Category: Articles
Hate Speech in Ireland: The Road Ahead
Kicked into the legislative long grass by Charlie Flanagan, rumblings by the Department of Justice this week indicate an intention to finally cut the Gordian knote on viable hate speech legislation this autumn. Specifically mentioned within the Programme for Government...
Is Kinnegad Just the Beginning? Asylum Wave Inbound for Ireland
The following quote is Roderic O'Gorman's sole explanation for the increase in the number of non-Ukraine related asylum seekers in Ireland so far this year. "Since the lifting of international travel restrictions post-Covid-19, there has been a significant increase of...
Kinnegad: Arab Incels and Middle Class Cowardice
A dose of healthy racism could’ve quashed, or at the very least mitigated the ill-effects of, the current fiasco in Kinnegad. Spawned by its planter pollack gombeen owners selling it off for use by the Department of Children, ‘Harry’s Hotel’...
Agent Viktor: Does the Irish Visa System Provide an Open Door for Foreign Espionage?
The rumbling of a Russian sleeper spy by Dutch security forces presents some salient questions for the country in light of our infamously lax language school sector. Sergey Vladimirovich Cherkasov operating under the moniker ‘Viktor Muller Ferreira’ posed as a...
Kinnegad: Media Attempts to Hush Asylum Disaster in Westmeath
It's been a week of putting out fires for the nation's media-NGO complex grappling with the slow rolling disaster of the new Kinnegad asylum centre and resultant community fallout. In classic departmental form, residents of the 2,700 strong Westmeath town...
Why is the German Government Funding the Surveillance of Irish Nationalists?
Political parties in the German national parliament can secure funding for private entities of their choice (called ‘Foundations’) amounting to tens of millions of euros every year. The AfD recently took a case against the state’s refusal to give it...
Exiting History: The Myth of the Bipolar World
The ‘End of History’ has been postponed. Fukuyama, its author, assures us that ‘the spirit of 1989 is not dead…and is being reawakened’ by the Ukrainian conflict'. The End of History and the triumph of liberalism is still there. According...
Will Irish Students Lose Out Amid Asylum Surge in September?
Food for thought: The decision yet again to postpone Leaving Cert results this year could possibly mask a government attempt to buy time as the ongoing asylum surge looks set to muscle Irish students from the accommodation market. Ostensibly driven...
Rally for Life Returns to Dublin in Force
Ireland’s pro-life contingent rallied yesterday on Dublin’s streets energised by the American Roe vs Wade ruling. Organised by the Life Institute it is the first time since 2019 that the rally has occurred in person owing to lockdown restrictions. Beginning...
The Greasy Till: DP Moran, Yeats and Ireland’s Emergent Catholic Bourgeoisie
Introduction “As regards Ireland, our feelings were curious… We intended as good Protestants and Loyalists to keep the papists under our feet. We impoverished them, though we loved them, and their religion by its doctrine of submission and obedience unintentionally...