Category: International
The Order Review: A Gem Amongst the Coal, The ‘Woods Amongst the Trees
“Cattle die and kinsmen die, and so must one die oneself. But I know one thing that never dies: the fame of a dead man's deeds.” “The Order”, a film about an American nationalist group who became a major concern...
The Department of Justice’s Chinese Visa Scandal and Ireland’s Security Timebomb
While Department of Justice mandarins work on the double to embargo the names of companies and foreign bodies that benefited from a multimillion-euro visa scam that granted access to Ireland and by extension the UK and EU, questions must now...
Dalit Human Capital – Western People Need To Stop Being Stupid
The Indians and MAGA Libs won, and they will get what they want from the Trump administration. Right-wingers are stupid, and lost again.
After Assad: Ireland’s Role in Fueling Syria’s New Islamist Wave
The downfall of the al-Assad regime is being treated as a Syrian Berlin Wall moment within Irish diplomatic circles as evidenced by upbeat statements by An Taoiseach and similar signaling by the DFA. Away from traditional Irish foreign policy stomping...
Our Gallant Allies: What Ireland Can Learn from European Nationalism, A Conversation With Derek Blighe
Following Junes's European and local elections, The Burkean's Tadhg Pidgeon sat down with Derek Blighe to discuss trends emerging on the Continent and where Ireland could follow the lead. Shared with permission, the full episode is available from Spotify and...
The New Transatlantic Relationship: What Are Ireland’s Strategic Objectives for a Second Trump Term
Vengence is coming to the Potomac and all counts point to Leinster House being lamentably underprepared. Days shy of an American presidential election and even projections point to a second and likely proactive Trump White House term but in a...
Agent Cobalt: Oireachtas Spy Scandal of MI5 Dirty Tricks
Weeks before a likely November election The Sunday Times Irish edition has again hit upon journalistic gold. A potential honeypot operation at the beating heart of power in Leinster House implicating an as-of-yet anonymous Irish parliamentarian, a Russian embassy apparatchik...
Get Them Home! Irish Defence Forces Withdraw Necessary Amid Lebanon War
As tensions boil over in the Middle East yet again, and Israel mounts an invasion of Southern Lebanon, the Irish government ought to reconsider its engagement in the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the region. Ireland has 340 soldiers in...
Espionage War Beckons As Nationalists Declare Victory in Austria
East of the Shankill Road, Vienna is potentially the most perilous place to play politics in Europe. Now almost sixteen years to the day since the ambiguous death of nationalist leader Jörg Haider, his FPÖ party is again on the...
Report: Mexican Cartels Are Getting Their Hooks Into Dublin Airport
Findings made public by the Revenue Commissioner and Gardaí point to a booming presence of Latin American cartels in Ireland as reports describe a developing new trend of desperate favela dwellers being used as drug mules through Dublin Airport. Having...