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Ted Neville (born 1957 or 1958) is an Irish anti-immigration activist from Cork. Previously associated with a number of far-right and anti-immigration groups, including the Immigration Control Platform, Identity Ireland, Irish Solidarity Party and the National Party. Neville was an unsuccessful independent candidate in local and national elections held between 2002 and 2011.




Campaigning


In the 2000s, Neville was an activist and member of the Immigration Control Platform alongside Áine Ní Chonaill. He stood, unsuccessfully, as an independent anti-immigration candidate in three general elections in Cork South Central in 2002, 2007, and 2011. He also contested the 2004 local elections in Cork City, receiving 110 first preference votes and being eliminated on the second count.
He has appeared on Irish media, including RTÉ television and radio, as an anti-immigration voice. He was involved in efforts to establish a party known as the Irish Solidarity Party in 2011. An article in The Herald from 2011 commented on the "lunacy" of his stance on immigration, stating that Neville had himself previously been "an illegal immigrant in America".
Neville was later involved with the now defunct political party Identity Ireland, and was the party's spokesman in 2015. He also appeared as a guest witness before an Oireachtas committees on behalf of the Immigration Control Platform in 2015. As of 2024, he is a member of the National Party.




Views


In 2002, Neville described Ireland as "the maternity ward of Africa" and argued that "the influx of foreign cultures will destroy Irish society". He called for a referendum to remove birthright citizenship. A 2004 referendum on citizenship rights, relating to the Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, was called and supported by the then Fianna Fáil–Progressive Democrats coalition government and passed by an 80:20 margin.
Neville attributed the 2008 financial crash to "mass-immigration" and has described Ireland as a "welfare wonderland" and a "Mecca for overseas welfare tourists".
He criticised a 2007 supreme court decision which halted a deportation order against an African couple on the grounds that they had AIDS by arguing, "We are sending out the wrong message. Most countries screen for AIDS before they come; we are saying if you come to Ireland you can stay if [you've] got AIDS".




Personal life


According to his election materials, Neville is a science graduate from Cork RTC (now Munster Technological University). He is a former competitive weightlifter and served as public relations officer for the Irish Amateur Weightlifting Association. He is involved with the Irish Real Tennis Association and served as its secretary.




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