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...
The Gaza Board of Peace and the Irish Illusion
Although Trump's self-serving Gaza Board of Peace has no end of critics, it is a useful weathervane to gauge where the world, Ireland included, is going. The Board exists to enrich its members and to secure their interests. The Palestinians,...
Croke Park Versus Zionism: Why the GAA Can’t Decouple From Allianz
In a recent article titled "The Corporate Capture of the GAA", the Communist Party of Ireland's Socialist Voice magazine informed us that Allianz's massive sponsorship of the GAA must be ended to "save the soul of the GAA". Their excuse for destroying the...
Catherine Connolly in Syria: A Personal Reflection and Anti-Imperialist Critique
Had Connolly genuinely been interested in the Palestinian people, Yarmouk Camp is less than 3 kilometres from where she stayed in Damascus, and Shehabi could have introduced her to several of the Palestinian regiments whose volunteers fought and died alongside...
RyanAir’s Investment Abroad Throws a Spanner in Official Ireland’s “Business” Trash Talk
RyanAir, one of the most high-profile and important companies in the Irish Republic has completely discredited the pathetic ruse that the Irish government is good for managing business, as it seeks to invest €400 million abroad.
Irish Traitors: Take it Down from the Mast
As far as Official Ireland is concerned, our national flag is the preserve of serial grifters like former President Mary Robinson, who likes to ramble on about everything under the sun, and Sinn Féin, who like to fly it on...
Presidents for the Pale: Leinster’s Liberal Line Up
Ireland's line-up of candidates for its presidential elections is dismal and offers the electorate no alternative. Ultimately, they are Presidents for the Pale.
ANTIFA’s Anti-Irish Counter Protesters are Rethreaded Paisleyites in Skorts
Just as Ian Paisley was an unmitigated diversion for Ireland, so also are his intellectual heirs, who want to throw the Irish baby out with the Irish bath water to further ANTIFA's nihilistic agenda.
De Valera, Schrödinger, and Why Ireland Will Not Attract anti-Trump Scientists
Let's imagine, in one of Erwin Schrödinger's parallel universes, I was charged with providing the brain power for a Max Planck Institute based in an Ireland at peace with the world and with itself. No problem. I would charter a...
Nigeria’s Black Axe Gang and the Next Generation of Irish Crime
Although most of her critics consider Nigeria's Dr Ebun Joseph an overweight, overpaid, and overpampered charlatan, her Black Axe gang compatriots are no joke. Conservative Garda estimates reckon there are at least 1,600 of these Nigerians involved in bank account...