Val Martin – Irish Freedom Party candidate for Cavan/Monaghan constituency in the general election.

My background.
I was born and reared on a family farm at Kingscourt of two Cavan and two Monaghan
grandparents. I attended Inver College Carrickmacross. I bought my first calf at age 15 and
never stopped cattle farming. I served in the Gardai for 32 years in Dublin and in Dowra
and as a Sergeant in Scotstown and Clones with the last 17 years as Detective Sergeant in
Cavan Town. I was in charge of public security, crime investigation, and the supervision of
immigration.

I kept farming in a reduced way. I retired in 2005 to work as a project
manager with Kingscourt Community Council to help with their projects at the Community
Centre and Railway station.

I took up full time suckler farming in 2008. I have designed
and constructed many buildings of good quality. I understand the planning system.

Suitability as a T.D.
I completed a four year degree course in Business Studies in 2003 including accounting,
financial management and law. My Garda experience and knowledge of the law and
education would be very useful as a legislator in Dail Eireann. I feel most at home with
working people. I have my own YouTube channel. valmartinirelandyoutube with 6,600
subscribers. It includes vintage repair. I have been helping communities facing pylons and
wind farms too close to their homes for years because the proper planning system is
ignored. I processed three environmental cases in the High Court on my own with no
lawyers at all and won one.

Mass uncontrolled migration.
I am totally against the current mass migration invasion pushed by our government. It must
be stopped and a proper multi agency body must be set up to process all immigration. I
want to be involved in ensuring such a body is fit for purpose and staffed by the right
people.

We must take back full control of our borders immediately and allow only
sustainable inward movement of people needed for our economy. If we don’t we will soon be
a minority in our own country. The European Union treaties which we voted for only
provided for immigration from Britain and EU member states, not any other country.

Housing.
I support my party’s policy to build quality homes for Irish people and to help public and
private home ownership. Country people should be allowed to build homes on their own
land. The current policy of housing the rest of the world while the Irish have nowhere to live
must end. The Irish must be put first. I agree with my party policy to prevent vulture funds
buying up land and homes pricing our own people out of the market. I favour upgrading
older buildings in towns and the country so nothing is wasted. I support a national housing
plan properly assessed with public participation so that issues such as building on
floodplains and using faulty materials are identified. Let’s plan before building.

Energy and Transport.
The green war against fuel must end. We need fuel to heat our homes. Farmers must have
fuel for machinery. The carbon tax must be phased out while research is done into finding
alternatives which work. Motorists must be freely allowed to choose petrol, diesel or electric
vehicles and have roads and places to park. I favour restoring parking spaces removed
during Covid. All houses should be allowed to have chimneys. Government plans for
energy must be assessed by engineers and I will devote part of my salary to challenging the
North South Interconnector in the courts. I will work to bring down electricity prices which
are the highest in the world. The greens have destroyed the German economy already.

Children, young people and education.
Our schools must educate children, not indoctrinate them into cultural Marxist ideology.
Forcing children to select their gender or undergo sex change procedures is wrong. This
should be left to parents while protecting children until old enough to decide for themselves.
Teachers, Gardai and health workers must not be forced to call boys pronouns like her or
they and punished for refusing. Men should not be allowed to compete in women’s sports.
I support secondary school training in practical subjects and apprenticeships so we will have
good builders, plumbers, carpenters, fabricators and mechanics in future.

Farming.
We must have freedom to farm without being forced out by EU green hypocrisy which trys
to replace livestock with data centres.
I support sensible stocking rates and sensible
regulations with no Green Party involvement. I oppose moving the patents court to Europe.
Currently farmers can only be sued in Irish courts for genomic issues with grain or livestock.
Our government wants to move this to European courts at house expense.

Law and Order.
In my time in the Gardai we investigated crime against everyone. I often travelled as far as
Dublin and Cork to investigate crimes in Cavan and Monaghan. It is not happening now
and I will push for a return to having industrious Gardai dealing with crime and rewarding
them with promotion for it. The Garda promotion and appointment system is not fair.

Free speech.
The recently passed Hate Offence law makes it a criminal offence to offend a person based
on their gender. Gender includes male, female, transgender and any other gender chosen
by that person. There is no limit of the number of genders (including cat gender) which can
be chosen which completely shuts down the right to speak one’s mind. I will work to repeal
that law because the existing laws are enough to prevent verbal abuse of vulnerable people.
I have been often banned from social media and am effectively banned for National
broadcast and print media. Me and my party will tackle that to make it more balanced.

Cavan Monaghan.
Our roads, parking and wastewater disposal systems are in urgent need of upgrading. I
would work to straighten the winding roads in the constituency especially from Bailieboro to
Lavey and Virginia. The council has refused planning permission for a housing estate in
Kingscourt because the local sewage treatment system is at full capacity. I will work to fix
such deficiencies in Cavan and Monaghan.

Ireland first.
I will put Ireland, its heritage, wildlife and environment first and try to put surplus money into
projects that will last if our economy changes for the worse. I promise to work to restore
common sense ending waste, corruption and incompetence and work to get projects like the
National Children’s Hospital completed. Above all, I want accountability in every branch of
the state from the Taoiseach down even after they leave office. I promise if I win, to keep
you all informed through my Youtube channel and word of mouth with no secrets.

Our darling country.
Our little green emerald Island home- Ireland “My Dark Rosaleen” has been very good to
me. I served her colours faithfully before and I hear her calling to me again to help her one
more time in her hour of need. I must answer that call, win or lose and let you the voters
decide if you will stand with me for one of the five seats on election day.
It is now or never. It will soon be too late. This opportunity will never come again.

Vote No 1 Val Martin on election day