Category: Ireland
Ireland Should Prepare Against Afghan Asylum Surge
The slow-motion disintegration of the American sponsored Kabul regime will invariably impact upon the country’s threadbare asylum system in the years ahead. While the battlefields and refugee camps of Helmand and Greece may be the furthest places imaginable from the...
Court of Hypocrisy
The Irish judicial system exists in a special place in the hearts of the neoliberal class in Ireland. It is somehow both all-powerful and yet utterly impotent, the ones who write the law and also the ones whose hands are...
Desmond Fennell-Gaeldom’s Last Intellectual?
One of the country’s most plenteous philosophical careers came to an end last Friday with the passing of the preeminent Desmond Fennell. An intellectual jack of all trades, Fennell, who died at his Malahide residence last week, blazed a trail...
Electorate Must Give Government An Anti-Lockdown Message in Dublin Bay South
The Dublin Bay South bye-election provides an opportunity for the public to register their opposition to the government’s lockdown policy. Those who are opposed to lockdowns need to use this election as a warning to the government and all pro-lockdown...
How Much Did the Irish Times Get Paid to Syndicate CCP Propaganda?
In between ritualistic denouncements of both the far right and lockdown scepticism, the Irish Times took time out this week to print a full page paid advertisement singing the praises of China's ruling CCP. Syndicated in their Wednesday edition, the...
Gaelish: A Proposal
Does Ireland exist? Is there such a country as Ireland? This question occurs to me more and more as time goes by. There is certainly a large island to the west of Britain which is denoted by that name. The...
Black Pride Ireland: What Happened to €30,000 of BLM Donations?
2020 was a bullish year for the racial grievance industry in Ireland with one activist group in particular drawing notoriety for their fundraising efforts. A collective of black queer activists, Black Pride Ireland first sprouted in 2019 as a group...
Moonshot’s Millions: Who is the British Government Backed Surveillance Firm Monitoring Irish Nationalism?
Good tidings it appears have reached Moonshot, a tech startup geared towards counter-extremism, which announced this week the hiring of 37 analysts as it seeks to open a Dublin office. Making a name for itself for its role combating and...
Defence Forces Retract Farcical Threat Assessment of Radical Right
The past year we’ve become accustomed to our state’s security apparatus warning about an as of yet non-existent terrorist threat from the so called far right. While the Oireachtas benches have not been graced by their first hard right parliamentarian,...
Toward a National Economic System-Arthur Griffith
Extracts from a syndicated 1905 speech by Arthur Griffith on the subject of Friedrich List and the cultivation of the national economy in Ireland. This text and others has been dutifully resurrected by the recently launched nationalist archive An Cartlann....