Liberty Republic | |
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| Leader | Ben Gilroy |
| Founder | Raymond Whitehead[1] |
| Founded | 2010 |
| Headquarters | Drogheda, County Louth |
| Ideology | Direct democracy Populism[2][3][4] Eurozone withdrawal[5] |
| Political position | Right-wing[6][2] |
| Former name | Direct Democracy Ireland (DDI) |
| Website | |
| libertyrepublic | |
Liberty Republic is a minor populist political party in Ireland. It has no representation at local or national level. It was established in 2010 as Direct Democracy Ireland (DDI) and was registered as a political party in October 2012 under that name.[7] The organisation was founded by photographer Raymond Whitehead.[8] It was relaunched as Liberty Republic, by Ben Gilroy, in 2024.[9]
A number of publications have linked the group with various fringe groups and ideologies, including with pseudolegal principles derived from the freeman on the land movement.[10]
- ^ "Raymond Whitehead" (PDF). Direct Democracy Ireland. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
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- ^ Could Leaving the euro return Ireland to a more stable economic growth? Archived 24 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine
Direct Democracy Ireland (official website). Published 25 September 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2017. - ^ "Bryan Wall: Right to the Extreme". broadsheet.ie. 17 December 2018. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
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it_seeks_to_transformwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Raymond Whitehead". TheJournal.ie. February 2011. Archived from the original on 27 December 2013. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
- ^ "Changes to Register of Political Parties See New Party Proposed and Name/Emblem Changes for Another". Electoral Commission. 12 April 2024.
- ^ Netolitzky, Donald J. (3 May 2018). "A Pathogen Astride the Minds of Men: The Epidemiological History of Pseudolaw". Centre d'expertise et de formation sur les intégrismes religieux et la radicalisation (CEFIR). doi:10.2139/ssrn.3177472. SSRN 3177472. Retrieved 24 January 2022.