Category: Ireland
NATIONAL RALLY: DUBLIN’S MONSTER MEETING
Saturday the 26th April, saw the largest anti-immigration demonstration in Irish history, when thousands of protestors peacefully marched through Dublin city centre in a “National Rally”, marching from the Garden of Remembrance, along O’Connell Street, to the Custom House where...
The Muslim Brotherhood’s Irish Waystation? The Geopolitics Behind the Clonskeagh Mosque
Clonskeagh Mosque remains shuttered this afternoon as rumours circulate among the Dublin Ummah, ranging from American FBI agents to links to Islamic extremism following an ‘unprecedented incident' reported by the facility’s management. In the aftermath of the as-of-yet ambiguous altercation...
Does Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc see Blueshirts in his Cornflakes? Confronting Red Revisionism
“Revisionism became a purge, a way of sanitising the Irish past to make it compatible with contemporary liberalism.”-Richard Kearney Does Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc see Blueshirts in his cornflakes each morning? The left-republican academic continues the media tour of his...
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....
Biased Institutions? Inside Coimisiún na Meán’s Antifascist Liaisons
On paper, at least, Coimisiún na Meán (CnaM) should be your typical apolitical, technocratic state organisation. The digital and media coordinator, not just for Ireland but a huge swathe of the European Union (EU) from its Shelbourne Road HQ, CnaM,...
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...
Analysis in Decay: Burn Them Out!: A History of Fascism and the Far Right in Ireland by Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc
Clare-based historian Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc has published a new book titled Burn Them Out!: A History of Fascism and the Far Right in Ireland (2025). This is a hot-button topic and certainly one of interest to readers of the...
J’Accuse…! – Trinity Trans Queen Faces the Chop!
TCDSU President Jenny Maguire (née Craig) and her Welfare and Equality Officer Hamza Bana are on the chopping block this week as an April 6th petition to censure circled Trinity College. Such harsh criticism begs the question: what is their...
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...