PSNI Centrestage At Dublin Antifa Conference
The left in Ireland has devoted much ink to pinning the nationalist right as a front for HM’s government, with little reciprocal attention going in the opposite direction. On Monday, however a senior PSNI constable sat down with leading left-wing...
Dogwhistles or not, Starmer’s Asylum Clampdown Will Send Shockwaves to Ireland
Harsh rhetoric and policy reforms meant to fend off a growing Reform electoral challenge could give rise to yet another round of the Anglo-Irish asylum wars, as UK PM Keir Starmer announced new measures to curb irregular and excessive migration....
Dogwhistle or Reform: Inside O’Callaghan’s New Asylum Bill
A Fianna Fáil-led attempt to transpose the EU Migration Pact into law is perhaps the first instance in which the protests of the past two years have had a direct impact on legislation, for better or worse. Minister Jim O’Callaghan...
You Can’t Be Irish And March With Loyalists
Tens of thousands of Irish people marched last weekend against mass immigration on the most sacred time of the year to Irish Republicanism. In contrast, a handful of ignorant people have in the past 12 months tried to march with...
NATIONAL RALLY: DUBLIN’S MONSTER MEETING
Saturday the 26th April, saw the largest anti-immigration demonstration in Irish history, when thousands of protestors peacefully marched through Dublin city centre in a “National Rally”, marching from the Garden of Remembrance, along O’Connell Street, to the Custom House where...
The Muslim Brotherhood’s Irish Waystation? The Geopolitics Behind the Clonskeagh Mosque
Clonskeagh Mosque remains shuttered this afternoon as rumours circulate among the Dublin Ummah, ranging from American FBI agents to links to Islamic extremism following an ‘unprecedented incident' reported by the facility’s management. In the aftermath of the as-of-yet ambiguous altercation...
Does Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc see Blueshirts in his Cornflakes? Confronting Red Revisionism
“Revisionism became a purge, a way of sanitising the Irish past to make it compatible with contemporary liberalism.”-Richard Kearney Does Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc see Blueshirts in his cornflakes each morning? The left-republican academic continues the media tour of his...
Biased Institutions? Inside Coimisiún na Meán’s Antifascist Liaisons
On paper, at least, Coimisiún na Meán (CnaM) should be your typical apolitical, technocratic state organisation. The digital and media coordinator, not just for Ireland but a huge swathe of the European Union (EU) from its Shelbourne Road HQ, CnaM,...
An Irish Boriswave? James Lawless Floats Visa Bonanza in India
Around the time Taoiseach Martin was clenching his teeth in the Oval Office last month, his party comrade and Minister for Further and Higher Education James Lawless touched down in New Delhi for what could be argued to be an...
Could Trump Tarriffs Break Fine Gael’s Patronage Networks?
Simon Harris, the TikTok Tanaiste and Minister of Foreign Affairs, has had a particularly rough time these past few weeks. Focusing too much on actually governing Ireland at the time when it faces an economic crossroads, he has left his...