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: if the members do right by the community, they lend integrity to the party which in-turn helps the parties members to be re-elected and continue to help the community. This idea is simple, but it is extremely important and all to 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.

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. [[4]

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. [5] 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.

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 parties 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 by resistance by 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." [6]

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

On October 16, 2012 Ian E Coleman was elected to lead Eire Aonair for his fifth time. With his election he began a new recruiting campaign to replenish the parties waining numbers, and received the party's approval to institute a new party logo featuring a raven bearing an Irish harp. Below the party's name, Éire Aonair, the new logo features the words "Tabhair | Comhoibriú | Éiríonn" which means Give, Cooperatre, Succeed. [7]