Category: Politics
Digital Identity and the War on Sovereignty: Britain, the North and the European Project
A sovereign Ireland cannot permit London to define identity in the Six Counties, nor Brussels to regulate it in the 26. The Irish people must remain the authors of their own social order. Rather than being clients of remote technocracies,...
David McCullagh: “So back to the 1930s….?”
The thing is McCullagh is no random RTÉ cub news presenter. He is, of course, an historian and published author in his own rite. His quip revealed a deeper institutional bias not just at RTÉ but within the political establishment...
Migration Pact: Dáil Expected to Sign Ireland Down to EU Asylum Budget
Three motions with one unmistakable policy direction dominate Wednesday’s Dáil schedule, as the coalition moves to opt Ireland into a trio of EU multi-annual funding programmes underpinning the Union’s migration, security and justice agenda. The first motion locks Ireland into...
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...
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...
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.
First Step to Success: Why Political Unity Among the Irish Right Is Essential
One party, with a charismatic leadership and a clearly defined, unapologetic but highly disciplined populist message, could finally give voice to the hundreds of thousands of Irish voters who have been disenfranchised by Ireland’s liberal consensus.
Citywest Riots, President Connolly, and Record Soiled Ballots: Ireland’s Liberal Consensus is Finished
While Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael recover from the rubble of a titanic political screw-up that will be studied for decades to come, the entire political establishment would do well to remember that the Irish public were not the only...