Category: Articles
Seanad Election 2025: Ireland’s Anti-Woke Fightback Draws Blood?
Norris, Bacik, Ruane, Flynn, Robinson. A conceit to residual Protestant hegemony and ironically styled as a mix of Mussolini’s very own Senate and Pope Pius XI’s antidote to Marxism as expressed via the vocational panels, the Irish Seanad has earned...
Trump’s USAID Shutdown to Hit Irish NGO Complex
While not a direct target of its initiatives, the shuttering of Washington’s USAID network is likely to have a ripple effect in Ireland where our nation’s foreign aid programmes have become interwoven with the Democratic wing of the American establishment...
Saint Brigid’s Day; Official Ireland’s Gaia Cult?
The decline of social Catholicism in Ireland has thrown up a multitude of phenomena, not least the growing official worship of Imbolc and a progressive retelling of Saint Brigid. Bríd, the Gaelic woman who brought Christianity to Louth, the saint...
O’Callaghan Steps Onto the Asylum Hot Seat
Within the Irish Cabinet there are some portfolios earmarked for political death. Health is the most obvious one having consumed the career of Mary Harney most famously with Varadkar avoiding too much political flak in the post before moving on...
The Magdeburg Attacker’s Irish Connection
Six dead at a Christmas market in Magdeburg eastern Germany was just the latest price to pay for the German state’s decades long pursuit of open borders mania. While a cynical media spin tried to pin the attack on the...
Surveying the Wreckage: Greens Have Left Ireland Ill-Prepared for Trumpian Era
The regime change in Washington is swiftly being felt in Western capitals Dublin included with the now ex-Minister for Integration Roderic O’Gorman appearing on the national broadcaster Monday to decry a new alliance between Trumpism and Big Tech. https://twitter.com/RTEUpfront/status/1881459892520652916 Rather...
As Ethnic-Cleansing Beckons for Armenia Time to Take Ireland’s Azeri Lobby to Task
Most diplomats agree that it is only a matter of time before Azeri tanks cross the Armenian frontier yet again in what could be the final stand for the Christian nation’s statehood. A series of alliances involving Turkey, Russia, and...
Why Is the British Sisterhood Quiet on Rotherham?
Since 2025 kicked off, one story has dominated both the media and discourse in the UK. The mass rape, grooming, and torture of underage white, working-class girls by predominantly, if not entirely, Muslim men of Pakistani origin. This, of course, is...
Populism Not Parochialism: The Regional Independents and Government
The dust has settled on the general election and a new Irish Government looks set to be established in the coming days. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael return to power once again and the composition of their coalition appears relatively...
The Varadkar Foundation? What is Behind the Former Taoiseach’s United Ireland Pivot
We live in an era of liberal politicos reinventing themselves through backroom foundations and institutes. The Clintons mastered the trade in the late 90s only to be outdone recently by Tony Blair as his eponymous foundation became the rallying point...