Month: February 2026
St Brigid: The DFA’s New Gaia Cult
Maria Maynes' recent Gript article on how the Irish Deapartment of Foreign Affairs' witches have hijacked St Brigid's Day warrants multiple readings and multiple replies. Maynes, not to put too fine a point on it, is piqued that the Department argues that St Brigid's...
From the Liffey to the Danube: The Sinn Féin Ideal and the Hungarian Question-Gyöngyösi Márton
The following tract is taken from a 2003 pamphlet about the Irish rejection of the Nice Treaty by former MEP and Hungarian parliamentarian Gyöngyösi Márton and is syndicated with permission of the author. In light of the outcome and results...
A Broad Church for the Irish Right?
I wrote a few days ago about the failure of Irish populists to organise. The piece was pessimistic because pessimism was the only intellectually honest response to the evidence. Reality, so far, has not been especially generous. One observation in...
Mr Tóibín Goes to Washington: Inside Aontú’s American Pivot
During their recent visit to the United States, Aontú and party leader Peadar Tóibín presented the trip as a significant step in building international links, particularly among Irish-American communities. The itinerary included meetings with U.S lawmakers from both major parties,...