRET SERVICE PLOT AGAINST IRISH NEUTRALITY: In Nov 2025, a UK "security" source let slip the existence of a plot directed at the Rep. of Ireland. The leak appeared in London's Financial Times. The "source" was probably an MI6 officer. 🧵 👇 coverthistory.ie/2025/10/12/psy…

A passport will never make you Irish. We are Gaels. We have distinct genetic markers. We go back thousands of years. It's our island.

An interview with an Anti-Treaty IRA volunteer (1960s). #Irishrepublican #irishhistory

He is a simple man

Soldiers of the Finnish Defense Forces in anti-nuclear defense exercises, 1961

Missing Person Appeal – Elizabeth Dunne, 53 Years, Glendalough, Co. Wicklow , 20th March 2026 Gardaí are seeking the public’s assistance in tracing the whereabouts of Elizabeth Dunne, 53 years, who is missing from Glendalough, Co. Wicklow since Friday, 20th March 2026 Elizabeth is described as being 5 foot 4 inches in height, with grey hair and brown eyes. Gardaí and Elizabeth’s family are concerned for her well-being. Anyone with information on Elizabeth’s whereabouts is asked to contact Wicklow Garda Station on (0404) 60140, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda station.

Wow, Dundalk 2.46 at the moment. Just smashing all records. And absolutely taking the piss given Brent is actually down since the start of the week.

I'll tell you one thing I think this country should have provision for. The ability for constituents to recall a TD our councillor if they're being let down and services are not being adequately delivered nor duties performed. If a petition with enough signatures from the elected representative's area is submitted, they must re-contest their seat in a by-election. This threat would nullify the problem of some elected representatives essentially running campaigns under the guise of standing for different policies or ideologies than they really do just to pander for votes. Left wing candidates claiming to be more right wing or vice-versa. "Opposition" voting with the government. It's a cowardly and not even shrewd way of manipulating electorate framework and we must find a way to make it properly punishable. Accountability when?

@gearoidoriain86 @nypost Comhghairdeas mo chara!

My story in the physical copy of @nypost! Big day for me 😊

And it will only get worse and worse when Reform and/or Restore take over and start booting them. We're decades behind.

@BeattyColm @AlexanderGaell @JakeFitzsimons And 80% of them are flooding in from BRITAIN via our occupied province. We’re fast becoming a dumping ground for the British. Now eff off you utter clown.

@BeattyColm @AlexanderGaell @JakeFitzsimons the reason we have foreigners in ireland is largely down to our open northern border with protestant british vote against they enable it

@mika47587321 @BeattyColm @JakeFitzsimons We support the remigration of all non Irish invaders, Muslims, brits, Jews alike. Ireland belongs to the Irish and nobody else.

@BeattyColm @JakeFitzsimons What about the occupied 6 counties in the north? Have you forgotten about the ethnic and linguistic genocide they’ve carried out and continue to carry out against our people?

So that house in Meath is now actively being demolished. Interestingly enough however, Damien English, a former TD for Meath, also build a house without planning permission some years ago but he was allowed to keep it. It's not planning permission, it's connection protection.

Bobby sands and the IRA Hunger Strikers did not die for the provisional movement to sit in Stormont, shake hands with the King and take people to court for a payday for daring to say they were in the ra.