Basic Values

Eire Aonair's constitution outlines four basic values: community, individual responsibility, fair play/respect, and principles over politics. It identifies independent thought as a main feature of the party and states that free speech, open mindedness, participation in public debate, and honesty should be first and foremost. Essentially, Eire Aonair is outlined as a party of democracy for people with ideas and a willingness to do good.

The Values Concept

Section four of the constitution is titled "The Values Concept". This section proposes a reciprocating relationship between the party, members, and the community. Essentially: the members do right by the community, they lend integrity to the party, which in-turn helps the party's members to be re-elected and continue to help the community. This idea is simple, but it is considered extremely important and all too easily forgotten. Section five re-inforces this idea by encouraging members to take on personal responsibilities and consider their impact on the community.

Balance of Life

Eire Aonair's constitution includes guidelines designed to encourage members to take care of their real lives as well as playing eRepublik. Members are expected to be considerate of the real life commitments and aspirations of other players and to encourage a healthy life style for each other. Members are also advised to pace their in game commitments with the amount of free time that they have in real life for their own sake and for the sake of other players who may be depending on them. Section seven ties into this by ensuring a separation between the party and religious beliefs while also prohibiting discrimination based on religion.

Determining Party Stance

The last section of the constitution states that party stances on current issues can be adopted through discussion. Future party stances developed a system of democratic voting for party stances.

Early History

Bremen Clubhouse

Due to timing, shortly after the foundation of Eire Aonair, the party came under attacks from the Bremen Clubhouse, a group of hostile British political take-over agents. At the time Ireland and the UK were continuing their long and heated war with each other. After falling under the control of hostile efforts, Eire Aonair was able to exist underground for one month. In the following month genuine members were able to regain control. During this same time, all of eIreland was engaged in a strategic Anti-takeover effort to avoid giving congress seats to hostile take-over agents - Eire Aonair played an important role in ensuring the success of these efforts.

Early Efforts

Eire Aonair and its members have headed many breakthrough projects ranging from economic to military matters. The first member to create a project was Stranger Here Myself who developed The Moynihan Group as an economic think tank. Stranger Here Myself's work and ideas would later lead to award winning projects and in-depth economic discussion.

In June of 2011 Eire Aonair's Donnzer worked with the party to develop the The Black Buck Initiative. This initiative was designed to collect military intelligence and was later re-calibrated to collect information and statistics for analysis. [15]

In late July of 2011 an article published on behalf of Eire Aonair, Eire Aonair Test Run Company Project: A More Efficient Commune, won the award for Article of the Month in June 2011. [16] This project was the collaborative effort of many members and involved active experimentation and economic study to increase the efficiency of military communes. The project concluded that by using a purchased based model (rather than a production version) efficiency could be improved by more than 40%. The new model was the brainchild of EA economist Stranger Here Myself. Sir Adriano Prette ran the practical research and analysis for the project, including the management of the company and the calculations of efficiency comparisons

Also in July 2011, the party took large steps to improve internal communication under the guidance D-Glennon. This coincided with admin changes to ingame communications that allowed for a shout feed and conference private messages. At the same time, through his suggestion Joey Millz initiates the creation of an Eire Aonair Department of Recruitment. The new department aims to help generate interest and gain new members for the party.

JIG and EAMU

Around the middle of August 2011 Stranger Here Myself creates a new Group Joint Investment Scheme with the Moynihan Group, modelled after similar work done in Hungary. The new project operates by allowing a group of investors to found Q4 companies in a short period of time through a system of group payments.

By September Eire Aonair's Joint Investment Project is continuing with considerable success. The remaining participants (Patrick O'Leary, Connor H, Stranger Here Myself, John Gormley, Sir Adriano Prette, joey millz, D-Glennon, and Ian E Coleman) continue to make contributions, and by the end of the month four Q4 companies are already constructed. This project would end a success, with all of the participants benefiting. At this same time Eire Aonair's project of creating a military unit is realized when agreements with Bassy finally come into fruition. Bassy donates his military unit, once called Troid na hEireann Arm, to the newly formed E.A.M.U. to be used as its military unit. For his great contribution to the party and the E.A.M.U. project, Bassy is made the first Chief Command Officer of the new unit. New uniforms and a constitution are made public and recruitment begins. This MU is later discontinued due to supply problems, only to be re-opened in the summer of 2012. Later EAMU was disbanded again in favour of supporting a central national military unit, Irish Army. With many successful innovations and ideas, EAMU becomes a model for a new more open Irish Army as EAMU soldiers join their central national force.

MikeBane

November of 2011 was a difficult month for Eire Aonair. After being elected to Party President, MikeBane was met with resistance following his decisions to change elements of the party's public image. Many of MikeBanes changes reflected his famous ego - changing the name and description of the party to focus on his leadership. Bane also opted to redesign elements of the Eire Aonair logo, compromising the black raven for a red star.

These changes were met with resistance from the core members of Eire Aonair. Although purely cosmetic, the focus of party image on MikeBane's leadership was seen as a contradiction to the party's values for group leadership, democratically focused decision making, and teamwork. The red star added to the party's logo was seen as a symbol for the political left, and many Eire Aonair members were unhappy with the abolishment of the raven, which had been an important symbol of the party since its foundation nine months ago.

