Category: Ireland
The Springhill Inquest: Belfast Families Left Wanting Amid Westminster Power Games
The Springhill families waited more than half a century for what should never have required an inquest to say: that their dead were not lawful targets, not threats, not unfortunate collateral in a “clean” military operation, but civilians killed by...
The Phoenix is Goosed! Left Wing Gossip Magazine Set to Shut
Goldhawk is finally biting the dust and this time the legendary Phoenix won’t be rising from the ashes. According to the Irish Times this morning, Ireland’s favourite bimonthly gossip rag is shutting up shop for good at the end of...
The de Brun Case: Irish Medical Council Sets Politicised Precedent for Whistleblowers
Social media comments critical of NPHET and the mere attendance at a protest critical of lockdown resulted in Rush-based medical practitioner Dr Marcus de Brun being found guilty of medical misconduct by the Irish Medical Council in what can only...
House the Irish? NGOs Prepare Human Rights Blockade to Irish First Housing Policy
The government’s Housing and Residential Tenancies Bill, presented to the Oireachtas this month, would if implemented introduce very (very) basic residence requirements for access to social housing waiting lists. Applicants would be required to demonstrate both a legal right to...
Belfast Botched Beheading: Will Open Borders Risk Peace in the North
An Irishman lies seriously injured after a savage knife attack by a man reportedly believed to be Somalian on Kinnaird Avenue, North Belfast. The brave locals who intervened did more to protect Belfast than the Crown Forces did. They risked...
Dublin City and the Cost of Not Planning
The central issue to be taken from this data is not whether demographic change is desirable or undesirable. It is whether the Leinster House Government planned for it and its consequences. In Dublin Central, where housing need, homelessness and population...
We Are Living Way Beyond Our Means
Amid rising energy costs, it is worth considering how there can be such a severe cost of living crisis in such a wealthy country as Ireland. This is because much of the cost of living crisis is predicated on a...
Whistleblower Cafe and Jenny “Big Balls” Maguire: Questions a Confident Irish Left Could Answer
Parisian café culture in the late eighteenth century had spelled doom for the Bourbons long before the guillotine fell on King Louis. London’s “penny universities” performed much the same service for poor King Charles. No doubt conscious of the historical...
Instability in Britain, A Border Poll in Ireland: Britain’s EU Reset and the Border Poll Mirage
Starmer’s reset with the European Union is not romance. It is repair-work. Britain wants easier trade, smoother regulation, security co-operation, a veterinary agreement here, a goods arrangement there and all the little devices by which a state may edge back...
In Galway West Ireland’s Fractured Populist Right Begins to Find Form
Noel Thomas: Independent Ireland’s Opening in Galway West The more immediate electoral threat to the old party system in Galway West comes from Noel Thomas and Independent Ireland. Thomas is not an outsider in the sense of being unknown locally:...