The Immigration Control Platform wants Europe to remain Europe, rather than becoming Africa or Asia, Ms Aine Ni Chonaill said yesterday.
"This business of diversity is preached at only one group - the West," she said. "We accept that Africa belongs to Africans, Asia belongs to Asians and Europe belongs to everybody."
The schoolteacher from Clonakilty, Co Cork, says she is convinced the platform's views are shared by the "silent majority" in Ireland. Yet the organisation has consistently refused to supply membership figures.
When pressed for them yesterday, she turned the tables on journalists. "When you people can give us accredited numbers for the Anti-Nazi League, the Mid-West Against Racism, Residents Against Racism, the Campaign Against Racism, etc, etc . . . ask us for ours."
It was clear that she was in the driver's seat. At one stage, when she was being questioned by a tabloid journalist, she warned a colleague, Mr Tom Murphy, not to be drawn on a question.
Asked whether she had any personal experience of asylum-seekers, she replied: "This isn't the Oprah Winfrey show and I'm not going to talk about my personal life . . . I care about my country." Nations were supposed to be selfish and look after the needs of their country, she said.
"States today collude in the invasion of their own countries. That is strong language but it is a fact. Self-preservation is not selfish."