Following the large amount of negative feedback regarding his changes, MikeBane decided to undo the changes he had made and to apologize to the party. He did promise not to make any such changes again without consulting the members of the party first.

Despite MikeBane reverting his changes as party president, some members of Eire Aonair remained unsatisfied with MikeBane's leadership. Following a damaging article from a fellow member of Eire Aonair regarding his actions during the term, MikeBane would resign from the position of Party President. The article in question presented MikeBane as a political takeover leader and self-absorbed dictator, despite being published after an apology by MikeBane and the reversion of the changes that were objected to. According to the founder of Eire Aonair, Ian E Coleman "I believe that (the controversial actions of Mike) (were) an honest mistake - rather than a PTO which I think of as a malicious and conscious attack." [17]

After MikeBane's resignation, Bhane, a trusted friend of Eire Aonair and a loyal member of the Irish Union Party, took the temporary position of party president to protect the party during its transition. Later the Party President position was passed to Reactionist for the remainder of the term.

Joey Millz Era

On April 16, 2012 Joey Millz was elected to lead Eire Aonair for the first time. It would be the first of five wins for Joey in the next six months, tying him with D-Glennon for the most times leading the party, and doing so in a convincingly consecutive fashion. As a loyal member of Eire Aonair, Joey lead as a conservative president - preserving the parties logo, forum, and description for the summer months. Joey's terms lasted from April 16, 2012 to September 2012, with the exception of the June elections which were won by MrConwayTwitty.

In September the admin introduced reforms to the political module, and falling activity lead to a decline in Eire Aonair's standing. The new political module introduced a system where party presidents prioritize congress candidates on a list and elections were determined by voting for each party, rather than the old system where each candidate could be voted for independently.

October 2012 Renewal

Late History

Saoirse Merger

On February 10, 2013, it was announced that Saoirse, the second largest political party at the time, would become a part of Éire Aonair. [19] To avoid a large amount of membership attrition, the members of Éire Aonair moved into the Saoirse party and the name and description of Saoirse were then changed to Éire Aonair's. This brought Éire Aonair from having less than 20 members and being out of the top five, to having more than 50 members and being the second place party. The effect of the merger was that all of the members of Saoirse had joined under the original constitution and legacy of the Éire Aonair. Saoirse and Éire Aonair had both been like minded and similar in their approaches to political philosophy in many ways before the merger. This merger removed significant pressure from the political scene in eIreland by bringing more of eIreland under the top five.

On February 15, 2013, Ian E Coleman, the founder of EA, was elected the first party president of the merged Éire Aonair. [20] The merger had been negotiated under the party presidencies of Uljanov (Saoirse) and Leo Demidov (EA). For the first month the party was run to be run by a council with two members from each party - MUFC92 (Saoirse founder), Uljanov (last Saoirse president), Leo Demidov (president of EA for January '13), and Sir Adriano Prette (long time member of EA). The merged Éire Aonair would go on to win their first congress elections with the most total votes (50) and 11 (27.93%) elected congress representatives. [21][22]

Becoming A Leader

In the many months that would follow the Saoirse merger, Éire Aonair became a leading political force in eIreland. In March of 2013, the month after the merger, an Éire Aonair candidate was elected Country President, when MUFC92 won the elections with 40% of the vote. [23] He would be re-elected the month following, and pave the way for an additional three elections of ÉA canadidates in 2013, and five in 2014. By 2014 the party was secure as the number one party in membership, and boasted a high percentage of the voter turnouts during Dáil election times. [24] Éire Aonair came to represent a powerful political faction who's members could turn elections, but who's support could only be earned by convincing members individually of the merit of a candidate or idea.

Daniel.Plainview

One dark chapter in the history of Éire Aonair, was the betrayal of Daniel.Plainview. After gaining the trust of eIreland and Éire Aonair to the point where he was elected Country President in April of 2014, he would ultimately try to steal funds from the government and sabotage the nation before being impeached. In his first month, Daniel managed to gain the support of four other parties, including The Left Hand of Ireland, who were of significant size. [25] He won with 62 votes and nearly 50% of the total support, against formidable opponents in Don Gomar and Mirek12345 who were both establish members of the community. Daniel himself had only been in eIreland for a number of months, but had won support and trust through his activity and positive involvement in the community. In fact, Daniel's first month went fairly smoothly, which allowed him to run and be elected for a second month in May. Unfortunately, this second month would not go smoothly, as Daniel.Plainview was impeached on the 16th. [26] The coincided with Daniel initiating several malicious proposals to the country's administration, including a proposal to leave Aurora, the alliance of eIreland at the time. Daniel had also made attempts to steal funds from government orgs, and had asked Ian E Coleman for Command of the IA, but been rejected. Luckily security measures had been in place against theft, and the Ministry of Finance had taken pro-active measures given the unproven nature of Daniel.Plainview's status in the community in the first place. It was reported that the damage was minimal, relative to the risk associated with a malicious CP.