Tag: asylum
Imperial America: Ireland and Washington’s Expanding Biometric Border Regime
The rupturing of transatlantic relations continues to define the diplomatic calendars of both Iveagh House and European capitals with scant attention being paid to moves by Washington to hoover up the biometric data of EU citizens. Referred to by policy...
Did Brexit Break Belfast? Mass Migration and the Six Counties
One of the most frequently repeated promises made during the Brexit campaign was that leaving the European Union would “end mass migration”. Nearly a decade on, that claim does not survive contact with official data. On the contrary, immigration into...
Simon On Substack: Will the Tánaiste’s Dog whistling Bury Right-Wing Populism?
Asylum: The Centre Strikes Back If centrist and centre-right promises to hem in mass migration had ever carried real policy weight, London would today remain overwhelmingly native-born thanks to Tory and New Labour promises. Readers should assess Tánaiste Simon Harris’s...
Migration Pact: Dáil Expected to Sign Ireland Down to EU Asylum Budget
Three motions with one unmistakable policy direction dominate Wednesday’s Dáil schedule, as the coalition moves to opt Ireland into a trio of EU multi-annual funding programmes underpinning the Union’s migration, security and justice agenda. The first motion locks Ireland into...
Gerard Howlin’s Boomer Moment
The blood had scarcely scabbed over on Capel Street’s recent Islamist attack when the media launched into an engineered scare regarding a supposed spike in anti-Indian hate crimes. With the Garda Press Office and Coimisiún na Meán both fumbling the...
Court of Appeal Slams IHREC’s Asylum Accommodation Powergrab—Now Time to Trim Its Budget
The Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday that the temporary lack of accommodation for single male asylum seekers did not breach constitutional or human rights, overturning a prior High Court decision to that effect in a small but important blow to...
Ireland’s Open Border Deep State: How the IHREC Is Stacking the Deck Against Asylum Reform
Approved by the Cabinet late April before being submitted to the Oireachtas Home Affairs Committee covering migration, the International Protection Bill (2025) has been marketed by Minister Jim O’Callaghan as a once in a generation opportunity to reform the Republic’s...
Borderline Treason: Why Nationalists Should Push for an Irish Sea Border on Migration
The following was published on the 'An Barr Buadh' Substack and is syndicated with the permission of the author. The proposal—floated at the protest by Michelle Keane, and likely influenced by her association with Loyalist Mark Sinclair—for a hard border...
Carrickmacross and Letterkenny: Ulster Takes a Stand Against Mass Immigration
In the wake of the highly successful Dublin protest on the 26th April, two more protests took place in Ulster, in Carrickmacross, Monaghan and Letterkenny, Donegal. The momentum of the Nationalist protest movement is holding steady, and another more protests...
Dogwhistle or Reform: Inside O’Callaghan’s New Asylum Bill
A Fianna Fáil-led attempt to transpose the EU Migration Pact into law is perhaps the first instance in which the protests of the past two years have had a direct impact on legislation, for better or worse. Minister Jim O’Callaghan...