National Alliance (Ireland)

The National Alliance was established in July 2024 after small far-right parties failed to achieve success in that year's European and local elections, partly due to vote splitting. The stated goal of the group was to ensure votes for far-right parties were not split in the 2024 general election. These included the Irish Freedom Party In September 2024, the Electoral Commission rejected an effort to change the name of The Irish People party to "National Alliance". The body ruled that it was "not an application to amend the name and emblem of an existing party, but rather constitutes an application to seek to register an alliance of a number of already registered political parties", which the Electoral Reform Act 2022 forbids. Parties comprising the National Alliance nominated a total of 32 candidates in the 2024 general election. None were elected. In February 2025, the National Party announced that the National Alliance was "considered de facto defunct" due to a lack of "significant communication and dialogue" between members. ==Organisation and ideology==

As of October 2024, the group's election committee included Derek Blighe of Ireland First, Fingal County Council member Patrick Quinlan of the National Party and Anthony Cahill of The Irish People. Other positions the group outlined included opposition to abortion, defending "the right to free speech", and cutting funding to "subversive NGOs that undermine [Ireland's] national interests". == Election results ==