Category: Politics
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...
Belfast Botched Beheading: Will Open Borders Risk Peace in the North
An Irishman lies seriously injured after a savage knife attack by a man reportedly believed to be Somalian on Kinnaird Avenue, North Belfast. The brave locals who intervened did more to protect Belfast than the Crown Forces did. They risked...
Dublin City and the Cost of Not Planning
The central issue to be taken from this data is not whether demographic change is desirable or undesirable. It is whether the Leinster House Government planned for it and its consequences. In Dublin Central, where housing need, homelessness and population...
Whistleblower Cafe and Jenny “Big Balls” Maguire: Questions a Confident Irish Left Could Answer
Parisian café culture in the late eighteenth century had spelled doom for the Bourbons long before the guillotine fell on King Louis. London’s “penny universities” performed much the same service for poor King Charles. No doubt conscious of the historical...
Instability in Britain, A Border Poll in Ireland: Britain’s EU Reset and the Border Poll Mirage
Starmer’s reset with the European Union is not romance. It is repair-work. Britain wants easier trade, smoother regulation, security co-operation, a veterinary agreement here, a goods arrangement there and all the little devices by which a state may edge back...
In Galway West Ireland’s Fractured Populist Right Begins to Find Form
Noel Thomas: Independent Ireland’s Opening in Galway West The more immediate electoral threat to the old party system in Galway West comes from Noel Thomas and Independent Ireland. Thomas is not an outsider in the sense of being unknown locally:...
Dublin Central By Election: Is the Inner City Primed for Migration Backlash?
Dublin Central will go to the polls on 22 May to elect one TD, following the vacancy left by Paschal Donohoe. The official notice of poll lists fourteen candidates, including Malachy Steenson, standing as a non-party candidate, alongside PSF (officially...
The Department of Finance’s Doomed Savings Scheme
The State should stop punishing ordinary investment and calling the workaround reform Barra Roantree and others have already made the economic case against Simon Harris’s proposed savings scheme. Their objections are relatively straightforward and well-founded: the scheme is being presented as a...