What’s Behind the ICCL’s Data Commissioner Offensive?
To the casual observer, the DPC is a sleepy bureaucracy. To the informed, it is the Republic’s regulatory crown jewel—a node of transatlantic leverage that determines not only data flows but, increasingly, the limits of digital sovereignty. As the Trump...
Chat Control Thwarted: The Covert Truth in Ireland’s EU Censorship Wars
Ultimately, Chat Control is not about “protecting children” so much as Brussels establishing a continental surveillance template that weakens US tech dominance, undermines free speech, and creates a model authoritarian regimes from Belarus to Beijing could copy.
Jim Gavin’s Folly: Is the Martin-Seán Dorgan Axis Breaking Down in Fianna Fáil?
Since dragging the party from the wreckage of 2011, the Martin–Seán Dorgan axis has reshaped Fianna Fáil through a mix of polite purges and weaponised gender quotas. In the rush to shed the boom-year legacy of Cowen and Ahern, Fianna...