Category: Ireland
Will Aoife Gallagher Be My TradWife? Web of Lies (2022)
The ISD’s Belated Introduction Baron George Weidenfeld lived a rather charmed life in his 90 years on earth. An Austrian émigré turned renaissance man for modern times, Weidenfeld was a linchpin of post-war European diplomacy, an architect of the Israeli...
Black Operations: The Intelligence War Against the Real IRA and Lessons for the Political Right
John Mooney, the journalist and relay point for British and Irish intelligence agencies, said something rather interesting on a recent episode of his podcast The Dark State with Ciaran O’Connor of the ISD. Mooney claims that the emergence of “right-wing...
Little Cashes In: Kinzen Sold to Spotify
Cha-ching! It's been a red letter week for the anti-misinformation outlet Kinzen with the company’s sale to the multimedia giant Spotify for an undisclosed sum. Inaugurated with as much media ballyhoo and brown nosing as could be expected by RTÉ...
Ireland’s Foreign Policy Stagnation on Display at UCD Event
As a consequence of an increasingly unstable international situation throughout the past decade, contemporary European foreign policy has begun to change. Since the end of the Second World War, and exacerbated by the collapse of the Soviet Union, European interests...
The Irish Families Displaced by Asylum Surge: The Burkean Interviews
This is the first of a series of exposés on the effect of the establishment's mass-asylum policy on the most vulnerable groups in Irish society. The last few years have not been the best for the Irish housing system. With...
Victory in Rome: A Report from the Fratelli Press Room
A report from a Burkean foreign correspondent on the Continent. "Because when I am only a number. When I no longer have an identity or roots. Then I will be the perfect slave at the mercy of financial speculators. The...
Cost of Living Protests: The Left Plays the Populist Game
Two years of the Irish Left hiding behind NPHET’s skirt came to an end this weekend as Dublin saw mass mobilisation for a march against the Cost of Living Crisis. Headlined by Taoiseach in waiting Mary Lou MacDonald and the...
Who Lets Moore Street Rot?
Wandering down Moore Street the morning after hoodlums rammed Garda cars in Cherry Orchard, I chanced upon a glimpse of Dublin in the rarified ol' times. There, guitar in hand, surrounded by a phalanx of smiling Gardaí, was actor Phelim...
Automation Discredits Arguments for Mass Immigration into Ireland
While Irish Government officials jump for joy at news of the record of employment, precious forethought has been given to the curveball that further automation will play in the labour market. With a fifth or more of the population foreign...
Civil Society Assemble! Maynooth Issues Report on Combating Right Wing Populism
Resisting the Far Right: Civil Society Strategies for Countering the Far Right in Ireland is a recent publication by the academic jokers of Maynooth University, which was once synonymous with the supposedly far right Catholic Church, before this obvious rot...