Category: Ireland
The UDA’s Antifascist Feud: More than Meets the Eye?
Political and institutional loyalism never operates more than a stone’s throw away from the UK security apparatus. Ever since Carson loaded rifles on the Larne right through to decades of collusion and contemporary spats between narco gangs in East Belfast,...
Ceannas House: Transatlantic Funding for a United Ireland?
It would be hard to avoid the fact that the six counties are in political flux as of late. From the murky downfall of Jeffrey Donaldson, to nativist rioting in Belfast nevermind the gradual economic cleavage of the region from...
“Conor Gallagher Investigates….” How USAID Influenced Irish Times Aughinish Coverage
Like Manna from heaven, Tara Street;s Conor Gallagher has published yet another investigation, this time into the use of Spanish password management company Passwork, its ties to Kremlin intelligence services and the exposure of various state agencies from using their...
The Presidency of What?: Ireland’s €293 Million Brussels Performance
The Dublin administration has assumed the Presidency of the Council of the European Union. With it comes the usual language of influence, leadership and national prestige. For six months, from July to December, the Free State will chair meetings, host...
Aoife Moore Risks Her Backside: Derry Journo Takes Up Joe.ie Editorship
More has been said in private about journalist Aoife-Grace Moore than is ever likely to make it safely into print here at The Burkean. We will leave it at that. The Derry-born scribe has carved out a prominent media profile...
Jeffrey Donaldson Blackmail Claims Add Dark Reality to United Ireland Push
A political iceberg, arguably so gargantuan that it would sink Northern politics in its entirety if fully vindicated and take a chunk of the post-Brexit UK’s with it, is passing by our very eyes as PSNI/MI5 operatives, respected columnists and...
Palantir on the Irish Border? Reform, Thiel, and Brexit After the Windsor Framework
While the media has been understandably salivating at the revelation of Peter Thiel and Big Tech bigwigs heading to Wicklow as part of the semi-secretive Dialog networking group, the increasing chumminess between the AI giant and the would-be Reform government...
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...