It contended the 2009 European Parliament elections in Ireland under a common banner with Declan Ganley's Libertas.eu.

It shared a headquarters with Libertas.eu[nb 1][4][5] but was a national party in its own right[1] for the purposes of Irish electoral law.

It did not intend to field a candidate in South because Libertas had close ties[8] with Kathy Sinnott (IND/EUD/IND-DEM), an MEP for that constituency.

[11] O'Malley said that Ireland should close its borders to workers from other EU countries while appearing on The Last Word on Today FM.

[12] Ganley was not elected; he called for a recount in his constituency and, as a result, his official number of first preferences was reduced by 3,000 from 70,638 when it was discovered that some votes for Fiachra O'Luain has been mistakenly bundled with his.