Big Jim, Ireland’s Nigeria Deportation Deal and Fianna Fáil’s Race to the Centre Right
Whichever Fianna Fáil cabinet minister masters the migration issue seems to be key to whoever inherits the keys to the Department of the Taoiseach, with the Minister for Justice so far keenest to fill Martin’s shoes. Whereas the Martin project...
Sinn Féin’s Antifa Lawyer and the Kinahan Cartel: Questions to Answer?
John Finucane resolutely denies any commercial connection with Daniel Kinahan or the criminal cartel synonymous with the South Dublin family. Any topic broaching this topic must begin with that fact. That being said, public facts remain slightly more complicated than...
PBP and a Left Government: Explaining Irish Trotskyism’s Hidden Cabals
Despite lacking the gunsmoke of Sinn Féin, the organisational nexus actually running People Before Profit (and various spinoffs) away from the Oireachtas benches has often sparked controversy on the left, not least amid a new split reported in the mainstream...
All for Naught? Did Ireland’s Haulier Protests Cash Out Too Early?
Five months on, the fiscal dividend of Ireland’s April fuel protests appears to be materialising, with the government confirming that the planned phased restoration of fuel excise in September and October will not go ahead. To recap, temporary reductions (totalling...
Media Hush Over Galway Migrant Gang Rape?
Court reporting in Ireland is a gnarly affair at the best of times. From defamation risk to the protection of minors and victims, the profession is arrayed with a multitude of legal tripwires designed to bring down not just individual...
Joe Loughnane Returns: Disgraced PBP Candidate Returns to Galway Activist Circuit
More than six years after being publicly defrocked from People Before Profit amid controversy over an alleged violent incident involving his then-girlfriend and subsequent Galway SU President, Joe Loughnane appears to be re-emerging as a prominent figure on the Galweigan...
The UDA’s Antifascist Feud: More than Meets the Eye?
Political and institutional loyalism never operates more than a stone’s throw away from the UK security apparatus. Ever since Carson loaded rifles on the Larne right through to decades of collusion and contemporary spats between narco gangs in East Belfast,...
Ceannas House: Transatlantic Funding for a United Ireland?
It would be hard to avoid the fact that the six counties are in political flux as of late. From the murky downfall of Jeffrey Donaldson, to nativist rioting in Belfast nevermind the gradual economic cleavage of the region from...
“Conor Gallagher Investigates….” How USAID Influenced Irish Times Aughinish Coverage
Like Manna from heaven, Tara Street;s Conor Gallagher has published yet another investigation, this time into the use of Spanish password management company Passwork, its ties to Kremlin intelligence services and the exposure of various state agencies from using their...
Aoife Moore Risks Her Backside: Derry Journo Takes Up Joe.ie Editorship
More has been said in private about journalist Aoife-Grace Moore than is ever likely to make it safely into print here at The Burkean. We will leave it at that. The Derry-born scribe has carved out a prominent media profile...