Category: International
After the Iran Energy Shock, Will Ireland Reconsider Green Absolutism?
Seven years on from the green-wave of 2019 that reshaped Irish energy policy the nation is staring down the (rather empty) barrel of a fuel crisis driven by turmoil in the Middle East. Over a week since Operation Midnight Hammer...
Dump the Shamrocks: Why the Taoiseach Should Boycott Trump
We write to formally call for a boycott of the annual Shamrock Ceremony, scheduled to take place later this month. For far too long, the Irish American community has been politically neglected — courted for votes through promises that are...
DoJ: No Obligation For Ireland To Issue Visas After EU Trade Deal
The Department of Justice has sought to play down suggestions that the EU–India free trade deal will automatically open the Irish labour market to increased migration, stressing that control over visas and employment permits remains firmly in national hands. In...
Germany’s New “Totalitarian Democracy”: An Interview with Dr. Hans‑Georg Maaßen
Dr. Hans‑Georg Maaßen spent decades at the heart of the German security state. As a senior official in the Federal Ministry of the Interior and later as President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, he helped...
The Cromwell Club Cometh? What Restore Britain Means for Ireland
The rise of Restore Britain marks a notable development in British politics, one that Irish observers should not ignore. Led by Rupert Lowe, the movement has transitioned from pressure group to a political party with a dozen elected representatives, including...
Europe’s Gallows: The Aphoristic Critique of Burke’s Heir
I pardon the contemporary reader for the aphoristic roughness that is about to follow: I claimno vainglory by it, only an urgent call that I think desperately needs to be heard. I. Ode to Europe – Panta Rhei Europe! Let...
Kinahan to Clonskeagh: Understanding Ireland’s Dubai Connection
Sean McGovern’s belated extradition is perhaps the latest episode in a fifty-year-long love-in between the Republic of Ireland and the UAE. A Kinahan henchman who benefited from the Drimnagh to Dubai ratline that facilitated gangland's top brass since the Regency...
The Yookay’s Years of Lead: Will Reform Rupture the British Security State?
Should Keir Starmer fall on his sword in the aftermath of the Mandelson Affair, it would make seven the number of prime ministers to have been in and out of Downing Street within ten years of the Brexit vote. So...
The Firewall Machine: Inside Germany’s NGO Complex and Its War Against the AfD”
The following article originally appeared December 2025 in the Hungarian Conservative and is syndicated with the permission of the author. Arian Aghashahi is a conservative political strategist, commentator serving Managing Director of the Sovereignty Foundation the political foundation affiliated with...
From the Liffey to the Danube: The Sinn Féin Ideal and the Hungarian Question-Gyöngyösi Márton
The following tract is taken from a 2003 pamphlet about the Irish rejection of the Nice Treaty by former MEP and Hungarian parliamentarian Gyöngyösi Márton and is syndicated with permission of the author. In light of the outcome and results...