Palantir on the Irish Border? Reform, Thiel, and Brexit After the Windsor Framework
While the media has been understandably salivating at the revelation of Peter Thiel and Big Tech bigwigs heading to Wicklow as part of the semi-secretive Dialog networking group, the increasing chumminess between the AI giant and the would-be Reform government...
The de Brun Case: Irish Medical Council Sets Politicised Precedent for Whistleblowers
Social media comments critical of NPHET and the mere attendance at a protest critical of lockdown resulted in Rush-based medical practitioner Dr Marcus de Brun being found guilty of medical misconduct by the Irish Medical Council in what can only...
House the Irish? NGOs Prepare Human Rights Blockade to Irish First Housing Policy
The government’s Housing and Residential Tenancies Bill, presented to the Oireachtas this month, would if implemented introduce very (very) basic residence requirements for access to social housing waiting lists. Applicants would be required to demonstrate both a legal right to...
An Irish Ostpolitik? Aughinish Alumina and Ireland Sanction Hypocrisy
A tactical media-NGO operation to kick the Irish government smartly in the shins over the continued processing and sale of Russian-owned alumina at Aughinish Alumina has left certain officials sweating and for good reason. Joint reporting by the Irish Times’...
The American Feds Have Busted the SPLC, So Why Does the Irish Independent Still Cite Them?
News of fraud charges and accusations of funding the very extremism it was designed to combat spell the probable doom of the Southern Poverty Law Centre (SPLC) as the American Department of Justice turned the screws on the once brawny...
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...
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...
Ellen Coyne’s Fringe: Women’s Coalition on Immigration Leaves IT Flummoxed
If Ellen Coyne was trying hard not to sound startled this week then it clearly isn’t working. The Joe.ie turned Irish Times corridor whisperer took to print and podcast to passively aggressively condemn the launch of Women's Coalition on Immigration...
After the Iran Energy Shock, Will Ireland Reconsider Green Absolutism?
Seven years on from the green-wave of 2019 that reshaped Irish energy policy the nation is staring down the (rather empty) barrel of a fuel crisis driven by turmoil in the Middle East. Over a week since Operation Midnight Hammer...