{"id":45328,"date":"2025-09-26T20:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T20:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/45328\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T20:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T20:53:07","slug":"donegal-councillor-hits-out-at-brit-card-irish-people-have-a-right-to-be-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/45328\/","title":{"rendered":"Donegal Councillor hits out at Brit-Card \u2018Irish people have a right to be in Ireland\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Inishowen Councillor, Jack Murray, has hit out at the British PM following the mandatory introduction of \u201cBrit Cards\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A Brit Card is a form of Digital ID, which is the UK government&#8217;s attempt to tackle illegal immigration, with the new ID being a form of proof of a citizen&#8217;s right to reside and work.<\/p>\n<p>Murray believes that people in the North of Ireland shouldn\u2019t have to carry the ID and it will be met with opposition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTruly astonishing that Keir Starmer could expect Irish people, living in the north of Ireland, to carry a &#8216;Brit Pass&#8217; to prove their right to work there,\u201d Jack Murray said. \u201cIt will rightly be met with widespread resistance. That is without doubt. Irish people have a right to be in Ireland. Unlike the British Government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs James Connolly said over a century ago, &#8220;The British Government has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland, and never can have any right in Ireland.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStarmer could soon learn that many of the solutions to his post-Brexit problems is to withdraw from this island and leave us all to our own affairs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Inishowen Councillor, Jack Murray, has hit out at the British PM following the mandatory introduction of \u201cBrit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1485,30206,61,5969,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-45328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-donegal","9":"tag-donegal-county-council","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-inishowen","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}