Category: International
Ceannas House: Transatlantic Funding for a United Ireland?
It would be hard to avoid the fact that the six counties are in political flux as of late. From the murky downfall of Jeffrey Donaldson, to nativist rioting in Belfast nevermind the gradual economic cleavage of the region from...
“Conor Gallagher Investigates….” How USAID Influenced Irish Times Aughinish Coverage
Like Manna from heaven, Tara Street;s Conor Gallagher has published yet another investigation, this time into the use of Spanish password management company Passwork, its ties to Kremlin intelligence services and the exposure of various state agencies from using their...
The Presidency of What?: Ireland’s €293 Million Brussels Performance
The Dublin administration has assumed the Presidency of the Council of the European Union. With it comes the usual language of influence, leadership and national prestige. For six months, from July to December, the Free State will chair meetings, host...
Palantir on the Irish Border? Reform, Thiel, and Brexit After the Windsor Framework
While the media has been understandably salivating at the revelation of Peter Thiel and Big Tech bigwigs heading to Wicklow as part of the semi-secretive Dialog networking group, the increasing chumminess between the AI giant and the would-be Reform government...
An Irish Ostpolitik? Aughinish Alumina and Ireland Sanction Hypocrisy
A tactical media-NGO operation to kick the Irish government smartly in the shins over the continued processing and sale of Russian-owned alumina at Aughinish Alumina has left certain officials sweating and for good reason. Joint reporting by the Irish Times’...
Showboating to Gaza: Why the Freedom Flotilla is Bad for Palestine
Whatever about the campaigns Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and Iran are waging against Israel, because the current flotilla winding its way to Gaza in support of the Palestiniians is strategically rudderless, it presents no threat and is of no real consequence to...
Scotland Beyond the SNP: Speaking with Alliance to Liberate Scotland
The forthcoming Scottish election is unlikely to be decided by smaller pro-independence formations. Yet some of the more interesting currents in Scottish politics are found outside the familiar SNP-dominated landscape. The Alliance to Liberate Scotland and Sovereignty point to frustration...
Scotland’s 2026 Election and the Cracking of the Yookay-An Irish Republican Perspective
For Irish readers, the most important feature of the forthcoming Scottish election may not be the familiar question of who forms the next devolved government at Holyrood, but the broader constitutional mood it reveals. Increasingly, the SNP’s politics are being...
The American Feds Have Busted the SPLC, So Why Does the Irish Independent Still Cite Them?
News of fraud charges and accusations of funding the very extremism it was designed to combat spell the probable doom of the Southern Poverty Law Centre (SPLC) as the American Department of Justice turned the screws on the once brawny...
Ciarán O’Connor’s Iranian Bots: Time for Irish Media to Register ISD as Foreign Agents
The Irish Times op-ed pages have long enjoyed the rare distinction of irritating both left and right, largely through its habit of quietly importing the anxieties of British securocrats and repackaging them as native concerns. From ritualised scoldings about Ireland’s...