Category: Politics
Inside the German Fedposting Machine
The Bundersrepublik of Germany’s counter terror operations against the online far right were partially divulged this week in reportage by the left leaning Süddeutsche Zeitung daily. Focused upon the exploits of an unnamed female officer for the Federal Office for...
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...
Kicking Paul Murphy Up the Arse: Don’t Let the Left Neuter the Irish Winter of Discontent
As Western Europe flexes itself for a winter of protests against extortionate energy bills, the science and mechanics of protests both warrant examination to gauge the abyss that lies ahead. One of the more satisfying protests I recently attended was...
A Republic Without Ceremony: Ritual and the Irish State
The mourners massing to slowly shuffle past the remains of Elizabeth the Second in London’s Westminster Hall are drawn by more than just macabre fixation. A dull wooden box laying in a dusty hall inside a crumbling palace would do...
Modernists Against Ethnos: Towards a Proper Study of Irish Nationality
“If Ireland were in national health, her history would be familiar by books, pictures, statuary, and music to every cabin and shop in the land—her resources as an agricultural, manufacturing, and trading people would be equally known—and every young man...
Bashing the Burkes: Progressive Ireland Takes Aim
At the time of writing, Enoch Burke, a young teacher at Westmeath's Wilson's Hospital School, remains incarcerated in Dublin's Mountjoy Prison, where many a good Irish man has been locked up before in days gone by. Though Burke, being an...
Charles the Third: Britain Takes its Final Form
The British long 20th century can be said to have come to an end this week with the death of Elizabeth the Second at her Balmoral residence. A lifetime of service, giving an air of monarchical normality to a nation...
The Yank: Lessons from a Republican Gunrunner
There are few books these days that I can find myself lost in, most suffer from feeling derivative, asinine, or just plain boring. Everyone thinks they can be a writer. So I was pleasantly surprised when I sat down to...
Has Enoch Burke Jailing Scuppered Hate Speech Rollout
Rising to global notoriety overnight, prisoner Enoch Burke entered the state's custody this week following a refusal to comply with an injunction on teaching at the Westmeath school he works at. A teacher of German and History, Burke earned himself...