Mr Tóibín Goes to Washington: Inside Aontú’s American Pivot
During their recent visit to the United States, Aontú and party leader Peadar Tóibín presented the trip as a significant step in building international links, particularly among Irish-American communities. The itinerary included meetings with U.S lawmakers from both major parties,...
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...
Custodianship Over Contest, Sinn Féin and Abstentionism: Part 2
1926-1938: The System, Withdrawal and Transfer of Authority The Sinn Féin that emerged from the split of 1926 did not mistake its survival for success. It had retained a justification without a viable constituency only a year after the split...
J. J. O’Kelly, Brian O’Higgins and Sinn Féin’s Suppressed Tradition: Part 1
1904-1923: From Strategy to Doctrine and into Practice Irish Republicanism did not begin with Sinn Féin, nor did Sinn Féin initially speak in its language. By the time the party was founded, a Republican tradition already existed, organised most coherently...
Moy Park, Meat Processing, Migration, and an Irish Republican Response
The meat and poultry plants of Tyrone and Armagh are rarely discussed in polite political debate. They should be. Within them lies a concentrated example of how modern Ireland’s economic model actually functions. It functions by prioritising speed over safety,...
Digital Identity and the War on Sovereignty: Britain, the North and the European Project
A sovereign Ireland cannot permit London to define identity in the Six Counties, nor Brussels to regulate it in the 26. The Irish people must remain the authors of their own social order. Rather than being clients of remote technocracies,...
The Empire Acquits Itself: The Political Meaning of Soldier F’s Acquittal
The acquittal of “Soldier F” reminds us that justice delayed can become justice denied — and that a peace without legitimacy is merely the absence of open conflict.
The SDLP’s Brussels Surrender: Why Eurofederalism Can Never Bring Irish Unity
Irish unity, if it is to mean anything, must not be brought about by surrendering our hard-won right to govern ourselves or on discarding the moral vision that sustained our people in darker times.