Category: Ireland
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...
My Experience with Ireland’s Trans Mafia
Some time ago, I attended a gathering in Dublin focused on strengthening family life. Needless to say, there was a counter-protest as well; that seems to be de rigueur these days. The contrast between the two groups was obvious and...
What Does Irish Right-Wing Unity Look Like?
The farmer and the cowman should be friends, Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends. The cowman ropes a cow with ease, the farmer steals her butter and cheese, But that's no reason why they cain't be friends...
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...
Ireland’s Three Electorates: Examining Irish Polling Accuracy
Differences in polling among Ireland’s three major polling agencies are often treated as small methodological differences producing slightly different snapshots of the same electorate. Recent evidence suggests otherwise. The latest national surveys from Ipsos, Red C, and Ireland Thinks do...
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...
Irish Art’s UBI Moment: Don’t Put Artists on the Subsidy Leash
The pandemic years tilted the stage in ways that the everyman can barely perceive, particularly in the power relationship between the Irish state and the media. A slew of emergency subsidies and support schemes quietly rewired incentives and normalised state...
St Brigid: The DFA’s New Gaia Cult
Maria Maynes' recent Gript article on how the Irish Deapartment of Foreign Affairs' witches have hijacked St Brigid's Day warrants multiple readings and multiple replies. Maynes, not to put too fine a point on it, is piqued that the Department argues that St Brigid's...
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...