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...
Labour Party Spins Ogbu’s Dodgy Dates?
A sloppy statement from Labour HQ in defence of party golden girl and new mayor of Galway, Cllr Helen Ogbu, is likely to engender less media attention than it actually should following media questioning of the timeline by which she...
Jeffrey Donaldson Blackmail Claims Add Dark Reality to United Ireland Push
A political iceberg, arguably so gargantuan that it would sink Northern politics in its entirety if fully vindicated and take a chunk of the post-Brexit UK’s with it, is passing by our very eyes as PSNI/MI5 operatives, respected columnists and...
The Phoenix is Goosed! Left Wing Gossip Magazine Set to Shut
Goldhawk is finally biting the dust and this time the legendary Phoenix won’t be rising from the ashes. According to the Irish Times this morning, Ireland’s favourite bimonthly gossip rag is shutting up shop for good at the end of...
CYM Splits and Lazlo Axed: Has Ireland’s Post-Left Moment Flatlined Already?
The political firing squads have been working overtime over the past week, with news of a split inside the Stalinist Connolly Youth Movement (CYM) alongside the departure of László Molnárfi from the socialist media project Aontacht Media. But the question...