Month: April 2026
Continuity Under Strain: How Irish Republicanism Navigated the Emergency
The period between 1938 and the end of the Second World War represents one of the most severe tests faced by the Irish Republican tradition in the twentieth century. It was not a period of decisive advance, nor of final...
Will Fianna Fáil’s Zoomer Golden Boys Oust Martin?
Reports of Micheál Martin’s political demise have been repeatedly overstated in the post-Covid period. The Leesideleader has managed to endure, despite recurring unease among Fianna Fáil’s upper ranks even up until the Jim Gavin fiasco. However, that run of resilience...
Ciarán O’Connor’s Iranian Bots: Time for Irish Media to Register ISD as Foreign Agents
The Irish Times op-ed pages have long enjoyed the rare distinction of irritating both left and right, largely through its habit of quietly importing the anxieties of British securocrats and repackaging them as native concerns. From ritualised scoldings about Ireland’s...
National Sabotage? Blame Green Mania Not Truckers for Fuel Unrest
The fuel protests now entering their fourth day are being treated by the 26-County government as a law-and-order headache, a public-order nuisance and, in Micheál Martin’s words, an act of “national sabotage”. That line is not just arrogant. It is...
Murphy Versus Molnárfi: Has Fuel Protests Broken Back of Left Populism
Dublin enters its third day of partial blockade and slow moving motorcades from hauliers and farmers alike as the government ponders the deployment of the Defence Forces to clear vital arteries. Responding to price spike in the wake of the...
Ireland and Iran: The Price of Pax Americana?
The most immediate impact of the war on Iran for Ireland is not ideological or diplomatic. It is economic. It is measured in the price of petrol, diesel, and home heating oil. As the conflict escalates, energy markets have responded...