All posts by The Burkean

Burkean Campus Insider: Dublin Freshers Guide

As freshers week kicks off in earnest, and a new influx of students enter Dublin colleges, The Burkean provides a sampling of the ecstatic college antics which they can expect to see during their college life.  Providing general campus lore...

/ 18/09/2023

Fair City Propaganda: The NGO-RTÉ Disinformation Cartel

A new character on RTÉ's Fair City is intended to be a punching bag of "far right" clichés, but a look at the rest of the soap opera's cast and their links with astroturfed "antiracist" NGOs exposes the rot that...

/ 30/08/2023

The Hibernian Archive: Irish Nationalist Magazine Now Online

Running from May 2006 to September 2008 The Hibernian was a small but powerful outlet for the Irish nationalist Right during the late 00s with a stridently Catholic and Republican editorial line. Under the editorship of Irish Republican volunteer and...

/ 17/08/2023

Now or Never: Dublin Protests Against Bogus Asylum Centres Escalates

The past few days have seen a significant reinvigoration and escalation in the mass protests against the government's bogus asylum industry. This has centred around Ballybrack and East Wall in Dublin. Ballybrack On Thursday evening, in Ballybrack on Dublin’s southside,...

/ 29/07/2023

INAR’s Islamist Links? Muslim Brotherhood Linked NGO Helps Lobby For Irish Hate Speech Laws

The droning voice of Shane O'Curry is a regular in almost any media discussion on hate crime or the far right in Ireland as his anti-racist NGO INAR (Irish Network Against Racism) plays a kingmaker role in both hate speech...

/ 21/07/2023

Tánaiste to Waste more Time and Money on Mozambique & South Africa 

The Department of Foreign Affairs has announced that the Tánaiste Micheál Martin, beginning on the 17th of July, will visit Mozambique and South Africa in a week-long diplomatic visit.  The apparent reason for the visit is to bolster the bilateral...

/ 18/07/2023

Morrissey review: Throw Yer Telly Out De Windah!

Morrissey made a triumphant return to Ireland with 2 gigs last weekend on Saturday and Sunday in Vicar Street. Lanklet Dev and Pearse Mulligan cobble together some memories of the Saturday night performance… Having forgotten to buy Morrissey tickets on...

/ 17/07/2023

“The Song of the Pike”-1848

An inspiration to a young Michael Collins, the following ballad first appeared in 1848 in the short-lived Fenian newspaper "The United Irishman" and not attributed to any single author, "Great faith I have in moral force Great trust in thought...

/ 13/07/2023

Tusla Grooming Scandal: Rotherham Syndrome Spreads to Ireland?

While RTÉ immolates from a slow-burning pay scandal, could the national child protection agency Tusla be the next state organ to be hit with accusations of impropriety? The organization has been plagued with horrific mishaps since its foundation in 2013,...

/ 10/07/2023

Happy 4th of July. America is Over.

White people have, broadly speaking, no business living outside Europe at this point. It's time to go home. Covid, recessions, wars, riots, technological upheaval - recently we have witnessed frequent major incidents or crises that seem to change the political...

/ 04/07/2023