All posts by Ciaran Brennan

Solidarity Sabotaged? Infighting Cripples Left Response to Posie Parker in Dublin

It would have been hard to avoid the sense that some degree of change is on the cards Sunday, as Dublin's fair city played host to two well-attended Right-leaning events against a glaringly lacklustre response from the Left. On Merrion...

/ 17/09/2023

An Tánaiste in the Holy Land: Is Irish Neutrality the Price of Martin’s Commission Dreams

  The Cork TD bit the bullet of disingenuous questions about De Valera’s condolences to Hitler and alleged antisemitism in Ireland this week. An Tánaiste Micheál Martin touched down in Israel as part of a week-long state visit to the...

/ 08/09/2023

If They Shot Dev Not Collins An Alternative Timeline

Setting: Glasnevin Cemetery August 22nd, 2022 in Ireland (but not as we know Her) A volley of ceremonial rifle rounds was heard shortly after Sinn Féin leader and President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State Eoin Ó...

/ 22/08/2023

The East Wall Effect: Independents Posed to Capitalise off Ireland’s Rightward Shift

Irish politics is lamentably glacier-paced, but are the green shoots of right-wing populism beginning to show in opinion polls? The Irish media has had the right-wing spectre on the brain since the outbreak of citizen protests against the asylum industry...

/ 24/07/2023

Civil War? No, But French Riots Still a Political Game Changer

Monday afternoon, and it's increasingly clear that the forces of the French Republic are gaining the upper hand against the Arab rioters who have hammered the nation the past week. The French intifada of 2023 ends with a remarkably low...

/ 03/07/2023

RTÉ on the Ropes? Time for a TV Licence Boycott

Blood is on the floor in Donnybrook after bombshell revelations about €345,000 worth of below the counter payments to Ryan Tubirdy forced the resignation of RTÉ’s head Dee Forbes in a shock punch to the jugular to the nation’s cosy...

/ 26/06/2023

Hate Speech Split in Fianna Fáil?

Oireachtas TV likely hit record numbers in the low hundreds this week as anxious right-wingers tuned in to watch a Seanad debate on hate speech laws.  McEntee’s Bill experienced a cakewalk through the lower house last month, with a gaggle...

/ 15/06/2023

Asylum Crisis: The Irish State Cannot Manage the Decline

December 2023 A culinary dispute at CItywest between Ukranian and Afghan asylum seekers has culminated in arguably the most turbulent weeks in recent Irish history.  Flames lapped across the M50 as an outmatched Public Order Unit meant for low-level crowd...

/ 04/06/2023

Niall Collins’ Gaffe: “On The Ditch” and Ireland’s Looming Regime Change

“The real point is that all this doesn’t matter a fiddler's fart on the Cliffs of Moher to the country’s real problems.” - Breandán Ó hEithir  As the prospect of war grips most European cabinets, France teeters, and populist governments...

/ 09/05/2023

How Musk Could Take Ireland to Task Over Hate Speech Legislation

Twitter’s Fenian Street HQ was a powerful place to be in the mid to late 2010s.  The cockpit of the social media giant’s European operations, a generation of activists that came of age during the 2015 Marriage Referendum accrued immense...

/ 01/05/2023