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No. He founded the National Party in 2016 and led it until July 2023, when he was removed by his deputy, James Reynolds. The Electoral Commission confirmed the removal in September 2025. The party's registered leader is now Patrick Quinlan. Electoral Commission The Journal
He founded the National Party in 2016, was removed as president by his own deputy in 2023, and in April 2024 founded a separate organisation, Clann Éireann, reported by The Irish Times to have fewer than twenty members. Wikipedia The Irish Times
On 9 November 2023 he appeared at an anti-immigration protest on the steps of Leinster House wearing a Nazi SS uniform. He attempted to speak and was jeered. The fuller account is on the dedicated page. Wikipedia The Phoenix
In 2024, responding to a question on X, he posted an image of Adolf Hitler and described him as “the greatest leader of all time”. The record also includes his attendance, in 2000, at a German NPD rally featuring quotations from Mein Kampf. The fuller account is on its own page. Sunday World RTÉ News
In the 2004 European Parliament election (East) he received 10,997 first-preference votes (2.4%) and was not elected. In the 2021 Dublin Bay South by-election he received 183 first-preference votes (0.68%), finishing 11th of 15 candidates. The full tally is on the election-results page. ElectionsIreland.org Wikipedia
His own deputy, James Reynolds, in an open letter published on the party's website in July 2023. The fuller account is on the National Party page. National Party The Journal
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Better Barretts, better Justins · and one electorate
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
We counted, too: 10,997 votes in 2004; 183 in 2021.
“Reason directs those who are truly pious and philosophical to honour and love only what is true, declining to follow traditional opinions, if these be worthless.”
The name comes from the Latin iustus: just, upright. Some bearers took it seriously.
“183.”
Eleventh of fifteen candidates. The electorate has not been asked to elaborate.
“10,997.”
Seventeen years later, in Dublin Bay South: 183.
“1.”
The Electoral Commission ruled that meeting invalid. A later one was not.
“We have been stood on since 1745. We mention it only for context.”
That one is fiction, and labelled as such. The November 2023 incident it refers to is not.
Every quotation here is verbatim and in the public domain, or is a figure from the published record. No words have been put in Mr Barrett’s mouth. The one fictional speaker is a flight of steps, and says so.