Category: Reflections
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...
We Are Living Way Beyond Our Means
Amid rising energy costs, it is worth considering how there can be such a severe cost of living crisis in such a wealthy country as Ireland. This is because much of the cost of living crisis is predicated on a...
The Wisdom of the Tribe and A Valediction Forbidding Yawning
Government-funded education is problematic for reasons too numerous to cover in this short essay. Suffice it to say, that a strong argument can be made for what I will call the bare-bones essentials. What is the most important subject for...
Why the Department of Education’s Gender Mission Creep Matters
Some time ago, Richie Allen on his podcast, played excerpts of a drag queen being interviewed on a national UK radio station. He made various comments during the interview, but, apart from other views he shared, his refrain was the...
When Reason Faltered: Ireland Six Years After COVID
We’re approaching the sixth anniversary of a veritable “crime against humanity”. Previously, individuals, communities, or races had been targets of crimes; in March 2020, a crime was perpetrated against the entire human race, excluding, of course, the accursed perpetrators. And...
After the Iran Energy Shock, Will Ireland Reconsider Green Absolutism?
Seven years on from the green-wave of 2019 that reshaped Irish energy policy the nation is staring down the (rather empty) barrel of a fuel crisis driven by turmoil in the Middle East. Over a week since Operation Midnight Hammer...
From the Liffey to the Danube: The Sinn Féin Ideal and the Hungarian Question-Gyöngyösi Márton
The following tract is taken from a 2003 pamphlet about the Irish rejection of the Nice Treaty by former MEP and Hungarian parliamentarian Gyöngyösi Márton and is syndicated with permission of the author. In light of the outcome and results...
Moy Park, Meat Processing, Migration, and an Irish Republican Response
The meat and poultry plants of Tyrone and Armagh are rarely discussed in polite political debate. They should be. Within them lies a concentrated example of how modern Ireland’s economic model actually functions. It functions by prioritising speed over safety,...