FF tries to fill Irish armed forces with African mercenaries- "a terrible judgement will come"

Soldiers in Tanzania

Ireland should recruit African mercenaries into the Irish Army, a TD has suggested in the Dáil.

Fianna Fáil TD for Kildare South Seán Ó Fearghaíl said he was “profoundly concerned” by the strength of Irish defence force numbers. 

His solution?

Mr Ó Fearghaíl's answer to staffing issues is to hire mercenaries from the following countries (where Irish Aid is most active)- Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Lesotho, Timor-Leste and Vietnam.

A mercenary is a professional soldier hired to fight for a foreign country or group, motivated by financial gain rather than patriotism or ideology.

Ó Fearghaíl said: "I want to go back to that comparison with the health service because for me it raises the legitimate question of whether or not we should be looking overseas to secure recruits.

"And if we were to do so I think we should be looking at countries where Irish aid is active, and where we could recruit members for the permanent defence forces on fixed term contracts to allow us achieve the strength we need to fill our mandate.

Seán Ó Fearghaíl

"Many armed forces recruit non-nationals. Foreigners in regular state militaries. It would be of dual benefit, if linked to Irish Aid; necessary numbers for our own forces and providing financial support for families dealing with war and the ravages of climate change."

(To clarify for those still brainwashed: The US President called climate change the "world's greatest hoax and con job" at the UN summit in September 2025)

Let's not forget: authoritarian or fragile regimes often rely on mercenaries to circumvent political struggles or to nullify any threat from inside, because mercenaries have no ideological loyalty to locals.

On top of that, mercenaries allow governments to distance themselves from potentially wrong or illegal operations. Using mercenaries prevents the public outcry and backlash that often follows when sending regular conscripts into combat.

Perhaps it is time for Irish people to remember the words of Padraig Pearse in 1916:

"The people are the nation; the whole people, all its men and women; and that laws made or acts done by anybody purporting to represent the people but not really authorised by the people, either expressly or impliedly, to represent them and to act for them do not bind the people; are a usurpation, an impertinence, a nullity."

He further noted:

"a great historic truth, namely, that in Ireland ‘the gentry (as they affect to call themselves)’ have

uniformly been corrupted by (empire), and the merchants and middle-class capitalists have, when not corrupted, been uniformly intimidated, whereas the common people have for the most part remained unbought and unterrified.

"It is, in fact, true that the repositories of the Irish tradition, as well the spiritual tradition of nationality as the kindred tradition of stubborn physical resistance to empire, have been the great, splendid, faithful, common people—that dumb multitudinous throng which sorrowed during the penal night, which bled in '98, which starved in the Famine; and which is here still—what is left of it—unbought and unterrified.

"Let no man be mistaken as to who will be lord in Ireland when Ireland is free. The people will be lord and master. The people who wept in Gethsemane, who trod the sorrowful way, who died naked on a cross, who went down into hell, will rise again glorious and immortal, will sit on the right hand of God, and will come in the end to give judgment, a judge just and terrible."