All posts by Ciaran Brennan

Garda Bribery Allowed Hundreds of Pakistanis Enter Ireland Illegally

An unknown Garda has been exposed as running a high-level cash-for-visas scam in conjunction with a Pakistani fixer to enable up to 800 largely Pakistanis to enter Ireland.  The scam was ongoing since 2017 and involved the Garda accepting bribes...

/ 14/04/2023

Al-Qadri’s Asylum Pivot

Political Islam in Ireland has so far been something of a dead duck. While Islamic penetration of the political system is frighteningly common in the UK, Sweden, and France, the Islamic community in Ireland is yet too meagre and, more...

/ 07/04/2023

Kellie Harrington: Official Ireland Can’t Put Immigration Back in the Box

Today’s targeting of Kellie Harrington for mild views on immigration and the sin of sharing a GBNews article is the latest sign of a losing streak by the status quo in the attempt to reestablish dominance on a shifting public...

/ 28/03/2023

We’re Full: Irish Government Asks Refugees to Stop Coming

Yesterday’s low-level rioting at the Citywest asylum facility has put into focus the reality of the state’s overstretched international protection services. Less than a year into the Ukrainian conflict, the Department of Children and Integration tasked with managing the failing...

/ 24/01/2023

Big Business Backs Open Border Pledge in Ireland

With protests across the capital sending political chills into the halls of power, the antifascist left and big business have responded in kind with a joint statement condemning the demonstrations and what they stand for. Announced by a new astroturfed...

/ 13/01/2023

Twitter’s Irish Spies: How Has Musk Takeover Impacted Dublin Operations?

With Twitter’s Senior Policy Director Sinéad MsSweeney opting to jump rather than be pushed in the face of Musk’s radical streamlining of the company, the question must be asked how is the global corporate shakeup affecting the office politics on...

/ 07/01/2023

Nkencho Inquiry: Is Ruth Coppinger Trying to Rebuild her Career off the Nigerian Vote?

Instigating a lukewarm attempt at US-style race rioting in Clonee of all places, the GSOC inquiry into the death of Nigerian blade enthusiast turned anti-racist martyr Goerge Nkencho may loom large over the politics of 2023.  Shot by the Armed...

/ 06/01/2023

Pavee Future: Where do Travellers fit into the New Ireland?

Machetes, car rammings, and armed Gardaí dispatched to patrol the streets of a rural town, the all too predictable goings on in Rathkeale have led to us all rolling our eyes as yet again traveller violence bleeds out into the...

/ 21/12/2022

Political Ireland’s €215k Diversity Payday

With storm clouds gathering around the second coming of Leo Varadkar to the tanistry, the public purse strings are opening again to secure a new funding stream for the diversity lobby in Ireland.  Announced Monday by the Department of Local...

/ 12/12/2022

Germany: The Coup that Wasn’t?

Clocks were set back to 1919 this week with the German Bundesrepublik acting robustly to suppress plans to overthrow the state by Russian-backed nationalists, at least if authorities can be believed. Leading to the arrest of 27 Wednesday morning in...

/ 11/12/2022