Irish people should be paying very close attention to Keep It Five. At the centre of what the campaign is promoting is a petition started by Manavi Purohit, a Dublin-based immigration visa and citizenship adviser, opposing the Government’s proposal to increase the residency requirement for Irish citizenship from 5 to 8 years. But this goes well beyond signing a petition. Keep It Five provides ready-written letters for people to send to TDs. Copy, paste, email. Political responses are tracked. Organisations, unions and businesses are being recruited and numbers gathered specifically to demonstrate pressure to TDs. Supporters are also directed towards Doras, the Immigrant Council of Ireland, ICCL, Irish Refugee Council, MRCI, Nasc and AkiDwA. This is organised political pressure over something enormously important - Who qualifies to become an Irish citizen and on what terms? So who actually runs Keep It Five? Who coordinates it? Who funds it? Who built the campaign operation? What organisations or individuals sit behind it? Who registered keepitfive.ie / keepitfive.org, who operates it, who pays for it and do any any of these people connect back to the NGOs?immigration industry? And how much of the apparent public pressure reaching TDs is spontaneous and how much is being generated through organised campaigns and ready-to-send correspondence? Lobby away. But if you want to influence Irish citizenship law, put your own cards on the table. Irish citizenship is too important for anonymous campaign machinery. Who is behind Keep It Five? No wonder @OCallaghanJim is feeling the pressure. @brophytalks @Ben_Scallan @Nick_Delehanty