Category: International
The Gaza Board of Peace and the Irish Illusion
Although Trump's self-serving Gaza Board of Peace has no end of critics, it is a useful weathervane to gauge where the world, Ireland included, is going. The Board exists to enrich its members and to secure their interests. The Palestinians,...
Imperial America: Ireland and Washington’s Expanding Biometric Border Regime
The rupturing of transatlantic relations continues to define the diplomatic calendars of both Iveagh House and European capitals with scant attention being paid to moves by Washington to hoover up the biometric data of EU citizens. Referred to by policy...
Croke Park Versus Zionism: Why the GAA Can’t Decouple From Allianz
In a recent article titled "The Corporate Capture of the GAA", the Communist Party of Ireland's Socialist Voice magazine informed us that Allianz's massive sponsorship of the GAA must be ended to "save the soul of the GAA". Their excuse for destroying the...
Ireland Will Miss Globalism When it’s Gone
Greenland. Gaza. Ukraine, Maduro, Iran. History is not so much “returning” as kicking in the door with a hatchet. The geopolitical Goldilocks zone Ireland slipped into after the Cold War (the one many readers of this publication love to backtalk)...
Maduro in Chains: How Should Ireland React to the End of Multilaterialism
The liberal multilateral world is ending not because it was defeated by a rival vision, but because it could no longer reproduce the conditions that made it believable.
COVID in the Philippines: The Internationalisation of Liberal Paranoia and Transgender Ideology
I’m back in the Philippines, where I’ve lived for 30-plus years. Some of the fine traits of these people are vividly on display: the hearty “welcome back”, the touching reunions, the corny jokes. But even more impressive has been the...
Inside the Blookay: British Conservatism’s Answer to the Yookay
British society is obsessed with OnlyFans, migrants, and abortion. This degeneracy has destroyed the country, and threatens Ireland by proximity. Ireland must not fall for the tricks of British spooks who desire to undermine Irish sovereignty and profit from spreading...
Babiš and Bertie: Why Fianna Fáil Didn’t Follow Their Czech Counterparts into Populism
Prague’s Populist Paladin The boom could be back in Prague with Czech voters opting to return neoliberal businessman turned populist kingpin Andrej Babiš to power despite desultory claims of Russian interference. A Slovak who made his fortune creating the agri-chemical...
Justizposse! Bogus Shoplifting Case Dropped Against AfD MEP as State Lawfare Intensifies
A long-running criminal case against former Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) MEP Gunnar Beck has collapsed in spectacular form at a German district court, bringing an end to a series of accusations that had shifted dramatically in scope over two years. ...
Political Fragility & Slovak PM Robert Fico: Parliamentary Reforms for the Irish Republic
Stable governance is about more than just the consistency of party policy and action, but the calibre of people participating within the system. To reiterate Fico’s statement, debate “between the best for the best ideas.” Parties require the power to...