Category: Ireland
Digital Identity and the War on Sovereignty: Britain, the North and the European Project
A sovereign Ireland cannot permit London to define identity in the Six Counties, nor Brussels to regulate it in the 26. The Irish people must remain the authors of their own social order. Rather than being clients of remote technocracies,...
David McCullagh: “So back to the 1930s….?”
The thing is McCullagh is no random RTÉ cub news presenter. He is, of course, an historian and published author in his own rite. His quip revealed a deeper institutional bias not just at RTÉ but within the political establishment...
Migration Pact: Dáil Expected to Sign Ireland Down to EU Asylum Budget
Three motions with one unmistakable policy direction dominate Wednesday’s Dáil schedule, as the coalition moves to opt Ireland into a trio of EU multi-annual funding programmes underpinning the Union’s migration, security and justice agenda. The first motion locks Ireland into...
Confessions of an Anglo-Fetishist
If the pessimistic reading is correct, then we should expect attempts to influence Irish politics and capture the state accelerate in the coming years. America, which has been a counterbalance against the British in Ireland for decades, is pulling back...
Basic Income for the Arts: Between Gabriele D’Annunzio and the Immanentisation of the Eschaton
Another important fallacy that fuels this narrative is the idea that a Universal Basic Income will boost personal freedom. The premise being that one is not free to make choices unless one possesses sufficient material means to back them up...
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...
The Abbeyleix Affair: Are Gardaí Tipping the Scales in Ireland’s First ‘Far Right Terror Plot”
Across Europe nevermind the United States and the toxic culture of FBI entrapment the same choreography repeats, German security services caught running paid neo-Nazi informants within the NSU network or inventing a fictitious coup attempt in 2022, British “Prevent” cases...
Danish Migration Solutions Won’t Work in Ireland
Mette Frederiksen, despite some optical flourishes against migration and the European Court of Human Rights, is a liberal technocrat dead-set on holding onto power. Popularising her policies in Ireland spells disaster for an immature political right, and a blessing to...
A Rebel Education Reviewed: Reforming the Irish Comprehensive System
Community schools have returned to the headlines following Virgin Media’s recent documentary A Rebel Education, which examined Carrigaline Community School in County Cork. During the presidential campaign, Heather Humphreys also declared her pride in having attended her local community school....
What’s Behind the ICCL’s Data Commissioner Offensive?
To the casual observer, the DPC is a sleepy bureaucracy. To the informed, it is the Republic’s regulatory crown jewel—a node of transatlantic leverage that determines not only data flows but, increasingly, the limits of digital sovereignty. As the Trump...