Category: Ireland
Croke Park Versus Zionism: Why the GAA Can’t Decouple From Allianz
In a recent article titled "The Corporate Capture of the GAA", the Communist Party of Ireland's Socialist Voice magazine informed us that Allianz's massive sponsorship of the GAA must be ended to "save the soul of the GAA". Their excuse for destroying the...
Ireland Will Miss Globalism When it’s Gone
Greenland. Gaza. Ukraine, Maduro, Iran. History is not so much “returning” as kicking in the door with a hatchet. The geopolitical Goldilocks zone Ireland slipped into after the Cold War (the one many readers of this publication love to backtalk)...
IRL Forum, Bannon and the Irish Right’s Closing Window of Opportunity
John Buchan’s Greenmantle is often misread as little more than a period adventure novel. In reality, it is a study in political uncertainty - and in what happens when a moment opens up, but nobody is ready to seize it....
Did Brexit Break Belfast? Mass Migration and the Six Counties
One of the most frequently repeated promises made during the Brexit campaign was that leaving the European Union would “end mass migration”. Nearly a decade on, that claim does not survive contact with official data. On the contrary, immigration into...
Will Anyone Acknowledge Ireland’s Rental Pressure Zone Failure?
With 5,405 eviction notices issued in Q3 of 2025, it looks like 2026 is going to be a particularly grim year for renters in Ireland. The Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) reported a 35% increase in eviction notices being issued over...
Simon On Substack: Will the Tánaiste’s Dog whistling Bury Right-Wing Populism?
Asylum: The Centre Strikes Back If centrist and centre-right promises to hem in mass migration had ever carried real policy weight, London would today remain overwhelmingly native-born thanks to Tory and New Labour promises. Readers should assess Tánaiste Simon Harris’s...
Custodianship Over Contest, Sinn Féin and Abstentionism: Part 2
1926-1938: The System, Withdrawal and Transfer of Authority The Sinn Féin that emerged from the split of 1926 did not mistake its survival for success. It had retained a justification without a viable constituency only a year after the split...
J. J. O’Kelly, Brian O’Higgins and Sinn Féin’s Suppressed Tradition: Part 1
1904-1923: From Strategy to Doctrine and into Practice Irish Republicanism did not begin with Sinn Féin, nor did Sinn Féin initially speak in its language. By the time the party was founded, a Republican tradition already existed, organised most coherently...
Babiš and Bertie: Why Fianna Fáil Didn’t Follow Their Czech Counterparts into Populism
Prague’s Populist Paladin The boom could be back in Prague with Czech voters opting to return neoliberal businessman turned populist kingpin Andrej Babiš to power despite desultory claims of Russian interference. A Slovak who made his fortune creating the agri-chemical...
Moy Park, Meat Processing, Migration, and an Irish Republican Response
The meat and poultry plants of Tyrone and Armagh are rarely discussed in polite political debate. They should be. Within them lies a concentrated example of how modern Ireland’s economic model actually functions. It functions by prioritising speed over safety,...