Month: October 2023
Government Migration Row Brings Coalition to Brink
The coalition Government has been brought to the brink this week by escalating rows over the state’s migration policy. Having been described as the “the most divisive, heated discussions” since the formation of the Government, this Tuesday Minister Roderic O'Gorman...
Gaelicism in Practice: William Rooney
Extracts from a longform essay "Gaelicism in Practice" by William Rooney, The United Irishman, January 12, 1901. “Those Penal Days,” of which Davis sung, though the acme of all that fiendish cruelty and bigoted injustice could devise, as far as...
Is the Gaza Crisis About to Propel Islamo-Populism in the UK?
“I had dreamt of no Islamic revolution in Britain but rather of a slow conversion, helped by an Islamic infiltration.” Anthony Burgess 1978 Bye-elections aside the British Labour Party is having a poor week. The centrist Labour leader Keir Starmer...
Government Spends Billions on Refugees but Refuses Irish People Humanitarian Aid
Locals in Wexford were told by the government that they would not receive aid after a freak weather disaster destroyed their lives. The same government literally sends billions abroad for the same situation; the only difference is that they're happy...
Paddy Cosgrave Did Nothing Wrong (About Israel)
The Web Summit founder has been forced to issue an apology for his tweets on the situation in Gaza. What was this all about, and was he right to say sorry? Over the past few days, a storm in a...
The Government’s Support of Palestine and Rejection of Armenia is Rank Hypocrisy
In the past couple of weeks, members of the Irish government have, in a rare moment of virtue, voiced their opposition to aggressive Israeli military moves in Gaza. While this is to be commended, it brings into stark relief the...
Banter Policing in England: A Slippery Slope?
Is banter being banned in Anglostan? What about here? What are the limits of banter? Lanklet Dev muddles his way through the issue with plenty of nauseating Britspeak dropped along the way... https://twitter.com/PangurBn10/status/1681632790876418048 "Enjoyable banter" that "went too far" -...
Stakeknife: The Spy Who Made Modern Ireland
Freddie Scappaticci, Stakeknife was, according to the book’s blurb, “the British spy who played a leading role in the British intelligence war against the Provisional IRA.” Stakeknife, along with John Joe McGee, another British plant, infamously ran the IRA’s Nutting...