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...
The Empire Acquits Itself: The Political Meaning of Soldier F’s Acquittal
The acquittal of “Soldier F” reminds us that justice delayed can become justice denied — and that a peace without legitimacy is merely the absence of open conflict.
Centre Right Duds: Can Ruth Dudley Edwards Stop Making Catherine Connolly Cool
One of the smoothest cakewalks in recent Irish political history is unfolding as we speak with Galway socialist Catherine Connolly running rhetorical rings around centrist contender Heather Humphreys in the penultimate days of Áras ’25. Unfazed by mutterings about dissident...
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,...
Europe’s Elite Narrative has Collapsed: What Comes Next?
In elections across the continent, European voters are demanding the parties of the New Right form government, and have in many cases come to detest the liberal values of the status quo.
Chat Control Thwarted: The Covert Truth in Ireland’s EU Censorship Wars
Ultimately, Chat Control is not about “protecting children” so much as Brussels establishing a continental surveillance template that weakens US tech dominance, undermines free speech, and creates a model authoritarian regimes from Belarus to Beijing could copy.
Je Suis Charlie
As long as any part of world is underpinned by relativism there is no point in discussion unless it is to wean the world away from relativism. And maybe that’s why Charlie Kirk’s speeches cut so much to the bone...
The SDLP’s Brussels Surrender: Why Eurofederalism Can Never Bring Irish Unity
Irish unity, if it is to mean anything, must not be brought about by surrendering our hard-won right to govern ourselves or on discarding the moral vision that sustained our people in darker times.
The Minister for Algorithms? ENFORCE, Joe O’Brien’s new Hate Speech Unit
O’Brien’s move from party politics to this new enforcement role mirrors a broader shift: as street-level activism loses traction, Ireland’s NGO class is embedding itself inside regulatory frameworks. For the open borders left, the fight is no longer about rallies...
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...