The anti-immigration group, Immigration Control Platform (ICP), has announced it is to field two candidates in the general election.
Founder member Ms Áine Ní Chonaill is to leave her Clonakility, Co Cork base to run in the Dublin South Central constituency, while a Cork city native, Mr Ted Neville, will stand in Cork South Central.
Both are running as single-issue candidates, campaigning entirely on the immigration question.
They are calling for Ireland's withdrawal from the Geneva Convention on the protection of refugees, the revocation of citizenship rights to children born here to foreign nationals and a speeding up of deportations of asylum-seekers whose applications have been refused.
Ms Ní Chonaill (57) is a former member of the Progressive Democrats and contested the Cork South West constituency on an immigration control ticket in 1997.
She is a secondary school teacher by profession and founded the ICP in 1998.
Mr Neville (44), who has no previous political party affiliations, joined the ICP the same year. A single man, he is a science graduate who works in the manufacturing industry.
His entry into the race in Cork South Central will pitch him against the Minister for Health and Children, Mr Martin.
Ms Ní Chonaill told a campaign launch yesterday she had selected Dublin South Central because it was in a state of flux with one sitting TD retiring and the constituency increasing in size from a four-seater to a five-seater.
"It can afford to elect one candidate from those five to be a voice on this issue in Dáil Éireann," she said. Both Ms Ní Chonaill and Mr Neville said they believed they represented the silent majority of Irish people who, they contend, are opposed to immigration.
Mr Neville said it was costing the taxpayer too much to support asylum seekers who "dilute" Irish culture which was essential to attract tourists.
Ms Ní Chonaill said she was not opposed to programme refugees such as the groups of Bosnians and Kosovars who had come by arrangement with the United Nations, but said she had the right to defend her homeland from uninvited immigrants just as she had the right to prevent an uninvited guest "barging" into her house.
She claimed Ireland was being turned into the "maternity ward for West Africa".