East Wall Fights on with Busáras Blockade
The asylum standoff at East Wall shows no sign subsiding with coordinated shutdowns by residents yesterday evening at Busáras bus terminal and the Samuel Beckett Bridge simultaneously. Beginning after 5pm, protestors successfully stalled traffic at key transport arteries in the...
Review: The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
Andrew Doyle’s The New Puritans: How The Religion of Social Justice Captured The Western World begins and ends with America’s Salem Witch Trials. In between, he has twelve chapters, each of whose titles has a religious connotation and all of...
Revisionism Against the State: UCD’s Gentle Revolution and Irish Elite Formation
What are the contemporary ideological characteristics of the modern Irish state? The answer to such a question appears difficult to place in the complex history of the Republic's current statelet government yet may be studied with reference to the overlapping...
Lessons from the Anglo: Learning from the Failure of Post-War British Nationalism
Amid lockdown I developed a rather masochistic tendency in my online viewing habits. With the pubs closed and Ireland seemingly stuck under the permafrost of covidmania in perpetuity, I decided to plumb the depths of what remains of the British...
Rose Dugdale: The Life of an Irish 68er
Seán O'Driscoll's riveting account of British aristocrat Rose Dugdale's topsy turvy life resembles a Monty Python thriller. Here is a niece of Oswald Mosley, a member of Britain's ruling elite, who had once prostrated herself in front of their Queen,...
East Wall Residents Promise to Escalate Port Blockade Over Asylum Centre
Attempts to remedy the ongoing asylum dispute at East Wall appear to have failed with a further commitment by residents to continue the periodic blockage of the Port Tunnel. Arising from the Department of Children’s placement of a 380 person...
The End of the Nursing Home-Asylum Centre Controversy, or Just the Beginning?
Sunday, the Junior Minister for Older People, Mary Butler, called for a ban on the controversial trend of Irish nursing homes being closed only to subsequently house asylum seekers. Just last week, this publication's investigation into cases of elderly Irish...
Lough Erne Attack: Why is a Sinn Féin MP Backing Antifa in Court?
By any reckoning, the events of the 13th of November at the Lough Erne Resort were a blunder for more serious thinking antifascist organisers in Ireland. A freelance 30-person operation of Dublin antiracists linked up with nordie left-republicans, largely from...
EXCLUSIVE: Shuttered Irish Nursing Homes Now Housing Government Migrants
This is the second of a series of exposés on the effect of the establishment’s mass-asylum policy on the most vulnerable groups in Irish society. For part one about how the policy is affecting young people and students you can...
East Wall: Sinn Féin Grassroots Break Ranks on Asylum
For the second night in the past week, East Wall residents rallied to protest the planting of an asylum centre in the former ESB Building by an overstretched Department of Equality. Numbering north of 300 at its peak, the crowd...