Category: Reflections
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,...
Fear Is the Key: How COVID and Eco-Panic Reshaped Irish Society
Fear Is the Key As a teenager, I read many of Alistair MacLean’s books. One title has stayed with me ever since: Fear Is the Key. Those words encapsulate precisely the strategy of our would-be controllers. And, to be fair,...
Catherine Connolly in Syria: A Personal Reflection and Anti-Imperialist Critique
Had Connolly genuinely been interested in the Palestinian people, Yarmouk Camp is less than 3 kilometres from where she stayed in Damascus, and Shehabi could have introduced her to several of the Palestinian regiments whose volunteers fought and died alongside...
The Twisted Hearts of Irish Abortionists
Those who have participated in these murderous acts are all accomplices in the killing of innocent children. They no longer share the heritage of Ireland as “the land of saints and scholars.” No, for them it is “the land of...
From Institution to Incarnation: Brother Kevin and Irish Catholic Renewal
A 90-year life upholding the Franciscan ideal of simplicity and charity came to an end yesterday as the media reported the death of Brother Kevin Crowley at a care home facility in Cork. Synonymous with tireless service to Dublin homeless...
Sovereignty as Sin? Why Irish Catholics Should Oppose Mass Migration
““Ní múchfar an tine seo, a lasadh ar an cnoc seo, go brách….” The Catholic Church in Ireland may be bruised, but it is not broken. Despite scandal, secularisation, and dwindling vocations, it remains a vital force in Irish civic...
“Something to do with not liking Churchill,” Laura Perrins and the Anglophile Death Drive
Conservatives often like to hover between “my country, right or wrong” and some abstract defence of “the national interest.” But some rightists in Ireland appear to want to buck that trend entirely—and instead park themselves squarely on the tarmac at...