Category: Ireland
Basic Income for the Arts: Between Gabriele D’Annunzio and the Immanentisation of the Eschaton
Another important fallacy that fuels this narrative is the idea that a Universal Basic Income will boost personal freedom. The premise being that one is not free to make choices unless one possesses sufficient material means to back them up...
Political Fragility & Slovak PM Robert Fico: Parliamentary Reforms for the Irish Republic
Stable governance is about more than just the consistency of party policy and action, but the calibre of people participating within the system. To reiterate Fico’s statement, debate “between the best for the best ideas.” Parties require the power to...
The Abbeyleix Affair: Are Gardaí Tipping the Scales in Ireland’s First ‘Far Right Terror Plot”
Across Europe nevermind the United States and the toxic culture of FBI entrapment the same choreography repeats, German security services caught running paid neo-Nazi informants within the NSU network or inventing a fictitious coup attempt in 2022, British “Prevent” cases...
Danish Migration Solutions Won’t Work in Ireland
Mette Frederiksen, despite some optical flourishes against migration and the European Court of Human Rights, is a liberal technocrat dead-set on holding onto power. Popularising her policies in Ireland spells disaster for an immature political right, and a blessing to...
A Rebel Education Reviewed: Reforming the Irish Comprehensive System
Community schools have returned to the headlines following Virgin Media’s recent documentary A Rebel Education, which examined Carrigaline Community School in County Cork. During the presidential campaign, Heather Humphreys also declared her pride in having attended her local community school....
What’s Behind the ICCL’s Data Commissioner Offensive?
To the casual observer, the DPC is a sleepy bureaucracy. To the informed, it is the Republic’s regulatory crown jewel—a node of transatlantic leverage that determines not only data flows but, increasingly, the limits of digital sovereignty. As the Trump...
For a Sovereign Ireland, the Left and the Right Must Unite Against Israel: László Molnárfi
There can be no ‘sovereign Ireland’ without the adoption of a staunchly anti-Zionist policy, and this is integrated within the political platform of the Right. In this fight, there is no better ally than the Left, with whom a temporary...
Opinion: Ireland Needs a New National Flag
This country has a rich plethora of historical symbols which would make for a much better ensign. Chief amongst them the archetypical harp as preserved in the Leinster coat of arms.
DOJ Managed Chaos: Unwrapping Oonagh McPhillips Asylum Testimony
Aside from the technocratic ass covering, McPhillips did, however, offer one unvarnished fact to chew on: Department staffing up 20 percent in a year: proof that the only true growth industry in Ireland’s migration sector is paperwork.
László’s Nazbol Moment: PBP Red Goes Rogue Over Immigration
Every so often, Ireland’s radical left discovers reality—and promptly tries to expel whoever noticed it first. László Molnárfi is merely the latest to learn that class analysis is all well and good, until it points in the wrong direction.