Scotland Beyond the SNP: Speaking with Alliance to Liberate Scotland
The forthcoming Scottish election is unlikely to be decided by smaller pro-independence formations. Yet some of the more interesting currents in Scottish politics are found outside the familiar SNP-dominated landscape. The Alliance to Liberate Scotland and Sovereignty point to frustration...
Scotland’s 2026 Election and the Cracking of the Yookay-An Irish Republican Perspective
For Irish readers, the most important feature of the forthcoming Scottish election may not be the familiar question of who forms the next devolved government at Holyrood, but the broader constitutional mood it reveals. Increasingly, the SNP’s politics are being...
Halal or Kosher? Religious Animal Slaughter in Ireland
For years, the issue of religious slaughter has tended to be discussed in Ireland in the broadest and crudest possible terms. Halal and kosher are lumped together. Animal welfare concerns are dismissed as bigotry by some and treated as self-evidently...
Continuity Under Strain: How Irish Republicanism Navigated the Emergency
The period between 1938 and the end of the Second World War represents one of the most severe tests faced by the Irish Republican tradition in the twentieth century. It was not a period of decisive advance, nor of final...
National Sabotage? Blame Green Mania Not Truckers for Fuel Unrest
The fuel protests now entering their fourth day are being treated by the 26-County government as a law-and-order headache, a public-order nuisance and, in Micheál Martin’s words, an act of “national sabotage”. That line is not just arrogant. It is...
Ireland and Iran: The Price of Pax Americana?
The most immediate impact of the war on Iran for Ireland is not ideological or diplomatic. It is economic. It is measured in the price of petrol, diesel, and home heating oil. As the conflict escalates, energy markets have responded...
His Grace’s Hills: Lismore and the Scandal of Absentee Ownership
The dispute in Lismore, County Waterford, has rightly provoked anger. Hill farmers, some of whose families have worked the same ground for generations, are facing proposed rent increases that in some cases rise to around €5,200. Farmers have described these...
The Cromwell Club Cometh? What Restore Britain Means for Ireland
The rise of Restore Britain marks a notable development in British politics, one that Irish observers should not ignore. Led by Rupert Lowe, the movement has transitioned from pressure group to a political party with a dozen elected representatives, including...
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...