Category: International
DeportionAir : Could Ireland Weaponise Aircraft Leasing for Mass Deportations?
Brendan O’Regan transformed not just the aviation world but the Irish economy when he opened up the world’s first duty free shop to Shannon Airport in 1947. Designed to serve transatlantic passengers refueling in Shannon due to fuel limitations of...
The CIA Comes to Dublin: Why Are US Spooks Meeting anti-Musk Twitter and Irish Censors?
Dublin, where tech bros go to dodge tax, is now where spooks, censors, and failed Twitter moderators gather to dodge democracy. A Friday morning conference hosted by Ireland’s ‘Centre for Justice and Law Reform” opens up a window into the...
Don’t Make UNIFL a Bargaining Chip- Time for An Irish Withdrawal from Lebanon
Within Irish defence and foreign policy circles, the United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNFIL) has a particular pride of place. Deployed since 1978 to assist in peacekeeping operations on the Lebanese-Israeli frontier, 330 Irish soldiers of the 126th Infantry...
Ireland Found Her Moral Conscience With Palestine, Now It Needs Her Sovereignty
Events since October 7th have precipitated a rare moment of national coherence in Ireland. The rights and wrongs of Dublin’s Palestinian stance aside, Gaza has touched a deep racial nerve in Western Europe’s only post-colonial nation, unifying and electrifying the...
“Something to do with not liking Churchill,” Laura Perrins and the Anglophile Death Drive
Conservatives often like to hover between “my country, right or wrong” and some abstract defence of “the national interest.” But some rightists in Ireland appear to want to buck that trend entirely—and instead park themselves squarely on the tarmac at...
Dogwhistles or not, Starmer’s Asylum Clampdown Will Send Shockwaves to Ireland
Harsh rhetoric and policy reforms meant to fend off a growing Reform electoral challenge could give rise to yet another round of the Anglo-Irish asylum wars, as UK PM Keir Starmer announced new measures to curb irregular and excessive migration....
Homeland’s LGBT Split: British Right Stubs its Toes in Ireland (Again)
Recently, Britain’s Homeland Party announced their intentions to set up a local branch in the North of Ireland. The endeavour has been disastrous. Homeland is a relatively new British right-wing microparty, formed in 2024, as a splinter of Patriotic Alternative....
An Irish Boriswave? James Lawless Floats Visa Bonanza in India
Around the time Taoiseach Martin was clenching his teeth in the Oval Office last month, his party comrade and Minister for Further and Higher Education James Lawless touched down in New Delhi for what could be argued to be an...
Could Trump Tarriffs Break Fine Gael’s Patronage Networks?
Simon Harris, the TikTok Tanaiste and Minister of Foreign Affairs, has had a particularly rough time these past few weeks. Focusing too much on actually governing Ireland at the time when it faces an economic crossroads, he has left his...
Welcome to the Yookay: How Ireland Should Prepare for a post-English UK
“The future of England is not one of revolution or renaissance, but of entropy”-Anthony Burgess As of the time of writing, it would be hard not to notice a sense of unease within the United Kingdom on this side of...