Category: Articles
Paddy Holohan and the Shape of Sinn Féin to Come
It would appear the more centrist elements of the Irish establishment have yet to learn its lesson with regards what to do with an electorally insoluble Sinn Féin. Aiming to test the old proverb, our media is attempting to flog...
The Green Grass on a Slippery Slope: Paedophilia Apologism and the Roderic O’Gorman Controversy
Recently if you have been following long threads of arguments on Twitter, you’ll have heard about a controversy involving our new Minister for Children. If you have only a vague idea of it, it will probably be an impression of...
Newstalk Partners with Soros NGO to Combat Populism
As the American presidential election rolls around and the potential for post-Covid electoral destabilisation emerges, the powers that be have commenced a new round of measures to clamp down on dissident voices. Zoning in on the tech platforms, the clampdown...
The Erasure of Western History
Remember when you were told that slippery-slope arguments are fallacious? Such a style of argument became particularly relevant during the last decade, often invoked by the right and ridiculed by the left. A slippery-slope argument was at the core of...
GAA Bends the Knee to Diversity Lobby
An ideological mop-up operation appears to be the order of the day across a variety of Irish institutions. In the aftermath of the anti-racist protests, while we have not yet seen Irish statues deposited into rivers, there has nevertheless been...
Fairer Future: Time to Let Fianna Fáil Perish
As four months of protracted political horse-trading come to a close, it appears to be a most Pyrrhic victory for Micheál Martin. With the Taoiseach's office within grasp and a decade of post-Crash reform under his belt, the future should...
The Irish Were Slaves. Deal with it.
Gaslighting is nothing new in modern politics. Day after day, massive media and political institutions both downplay the importance of certain elements of world history, while massively inflating others. For those of us critical of the contemporary world, this is...
Ireland’s Top 10 Problematic Statues
A type of progressive iconoclasm appears to be the order of the day across much of the Western world this month. Buoyed on by the death of George Floyd, statues of historically racist individuals are biting the dust from King...
Will the Soul Survive Covid-19
The former Chief of Staff for Barack Obama’s White House once chimed ‘You never let a serious crisis go to waste’. Such thought is apt for the current global COVID-19 virus. The response from various countries has been similar in...
Black Lives Matter Dublin: Irish Cultural Colonisation and Left Hypocrisy
Dublin's streets could have been mistaken for inner city Los Angeles yesterday as it played host to its very own ‘Black Lives Matter’ protest. Numbering the best part of three thousand strong, the protest came as the city is tentatively...