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A candidate for National Party. View party
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Justin Barrett
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Biography

Originally from Tipperary, Justin Barrett started in politics as a member of Young Fine Gael but left in the early 1990s before taking up a position in the militant anti-abortion group Youth Defence. He ran unsuccessfully for an EU Parliament seat in 2004 and later founded the National Party in 2016. He is one of two men who claim to be the current leader of the ethnonationalist party, the other being James Reynolds.

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