Month: August 2021
What’s the Plan for Afghan Refugees in Ireland?
The wheels had barely begun lifting off the tarmac at Kabul airport when the nation’s robust open borders lobby began calling for the acceptance of refugees to the Irish Republic. With commitment to cater for 150 additional humanitarian visas as...
Is Ireland’s Energy Grid At Breaking Point?
Rolling blackouts in the depths of winter await us thanks to the myopia of the upper class, enamoured as they are by the fear-porn of a "Climate Crisis." According to the Business Post, Eirgrid has confirmed the likelihood of rolling...
5 Things We Learned From #MerrionGate
Irish political scandals are often as unbelievable as they are mind-numbing. In this sense, Merriongate is no exception. The idea that politicians, lawmakers, and other senior gombeens would be dumb enough to attend a private shindig during a period of...
Organising For a Christian Society-Frank Duff (1958)
The following are extracts from a 1958 oration by Legion of Mary founder Frank Duff. Celebrating their centenary this September, the Legion is a lay organisation known for its mix of missionary work and Marian devotion. Briefly acting as private...
Trinity News’s TERF Tantrum
The gnashing of teeth has been audible from House 6 this week with public discord emerging between TCD’s Trinity News and the Irish Times, resulting in the former terminating their business relationship with the Tara Street hacks. Disharmony emerged with...
Paddy’s Populist Pivot — Is Cosgrave Our Guy?
What to do when yuppies go rogue? That must be the question ruminated upon by elements of our government at the political noises being made by former tech golden boy Paddy Cosgrave, famous by way of the ill fated Web...
Crushproof: Skanger Nationalist Parable on Screen
“I'll remember Dublin city, in the rare ould times” “And their sons will be respected men, and they will be established as judges over your sons; they will govern your city and they will buy your field, for the universal...
Ireland Should Prepare Against Afghan Asylum Surge
The slow-motion disintegration of the American sponsored Kabul regime will invariably impact upon the country’s threadbare asylum system in the years ahead. While the battlefields and refugee camps of Helmand and Greece may be the furthest places imaginable from the...
Splitters! — Connolly Youth Movement on Death’s Door?
Tough Times at Connolly Barracks At one time the most spirited outfit on the Irish Left, it would appear that the Connolly Youth Movement (CYM) has entered a period of dormancy on the back of a schismatic year and lockdown...
Triumph of the Repeal: RTÉ Airs Pro-Abortion Propaganda Film
The 2018 referendum to repeal the 8th Amendment in Ireland will be remembered for decades, if not centuries, as a turning point in Irish history. Its passing marked the definitive end of Holy-Joe hegemony in Ireland, which had long been...