I’ve been to Ireland 3 times over the past 25 years for both business and pleasure. With a name like Sean Patrick, you can likely guess my family has roots there. I’ve studied in depth the history of the people, helped their economic development arms make connections in Silicon Valley when I worked there, and even spent a year trying to learn Gaelic.
Through all of this, I’ve developed a deep love and respect for “The Celtic Tiger” and the spirit of those who have been fighting off foreign invaders since the dawn of time.
Did you know that right now the Irish are doing something remarkable?
Starting in early April of this year, farmers, hauliers, and working people blockaded the M50 in Dublin, shut down fuel depots in Cork, and brought supply chains to a halt. The government deployed their own Defense Forces – not to protect the border from the 30,000+ migrants housed in hotels while Irish families sleep in cars – but to pepper spray and jail their own citizens.
The existing controlling government Taoiseach called it “national sabotage.” The people call it “enough” and are crying “Tiocfaidh ár lá”, which translates to “our day will come”… a slogan of Irish republicanism.
What moves me to tears watching and reading about how this is playing out is that the Catholic and Protestant communities, ones that spent decades killing each other, are now marching together in the streets. Housing shortages, skyrocketing rents, rural villages overwhelmed overnight by government-mandated migrant placements turned out to be more unifying than any peace accord ever managed to accomplish. They found common ground when their government prioritized non-citizens over those who have spent generations living and working there.
Many are also leaving their devices at home, knowing they are surveillance tracking devices, meeting and planning in person, not reliant on a central command for orders, and actively showing up in force to demand action from their local politicians and stakeholders.
Some solid non-globalist-controlled news sources covering what’s actually happening on the ground: gript.ie and theburkean.ie.
While all of this is happening, try searching for any of it in the American media. The near silence is not an accident. If Americans see the Irish running parallel local economies, refusing state levies, and uniting across historic divisions (R vs D, black vs white) over shared survival, it might give people ideas.
That’s exactly what the regime cannot afford.
We are also seeing the weaponization of the operating system to ensure that every user interaction occurs within the parameters set by the administrative state.
Meanwhile, one island over, Apple quietly rolled out iOS 26.4 and turned every UK iPhone into a government-controlled checkpoint. If you don’t prove your age with a government ID or credit card, your phone automatically activates “child-mode” filtering your browsing and blocking apps.
As we’ve been discussing routinely here, governments worldwide are transforming mobile devices into digital checkpoints to enforce compliance and consolidate state control. China set the standard through absolute real-name registration, where every device is linked to a national ID and integrated into a social credit system. Australia continues to lead Western efforts through legislative mandates that force tech firms to act as primary gatekeepers for age and content regulation. The EU is close behind.
Here in the United States, this transition is manifesting through a combination of state-level mandates and private-sector collaboration with intelligence agencies. Various states have already passed or introduced legislation requiring identity verification for internet services, effectively creating a framework for government-sanctioned digital gatekeeping.
Do you understand yet why encrypted, decentralized communication isn’t optional anymore? It’s quite literally the prerequisite for everything else we need to accomplish to regain our sovereignty.
To drive this point home: Session is one of the best encrypted messengers available. No phone number required. No central server handling your communications. 1.7 million monthly active users… and it just announced it’s shutting down in 90 days. All paid developers finished work on April 9th. They need $1 million a year to operate. The community has donated $137,000.
1.7 million users. $137,000. The tools of freedom are going dark because people still expect everything for free.
WhatsApp, Gmail, and Facebook are all “free.” As we’ve learned, the price is just paid in a different currency.
We cannot have it both ways.
Either we fund the infrastructure of sovereignty or we surrender it one free app at a time. If Session matters to you: getsession.org/donate.
I believe the Irish have been forced to figure something out that the rest of us are still catching up to. They are leaving their phones at home. They are meeting in person. They are building trust face to face, in the same rooms, before anyone sends a single message. Encrypted comms come after the relationships. That’s the sequence.
We have more tools available to us today than any resistance movement in history. The question is whether we’ll fund them, learn how to use them, and show up for each other before we actually need to, or whether we’ll wait until the devices in our pockets have already been turned against us and the apps we depended on have gone dark for lack of fifteen dollars a month from the people who needed them most.
Tiocfaidh ár lá.
No. More. Excuses.
Blessings,
Sean Patrick Tario