Category: Idiots
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,...
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...
DOJ Managed Chaos: Unwrapping Oonagh McPhillips Asylum Testimony
Aside from the technocratic ass covering, McPhillips did, however, offer one unvarnished fact to chew on: Department staffing up 20 percent in a year: proof that the only true growth industry in Ireland’s migration sector is paperwork.
Centre Right Duds: Can Ruth Dudley Edwards Stop Making Catherine Connolly Cool
One of the smoothest cakewalks in recent Irish political history is unfolding as we speak with Galway socialist Catherine Connolly running rhetorical rings around centrist contender Heather Humphreys in the penultimate days of Áras ’25. Unfazed by mutterings about dissident...
A Confederacy of Dunces: How Ireland’s Schizo-Right Shackles Nationalism
Though a national populist strain of Irish nationalism is experiencing a revival across the island, there is strangely an absence of successes under the notch-belt of the political right in Ireland.