Ireland badly needs a new centre-right party - Here's my proposal

I do and just don't get the impression as your giving. That 'the right' is everywhere. It isn't. In Ireland such people are very niche/fringe. Unlike many other countries. Maybe you just notice it more if they appear occasionally. Radical right is similar to radical left. In that they are normally vocal types. But the numbers those fringes get in General Elections just does not stack up.

Even if you think of the OP's post the implication seems to be that a new Centre-Right party would be radical. That is a 'Centre Right' party!

To me it just shows me that people in Ireland should be thankful of a very centrist type of politics. Noone is really going to rock the boat at the end of the day. It is a common sense type politics. Very little hysteria.

Compare that to other nations!

Presumably OP would say he is too busy working hard and getting up early in the morning, as are most of those of like mind, so there's noone to make his fantasy party a reality...

The comment was

"All discourse in media here is from a centre left to far left perspective"

And

" the only time they got any airtime was in the abortion referendum."

Taking newstalk as an example a search "David Quinn" brings up 13 segments, all after the referendum.

He also has an column in the Sunday times along with the likes of Breda o Brien in the Irish times. They are free to waffle all sorts of nonsense as "opinion".

So both those comments are demonstrably untrue.

The issue is that there is a certain ingrained victim hood in "conservatives" in this country and elsewhere. To them it's not a case of them/their views being largely in a severe minority with people not wanting what they are selling, it's the media/government/liberals that are restricting them.

Look at the debate on here leading up to the abortion referendum, where afterwards we found out that the mods bent over backwards to keep "conservative" posters, that would have been banned normally from getting banned so as to keep opposing voices on the forum.

As for you over zealous posters comment. This is a discussion forum if you aren't willing ( and in a lot of cases I see, can't)to stand over your post then there are other places on the internet where you will find the correct chamber you want.

so the media is largely to blame for the suppression of such beliefs?

A lot of Irish people leave Ireland for places like the OP describes. Very few go to the Nordic countries. They tend to go to the UK,NZ,Auz,Canada and the USA. All places were anybody earning over €35k pay less tax. Many now go to the middle East and pay no tax.

But why is their currently little support for lower taxes among the electorate?

The OP could easily be describing NZ or Australia i.e lower taxes and a strict migration policy. Even socialist Ardern has decided that only highly skilled migrants will be allowed in post covid.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/17/new-zealand-to-cut-low-skill-immigration-and-refocus-on-wealthy

In essence, there is a race to the left. For instance, if an NGO calls for an amnesty for undocumented migrants, left wing parties will applaud. Much of the media will cheer it on too, but there won't be anyone from a mainstream party who will confidently oppose it. They will hum and haw uncomfortably, but will be very reluctant to vocally speak out against it.

If they did, expect to hear some NGO-head tutting-tutting about it in a conveniently timed interview, courtesy of their friends in the Irish Times or RTE.

Over time the Left drifts ever further Left, with groupthink and peer pressure dragging everyone else along with them.

FG centre left LOL.

I think it'd be as sucessfull as Lawerence Fox's London mayoral campaign.