James Joseph Reynolds (born 7 December 1968) is an Irish farmer, and far-right[2][3][4][5] politician who served as vice president of the National Party from 2016 to 2023.

They claimed the Treaty of Lisbon would fast-track Turkey's application to join the EU, which would "double the number of farmers overnight" and cause Common Agricultural Policy payments to collapse.

[23] The ICSA also objected to Reynolds' "gratuitously offensive comments made about the former Taoiseach Enda Kenny, the EU Commissioner and other politicians".

In a 1992 interview with Hot Press, Reynolds spoke of abandoning democracy and argued for the inductment of internment and the reintroduction of the death penalty to Ireland.

[25][26] During the same time period, Reynolds stated in an interview with Shannonside radio that if Nuala Fennell and Nora Owen of Fine Gael been active politically in Spain in the 1970s like they were in Ireland in the 1990s, "they would have been put up against a wall and shot".

[25][26] In a 2023 interview, he said he had been interested in politics "since a young age" and "was very taken with the Gaelic system of 'Tanistry' because of my lifelong belief in freedom, limited government and being totally opposed to tyranny.

[31] The group was briefly revived to oppose the 2012 Compact Fiscal referendum, Reynolds claimed the treaty would put the Common Agricultural Policy budget "at severe risk".

[34] At the party's first ardfheis, guest speaker John Wilson walked out in reaction to homophobic comments, including a claim by Reynolds that LGBT people were "mentally disordered".

[35] In June 2019, Reynolds accompanied anti-immigration and conspiracy-theorist campaigner Gemma O'Doherty for a livestream in Longford, during which a Polish woman living in the town confronted the pair outside St. Mel's Cathedral.

[36] Reynolds subsequently spoke in O'Doherty's favour during protests held outside Google's Dublin headquarters following her suspension from YouTube.

[42][43] At the 2024 European Parliament election, Reynolds stood in the Midlands-North-West constituency, where he was eliminated on the fourth count with 3,201 first-preference votes (0.47%).