Over the past 25 years — from the Celtic Tiger's hedonism to the 2025 reelection of the Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael coalition — Ireland has become unrecognisable. Unchecked mass immigration, over-reliance on foreign direct investment, and eroded democracy have transformed one of Europe's most culturally assured nations into a faceless globalist experiment.
In Vandalising Ireland, journalist and researcher Eoin Lenihan exposes how a government-funded network of NGOs, academics and the national media is conspiring to radically reshape the country — without care for the will and welfare of the native Irish. Forced settlement of large numbers of male asylum seekers into ancient, close-knit communities around the country has brought the clash between old Ireland and new into violent focus as locals and police face off and proposed migrant centres go up in flames.
Ireland is currently a nation on fire. With startling evidence, Lenihan lays bare the historical and political failures leading to this make-or-break moment, and proposes a pioneering path a democratic vision that blends economic self-reliance with a cultural revival from the parish up, reconnecting the Irish people to their place and nation.
An excellently researched book, and perhaps even more valuable, solid ground from which a concerned Irishman may assert his worries toward his friends & relatives, without feeling utterly lost. Corruption of a profoundly deep and moral kind has set into Ireland's very soul, post-Catholic Church's fall, and post-Celtic Tiger hedonism; Lenihan does wonders in diagnosing where it came from; this corruption, what it did, and what it will further yet do in its aim of vandalising Ireland.
All praises sung, Lenihan presents these problems from a Liberal perspective, and his solutions? Liberal in nature. His acknowledgement of "Black-Irish", "Asian-Irish", and other "Minority-Irish" persons, whilst expressing distaste for Ethnonationalist sentiments on the right, will ultimately lead to a muddying of the waters on who is authentically Irish; who can legitimately share in Irish culture and heritage, and ensure its flourishing as the unbroken continuation of ancient rites, which I know he cherishes. He proposes a Laissez-faire approach to economics and social policies; grassroots development of shared tradition by which to inform future political parties in the years to come. But I fear the hour is later than he thinks; people go with their own, and as the immigrant & second-generation immigrant population soon eclipses one third of Ireland's total residents, soon, alleged-democratic options will give way to sectarianism and block-voting, as has happened in the UK or in Canada.
The fundamental problem Ireland faces is not that NGOs sow ideas into the minds of children, but that its their ideas that are sown; its not that state-media broadcasts whatever view the government wishes them to, but that its their views that are being broadcast; its not that the government's authoritarianism is evil, but that it is their authoritarianism. A government that held Nativism at the heart of their rule, instead of mere money, would use all and above to create a better, more successful Ireland; not in the accumulation of material wealth, but in the prosperity of its people's hearts.
As a non-Irish it makes sad reading about a society and culture being sold off and raped by the Government and Press which is supposed to be supporting it. What was the point of 1916.? There are a multitude of Pigs with their noses in the trough. This book makes depressing reading but like Pandora's Box there is Hope. I learned a lot about this beautiful country. We are being told that in June 2026 we will proceed immigrants in 3 months, when it currently takes 15 months. Do it now!! A Hospital that is 8 years overdue in building. Hopefully books and articles like this will be a catalyst for change.
Vandalising Ireland is a great - and, due to mainstream misinformation narratives, necessary - book about modern Ireland and how it came to be so. For an Irish expat, it hit home.
For those paying attention, it gathers together most of the facts into one neat bundle - vs - for those already sensing something is wrong, it provides proof that it's not in their imagination.
To the blissfully unaware or those in denial, it provides a compelling counter narrative to the mainstream mockingbird.
In seven chapters, it weaves from fairy lore and fireside culture, via the history of the Irish people and their émigrés, into political history and increasingly into the numbing reality of 21st-century Ireland.
It dissects the 'what happened' into plainly understandable yet forensically thorough, well-referenced accounts of what was done when, by whom, and why. Depending on the reader’s viewpoint, it can be distressful to read the various horrific events in Ireland in recent years, which we’re made to memory-hole, here described together in one text. So it will be challenging for some readers. The seventh chapter however allows this book to be the glass half-full.
Many Irish and Irish diaspora today can be forgiven for feeling dazed and punch-drunk about the state of the country around them, some even harbouring elements of self-loathing or Stockholm syndrome.
Reading Vandalising Ireland provides an understanding and empowers the reader to recover dignity- and then help to do the same for others around them.