Did a group calling itself the Irish Citizen Army (ICA) release a new message amid the June 2026 anti-migration protests in Northern Ireland? No, that's not true: The video, featuring an anonymous narrator, was originally released with a Sept. 20, 2025 datestamp. Reposts of the video circulating in June 2026 have an "ITS TIME" caption box obscuring that original datestamp.
The video resurfaced in a post (archived here) published by @realtoriabrooke on X on June 10, 2026. It was captioned:
IRELAND 🇮🇪 Amid anti-migration protests, the anonymous ICA (Irish Citizen Army) group released a message saying that it was finally taking action against what the Irish and British governments have done: "When tyranny becomes law, revolution becomes duty."
This is a screenshot from the 3-minute, 47-second video in the post:
(Image source: @realtoriabrooke post on X.)
In the lower left corner of the video (pictured above) is a black text box that says, "ITS TIME". The video contains audio of a person reading a message with an anonymous voice changer. The main scene shows several masked people in dark jackets with their faces blurred. Additional scenes depict Ireland -- a map, the flag, and rural and urban landscapes -- along with two slides containing text. The first minute of narration follows:
Citizens of Ireland, we address you tonight with a heavy heart but with a firm resolve. We are the Irish Citizen Army, also known as the ICA. We created the rebirth of the ICA of 1913. We are all citizens, fathers, mothers, sons and daughters.
Driven to finally take action on the intolerable corruption which is forced on us by the Irish and British governments, we also believe that the British government has no right in Ireland, has never had any right in Ireland and never can have any right in Ireland. We represent all of Ireland's 32 counties. We refuse to witness the suffering of our citizens. Our Irish citizens refuse to be treated as second-class citizens on their own island. We, the ICA, refuse to witness our heritage and culture being erased. We refuse to witness the suffering and killing of innocent Irish citizens.
An "Official Statement" video was originally published on YouTube by the Irish Citizen Army/ICA on Sept. 21, 2025. This video is no longer available on YouTube. The Internet Archive captured four snapshots of the YouTube posting from November and December 2025, but the video itself was not preserved. Because of this, Lead Stories cannot compare the original video to the one posted on X by @realtoriabrooke.
A reel published on Facebook on Nov. 15, 2025 (archived here) contains a 3-minute, 50-second video bearing a datestamp, "20/09/25" (September 20, 2025) in the lower left corner of the frame. Lead Stories reviewed the videos side by side and determined they are the same, with two exceptions:
- the text obscuring the date stamp;
- at nine seconds, several words were removed from the 2026 version, making the video slightly shorter and snipping out a reference to 2025.
It originally said:
We are the Irish Citizen Army, also known as the ICA, formed as of the seventh of June 2025. We created the rebirth of the ICA of 1913.
(Image source: @ron.ridgeway.3194 post on Facebook.)
