JD Vance message echoes across Ireland

US Vice-President JD Vance statement on May 19:

"All over the West, and it is kind of crazy, is this idea that the way to generate prosperity is to bring in millions and millions of unvetted people and just drop them into your neighbourhoods.

"We simply reject that idea. So to everybody who rejects that idea, I would encourage them to just keep on going.

"It is okay to want to defend your culture. It is okay to want to live in a safe neighbourhood. It is okay to want your jobs to go to yourself and your neighbours, and not to a stranger who you don't even know.

"It is reasonable for the people in Western societies to want to control who comes into their country and who doesn't.

"A lot of people, frankly a lot of people in the media, have tried to persuade all of those people, that it is somehow racist to want to protect your borders.

"Even though, very often, the very people who are most affected by low wage immigration- here in the United States of America- are lower income black and hispanics.

"I guarantee you that is true elsewhere. We believe in making America great again, you can't do that anywhere without protecting your borders."