Month: February 2025

Storm Éowyn Recovery Bad Start for Ireland in Multipolar World
As far as bad omens for a new chaotic world of politics the sight of Romanian and Danish planes flying into Dublin Airport to provide emergency power generators should be scarred into our memory. An above average Atlantic storm Éowyn...

Seanad Election 2025: Ireland’s Anti-Woke Fightback Draws Blood?
Norris, Bacik, Ruane, Flynn, Robinson. A conceit to residual Protestant hegemony and ironically styled as a mix of Mussolini’s very own Senate and Pope Pius XI’s antidote to Marxism as expressed via the vocational panels, the Irish Seanad has earned...

Trump’s USAID Shutdown to Hit Irish NGO Complex
While not a direct target of its initiatives, the shuttering of Washington’s USAID network is likely to have a ripple effect in Ireland where our nation’s foreign aid programmes have become interwoven with the Democratic wing of the American establishment...

Saint Brigid’s Day; Official Ireland’s Gaia Cult?
The decline of social Catholicism in Ireland has thrown up a multitude of phenomena, not least the growing official worship of Imbolc and a progressive retelling of Saint Brigid. Bríd, the Gaelic woman who brought Christianity to Louth, the saint...